NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1999 NASA-ASEE
Summer Faculty Fellowship, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
for 10 weeks from June7, 1999 through August 13, 1999. I worked on the
Aviation Weather Information (AWIN) project, whose goal is to provide
better weather information, both local and national, to aircraft pilots
and ground personnel in order to increase aviation safety. My major
research efforts were: (1) Find and evaluate sources of weather
information that could be sent to pilots and other personnel, (2) Setup
and operate a system testing lab where candidate aircraft weather
information display systems could be assembled and tested, (3) Perform
hardware/software integration. My primary research associate was the AWIN
Deputy Project Manager, Daniel Shafer. The AWIN program is part of the
Crew/Vehicle Integration Branch of the Flight Dynamics and Control
Division at NASA-Langley. Report written: R. L. Haggard, “Development of
the AWIN Integration and Technology Laboratory”, Final Report, NASA
Aviation Weather Information Project, August 11, 1999.
Integrated Industrial Process Sensing and Control
System Applied to and Demonstrated on Cupola Furnaces, (with PI:
Mohammed Abdelrahman) U.S. Department of Energy, $964,229, January, 1999
through May, 2003. Research, design, and implementation of hardware and
software for a reconfigurable computing platform to perform advanced
signal processing (using neural networks and fuzzy logic implemented on
microprocessors and FPGAs) within an industrial control system.
The Virtual Manufacturing Village: Shared
Methodologies and Tools for Advanced Manufacturing, TTU Manufacturing
Center and Vanderbilt University, May-August, 1996. Proposal declined by
NSF, August 1996.
Parallel Processing Implementation of Adaptive Radar
Sampling, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA, $24,560,
October, 1994 through August, 1995. Research and software implementation
of radar processing algorithms on a parallel network of Inmos Transputers.
Computer-Aided Reverse Engineering of Digital
Hardware, Tennessee Tech Faculty Research Program, $2,400, January,
1994 through December, 1994. Investigate the issues involved in reusing
legacy systems by converting an existing design database into a
recompilable VHDL description.
A Reconfigurable High-Speed Parallel Processor,
Tennessee Tech Faculty Research Program, $2,400, January, 1992 through
December, 1992. Investigate the use of reconfigurable FPGAs to implement a
special purpose parallel processor with greatly increased performance.
