In the News
Students I'm working with in an article
Here's an article on students I'm working with this summer. Dr. Van Scoy and I are building a low-cost multi-agent system, and these three international students have been doing great work: article 1; article 2
October 2015
I received a Miami Distinguished Teaching award
With the support of the ECE faculty, the college of engineering, students, alumnus and Miami, I have been fortunate to be selected for a teaching award: Distinguished Teaching Award and CEC write up
September 2015
Summer students get recognized: Drone, Landscape Gen, Route Planning and Culture Game
The six summer students I worked with in 2015 were written up in this article with descriptions of their work here
July 2014
verilogTown - A game to help learn Verilog HDL is in beta release...
Check out the game and help us test the game
June 2014
An NSF grant to help increase minorities and women in computing
A grant that Bo Brinkman led and I was fortunate enough to be a co-PI on has hit the interwaves: Miami article
April 2014
Top 100 Miami Faculty Teaching Commendations
I made the top 100 teaching list of which Miami has thousands of excellent teachers: 2013 Listed
March 2014
Pulley Tower work in the Miami Student
More news about the Pulley Tower redesign with Brian Breitsch: Story
Jan 2014
Winter Term
The winter term trip to Canada that I ran is highlighted here: Story
Jan 2014
VTR in EE times news
Verilog-to-Routing (VTR), which is a project I've worked on, was mentioned on EE times news in it's online runable form for students: Story
Dec 2013
Timely Update - Pulley Tower
Another story in the Miamian about Aaron Pittenger, Brandon Williams, and Brian Breitsch work on the Pulley Tower. Story
June 2013
Senior Design Pulley Tower Hardware Install a Success!
A group of students (Aaron Pittenger, Brandon Williams, and Brian Breitsch successfully installed a new hardware and software system to control Miami's Pulley Tower. Story
April 2013
President Hodge (Miami University) visits 387 Demo day
President Hodge visited and tweeted his visit. It's nice to see our president take such interest in undergraduates and is a reflection of what our university is focused on his picture
February 2013
Redblade Takes 2nd at the Snowplow Competition
Redblade places 2nd at the ION snowplow competition for the third time as described by the Miami Student in this article
November 2012
Top Paper Award
Our paper titled: Research Directions for Pushing Harnessing Human Computation to Mainstream by Video Games won a top paper award at Meaningful Play 2012 at Michigan State. The paper is currently up for publication in a journal, and more details of the success are described in this article
November 2012
Senior Design Work on the Pulley Tower
The Miami Student covered one of my senior designs group (Aaron Pittenger, Brian Breitsch, and Brandon Withrow) work on refurbishing the electronics in the Pulley Tower article.
November 2012
Year at the Edge
Dr. Gerald Gannod and I are again mentoring a group of students for the YATE outreach program from the Air force News Release.
June 2012
Miami University Redblade finishes 2nd at Lawnmower and Snowplow competitions
The autonomous robot team finished 2nd at the Ion Robotic Lawnmower Competition, and 2nd at the Ion Robotic Snowplow Competition.
November 2011
Year at the Edge
Dr. Gannod, Dr. Hodgson and myself are mentoring a group of 9 students for the YATE outreach program from the Air force News Release and another
February 2011
Miami University Snowplow 2nd Place
Our team of autonomous robotic snowplowers came 2nd at the ION's first snowplow competition
May 2011
Hypno Cube
The best project for my ECE 387 class was featured in a local article.