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Scintillating Projects Two more EE&CS
design teams scored top places in a contest with peers and grad
students, this
time at the 5th annual Scintilla Forum, conducted for the first time at
West Point this year.Team E-Wi won 2nd place. Their systematic and innovative design for a cell phone relay system provides a model that can be expanded to the cadet barracks so that a long-planned transition to mobile phone infrastructure for the Corps of Cadets can move forward. Pictured from left to right are E-Wi team members, all electrical engineers, Cadets Jack Cooperman, William Barber and Joseph Randall. Team PointBot took 3rd place with their work on an unmanned,
remotely controlled
vehicle capable of leading a military convoy, with the intent of
serving as a decoy for enemy forces or explosive hazards along
the route.
Though the final version was highly successful, the team's video of an early malfunction provided comic relief for the keen competition. As the Kowasaki "mule" testbed vehicle ran into a small roadside ditch, Phil Raquepau, manning an ineffective safety stop switch, followed the great naval tradition of abandoning ship. Is there a (design) pattern here? |
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WebBot Rules Rochester
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Flash Report:
West Point Wins Cyber Defense Exercise
It's official! The EE&CS Cyber Defense Team has bested Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine in the 7th Annual Cyber Defense Exercise. The exercise pits cadets at each Academy against a professional NSA Red Team of expert hackers who attack cadet-prepared networks at each academy through private network "tunnels" in the Internet. At the USMA, the team is selected from cadets engaged in EE&CS courses and the Information Security club ACM SIGSAC. Final debriefing by the Red Team remains to be accomplished. More later...
Faculty from all teaching programs contributed time and skills as mentors and advisors, coordinated by officer-in-charge Lt. Col. Joe Adams. "The cadets did all the work. We answered their questions," says Joe. To seed next year's team, a larger-than-usual fraction of underclassmen participated this year. Look out Red Team: They'll be back! Go Team EE&CS!! |
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Cadets Sweep MIT In Engineering Design    EE&CS cadets competed and
won in engineering design at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology 2008 Soldier Design Competition. USMA teams took 4 of
7 prizes. EE&CS cadets took first, third and seventh place
honors, with the seventh place team also winning the “Most
Innovative” title.The goal of the soldier design competition is to generate new products and systems to help soldiers - on and off the battlefield. Focused on non-weapons requirements like personal cooling systems and battery rechargers, technology that emerges from the competition often has dual-use potential for firefighters, police, and even athletes. Top honors this year went to Team Energized - EE&CS Cadets Isis Achanzar, Victor Kareh, and Daniel Konopa. The team designed a power supply for the PRC-117F radio that replaces two disposable batteries with one rechargeable battery. If implemented in the field, the supply would reduce battery costs for the radios by approximately 87%, saving a typical army battalion approximately 2.1 million dollars per year. Second place went to Team American Gladiator from the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. Team American Gladiato, Cadets Kimberly Jung, Christopher Lee, Brandon Mosher, and Terrence Nolan, designed a retractable seat that automatically retracts the gunner from a HMMWV turret when a roll-over is imminent or when initiated by a soldier in the vehicle. Their device retracts the gunner out of harm's way within 0.5 seconds. A third place award went to interdisciplinary EE&CS / Chemistry and Life Sciences Team Thermasters - Cadets Bryan Bird and Jesse Teahon from EE&CS and Cadets Jen Vanacek, Katie Fenton, and Eric Creighton from CLS. They designed an infrared emitter to identify friendly forces when looking through thermal imagers. The Most Innovative and seventh place prizes went to EE&CS Team Skype Snype consisting of Cadets Pete Renals and John Chamberlin. They designed a system to block Skype peer-to-peer connections on a network, a particularly thorny information assurance problem with direct Army security implications. Travel and other expenses of the cadet teams were defrayed through the contributions of generous donors. We are exceptionally grateful to these great friends of EE&CS for the opportunities their generosity provides. We're soooo proud! Go EE&CS!! |
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Diversity Leadership Leadership No, that's not a typo! Col. Bryan Goda is shown left of Kellen Winslow,
NFL Pro Football Hall of Famer, luncheon speaker for the 2008 West Point
Diversity Leadership Conference. To the right is Lt.Col. Nicholas Anthony,
who leads the Army human resources branch serving Aviation officers
throughout the world.
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Advisory Board Isn't Bored!  
At the 7th annual meeting of the EE&CS Advisory Board, this distinguished group of Army, industry, and academic friends of EE&CS considered the trajectory of current needs of the Army and what they ought to mean for cadet education. Some results: Critical thinking - the ability to make order from complexity and chaos - is more important than ever. And the thrust of Information Assurance education can be naturally broadened to a bigger setting - "counter-exploitation." Our enemies will try to use all our technological dependencies against us, not just information systems. Our graduates must be able to outsmart them. By way of update on the department, members visited with senior cadets engaged in their culminating design-build-integrate-test experience, finishing up learning in their majors' programs. The advisory board's visits are supported in part by generous donations of great friends of the Department. We're grateful for their contributions every day.
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Wrestling With Success For Cadet Mark Evinger '09,
grappling with the tough problems of Computer Science
isn't enough! In short order Mark has won both the Brigade
Wrestling Open in the 145 pound weight class and Brigade
Grappling Open in the 149 pound class - best in the 4,400 strong
Corps of Cadets. Shown at right
is Mark with Master of the Sword Colonel Greg Daniels, his freshly minted 2008 USMA Corps Championship Trophy, and
the victory patch he will wear on his uniform from this day.Mark brings the same positive spirit and tenacity that he applies on the mat to his studies of Computer Science. Congratulations Mark, EE&CS scholar-athlete! |
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Shown here are computer scientist
Cadets Kristof Ladny and Kyle Markle and electrical engineer
Cadets Michael Assenmacher, Daniel Ndah, and Philip Raquepau.
The joint
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Team WebBot
Team
HAL-Xen, Cadets Mike Kranch '08 and Roy Ragsdale '09, devised a
clever way to monitor any activity of a client computer with
absolutely no detectable trace of the eavesdropper.
The
cadets' organization for defense in depth proved key.
Cadet in charge Adrian Tilston, shown left, led the planning and
preparation that were the foundations of victory.
Honor societies
Eta Kappa Nu and Upsilon Pi Epsilon recently welcomed a bumper
crop of class of '08 and '09 cadets
from all three EE&CS
major's programs - Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and
Information Technology, and some new faculty members, too.
Sharing a fine dinner at
Eisenhower Hall with current HKN and UPE members
was both a pleasure and an
opportunity to remember that the science, engineering, and
technology professions share the Army's value of excellence and the
"whatever it takes" spirit to get a job done right.
| HKN | UPE |
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| Joseph Randall ‘08 | Scott Lobdell '08 |
| Mongi Bellili '08 | Victor Munoz '08 |
| Bryan Bird '09 | Thomas W. Sullivan '08 |
| Roney Jun '09 | John Trimble '08 |
| Hang Li '09 | Jeffrey Abbott '09 |
| Richard Miles '09 | Tera Corbari '09 |
| Sarah Noreen '09 | David Crow '09 |
| Tossapol Sakawkanokrat '09 | Matthew Devers '09 |
| Jacob Weber '09 | Chin Iu Lin '09 |
| LTC Joe Adams | Brian McCord '09 |
| LTC Rob Bartholet | Jonathon Meyers '09 |
| MAJ Matthew Dunlop | Michael Platek '09 |
| Mr. Al Messano | Roy Ragsdale '09 |
| Steven Whitham ‘09 | |
| LTC Rob Bartholet | |
| LTC Matthew Chapman | |
| Dr. Michael Miller |
Welcome all to yet another profession!
Engineer Of The Year!
At a gala dinner in New York City,
Professor Wenli Huang recently accepted the Women in Engineering
2007 Engineer of the Year Award
of the New York Section of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, known worldwide as the IEEE.
The award honored both Dr. Huang's
technical achievements and service to IEEE members.
As a researcher, Dr. Huang has worked for some 16 years as a key
contributor to blue-green laser technology. In addition to many
military applications, you can see evidence of her work at
any modern electronics store! The blue lasers used in
High Definition DVD recorders and players found their way to
everyday use through years of patient development such as
the computer simulations of quantum effects that Dr. Huang
developed.
Dr. Huang served selflessly as the IEEE Region 1 Women in Engineering Coordinator - tending to the needs of over 43,000 members in the northeastern U.S. She also represented Region 1 at the IEEE Board level, with responsibilities for nearly 400,000 members worldwide.
The whole EE&CS family is proud!
Tech Tour Touts Terrific Team
An entire team of technologies
and D/EE&CS faculty experts who know them have recently joined
forces for the IT105 fall semester "Tech Tour." With the aim of
introducing the great Class of 2011 to a large range of
technologies likely to influence their lives for the indefinite
future, students spent a full class hour in a carefully
choreographed set of "hands on" briefings. Cadets drove
radio-controlled robots, watched computer algorithms do magic
tricks, and learned what it's like to be "hacked" by a criminal
from somewhere else on the Internet. They listened to
music carried through space on a laser beam and viewed the
visible light spectrum first hand through polarized glasses too
cool for school.Says course director and tour organizer Maj. David Harvie, "It's a lot of work to put this together, but it's the best chance for cadets to see that Information Technology is really a huge, broad field that's everywhere in the Army and life in general. What we can teach in IT105, Introduction to Computing and Information Technology is just a sample."
Indeed, the tour taps the brain power of the entire D/EE&CS faculty - those teaching the majors in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Technology, PLUS the department's three research centers, Information Technology and Operations (ITOC), Photonics Research (PRC), and Network Science (CNS). Few departments at any school could bring such an array to bear for a freshman course.
The Tour also depends on a behind-the-scenes secret weapon of D/EE&CS - the world class staff of professional technicians who design, build, buy, and maintain the laboratories and computer systems of the department. With thousands of high tech items that turn over constantly to feed the dragon of Moore's Law - information technology power doubling every two years or so - this group of dedicated folks is sprinting a marathon every day to provide cadets with the latest and greatest. "Still," says Support Director Mr. Mark Riegner, "we have to choose with extreme care in order to present cadets with enduring principles in action, not just the technology fad of the moment. Sometimes this means building exactly the right piece of lab or demonstration equipment ourselves." Indeed, D/EE&CS operates its own little factory for electronic and small machine devices. Most of the robots running down EE&CS hallways, for example, were built or specially adapted by master technicians of the support staff. Departmental network and computing facilities are custom-designed to serve individual EE&CS courses and senior design efforts, no matter what exotic stuff they may require! "If a cadet can imagine it and design it, we can help her build it," says Riegner, "whatever that takes."
Truly a technology tour de force!
Cyber Scrimmage
Live fire on a
Saturday morning! No this isn't the Commandant's newest
idea for military training. Rather, it's 32
cadets who signed up for a SIGSAC Information Assurance club event to engage hands-on in network
attack and defense, just like battles being fought to defend Army information worldwide
every day. Assisted by 11 faculty and staff coaches,
the cadets - a combination of EE&CS majors and
interested others including some amazingly skilled plebes - were split into
Red Team attackers and Blue defenders. The field
of friendly strife? ... a specially designed
and constructed network disconnected or "air
gapped" from USMA and the Internet. It was tense, no holds barred
competition as Red gradually mapped and penetrated
a few Blue machines. After war stories over lunch,
the teams switched sides. More pitched network
combat ensued. Result? Everybody wins against
the real objective - learning the the hows and whys of
protecting information resources critical to success
on modern battlefields. Lots of fun, too, for the comrades in
cyber arms......A cyber success story!
Scouting The Air
Local girl and
boy scout troops celebrated the 50th Annual Jamboree On The Air
- JOTA - at West Point with the help of cadets of the
Ham Radio Club and EE&CS
faculty members led by Lt.Col. Tim Schmoyer.JOTA scouts engaged in QSOs - ham radio-ese for conversations - with other scouts and ham radio operators all over the world. Mutual understanding from an exchange of ideas was the intended result. And it happened!
Along the way to well-deserved Radio Merit Badges, all scouts learned proper radio call signs and procedures and safety precautions around electrical equipment and radio antennas. Scouts even strapped on safety gear and climbed the radio antenna mast on top of Bartlett Hall, five stories up. Don't look, mom!
Some historical trivia: Lt.Col. Schmoyer's personal ham call sign W2JIG is the same as was Lt. Edward C. Gillette's, Chemistry Department faculty member and founder of the Cadet Radio ("Ham") Club in 1936.
Now that's a long radio connection!
Plebe Parent Weekend Flash Report!
See pics here!IT105 Makes Lots Of Sense
About 600
Class of 2011 cadets flexed
newfound Information Technology muscles recently by
building temperature sensors during a hands-on lab
exercise in IT105. Arranging tiny components on
a printed circuit board, soldering them in place,
and testing to ensure accurate operation were the order
of the day. The idea was to debunk the "magic" of
electronics and provide a hands-on example of
a working sensor system, albeit small and simple.The plebe-built temperature-measuring gizmos were based on the same principles as far more sensitive devices used on the battlefield today to detect and measure forces and movement - enemy and friendly.
Dean BG Patrick Finnegan stopped by to observe the action and lend moral support.
The Class of 2011 senses success!
EECS Storm Rising
The Class of 2011's final summer military exercise
Operation Rising Storm was an EE&CS-run operation
this year. With trainers provided by the great
10th Mountain Division
from Ft. Drum, New York and Department of Military Instruction oversight,
a team of EE&CS faculty members built an experience
that few of the USMA's newly minted class of soon-to-be-plebes will forget.
Land navigation, mounted operations, force-on-force tactics, and
urban operations training inspired many New Cadets to accomplish
what they could only imagine a few months earlier in high
school.Shown above is an innovation that only EE&CS could provide: tactical robots assisting reconnaissance and clearing teams in urban operations!
[ See more pictures and video! ]
Well done, Class of 2011!
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Tunisia...
Too
bad an Italian airline strike forced a layover in Rome
for the EE&CS summer assignment team headed to Tunisia for some
international collaboration on smart robotics project design for
undergraduate educational purposes.
The project combined four rising second class (junior) cadets Nnamdi Chidozie, Zack Ciccolo, Brent Chapman, and Adrienne Rolle,
with ten Tunisian students in small interdisciplinary teams.
The EE&CS International Outreach team of Lt. Col. Kevin Huggins and
Maj. Chris Korpela worked out what promises to be a great
relationship with the
Université Libre De Tunis.
Everyone learned the high value of diversity in solving
engineering problems - travel and recreation problems too, since the group spent
almost every evening together. Ping pong, dinner with host
families, playing pool, walking on the Champs Elysees (Tunis
version), going to the beach, and other decidedly non-technical
activities rounded out the fantastic project work.
Side trips to tour Carthage and see the Sahara up close were
especially rewarding.
Along the way, cadets had a chance to speak Arabic and
French, one of the goals of these summer study abroad
opportunities. Opportunities indeed!
EE&CS summer studies for cadets are partly sponsored by generous
donations of private individuals and foundations. Without
their support, many of our most valued "margin of excellence"
programs would not be possible. We are profoundly
grateful.
Go EECS! See the world!
Lighting The Way
EE&CS faculty member Lt. Col. Fernando Maymi has
been selected for national honors as a 2007
HENAAC Luminary. The HENAAC is a non-profit organization
with a mission to educate, motivate and enable more
students to achieve careers in science, technology,
engineering and math. Lt. Col. Maymi recently completed
his assignment as Research Officer in the EE&CS
Information Technology and Operations Center, was selected
for fully funded Ph.D. studies, and is currently attending
the University of Puero Rico at Mayaguez to earn his degree.
He'll return to EE&CS in 2009.Luminaries represent top Hispanic professionals in engineering, science, and technology. Each Luminary is recognized for significant contributions to the Hispanic technical community, with the expectation that these individuals will inspire future generations to pursue careers in technology.
Congratulations Fernando!
Hot Chile Time
EE&CS
cadets made another summer sojourn to Universidad Diego Portales
in Chile, this time for joint work with students and faculty there to develop
an exploring robot that can map an arbitrary area and phone home
the results.Pictured above are Professor Sergio Mujica - Director, School of Info Engineering, UDP, Cadets Alan Adame, Derek Voight, student Fernando del Campo, Cadets Emma Free, Sarah Noreen, and Maj. Gustavo Mendiola.
Below, Derek, Emma, Alan, and Sarah pose, on a damp but happy day, with an ancient friend at Ahu Tongariki on Easter Island. Built by a long-vanished civilization, the statue is a reminder for all who follow - cadets and robots - that understanding your environment is essential!
Thanks and Vaya con Dios to our new Chilean friends!
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