There are 12 projects in this section. 1. Biotechnology 2. Earthquakes :Origins and Predictions 3. Emerging Internet Technologies 4. Exploring the Nano-Landscape 5. Fiberoptic Communication Systems 6. Laser-based Non-destructive Evaluation and Monitoring 7. Medical Robotics 8. Network Integrity and Information Assurance 9. Smart Pharmaceuticals 10. Tissue Engineering 11. Waste Containment Technology 12. Wireless Communications 1. Biotechnology Contact Name: Raj Mutharasan Organization: Drexel University This module introduces to some of the key elements of biotechnology. Discussed are some of the biological principles that enable us to construct microorganisms or cells that carry out biochemical reactions of commercial value and also explains the basic principles of biochemical engineering File Type: MS Word File Size: 672 Kb Click here to View Document File Type: MS PowerPoint File Size: 3375 Kb Click here to View Presentation [Back to Index/Top] 2. Earthquakes :Origins and Predictions Contact Name: Aspasia Zerva Organization: Drexel University This paper explains the driving forces behind earthquakes, how tectonic plates move on the earth's hotter interior, what their boundaries are, and how the rupture at the fault causes an earthquake. It also explains how to predict and measure earthquakes. File Type: MS Word File Size: 262 Kb Click here to view document [Back to Index/Top] 3. Emerging Internet Technologies Contact Name: Harish Sethu Organization: Drexel University This paper explains about the emerging internet tecnologies. It starts with the fundamentals of networking like protocol layering, switches and routers and then deals with advanced topics like Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS). File Type: MS Word File Size: 221 Kb Click here to view Document File Type: MS PowerPoint File Size: 188 Kb Click here to View Presentation [Back to Index/Top] 4. Exploring the Nano-Landscape Contact Name: DiNardo Organization: Drexel University The topics described in this article represent the basis of the exploding field of Nanotechnology that is finding new applications every day. Nanotechnology represents the ability to engineer structures and devices on the nanometer scale. Nanotechnology is a field that goes beyond "miniaturization" to engineering physical, electronic, and chemical properties and processes based on the atomistic basis of materials properties. File Type: MS Word File Size: 71 Kb Click here to View Document File Type: MS Power Point File Size: 11191 Kb Click here to View Presentation [Back to Index/Top] 5. Fiberoptic Communication Systems Contact Name: Mohana p Shankar Organization: Drexel University This paper describes the use of fibre optics in the long distance communication network. It explains the light propogation through an optical fibre, modes in fibres and advanced topics like data transmission through the fibre. File Type: MS Word File Size: 239 Kb Click here to View Document File Type: MS Power Point File Size: 214 Kb Click here to View Presentation [Back to Index/Top] 6. Laser-based Non-destructive Evaluation and Monitoring Contact Name: John S Popovics Organization: Drexel University The paper describes the necessary basic concepts about light, lasers, fiber optics and wave propagation. The basis of wave generation and sensing with lasers is also described and finally specific engineering applications that make use laser-based techniques are described File Type: MS Word File Size: 1751 Kb Click here to View Document File Type: MS PowerPoint File Size: 709 Kb Click here to View Presentation [Back to Index/Top] 7. Medical Robotics Contact Name: Jaydev p Desai Organization: Drexel University The evolution of robotics in surgery is a new and exciting development. Surgical robotics brings together many disparate areas of research such as: design, development and modeling of robotic systems, nonlinear control, safety in medical robotics, ergonomics in minimally invasive procedures, and last but not the least, surgery. This paper descibes the use of robotics in areas of medicine like orthopaedics, neurosurgery, laparoscopic procedures, opthalmic surgery, and cardiac surgery. File Type: MS Word File Size: 17,975 Kb Click here to view document File Type: MS Power Point File Size: 17,177 Kb Click here to View Presentation [Back to Index/Top] 8. Network Integrity and Information Assurance Contact Name: Stewart D Personick Organization: Drexel University This paper describes the various techniques in network security. It explains concepts like Cryptography, digital signatures and advanced network security topics like firewalls. File Type: MS Word File Size: 161 Kb Click here to View Document File Type: MS Power Point File Size: 208 Kb Click here to View Presentation [Back to Index/Top] 9. Smart Pharmaceuticals Contact Name: Anthony M Lowman Organization: Drexel University Polymeric systems, particularly hydrogels, can be engineered with a wide range of properties that makes them ideal as carriers for pharmaceutically active agents. These new systems can be combined with different drugs and provide for release of drugs at different rates for varying time periods. Furthermore, these systems could provide for modulated drug release in response to physiological changes. This generation of materials represents the beginning of new "smart pharmaceuticals" that will lead to improvements in biological efficacy of administered drugs as well as reduced treatment costs. File Type: MS Word File Size: 357 Kb Click here toView the Document File Type: MS Power Point File Size: 407 Kb Click here to View Presentation [Back to Index/Top] 10. Tissue Engineering Contact Name: Cato T Laurencin Organization: Drexel University The repair or replacement of living tissue, the application of interdisciplinary principles,and the use of natural and/or synthetic materials. This is the essence of tissue engineering. This paper describes briefly about the basic concepts in Tissue Engineering. File Type: MS Word File Size: 3404 Kb Click here to View Document [Back to Index/Top] 11. Waste Containment Technology Contact Name: Yick Hsuan Organization: Drexel University This paper describes about various waste management techniques. It gives and brief review of various techniques used for waste disposal like source reduction, recycling, combustion and Landfilling technique. File Type: MS Word File Size: 318 Kb Click here to View Document File Type: MS PowerPoint File Size: 1409 Kb Click here to View Presentation [Back to Index/Top] 12. Wireless Communications Contact Name: Maja Bystrom Organization: Drexel University This paper descibes briefly about the wireless communication. It aslo discusses about signals, signal propogation and channel effects and modulation of analog and digital signals. File Type: MS Word File Size: 1004 Kb Click here to View Document File Type: MS PowerPoint File Size: 1037 Kb Click here to view Presentation [Back to Index/Top]