The first week in Budapest really flew by. I traveled with four other UNH students all studying electrical engineering as well. We got lost a few times before getting the hang of using the trains, trams, and busses to get around the city. This was important to figure out with all the errands we had …
Category Archive: UNH ECE
Aug
05
UNH KEEPERS Camp
Recently, Devin, Carol, and I helped with the UNH KEEPERS Camp “Biomedical Engineering” Day. The children were able to have tours of Professor Wayne Smith’s lab, build simple parallel and series circuits, and create their own “Operation”-style board games. The picture below is of me and a student displaying his “Operation” game. It was great …
Aug
05
Keepers Summer Camp at Project54
Project54 assisted with two sections of KEEPERS summer camp. It turned out to be a great way for the second to fifth grade students to explore electrical and computer engineering. Mark gave tours to groups of the students of a Project54 lab and a police cruiser. While he did that, Erika, Devin and I helped the …
Jul
22
UNH KEEPERS Camp visit to the Biomedical Engineering lab
Last week, undergraduates from the Project54 lab visited the KEEPERS camp. KEEPERS stands for Kids Eager for Engineering Program with Elementary Research-based Science. The purpose of the camp is to get young children interested in engineering. One of the tours that the camp went on was a trip to Professor Wayne Smith’s Biomedical Engineering lab, …
Mar
18
Marko Popovic Lecture at UNH
On the 25th of February Dr Marko Popovic gave a talk at UNH in the series of Graduate Seminar lectures of the ECE department (ECE900). The title of the lecture was: “Many Endeavors a Few Successes; an Ordinary Story of the 21st Century ‘Renaissance’ = Multidisciplinary Researcher”. This lecture was geared towards graduate students who …
Nov
24
Photo Set of the Project54 2006 NHSP Charger
Here at Project54, we work extensively with New Hampshire State Police. Subsequently, we have one of their 2006 Dodge Chargers for demonstrating and testing the Project54 system. One of my colleagues here at the University of New Hampshire, Daniel VanderClock, recently took the opportunity to take some photos of the interior and exterior of the …
Aug
04
Towards Storytelling with Geotagged Photos on a Multitouch Display
For the majority summer, the bulk of my work on the multi-touch table has been working with Ankit and Oskar on the Google Earth application, in which we have overlayed geotagged photos with additional orientation data as 3-D models. We have added the ability to control the Google Earth application with the multi-touch table using …
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
28
Keeper's Camp Takes a Tour of Project 54
We enjoyed the company of the Keeper’s Camp when they visited Project 54. The kids were very excited as we showed them a taste of what we do. Mark, Erika , Oskar and myself took the twenty-four kids around Morse Hall and showed them the show car and simulator. They sat in the drivers seat …
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 …