During the past few years, mobile technologies have become common in everyday life. Almost everyone carry some kind of mobile technological equipment with him or her, for example a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile phone, a multimedia player, such as an iPod, or a laptop computer. The use of these equipments is not limited only to workplaces, schools or homes. Particularly useful infor...

The Texas ECE Capstone Design Projects provide a unique and supportive environment for industry to work with faculty on senior classroom projects. This mutually beneficial partnership supports academic excellence by ensuring the presence of a top ten ranked department, supporting Texas ECE?s educational mission, and by creating an environment where students can learn from a practical applicatio...

The measurement of the microwave absorptivity of materials typically requires expensive and arcane equipment and methods. I show that, for moderately absorbing materials (loss tangent δ ' 0.005 or higher), useful measurements can be easily made using a thermometer and a normal domestic microwave oven: the heat absorbed for suitably designed sample size and geometry relates directly to the absor...

LVAD is a mechanical pump supporting a weak heart function and blood flow. Sometimes, the heart may not recover fast enough to take over the pumping action immediately after surgery, in such patients a temporary support device has been employed to maintain the pumping action until the patient’s own heart recovers. This device can be considered as a temporary alternative before the process of ar...

The widespread use of mobile equipment and wireless networks offers a huge potential for educational applications, since these technologies enhance traditional applications and bring about new ones. Interactive multimedia portable devices can be regarded as a powerful learning tool, even though there are restrictions such as small screen sizes, limited memory, unstable connectivity and difficul...

Planetarium technology is steadily shifting from opto-mechanical based projection to digital projection. This technology shift allows the consolidation of many individual projection sources into a single full-dome video-based display and image generation system. This shift is having a profound effect on planetarium show production, educational tools, theater automation, system maintenance, equi...

A Magic Mirror paradigm is an augmented reality (AR) system where a camera and display device act as a mirror where one can see a reflection of oneself and virtual objects together. Fiducial markers mounted on a number of hand held and wearable objects allow them to be recognized by computer vision, different virtual objects can be rendered relative to the objects depending on the chosen theme....

The Texas ECE Capstone Design Projects provide a unique and supportive environment for industry to work with faculty on senior classroom projects. This mutually beneficial partnership supports academic excellence by ensuring the presence of a top ten ranked department, supporting Texas ECE?s educational mission, and by creating an environment where students can learn from a practical applicatio...