This paper reports on four microcontroller-based courses developed at the University of Georgia for a broad multidisciplinary undergraduate and graduate student body. The courses are Introduction to Robotics, Embedded Systems, Introduction to Microcontrollers, and Advanced Microcontrollers. These courses which are taught in a hands-on manner equip students with the necessary tools and know-how ...

These questions have led to a wide variety of research disciplines. To make concrete these various research disciplines, several distributed architectures have been proposed. However, the use of these distributed architectures requires a very complex parametrization. This complexity is the result of the type of problem resolution which is founded on negotiation. Negotiation is one of the most i...

The paired source and sink concepts are used increasingly in ecology and Earth sciences, but they have evolved in divergent directions, hampering communication across disciplines. We propose a conceptual framework that unifies existing definitions, and review their most significant consequences for the various disciplines. A general definition of the source and sink concepts that transcends dis...

The role of theory and research methodology in information systems (IS) research is deemed essential to its progress and eventual acceptance as a legitimate discipline. Despite IS disposition for practitioner-related issues, researchers have proposed that in addition to drawing upon reference disciplines IS should develop its own theories. This paper reports preliminary results of an investigat...

Tissue engineering is a rapidly expanding field, which applies the principles and methods of physical sciences, life sciences and engineering to understand physiological and pathological systems and to modify and create cells and tissues for therapeutic applications. It has emerged as a rapidly expanding 'interdisciplinary field' that is a significant potential alternative wherein tissue and or...

Due to increasing complexity of hardware and software systems , connguration management has been receiving more and more attention in nearly all engineering domains (e.g. electrical, mechanical, and software engineering). This observation has driven us to develop a con-guration management model (called CoMa) for managing systems of engineering design documents. The CoMa model integrates composi...