The goal of the final project is to develop a deep understanding of an important research area, and, to the extent possible, to work on an open problem. You may also review an existing area of the literature, providing a careful and critical comparison of different approaches to computational mechanism design. You are strongly encouraged to build from the discussions in class, and to also remem...

Project-based learning has been illustrated to be an effective means of teaching students many of the "real-world" issues that arise during the course of engineering projects. However, project-based learning tends to have a product-centric focus. This paper describes an experimental run of a project-based learning program with a researchoriented focus, named "X-PBL." In this project, four colle...

This paper outlines the implementation and results of a variable-rate oscillating clock supply. The circuit is designed using a 130nm process, and a supply voltage of 3.6V to our internal power regulator, with an average of 1.6V output from our oscillator. Internally, the circuit is composed of 72 states, each of which produces a frequencies ranging from 575 MHz to 3.03 GHz. These frequencies a...

One of the primary objectives in most STEM classrooms is to provide educational experiences that will build and enhance students’ ability to think critically and to solve a wide set of different types of problems. To be competitive in the increasingly global society of the twenty-first century, scientists and engineers must often be able to innovate and “think outside the box” when solving a pr...

Organizing large scale projects (e.g., Conferences, IT Shows, F1 race) requires precise scheduling of multiple dependent tasks on common resources where multiple selfish entities are competing to execute the individual tasks. In this paper, we consider a well studied and rich scheduling model referred to as RCPSP (Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem). The key change to this model th...

We describe a plan to create an auditable version of Multics. The engineering exper~ents of that plan are now complete. Type extension as a design discipline has been demonstrated feasible, even for the internal workings of an operating system, where many subtle intermodule dependencies were discovered and controlled. Insight was gained into several tradeoffs between kernel complexity and user ...

Much attention has been placed on measuring performance of activity completion in Lean literature, using techniques such as Percentage of Planned Activities Completed (PPC). Originally intended as one component of measuring plan execution, along with measures of Planned Productivity, PPC has been extensively researched but Planned Productivity has been neglected. Using a lean methodology based ...

Automation as pertaining to the construction industry is the use of mechanical and electronic means to achieve automatic operation or control to reduce potential exposure, time, or effort while maintaining or improving quality. Contractors utilize automated technologies on projects as a means of saving cost, reducing project durations, improving quality and consistency, and gaining other relate...

The Learning Through Collaborative Visualization Project is attempting to establish open-inquiry collaborative science projects as a classroom activity structure. This efforts are described from a design experiment perspective where social and material supports are strategically arranged to encourage this classroom evolution. Supports are provided to help teachers form community, teachers manag...