INFRASTRUCTURE 96
RESULTS FROM THE THREE-YEAR II-MI GRANT:
Third annual
report
Since
the award of the NSF GRANT No : CDA
- 9313264 we have financially supported:
15
graduate students consisting of 4 Ph.D. students and 11 Master students, and
8 undergraduate students
Since
then, we have graduated:
1
Ph.D. student - a female Hispanic
10
Masters students - 5 Male Hispanics, 2 Female Hispanics, 1 Male African American,
1 Male White non-minority, and 1 Male Asian.
The
NSF-CATE Center has currently in the pipeline:
7
Ph.D. students:
2 female students, 5 male students
Mildred
Saenz, Noemi Fernandez, Patricio Vidal, John Riley, Carlos Reyes, Habibie
Summargo, and Miguel Rosario
9
MS students:
6 female students, and 3 male students
Sonia
Duranza, Annette Taberner, Linda Curtin, Elise
Jakubzick, Timon Williams, Christophe Godefroy, Ana-Maria Rodriguez,
Margaret Dabdoub, with Marco Midon joining the program in the end of Fall
1996.
8 undergraduates:
4
Female students, and 4 Male students
Paula Guthrie, Johanne
Toussaint, Nydia Ruiz, Erica Suarez, Dorian Hernandez, Marlin Brinson, Philip
Brown, and Peter John Hugh
Of
these 24 students, we thus have 12 female , and 12 male students. The ethnic make up of these students is as
follows: we have 13 Hispanics; 7 African Americans; 3 White non-minority;
and 1 Asian.
1.
Irma Fernandez, “Encryption Based Security for Public Networks: Technique
and Application”, 1994.
1.
Frank Candocia, “A New Stereo Matching Paradigm for the Recovery of
the Third Dimension in Two-Dimensional Images”, 1993
2.
Anthony Figueras, “A Hierarchical Approach for Solving the Large-Scale
Traveling Salesman Problem”, 1994.
3.
John Riley, “Multiresolution Analysis and Application to Enhanced Image
Understanding”, 1994.
4.
Carol Levay, “Computer Simulation Study on the Impact of Express Lanes
on the Current Toll Plaza System”, 1994.
5.
Berteau Joisil, “Impedence Calculation of a Thick Metal-Insulator-Metal
Barrier”, 1995.
6.
Carlos Reyes, “ Directional Clustering Techniques for Random Data Clasification”,
1995.
7.
Miguel Rosario, “Network Based Virtual Design Center Development and
Implementation”, 1995.
8.
Patricio Vidal, “Estimation of 3-D Structures of Scenes Through an
Integration of Optical Flow and Stereo Vision “ , 1996
9.
Noemi Fernandez, “Neural and Statistical Information Processing for
Data Classification”, 1996
10. Carl
Chen, “Application of the Finite Time-Domain Method to the Analysis of Microstrip
Patch Antennas”, 1996.
Carl Chen Asian, now planning to go on with his
Ph.D. program in Communications.*
* This thesis was not financially supported, but equipment
support was provided for carrying out the research. NSF support is acknowledged.
We
have graduated over the lifetime of the grant the following number of graduate
students:
We
had 5 Ph.D students graduate since the creation of our new Ph.D. program. One of these students, the only minority student
was supported by the NSF IIMI grant. This
is therefore a 20 % increase. Noting
that 7 Ph.D. students are in the pipeline. This increase will be more significant over
the next two years.
Our
Electrical and Computer Engineering department graduated a total of 45 master
students over the past three years: 1992/93 (9 master students); 1993/94 (19
master students); and 1994/95 (17 master students) . Of these students the
NSF grant supported 8 of them. This
constitutes an 18 % increase.
We project that within
the next three years, the NSF-CATE Center will provide contributions of 25
% increase in the Master degrees conferred, and a 25 % increase in the Ph.D.
degrees conferred.
It is interesting
to note that given the number of student we support through the NSF grant,
we are stretching the dollar grant to its maximum potential through a level
of matching that is quite significant. This level of matching is detailed below
The student support
budgeted through the NSF grant over the three years is actually $ 115, 632
for graduate students and $ 40,000 for undergraduate support through the NSF-REU
supplement provided.
The $115,632 amount
was to support 9 to 10 graduate students per year, which averages to about
$ 38,544 per year for all the graduate students. The NSF-REU supplement was to support 8 undergraduates in the third
year. FIU and , lately, local industry contributed over the three years of
the grant the total amount of $162, 079, with the following breakdown:
Year 1: FIU $56,148;
Year 2: FIU $43,363, and
Year 3: FIU $35,867, and industry $26,701.
1.
For the NSF-IIMI Grant
No: CDA-9313624, FIU provided a total of $ 213,825 in equipment match
2. For the NSF-ARI Grant: CDA - 9512454, FIU
is providing a total of 250,000 over three years.
A detailed account of these matching funds
is provided in section X.
What
follows is a detailed account of the matching provided in the third year by
our institution and industrial partners for the period starting from summer
1995 through summer 1996.
5-9-95 to 8-8-95
Student Name NSF grant Industry FIU(stipend+tuition)
Noemi Fernandez 2,030+1,143 1,204 1,970
Carlos Reyes 1,200
Habibie Sumargo 1,625
1,970
John Riley 1,625
262
Christophe Godefroy 1,200 1,560 525
Mildred Saenz 1,200
Margaret Dabddoub 1,625
327
Miguel Rosario 1,200
262
Ana-Maria Rodriguez 1,200
500
Totals 14,048 2,764 5,816
8-8-95 to 12-22-95
Student Name NSF grant Industry
FIU(stipend+tuition)
Noemi Fernandez 1,000+1,176 5,500 1,500+2,123
Carlos Reyes 1,700 372
Habibie Sumargo 2,500
1,200+2,955
John Riley 2,500 697
1,000
Christophe Godefroy 1,114 1,560 800+435
Mildred Saenz 1,000
800
Margaret Dabddoub 1,700
1,200+235
Miguel Rosario 1,700
800+72
Ana-Maria Rodriguez 1,400
800+653
Totals 15,790 8,129 14,573
12-22-95 to 5-9-96
Student Name NSF grant
Industry
FIU(stipend+tuition)
Noemi Fernandez 1,700+340 6,300 1,500+1,780
Carlos Reyes 2,500 372
1,000+0.00
Habibie Sumargo 2,500
1,200+1,971
John Riley 2,500 372
1,000+0.00
Christophe Godefroy 1,000 1,500 1,000+0.00
Sonia Duranza 1,700+483 1,500 1,000+543
Margaret Dabddoub 1,700
0.00 +178
Miguel Rosario 1,700
Timon Williams 1,553
831+1,607
Totals 17,676 10,044
13,610
5-9-96 to 8-8-96
Student Name NSF grant Industry FIU(stipend+tuition)
Noemi Fernandez 2,200 4,264
John Riley
Sonia Duranza 3,300 1,500 326
Patricio Vidal 3,300+276
Timon Williams 1,700
1,542
Totals 10,776 5,764 1,868
Semester NSF
grant Industry
FIU(stipend+tuition)
Summer 1995 14,048 2,764
5,816
Fall 1995 15,790 8,129
14,573
Spring 1996 17,676 10,044
13,610
Summer 1996 10,776 5,764
1,868
Totals 58,290 26,701 35,867
May 95 - May 1996
The NSF-REU supplement grant was to support 8 undergraduates, but
as some graduated, others replaced them with support provided to a total of
11 students. Each student received
a stipend of $1,495 for a Fall or a Spring Semester, and stipend of $1,010 for a summer semester.
The student supported are:
Female Students: Sonia Duranza, Linda Curtin, Annette Taberner, Paula Guthrie,
Elise Jakubzick
Male Students: Marco Midon, Franklin Adams, Jorge Castellano, Dorian Hernandez
, Marlin Brinson, Philip
Brown
Additional information on the results of
student support is provide in section IV below.
Female Students
Irma Fernandez:
The first female Hispanic Ph.D. to graduate from the ECE department,
Fall 1994.
Ph.D. thesis entitled
"Data Encryption schemes for ISDN communications"
Dr. Fernandez
is now FIU’s program director for Industry-University relations.
Mildred Saenz: Hispanic, passed her Ph.D comprehensive
exam, her expected graduation date is Spring 1997 or Fall 1998.
Noemi Fernandez Hispanic, Graduating June 1996. Noemi is the Center Manager with great knowledge on networking and
the UNIX operating system. She begins
her Ph.D. program at the end of June of 1996.
Male Students
John Riley: Taking the Ph.D. comprehensive
exam in Fall 1996, also working as Engineer with Coulter Corporation in Miami
Frank Candocia:
Hispanic, Graduated in 1993, now a Ph.D. student at the University
of Florida
Carlos Reyes Hispanic, Graduated Fall 1995,
now entering the Ph.D. program at FIU; also working as Engineer with Coulter
Corporation in Miami with the Research and Instrumentation Division.
Habibie Sumargo: Asian, passed his Ph.D. comprehensive
exam, graduating Fall 1996 or Spring
1997
Patricio Vidal Hispanic, Graduating June 1996.
Patricio first joined as a visiting scholar when he was working for
his masters degree with Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela.
Patricio is now joining FIU and the CATE Center for his Ph.D. program. Patricio is a US resident whose mom is a US
citizen residing here in Miami.
Students who
obtained their Masters degrees through the financial support of the NSF-CATE
Center are:
Female Students
Carol Levay Hispanic, now Working as an Engineer
with Intermedia Communications Inc., here in Miami
Noemi Fernandez Hispanic, Joining the Ph.D. program by
the end of June 1996.
Male Students
Frank Candocia Hispanic, now a Ph.D. student at UF
Anthony Figueras
Hispanic, now Working as an Engineer in Austin, Texas
Andrian Delboca Hispanic, also a medical
doctor. Just started working this past Spring in a Hospital in the Buffalo, New York in the area of biomedical
research.
Joisil Berteau
African American, now a Math teacher, Three Oaks Middle School, Ft.Myers, Florida
Miguel Rosario Hispanic, Graduated Fall 1995, now
working as an engineering with a local engineering firm.
Habibie Sumargo
Asian, now a Ph.D. student at FIU
Carlos Reyes Hispanic, Graduated Fall 1995,
now a Ph.D. student at FIU; also working as an
Engineer with Coulter Corporation in Miami, research Instrumentation
Division.
Patricio Vidal Hispanic
US resident from Venezuela, Graduated Summer 1996.
John Riley White
non-minority. Now a Ph.D. student at FIU and an engineer at Coulter, Research
and Instrumentation Division.
Female Students
Margaret Dabdoub Hispanic,
Graduating Fall 1995
Ana Maria Rodriguez Hispanic, Graduating Fall 1996. Recently Ana Maria has taken a new Job as an engineer with Texas Instruments, Stafford,
Texas. (finished her course work, working on her thesis this semester)
Sonia Duranza
Hispanic, just started her Masters program and is the recipient of
the NSF Minority Graduate Fellowship. Supported by two NSF-REU grants as an undergraduate
Elise Jakubzick
Hispanic, just graduated this term and is joining the Masters program
this summer.
Elise
was supported by the NSF-REU grant as an undergraduate
Annette Taberner Hispanic, and just like Elise, she graduated
this term and is joining the Masters program in the Fall of 1996 after her
return from a summer internship with ATT in Middletown, New Jersey this summer.
Elise
was supported by the NSF-REU grant as an undergraduate
Linda Curtin Linda is returning for a part-time Masters program
in Fall of 1996. She is currently
working as an engineer I with the
State of Florida, Department of Management Services in Miami
Male Students
Timon Williams African
American, New student in the program.
Christophe Godefroy US resident
from France, Expecting to Graduate end of Summer 1996. Christophe
is also working as an engineer
with Coulter Corporation.
Marco Midon African
American, also a blind person. Marco will be joining the Masters program at the end of Fall 1996.
Female Students
Sonia Duranza
Female Hispanic, now a Masters’ student, applied to the NSF and to
the Department of Defense graduate fellowship
Linda Curtin Female, Graduated in Fall 1995,.
now an Engineer with Engineer I with the
State of Florida in the Department of Management Services in Miami. She was also offered the position of Engineer
at Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Annette Taberner Female Hispanic, Graduating this Spring
1996, and is continuing for her MS degree applied to the NSF and to the Department
of Defense graduate fellowship.
Paula Guthrie Female
African American. Working on a multimedia module for teaching logic design.
Elise Jakubcik* Female Hispanic, Graduating Spring
or Summer 1996, applied for the DOD graduate fellowship. Working on computer vision and a sensory-integrated
prosthesis
*
Replaced Linda Curtin.
Male
Students
Marco Midon
A blind person and a very special friend to all of us faculty and students
alike; submitted a paper to the 5th
Int. Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Linz, Austria,
July 1996; graduating in summer or Fall of 1996; inspired through the NSF
grant to continue towards his MS degree on the subject of computer technology
and the facilitating of access to the visually-impaired.
Franklin Adams African
American, transferred to Barry College to be closer to his job and parents,
and will join FIU for a BS degree after completion of his two-year
program.
Jorge Castellano
Hispanic, the whiz kid behind the Engineering and Computer
Science Network.
Dorian Hernandez Hispanic,
Assisting with Undergraduate computer-assisted instruction
Marlin Brinsonª African American. Helps with the design of a multimedia module
ª Replaced Franklin
Adams
Philip Brown¡ African American. New student, currently assisting Dr. Story
in defining a
research project.¡ Replaced Sonia Duranza.
- Sonia Duranza: Sonia
is a recipient of both the NSF Minority Graduate fellowship and the DOD graduate
fellowship. Sonia has opted for the
NSF fellowship.
- Marco Midon: Internship with NASA at Goddard Space Center, Maryland, Summer 1996
- Annette Taberner: received honorable mention from the NSF graduate
minority fellowship, and is taking a summer internship with ATT in Middletown
, New Jersey, Summer 1996
- Elise applied unsuccessfully unfortunately
to both the DOD and NASA graduate fellowship programs
It is important to indicate that some of
the students originally helped by the NSF-REU grant are now improving their
grade point average concentrating on their course work and research endeavors,
and have been greatly motivated to continue on with their graduate programs.
5 Ph.D.
Students, 8 MS students, and 5 undergraduates supported by NSF, NASA, and
the US Air Force use the CATE Center as they build their own programs.
With minority programs such as the Florida
Action for Minorities in Engineering (FLAME), headed Gustavo Roig, our associate
Dean and Co.-PI of this grant, we expect that the trend of attracting more
minority students to FIU will greatly improve over the next few years, even
as we are simultaneously feeding some of our brightest African American students
to major research institutions. The
FLAME program brings about 90 high-school students from minority high-schools
into FIU for academic and summer programs immersing these students into the
fundamentals of Math, Science and Engineering. Many of our graduates and senior undergraduates
participate in laboratory experiments and providing guidance to these young
students.
1.
Principal Investigator : M. Adjouadi
Co - PIs: J. Story, W. Subbarao, D.
Holmes M. Evangelist, J. Andrian, Y. Ding,
Project Title: Center for Advanced Technology
and Education
Source
of Support: National Science Foundation
Grant
No: CDA-9313624
Award
Amount: 199,167
(received July 1995)
Period
Covered: September
1, 1995 - August 30, 1996
2.
Principal
Investigator: M. Adjouadi
Project
Title: Research Experience
for Undergraduates
Source
of Support: National Science Foundation
Grant
No: CDA-9313624
Award
Amount: $ 40,000
Period
Covered: May 1995-
May 1996
3.
Principal Investigator: M. Adjouadi
Co - Pis
: J. Riley, and N. Fernandez
Project Title: Imaging Algorithms for Enhanced Pattern Classification
Source
of Support: Coulter Corporation
Research & Instrumentation Sys. Division,
Grant
No: DSRT-571822400
Award Amount: $ 18,000
Period
Covered: March
31, 1995 - March 30, 1996
4.
Principal Investigator: M. Adjouadi
Co
- PIs: P. Schmidt,
G. Larkins, J. Andrian, A. Pasztor
Source
of Support: National Science Foundation
Project Title: Acquisition of
Equipment for Integrated Sensing Towards
Real-Time Vision,
Cognition, and 3-D Modeling
Source of Support:
National Science Foundation
Grant Number:
CDA - 9512454
Award Amount: $ 267,000
Period
Covered*: Sept. 1995 - Aug.
1998 (Full Amount Received)
5.
Principal Investigator: M. Adjouadi
Co - PIs:
N. Fernandez and J. Riley
Project Title: Imaging Algorithms for Enhanced Pattern Classification
Source
of Support : Coulter Corporation
Research & Instrumentation System Division
Grant
No: DSRT-571822400
Award Amount : $
18,000
Period
Covered: April 1, 1996 - March 31, 1997
6.
Supervisor: M. Adjouadi
Project Title: Time Varying Images Using Confocal Microscopy
Source of Support: National
Science Foundation
Minority
Graduate Fellowship Program - For Sonia Duranza
Grant
No: DSRT-TBA
Award Amount : $69,000
($ 23,000/year for three years)
Period
Covered : April 1, 1996 - March 31, 1997
7.
Principal Investigator:
Subbarao V. Wunnava;
Project Title: FIU/Coulter Network Project;
Grant No: DSRT # 5718 20300
Source of Support:
Coulter Corporation, Miami;
Award Amount: $32,000.00
Period Covered: July 10, 95 to July 9, 96
8.
Principal Investigator:
G. Hopkins
Co-PI: J. Story, G. Roig
Title: GATEWAY Engineering
Education Coalition
Source of Support: NSF/Drexel University
Award Amount: $108,887
Period Covered: increase FY 1996
9.
Principal Investigator: Michael Evangelist
Co-PIs:
Yi Deng, Paul C. Attie
Project Title: A Formal Approach for the Design of Real-time Distributed
Systems
Source of Support: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Grant No.
(Grant under final negotiation)
Award Amount: $348,010
Period Covered: 4/1/96 - 3/31/99
10.
Principal Investigator:
Jean Andrian
Co. PIs: M. Adjouadi
and K. Yen
Project Title: Time Frequency Analysis and Noise
Filtering of Non-Stationary Signals
Source of Support:
USAF-Wright Petterson Laboratory
Award Amount: $ 210,000
Period Covered: 3Years, starting May, 1996
11.
Principal Investigator:
Gustavo Roig
Project/Proposal Title: Florida Georgia Alliance for Minority Participation
in Science, Engineering and
Mathematics
Source of Support: FAMU/NSF
Award Amount: $ 31,250
Period Covered: 1 year increase
12.
Principal Investigator:
Gustavo Roig
Project/Proposal
Title: Junior Engineering Technical
Society Unite (JETS)
Source of Support:
JETS/DoD-US Army
Award Amount: $ 30,000
Period Covered: Oct 1995 -Sept. 1996
13.
Principal Investigator:
Gustavo Roig
Project/Proposal Title: Florida Action for Minorities in Engineering
Source of Support: Dade County Public Schools
Award Amount: $ 70,720
Period Covered: Dec 1995, November 1996
14.
Principal Investigator:
Gustavo Roig
Project/Proposal
Title: Florida Georgia Alliance for
Minority Participation in Science, Engineering and Mathematics
Source of Support: FAMU/NSF
Award Amount: $ 103,869
Period Covered: Increase
1.
Principal Investigator: M. Adjouadi
Co - Pi:
R. Frank and M. Heimer
Project Title: Establishment
of a Biomedical Engineering Laboratory for Multidimensional and Multispectral
Imaging
Source of Support: Whitaker Foundation
Award Amount: $600,619
Period
Covered: three
years (TBA)
2.
Principal Investigator: M. Adjouadi
Project Title: Research Experience for Undergraduate
Source of Support: National
Science Foundation
Award Amount: $40,000
Period Covered
: Sept 1, 1996 - August 31, 1997
3.
Principal Investigator:
Subbarao V. Wunnava;
Co PIs: Nagarajan Prabhakaran
Title: Information Network
for Transportation & Construction Needs (INTC)
Source of Support: Florida Department of Transportation
DOT (Submitted November 1995))
Award Amount: $199,822.20
Period Covered: 1996 Summer through 1998
Spring
4.
Principal Investigator:
Kinzy Jones
Co. PI: Subbarao Wunnava
Project Title: Infrastructure for FPGA based
Multi Chip Modules (Planning Grant)
Source of Support:
NSF Planning Grant
Award Amount: $49,722.00 for one year
Period
Covered: Fall
96 through Summer 97.
5.
Principal Investigator: K. Jones
Co - Pis
: E Cannon, and M. Adjouadi
Project Title: Replacement of Space for Engineering Research Centers
Source
of Support: NSF- Academic Research Infrastructure
Award Amount: $ 1,961,904
Period
Covered: Two years
1.
Supervisor: M. Adjouadi
For:
A. Taberner,
Project Title:
Source of Support: National Science
Foundation Minority Fllowship Program
Award Amount : $69,000
($ 23,000/year for three years)
*
Annette Received Honorable Mention
2.
Supervisor: M. Adjouadi
For:
Elsa Jackubzik
Project Title: Real-Time Signal Processing in Biomedical Applications
Source of Support: NASA
Graduate Fellowship Program (for E. Jakubzick)
Grant
No: DSRT-TBA
Award Amount: $66,000 ($22,000 per Year
for three years)
3.
Principal Investigator:
Dr. William Hopper, Florida Memorial College
Co PI Subbarao V. Wunnava
Project Title: Consortium based Centers of Excellence
for Maths, Science & Engineering
Source of Support:
Department of Defense Infrastructure support
Award Amount: 2,999,942.00
Period: for 5 years, starting
September 1996.
4.
Principal Investigator: Subbarao V. Wunnava;
Co PIs:
Kang Yen, Armando Barreto, Nagarajan Prabhakaran
Project Title: Automated Collision Notification
System
Source of Support: Federal Department of Transportation
DOT (Submitted Feb 95)
Award Amount: 2.78 Million dollars for 4 years
Period:
1995 Fall through 1999 Summer
5.
Principal Investigator: James Story
Co-PIs: Armando Barreto and Sylvia
Mergui
Project Title: Learning Industry
Teamwork
Source of Support: NSF (CCD Division)
Award Amount: 515,487
Period: 4 years
ALL acknowledging support from NSF grant CDA #93-13624
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M. Midon, M. Adjouadi, G. Nunez, and G. Roig, “ Computer Application
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Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Linz, Austria,
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Irma Fernandez & Subbarao Wunnava “Privatizing Public Network Data
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Subbarao Wunnava, Miguel Rosario, & Kishore Gandham “ Advances
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of the 7th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, San Antonio,
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Armando B. Barreto, Annette M. Taberner, and Luis M. Vicente, "Neural
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Luis M. Vicente, Armando B. Barreto, and Annette M. Taberner, "Adaptive
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Luis M. Vicente, Armando B. Barreto, and Annette M. Taberner, "DSP
Removal of Respiratory Trend in Photoplethysmographic Blood Volume Pulse Measurements",
Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon '96, Tampa, Florida, April 11-14 1996.
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M. Adjouadi , N. Fernandez, S. Duranza, and J. Riley, “ Instruction
Decoding and Machine-Cycle Encoding of a General Purpose Microprocessor”,
submitted to the Journal of Microcomputer Applications,
November 1995
[27]
M. Adjouadi , N. Fernandez, S. Duranza, and J. Riley, “ Timing Circuitry
and General-Purpose Register-Related Control Signals of a General Purpose
Microprocessor”, submitted to the Journal
of Microcomputer Applications, November 1995
[28]
M. Adjouadi , N. Fernandez, S. Duranza, and J. Riley, “ Special Purpose
Register-, ALU-, Memory-, and Other Related Control Signals of a General Purpose
Microprocessor”, submitted to the Journal of Microcomputer Applications,
November 1995
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M. Adjouadi and Noemi Fernandez, FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER DESIGN
to be reviewed, John Wiley & Sons, Dr. Steven Elliot, Editor, College
Division.
Received by W. Subbarrao:
* TIP (Teaching Incentive
Program) Award, State of Florida: Spring 95
*
Excellence in Teaching Award, FIU Foundation; Fall 1995.
Received by J. Story:
TIP (Teaching Incentive
Program) Award, State of Florida: Spring 96
Received by M. Adjouadi:
* Research Award, Florida International University, July 1995
* Teaching Incentive Award , a State University System award,
April 1994
* Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, March 1996
In
line with the mission of this NSF-IIMI grant which encourages synergistic
efforts , we have made significant progress in terms of joint publications,
the writing and funding of research proposals, and curriculum enhancement. In brief, we had more than 30 publications
in Journals and refereed conferences this 1995-1996 year, and the PI and Co-PIs
of these NSF-IIMI grant obtained seven funded proposals from NSF, US Air Force,
Dade County Public Schools, and Coulter Corporation. We have created several graduate courses in the CISE areas, and
are revisiting the undergraduate curriculum.
The PI has in the past two years published
6 journal publications in the IEEE transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence, IEEE transactions on Signal Processing, the International Journal
of Rehabilitation Research and Development, the Journal for the Art of Teaching,
and recently the IEEE transactions on Image Processing. All of these publications
acknowledge of course the support of the NSF-IIMI grant.
More publications (some under review) are yet to come this year as
we continue to progress in our research.
The PI has also received three grants from NSF (NSF-REU, NSF-ARI) and
Coulter Corporation, with more prospects for the writing of other proposals
to agencies and foundations such as the Whitaker and NIH with the advent of
our NSF-ARI grant which allowed us to have a confocal microscope and a high-speed
motion analyzer with dedicated processors.
Furthermore, Two proposals involving five
fellowship applications for graduate students in the amount of $ 138,000 + $ 157,500 = $ 295,500 were submitted
this year. Some of our CATE students
are also applying for this year’s NASA graduate fellowship program.
The
NSF-CATE Center has helped several investigators carry-out their research
by giving them and their students accounts and access to our NSF-CATE Center
as they build their own programs. These include:
Dr. Naphtalie Rishe and his students who are using CATE as a starting
platform for their NASA grant; and Dr. Jean Andrian and his students who are
using CATE to begin research on their US-Air Force grant.
The
NSF-CATE Center helped other Investigators by supporting some of their graduate
and undergraduate students, and by using CATE in their proposals as a starting
platform to bring in funding for students. Publications by these PIs acknowledge
the support of CATE. Research grants acquired through these PIs include 1
NASA grant, and three US Air Force grants. These will also lead into publications
which will acknowledge NSF-CATE support.
The
collaboration between the NSF-CATE Center and the Engineering Information
Center (EIC) brought about a significant upgrade of the Computer Information
Network in the Engineering and Computer Science Building (ECS).
In
April 17, 1996, an FIU delegation consisting of : president Modesto Maidique;
provost James Mau; Dean of the College of Engineering, Gordon Hopkins; Malek
Adjouadi, Director of the NSF-CATE Center; and Rudy Ibarra, Director of the
Engineering Information Center met in Mountain View California with the leadership
of Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) consisting of Chairman and CEO, Ed.
McCracken, and sveral SGI divisional directors to lay the groundwork on a
partnership to establish a joint facilty for high performance computing to
be located here at FIU in a newly purchased $36 million , 220,000 SF building.
Through the NSF-CATE Center, we are also
providing mentorship and support to students who are part of the following
three funded programs: - the NASA Sharp Plus/ Florida International University
team Program spearheaded by our associate Dean, Gustavo Roig; - the Gateway
program through the College of Engineering and Design; and of course - the
NSF-REU grant supporting 8 undergraduates with identified research projects,
a program which has been a total success in that all of these undergraduate
have either graduated with job offers or are going on with their graduate
studies.
Some of our Co-Pis
had the opportunities to review and or serve on panels for NSF:
Dr. James Story reviewed
NSF proposals on the subject of enhancing teaching, and Dr. Dawn
Holmes Served on NSF Networking Infrastructure for Education (NIE) review
panel (June 7‑9, 1995)
ESTABLISHED
IN THE FALL OF 1993
With all the equipment acquired, an overview of the NSF-CATE
Center is thus provided next to indicate the following:
(1) research capabilities,
(2) the architecture of
the CATE Center,
(3) the Network of the
CATE center,
(4) a proposed architecture
we are now negotiating with the Silicon Graphics Incorporated Leadership,
(5) the new area in a
new building we will be moving into next academic year
Image Processing and Computer Vision
Biomedical Applications
Neural Networks
Multimedia
Wavelet Theory
Sensors
Distributed and Parallel Processing
Real-time and Multidimensional Signal Processing
The
NSF-funded Center for Advanced Technology and Education - CATE as illustrated
in Figure 1 provides a computing environment capable of engaging researchers
as well as facilitating classroom and laboratory-based instruction in critical
technology areas such as image processing and computer vision, neural networks,
distributed and parallel processing, and visual programming and 3-D modeling.
CATE constitutes an infrastructure that is viable for cutting-edge
research activities providing an environment that facilitates state-of-the-art
educational and research activities with the potential for: (a) parallel and
distributed processing, (b) high performance 3-D rendering and modeling, (c)
real-time processing capability, (d) operating systems and graphics software
that meet current standards, and (e) high-speed data acquisition, playback,
analysis, and communications links.
The
following are the main equipment of the CATE center.
The
Onyx supercomputer offers true supercomputing power which combines a parallel
CPU subsystem configured with up to 12 R8000
64-bit RISC-based microprocessors.
The R8000 is undoubtedly the fastest commercially available supercomputing
microprocessor. A single R8000 processor
provides 300 million double-precision floating operations per seconds (MFLOPS)
and 300 million instructions per second (MIPS). The R8000, formerly code-named TFP (for what
some referred to in the past as Tremendous Floating Point, and as Tera FLOPS),
performance is roughly equivalent to a Cray Y-MP processor unit. The R8000 costs about twice the dollar amount
of the R4400, but provides roughly 4 times the computational power of the
R4400 with its 75 MFLOPS and 128 MIPS. The
Onyx system will give researchers access to a computing platform that is both
highly suited for advanced 3D graphics visualization as well as the development
of computationally intensive algorithms, which are indispensable in addressing
the critical technology fields of computer vision, cognitive science, and
integrated sensing technology. This is made possible by its high bandwidth
symmetric multiprocessing architecture, which incorporates a 1.2 Gigabyte
per second system bus with the power of 12 R8000 RISC processors yielding 3.6 billion floating point operations
per second (GFLOPS). It is this type of processing power that will facilitate
the modeling of real-time vision systems.
The RCM 8000 real-time confocal microscope
main system integrates a multi-line visible Kripton Argon Ion laser.
The main body of this confocal system consists of two principle modules:
(1) a dual laser/dual photometer detector-based scanning module, and (2) a
real-time imaging (DataCube) module for real-time acquisition, processing,
and storage of image information under three different spectral ranges, using
single wavelength, two-color dual wavelength, and using dual emission confocal
images. Such a system adds to the fundamental power of light microscopy
the ability to view specimens under analysis where nothing is out-of-focus.
Traditionally, light microscopes provided focused information on regions
immediately surrounding the focal plane of the specimen under analysis, while
the remainder regions contributed out-of-focus information.
With a confocal microscope, the out-of-focus information, which basically
degrades or contaminates the observed data, is removed. The spatial resolutions offered through the
confocal microscope exceed the current theoretical limitations. Clearly, the confocal microscope will and is
bringing about new theoretical and practical developments in the biomedical
field, in diverse other industrial applications, and in major research institutions.
Major research institutions such as Cornell, Stanford, Duke, and U.C.
Berkeley, to name a few, are presently taking a lead in this new research
field and exploiting what may well be the truest image formation there is
to exploit at this juncture. From this viewpoint, we foresee tremendous potential
growth in biomedical as well as other industrial applications, specifically
in the area of how scientists will view, analyze, and understand such three-dimensional
image formation -based processes.
This is an Eastman Kodak motion analysis
system designed for the capture and understanding of high speed phenomenon
that happen to fast for the eye to capture.
This motion analysis system can capture 50 up to 4,500 full frames
per second with instant replay and post-event analysis and data reduction
capabilities. This type of system
will be ideal for the study of any type of fluctuation or perturbation phenomenon.
This will result in the opportunity to assess effectively the effect
of noise in images, and to integrate important aspects of medical and industrial
applications involving the study of flow
visualization, crack propagation, ballistic studies, analysis of defects,
and other related problems. This piece
of equipment is a highly ruggedized design that can withstand shock and vibrations
common to military and industrial environments.
Towards understanding the problem of motion
analysis, the high-speed motion analyzer offers us the capability to selectively
move from any temporal reference to another with the highest resolution possible
in order to assess the dynamics of motion. This translates in the detailed study of the
nature of motion for several applications.
These include the recovery of the third dimension in the case of navigation,
and the analysis, interpretation, and modeling of any dynamic phenomenon involving
such things as mechanical, biomechanical, and any other type of time-varying
imagery.
The confocal microscope and the high-speed
motion analyzer have dedicated Silicon Graphics Indigo-2 workstations, powered
by a MIPS 200 MHz R4400 RISC processors with an Extreme graphics subsystem.
The Indigo-2's architecture is by far the most powerful and advanced
available today. It can achieve 267 Megabytes per second sustained
throughput on it's system bus, this coupled with the power of the 200 MHz
R4400 RISC processors will provide researchers with an incredibly advanced
development environment, allowing them to do much of their preliminary investigation
as well as any initial graphics work locally on their workstations or on a
distributed or parallel platform through transparent access to the Onyx-based architecture. Thus, dedicated processors are used whenever
necessary for optimal use of highly sophisticated components where real-time
issues can be investigated without interference of problems related to bottleneck
and bus contention of the network.
The
Nomad 200 is an integrated mobile robot system with four sensory modules including
a tactile module consisting of 20 pressure sensitive sensors, an infrared
module consisting of 16 sensors providing a 360° environment coverage and a range up to
24 inches, an ultrasonic module consisting of a 16 channel ranging system
providing range information from 17 inches (42 centimeters) up to 255 inches
(6.5 meters), and a structured light vision system which through a horizontal
light projection estimates the range to the object using triangulation. This
roving robot is enhanced here with the integration of CCD cameras for augmented
computer vision applications. The
Nomad robot has on-board processors dedicated to the control of the sensors
and the robot’s motor. The Nomad 200
robot is about 35 inches high (close to 1 meter) with a radius of about 20
inches. Its mobility is achieved through a three-wheel base which can translate and rotate
with a translational speed of 20 inches per second and a rotational speed
of 60° per second.
This involves a hardware
implementation of a square detector array on a PZT stack and sweep it through
the image space while recording a 3-D array image. Such a development yields
an image which would remain sharp over a wide range of depth of field and which would have imbedded in it not
only two dimensional size but distance information as well. This would allow the building of a 3-D representation
of the object being imaged with few frames taken in spatial quadrature. The
use of PZT positioners to accomplish this electronically and with great precision
and speed is key in allowing the implementation of this basic concept. Every
point in Object Space (where the target is) is uniquely mapped through the
optical system (lens) into Image Space and the use of precision positioning
equipment (PZT stacks) in setting the detector array's position in Image Space
to an accuracy on the order of a fraction of a micron would allow the accurate
definition of target distances. An additional advantage of this system is that
the only mass being moved during focusing is that of the detector array thus
greatly simplifying the problem of the optical system design and allowing
the use of highly corrected and rigidly constructed optical systems of large
apertures. Since the entire concept essentially renders the entire swept image space's corresponding object space region as a sharp image, there
is also no need to reduce the aperture of the optical system to increase the
depth of field/depth of focus. Project
to start in the second year of the NSF-ARI grant.
These
involve several CCD compact cameras used on-line with the computer workstations
for direct image acquisition and analysis, and with the roving robot for automated
guidance. Few of these CCD cameras
offer a 2Kx2K pixel resolution.
These are specific processor boards which
are used for real-time signal processing applications focusing on the application
of the wavelet transform and other
taxing signal processing tasks.
A
key element in properly harnessing the graphics power of such a centralized
computational powerhouse such as the Onyx is a high speed raster manager board.
With the above listed equipment integrated to form a distributed and parallel
architecture, this raster manager will enhance current capabilities for real-time
3-D rendering and visualization, giving researchers access to the most powerful
graphics visualization systems available today. The power of the Reality Engine II of the Onyx
is now enhanced by a factor of 200 % with the integration of the raster manager.
This
is a second-year project of the NSF-ARI grant.
Name
Machine CPU (Clock) Memory Cache (D/I/S)
Graphics Drive
everest
ONYX R8000 (4x75MHZ) 256 (MB)(16/16/1024) KB RE-2
4.0 (GB)
kahina
Challenge-M R4000 (100MHZ)
48 (MB) (8/8/1024)) KB N/A 3.0 (GB)
denali
SGI IndyR4000 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (8/8/0) KB Indy 8-b 1.0 (GB)
descartes
SGI Indy R4000 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (8/8/0) KB Indy 8-b 0.5 (GB)
gauss
SGI Indy R4000 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (8/8/0) KB Indy 8-b 0.5 (GB)
hadamard
SGI Indy R4000 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (8/8/0) KB Indy 8-b 0.5 (GB)
pascal
SGI Indy R4000 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (8/8/0) KB Indy 8-b 0.5 (GB)
peasant
SGI Indy R4000 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (8/8/0) KB Indy 8-b 0.5 (GB)
titan
SGI Indy R4000 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (8/8/0) KB Indy 8-b 0.5 (GB)
walsh
SGI Indy R4000 (100MHz)
16 (MB) (8/8/0) KB Indy 8-b 0.5 (GB)
zenith
SGI Indy R4000 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (8/8/0) KB Indy 8-b 1.0 (GB)
dante
SGI Indy R4600 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (16/16/0) KB Indy 24-b
1.0 (GB)
galileo
SGI Indy R4600 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (16/16/0) KB Indy 8-b
1.0 (GB)
karhunen
SGI Indy R4600 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (16/16/0) KB Indy 24-b
1.0 (GB)
loeve
SGI Indy R4600 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (16/16/0) KB Indy 24-b
1.0 (GB)
onyx
SGI Indy R4600 (100MHz)
32 (MB) (16/16/0) KB Indy 8-b
1.0 (GB)
dilyara
SGI Indy - R4400 (150MHz)
32
(MB) (16/16/1024) KB Indy 24-b
1.0 (GB)
fourier
SGI Indy - R4400 (150MHz)
32
(MB) (16/16/1024) KB Indy 24-b
1.0 (GB)
vision
PI 4D/35GT - R3000 (36 MHz)
16 (MB) (64/64/0) KB GR1.2
1.0 (GB)
fuzzy
Mac II/FX - 68020 (20 MHz)
8 (MB) (0/0/0) KB NuVista
0.2(MB)
srse
Zenith 386/20 - 80386 (20 MHz)
20 (MB) (0/0/0) KB N/A
1.0(MB)
visionp1
Zenith 386/20 - 80386 (20 MHz)
20 (MB) (0/0/0) KB N/A
0.6(MB)
visionp2
Zenith 386/20 - 80386 (20 MHz)
8 (MB) (0/0/0) KB N/A
0.1(MB)
visionp3
Zenith 386/20 - 80386 (20 MHz)
80 (MB) (0/0/0) KB N/A
0.1(MB)
The architecture
encompassing all of the described equipment above is illustrated in Figure
1.
The network of
the NSF-CATE Center is illustrated in Figure 2.
With
the purchase of a new building by FIU, the CATE Center which approximates
about 2000 SF will now be moving to a much larger and better facility with
more than 3200 SF allocated for the CATE Center. Figure 3 shows the lay-out
and the space of the CATE in one of the floors of the new building.
This
a collaboration effort as indicated earlier which is spearheaded by the Dean
of the College of Engineering to establish a high performance computing facility
with the help of Silicon Graphics Incorporated. Several meetings including one with the Chairman and CEO of SGI
Ed McCracken and several divisional leaders have already taken place. The proposed architecture which is to be established
in the new building earlier mentioned is illustrated in Figure 4.
Equipment expenditure for the three-year
life of the grant is $ 1,138,042 with
the following breakdown in NSF expenditures and total FIU match. A detailed account of all the purchases is
provided in the tables that follow in section 10.2.
|
Year |
NSF |
FIU - DSRT |
Total |
|
year 1 |
$ 217,467 |
$ 115,000 |
$ 332,467 |
|
year 2 |
$ 116,916 |
$
62,825 |
$ 179,741 |
|
year 3 |
$ 72,834 |
$
36,000 |
$ 108,834 |
|
Totals |
$ 407,217 |
$ 213,825 |
$ 621,042 |
DSRT = Division of Sponsored Research And Training
|
Year |
NSF |
FIU - DSRT |
Total |
|
year 1 |
$ 217,365 |
$ 50,000 |
$ 317,000 |
|
year 2 |
$ 28,634 |
$ 100,000 |
$ 128,634 |
|
year 3 |
$ 21,001 |
$ 100,000 |
$ 121,001 |
|
Totals |
$ 267,000 |
$ 250,000 |
$ 517,000 |
DSRT = Division of Sponsored Research And Training
A detailed account
on the equipment purchase is provided in the tables that follow.
All the purchase
orders for the three years of the grant are tabulated. Different columns separate the NSF-IIMI grant
from the NSF-ARI grant.
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