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As
a Student at Carnegie Mellon University
Because of my previous
education and experience, I did not take the
usual four years to complete my degree at CMU. Instead I took two
courses as a Special Student, and then completed the ECE core program in
three additional semesters. This meant that my schedule was devoted to
lab and project courses.
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Projects
Tent Fly Power Supply
When faced with the task
of designing a portable ice maker, in Interdisciplinary Engineering
Design: Creating Product and Process [Engineering
Design in the Large], our team designed a unique
power source based on a very large array of solar cells. We were
the only group to physically demonstrate the feasibility of succeeding
with a portable device, by actually creating ice with a Peltier
device, during the presentation of our design.
BAT
My research project titled
Backloop Audition for Teleoperation
was partly funded by a SURG grant.
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Graduation
Although I completed my
coursework in December 1995, I didn't receive my diploma until the commencement
ceremony held in May 1996.
In the interim, I worked
as a Lab Assistant
for Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering, during
the Spring 1996 semester. |
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Courses
In Introduction to Electrical
and Computer Engineering, we constructed a mobile robot. Because
the inexpensive kits had a large number of problems, and I had experience
in this kind of assembly, I spent much of my lab time helping other groups
detect, identify, and repair defects.
In Signals and
Systems, I particularly enjoyed the lab on Simulating the Operation
of a Prosthetic Limb, using Matlab.
In Control Systems,
I most enjoyed modelling the attitude control system for an aircraft.
In Concurrency and Realtime
Systems, my work experience with ROM-based embedded computing, and
pragmatic approach to simplification, contributed to the speed with which
my group was able to optimize our program.
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| Activities
and Awards
During my brief attendance
at the university, I was unable to find time for very many extracurricular
groups.
I did participate in the
activities of the national service organization, AFW,
and I was a member of the Society
of Women Engineers (SWE).
Twice, I organized and conducted
the Iron Ring ceremony, introducing The Order of
the Engineer to CMU.
I received a 1996 CMU Senior
Leadership Award, and, for my entry, Backloop Audition
for Telerobotics, was awarded an HONORABLE
MENTION by the
Sigma Xi Society in their 1996 Poster Contest.
I made a presentation and
demonstration of the BAT, at the "Meeting of the
Minds," Carnegie Mellon's Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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Grants SURG,
URAP
I worked in coordination
with H. Ben Brown, who is a Project Scientist in the Vision and Autonomous
Systems Center (VASC) at CMU.
My faculty advisor was Takeo
Kanade, Professor and Director of the Robotics Institute |
| Order
of the Engineer |
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In
association with
ABET |
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The goal of the Order of
the Engineer is the same as that of the Ritual of the Calling of an
Engineer, which has almost 100% participation from graduating engineers
in Canadian universities. As in the original Kipling ceremony, inductees
make a declaration (entitled Obligation Of An Engineer), which says,
in part,
I pledge to practice
integrity and fair dealing, tolerance and respect; and to uphold devotion
to the standards of the dignity of my profession . . . .
Members of the Order wear an
Iron Ring on the little finger of their working hand, to demonstrate this
pledge and to advertise their pride in their profession. |
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As part of the
application process, I took the
College
Board (ETS)
examinations. |
| GRE |
| June 1993 |
V |
Q |
A |
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800 |
760 |
800 |
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| ACH |
| November 1993 |
EngComp |
Math II |
Physics |
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770 |
800 |
800 |
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| SAT |
| May 1993 |
V |
M |
TSWE |
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760 |
750 |
60+ |
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Transcript
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