Teaching
Fall 2021:
ECE 1004, Introduction to ECE
Spring 2021:
ECE 5564, Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing
Textbook: Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals, Fifth Edition, M. Morris Mano, Charles R. Kime, and Tom Martin, Pearson, March 2015
Research
My areas of research include electronic textiles, wearable and
pervasive computing, and interdisciplinary design. Here's
my CV in
PDF, reasonably up to
date as of January 2019.
Selected past funded projects:
I organized a workshop at ISWC 2007 on the Role of Design in Wearable
Computing. In September 2009, Lucy Dunne, Tricia Wilson and I
organized the Symposium on Smart E-textile Solutions at the IFAI Expo.
In the spring of 2011, Lisa McNair and I organized a workshop at PerCom on Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Pervasive Computing Design, which was held as a special
session within the PervasivE
Learning, Life, and Leisure (PerEL) workshop.
If you are archeologically minded (i.e., you would like to see some
really old information about me), please see my old page at Carnegie Mellon. For my Ph.D.
work at Carnegie Mellon, I integrated models of
battery behavior and models of system performance in order to increase
the amount of computing that can be performed in a battery life. The
group I worked loosely with is the Wearable
Computing Group in
the
Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES).
Honors and Awards
2017: Virginia Tech Alumni Teaching Award
2016: College of Engineering Certificate of Teaching Excellence
2015-2018: Bradley Faculty Fellow of Education
2014: Virginia Tech College of Engineering Pete White Award for Innovation in Engineering Education
2014: Paola Zellner-Bassett and I were selected for the Virginia Tech
XCaliber Award
for our interdisciplinary undergraduate projects in wearable technology with NASA Johnson Space Center (described
here and
here). These projects
were funded by the
Virginia Space Grant Consortium and
ICAT.
2013:
Best
paper award for 2012 from the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
for a paper with Jason Forsyth, Deb Young-Corbett, and Ed Dorsa, on Jason's master's thesis
2012: Paola Zellner-Bassett and I tied for first place in the
Charles W. Steger Design Competition.
2012: Eloise Coupey, Ed Dorsa, Ron Kemnitzer, Lisa McNair and I won the Virginia Tech XCaliber Award for outstanding contributions to technology-enriched learning activities for the
interdisciplinary product design course.
2011: Lisa McNair and I were selected to attend the National Academy of Engineering's
Frontiers of Engineering Education for the
interdisciplinary product design design course.
2011:
Virginia Tech Diggs Teaching Scholar
2006:
National Science
Foundation Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2006: College of Engineering Dean's Faculty Fellow
2004: College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
(for innovation in creating the course ECE 5564,
Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing)
2004: College of Engineering Certificate of Teaching Excellence
Some ECE Humor
Folk music for computer engineers: This NAND Is Your NAND (and the original extended dance play version)
An April Fools course proposal: ECE 0401, Introduction to Humor for
Electrical and Computer Engineering Students
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