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CEEN Department Cyber Infrastructure Vision: Education, Outreach and Research

CEEN Department Cyber Infrastructure Vision: Education, Outreach and Research. Dr. Bing Chen, Computer and Electronics Engineering College of Engineering Peter Kiewit Institute, Omaha campus August 15th, 2005. State of US Engineering Education. Static student enrollments in ECE

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CEEN Department Cyber Infrastructure Vision: Education, Outreach and Research

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  1. CEEN Department Cyber Infrastructure Vision: Education, Outreach and Research Dr. Bing Chen, Computer and Electronics Engineering College of Engineering Peter Kiewit Institute, Omaha campus August 15th, 2005

  2. State of US Engineering Education • Static student enrollments in ECE • International competition • esp. Pacific rim • US undergraduate enrollments impacted • Offshore job migration perceptions • Dot-Com Bust • Lack of diversity • Found in ECE faculties • Low minority / women student enrollment • “Programs are largely unchanged since the Sputnik era” [Bruce Kramer, NSF]

  3. CEEN Goals • Improve student retention • 1st year: 50% average • 2nd year: 20% average • Attract more students • Underrepresented minorities • Women • Enhance: • Level of individual creativity • Sense of discovery from courses and laboratories • Increase faculty research and satisfaction

  4. Department Objectives: Education • Search for a unifying theme • Enhance student interest • Bring anticipation for the next course in the sequence • Increase outreach to K-12 students • Schools with high underrepresented minority populations • e.g., Omaha Public Schools

  5. Research That Improves Faculty Productivity • Proposal: sharing CEEN courses • Analogy: Like farmers of old sharing implements and working together • With upper-Midwest ECE departments • Increase subject availability to students • Free more faculty to pursue other research and educational opportunities • Advantage: Internet2 Abilene Network • Distribute and receive courses

  6. Education Solution Paths • Applying the TekBot robot • Developed as a learning platform at Oregon State U. • Diffuse into the CEEN programs into all 4 UG years • Review NSF programs • Support for program improvements and outreach to K-12 • Solution: • Outreach: NSF ITEST (Information Technology Experiences For Students and Teachers) • Self-improvement: A&I (Adaptation and Innovation) • Announcements pending in Aug./Sept. for $1.2M and $160K

  7. The Access Grid (AG) • Access Grid offers: • Multimedia large-format displays • Presentation and interactive environments • Interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments • High-end audio and visual technology needed to provide a high-quality compelling user experience • AG supports distance group-to-group interactions across the Grid. • e.g., uses of AG: • Large-scale distributed meetings / collaborative work sessions • Seminars / training • Lectures / tutorials • Virtual site visit meetings / remote panel discussions / grid based demonstrations • Research • The Access Grid has member sites in over 47 countries

  8. Access Grid Concepts • AG prototype Demonstration at UKY Chautauqua • Shared PowerPoint • Large-format displays • Multiple audio and video streams • Supporting distributed meetings

  9. Access Grid Basics Presenter mic Presenter camera Ambient mic (tabletop) Audience camera • Designed spaces for group interactions • Hands free audio • Multiple video and audio streams • Wide field of view

  10. PKI-161 AG Setup Seamless RGB Video Display Svr Digital Video Shared App, Control I2 Abilene S-Video Video Encoding Svr 1 INPUTS: Cameras 1-6, DVD/VCR SmartBoard, Sympodium, Polycom, Inst. PC, Visual Pres. Video Encoding Svr 2 Digital Video Video Encoding Svr 3 Digital Audio Analog Audio Audio Capture Svr Echo Canceller/ Mixers Microphones: (13) student (1) instructor (2) operator (4) wireless RS232 Serial Control Svr

  11. The Next-Generation AG Powerhouse • Right now PKI-161 supports: • Seamless screen real estate (Default: not seamless) • 26 students (Default: 3-10) • Multiple presenters at same site (Default: 1 per site) • Multiple media formats at the same time: DVD/VCR, visual presenter, Sympodium, SMARTBoard, Instructor PC/Laptop (Default: one or none at a time) • Hands-on or hands-free microphone system (Default: hands-free) • Uses of: distance education and video conference (AG, Polycom, or AG/Polycom),… also presentation room and normal classroom (Default: video conference only)

  12. Our Access Grid Project Goals • Connecting people and teams via the Grid • Improve the user experience • Drop the idea of one-on-one teleconferencing • Provide a sense of presence • Support natural interaction methods • Implement quality and efficient digital IP-based audio/video • AG development of HD / DV or MPEG-4 video • Enable complex multi-site visual and collaborative experiences • HeyeWall, VR Caves • Distance Learning • Build on integrated Grid services architecture • Develop new tools specifically to support group collaboration

  13. Our AG Active Research Issues • Recording, playback, and production of multistream media • Friendly AG: AG to the end-user desktop • Potential replacement for NetMeeting, etc. • Secure communications via AG • Improving sense of presence and point of view • Network monitoring and real-time management • Role of Back-channel communications

  14. Why Travel? • A few current professional reasons for travel: • Taking courses from a distant university / school • Face-to-face business sessions or training workshops • Problems: • Post 9/11 concerns • How safe are the skies? • Costly for everyone involved • Monetary: travel, hotel, car rental/taxi fees, lost work/productivity • Human condition: no home comforts, separation of family

  15. Why Travel… When You Can Use AG? • AG is the solution • Real-time face-to-face meetings • Multiple media formats • Cost effective (find a node in your area) • PKI-161 • Shown in the previous slides

  16. Satellite COmmunications for LeAarning (SCOLA) • SCOLA provides: • Real-time video of foreign language programming • News and cultural programs in native languages from 58 countries in 44 languages • 3 channels of programming delivered to: • Colleges, K-12 schools, cable systems, foreign language and foreign policy institutes

  17. SCOLA Transmission Method Universities Internet2 Network SCOLA Research Lab Institutions

  18. List of SCOLA Countries

  19. Universities receiving SCOLA

  20. SCOLA Research Areas • High-Speed Network Protocols • Next Generation of Internet • Internet2 • Real-Time Video Broadcasting over High-Speed Networks • Components: • Quality of Service (QoS) issues for real time applications such as monitoring number of frames lost in video broadcasting • Routing for multiple requests, including the multicast issues • Network adaptability

  21. Internet2 – Abilene Network (at least 1000 times faster than current Internet)

  22. Future SCOLA Work • SCOLA Archiving • Content based video indexing • Development of a protocol model for real-time (time sensitive) applications over the next generation of Internet

  23. Economic Development for NebraskaCollaboration of University, Industry, and NSF UNL COE CEEN SCOLA Corp International Broadcast Deployed over Internet2 NSF EPSCOR

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