In 2004, we ran our first curated virtual space mission for Georgia Tech’s graduate-level ECE 6390, Satellite Communications.  The project was entitled “Deep-Penetrating Neptune Probes” and involved a hypothetical planetary NASA mission to the gas giant Neptune to study the atmospheric composition of the gas giant.  Originally suggested by Prof. Steffes (like many of the curated virtual space missions that followed), the project page archive can be found here.
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Here is an old web-article I wrote in 2001 when I was a post-doc at Osaka University.  The article still has some helpful advice for anyone giving a presentation in another culture.   [Read more…]

Projects in an engineering curriculum can be divided into 3 types, depending on their emphasis: research, invention, and design.Each of these project types emphasizes a different set of skills and disciplines. Any rich project will involve a combination of these 3 categories to varying degrees, but there is usually one dominant project theme that often classifies it as one or the other.   The Research-Invention-Design (RID) categories could then best be summarized by the Venn diagram (left). [Read more…]