Over the Winter Break here at Project54 I have had the chance to work on developing an application for the Microsoft Surface. This project uses the InfoStrat Virtual Earth software, which provides an excellent template of an interactive 3D world using Bing Maps. My application uses environmental data (in this demo sediment levels in water). …
Category Archive: UNH CEPS
Mar
21
Global UGRAD Program – My UNH Experience
It’s been 7 months today since I arrived at UNH. I’m from Honduras, and came here as part of the Global UGRAD Program. I got accepted at the UNH ECE Department for the Computer Engineering program. Universities in the U.S. are very different from those in other countries, so it took some time to get used to so …
May
11
Marcelo Gleiser Talk at UNH, May 2010
On May 10th 2010 Marcelo Gleiser gave a very inspiring talk at the University of New Hampshire. The lecture’s title was: A Tear at the Edge of Creation, which is also the title of professor Gleiser’s new book. The lecture was part of the CEPS Frontiers Lecture Series. Marcelo Gleiser is a distinguished physicist and …
Nov
23
Dennis O'Brien's Lecture at UNH
Last week Dennis O’Brien the Chief Electronics Engineer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) gave a very interesting talk in the CEPS Frontiers lecture series. LLNL is one of the premier applied physics laboratories in the world. Together with Los Alamos, it is in charge of managing the US nuclear stockpile. It also runs a …
Jul
29
UNH KEEPERS Summer Camp
For the week of July 13th, elementary school students in the Durham area participated in the KEEPERS camp in Kingsbury Hall. The Kids Eager for Engineering Program with Elementary Research-based Science is a week long science camp that allows the children to develop an understanding of various engineering fields. The KEEPERS staff that includes University …
Jul
21
UNH Tech Camp visits Project 54
This week UNH’s Tech Camp visited Project 54 to take a look at the simulator. The tech camp is a program based out of Kingsbury Hall, where kids from seventh through tenth grade are able to get a sense of STEM professions (These include Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). The camp is designed to give students interested in …
Jun
04
Alyssa Shooshan and Dean Hingson visit Project54
Alyssa Shooshan, Senator Gregg‘s chief of staff and Dean Hingson Senator Gregg’s new counsel, visited Project54 earlier this week. They toured our labs and the new Project54 garage (the location of our recent open house) and had a chance to see in person the results of Senator Gregg’s continued support for Project54. In the picture below …
May
12
Project54 Open House
Last Thursday we held a Project54 Open House celebrating the ten year anniversary of this effort. The event was held at our new garage facility in Morse Hall, on the UNH Durham campus. We’ve just recently moved into this facility, which was renovated for our use with the generous support of UNH CEPS Dean Joe …
Apr
28
Project54 Students Make the Headlines
After the 2009 Undergraduate Research Conference at UNH the university newspaper featured not less than three Project54 undergrad students on its front page in the headline article. Dave Garneau was part of the UNH Precision Racing Team, which won the first prize on the conference. Dave designed the traction control system for the racer. As …
Apr
23
KLAS at the URC
Yesterday Mark Taipan and I presented KLAS, or Kingsbury Location Awareness System at the Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering (ISE) Symposium for the 10th annual UNH Undergraduate Research Conference. We were able to share with the audience our project poster, our KLAS video, as well as have two PDAs on hand to provide user demos. Here …