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If the engineering education community is serious about improving its culture and climate for underrepresented groups, it is imperative to educate students about the importance of diversity and inclusion. Effectively incorporating diversity-related course content into the curriculum requires an understanding of student knowledge of and attitudes toward diversity. Accordingly, this work-in-progress...
JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) is the first ESA large-class mission aiming at the exploration of Jupiter and three of its largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. The JUICE payload suite counts 10 instruments, 9 of which are interfaced with the On-Board Computer (OBC) and Solid State Mass Memory (SSMM) using a SpaceWire (SpW) network both for science data and command & control traffic...
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series Program (GOES-R, S, T, and U) mission is a joint program between National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). SpaceWire was selected as the science data bus as well as command and telemetry for the GOES instruments. GOES-R, S, T,...
The nature of teaching evaluation is, more often than not, determined primarily by the results of surveys based on students' evaluation and, sometimes, peer evaluation ratings. However, previous work has highlighted that in most cases student evaluation surveys are the main and/or only method used to evaluate teaching. This led to the critique of using student evaluation surveys as insufficient as...
The common DPU platform for ESA JUICE mission instruments is a hardware and software platform developed by Cobham Gaisler for the scientific instrument payloads of the European Space Agency Jupiter Icy Moons spacecraft. The hardware is based around the GR712RC dual-core LEON3-FT processor with GRSPW2 SpaceWire interfaces. To accompany the JUICE instrument hardware, a flight quality SpaceWire software...
The manufacturing industry has been thriving recently after decades of defection offshore and outsourcing. The manufacturing industry in the state of Massachusetts is particularly strong. Massachusetts and other US states report shortage of enough skilled workforce to fill advanced manufacturing positions such as robotics operators, programmers, CNC programmers, CAD operators, and QA personnel, to...
The overhead and burden of managing data in complex discovery processes involving experimental protocols with numerous data-producing and computational steps has become the gating factor that determines the pace of discovery. The lack of comprehensive systems to capture, manage, organize and retrieve data throughout the discovery life cycle leads to significant overheads on scientists' time and effort,...
Here we present achievements and challenges associated with the inaugural freshwater deployment of the Environmental Sampler Processor (ESP) in the western Lake Erie. We discuss scientific advances in the detection methodology related to utilizing the ESP for monitoring toxic cHABs and establishing the ability to provide water resource managers with early warning of impending toxicity.
The Oceans of Tomorrow (OoT) projects, funded by the European Commission's FP7 program, are developing a new generation of sensors supporting physical, biogeochemical and biological oceanographic monitoring. The sensors range from acoustic to optical fluorometers to labs on a chip. The result is that the outputs are diverse in a variety of formats and communication methodologies. The interfaces with...
Taking the study of the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America as a starting point, as well as their energy matrices, their potential for renewable power generation, and the viability of their energy laws, taking into account the examination of the underlying environmental impact of such matters and associating these items with the Kyoto Protocol, it will be, then, possible, to achieve...
This paper presents implementation of safety helmet for coal mine workers. This helmet is equipped with methane and carbon monoxide gas sensor. This sensor sense the gas and the data is transmitted to the control room wirelessly, through a wireless module called X-Bee connected with the helmet. When the methane or carbon-monoxide gas concentration is beyond the critical level, controller in the control...
Present paper presents an approach related to the question of structuring a federation of SCADA systems, associated with the integrated water resource exploitation, from a certain catchment area. Utilized instruments for federation development there are: (i) DESCRIPTOR component, achieving topology description — resources (roots) associated with protocols, functionality and governance rules, combined...
Programming languages use type systems to reduce number of bugs. Type systems of most languages are not powerful enough to express basic exception safety. Extension of type system in a way that allows representing exception guaranties can provide valuable information to analysis tools. Such tools could even be implemented in type system. We describe a way to extend type system of a given language...
Honeypots, i.e. networked computer systems specially designed and crafted to mimic the normal operations of other systems while capturing and storing information about the interactions with the world outside, are a crucial technology into the study of cyber threats and attacks that propagate and occur through networks. Among them, high-interaction honeypots are considered the most efficient because...
There are various methods to evaluate the performance of file systems through the replay of file system traces. Despite this diversity, little attention was given on comparing the alternatives, thus bringing some skepticism about the results attained using these methods. In this paper, to fill this understanding gap, we analyze two popular trace replay methods through the lens of metrology. This case...
A user in IEEE 802.11(Wi-Fi) system must associate to a particular Access Point (AP) to communicate through the Internet. According to the current association method which is based on Receive Signal Strength Index(RSSI), the user first identify its convenient APs and associate with the strongest AP, excluding the fact whether that AP is overloaded or not. In current scenario, the wireless network...
with the development of high technologies, the structure and capability of ATS has been greatly improved, such as footprint, compatibility, and cost and test efficiency. However, the survival ability of ATS is always slighted by researchers. In order to improve the survival ability of ATS, adopting the idea of autonomous decentralized systems, this paper designs the Autonomous Decentralized Test System...
System complexity in the aerospace, defense, and automotive industries continues to increase. This puts demand on test engineers to produce novel solutions that decrease the cost of testing system components. Moving forward, these engineers will be faced with the difficulties of maintaining an increasing volume of legacy hardware while simultaneously developing solutions to test new technologies....
It has been known widely that human emotions has a significant effect on human health. There have been many studies that showed the positive and negative impact of human emotion to human's health. Even some emotions have been categorized as dangeraous for some researchers. In developing e-health monitoring system, sufficient knowledge in elicitating emotion and its stage are significantly important...
The Universal Verification Methodology is a standard which is designed to enable creation of reusable, robust and interoperable verification IP and testbench components. In this work, we implemented layered UVM testbench for SpaceWire which is a spacecraft communication network based in part on the IEEE 1355 standard of communications. This design helps further analyzes of SpaceWire by testing different...
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