Revitalizing the Freshman Cornerstone Course with Modeling and Simulation
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Description
Organized by Maplesoft and hosted by McMaster University, the goal of this workshop was to constructively engage engineering professors exploring new techniques to improve engineering education through modeling and simulation, and the MapleSim technology in particular. This year, the theme was first year, or the freshman design course, known as cornerstone courses. During this workshop, McMaster University shared its experiences to enrich its cornerstone course. As a group, there were discussions and debates about the various dimensions of the pedagogy and technique and conclusions and recommendations on the potential, implications, and methodologies inherent in introducing MapleSim into the curriculum.
Sessions included presentations from campuses using MapleSim and updates from Maplesoft on technology enhancements and roadmaps. In addition, new for this year, was a half-day hands-on tutorial on MapleSim, which allowed new users to get a compact introduction to the key techniques.
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About the Presenters
Dr. Laurent Bernardin, Executive Vice-President of Research
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Laurent Bernardin is the Executive Vice-President of Research and Development as well as Chief Scientist at Maplesoft, responsible for the corporate technology vision as well as all product development. Laurent is a recognized authority in the area of scientific computation and has published numerous papers on mathematical algorithms as well as parallel and distributed computation. Laurent is an active member of the research community, serving on the editorial board of the Journal for Symbolic Computing and is regularly asked to serve on program committee or act as referee for prominent conferences in the field, such as ISSAC (International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computing), ACA (Applications of Computer Algebra), IAMC (Internet Accessible Mathematical Computations) and CASC (Computer Algebra and Scientific Computing). Laurent holds a PhD (Dr. sc. tech.) in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, focusing on algorithms for Symbolic Computation as well as an engineering degree (Dipl. Ing. ETH), also from ETH Zurich. |
| Dr. Thomas Doyle P.Eng., Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University |
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Dr. Doyle is an Assistant Professor at McMaster University. His teaching interests include McMaster’s freshman program including the cornerstone design course. Dr. Doyle is a leading member of the faculty team, enriching and transforming McMaster’s curriculum to meet emerging challenges of the profession. His research interests include biomedical signal processing, human-computer interfacing (HCI), brain computer interfacing (BCI), and machine learning. Dr. Doyle earned his PhD at the University of Western Ontario. He is a member of the ASEE and IEEE, among other societies. |
| Dr. Venkat Krovi, Director of Automation, Robotics, and Mechatronics Laboratory SUNY Buffalo |
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Dr. Venkat Krovi received his M.S.E. and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, both in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics. In 2001, he joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include design, analysis, and prototyping of novel articulated mechanical systems. Dr. Krovi was the recipient of the 2003 National Science Foundational CAREER Award. He is a member of the ASME and the IEEE, among other societies. |
| Dr. Derek Wright, MapleSim Product Manager, Maplesoft |
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Dr. Derek Wright is the MapleSim Product Manager at Maplesoft, responsible for guiding MapleSim development to ensure customers' success with Maple and MapleSim. He has been using Maple since undergrad and used Maple to help develop the analytical models of this Ph.D. thesis. Dr. Wright received a Ph.D. degree in the collaborative electrical and biomedical engineering program at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research has focused on the physics of medical imaging, and he has also worked in the areas of robotics, control, analog and digital VLSI and board-level circuit design, and CCD cameras. Derek is a sessional instructor in the ECE department at the University of Waterloo in the area of circuits. |
| Tim Vrablik, Regional Manager, MapleSim Sales, Maplesoft |
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Tim Vrablik is currently the MapleSim Regional Sales Manager at Maplesoft, having been with Maplesoft since 2008, Tim has worked as both a Technical Marketing Engineer and Applications Engineer. He has been using Maple since undergrad while studying Engineering and Math at the University of Windsor. |
| James Andrew Smith, PhD. P.Eng. Biomedical Eng. Program Director Ryerson University |
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Dr. James Andrew Smith received BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta in 1998 and 2001, respectively. In 2006 he completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University. His PhD focused on developing the world's first galloping robots. From 2006 to 2008 he conducted research on legged systems at the University of Jena's Lauflabor Locomotion Laboratory in Jena, Germany. In 2008 he joined Ryerson University in Toronto as an Electrical Engineering faculty member, specializing in Biomedical Engineering. His research interests include orthosis design, analysis and correction of pathological gaits, and legged robots. |
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