Funded by the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education

 

                             Activities

Undergraduate Research Experience

The Undergraduate Research Experience is designed to encourage students in their senior year to investigate, in conjunction with a faculty advisor, a specific area of information technology.  The findings of winning proposals, listed in the table below, will be presented at an award ceremony in May 2001, at which time students will receive a merit award grant of $2,000.  The URE will be promoted each semester during the course of the NJ I-TOWER project.  Congratulations to the winning students, and thanks to their advisors for supporting their work.

Student Faculty Advisor Title of Project
G. Singh & A. Cordoso M. Zhou, ECE Network Health Monitoring System
D. Quadri M. Sosnowski, ECE Title: Analysis and Modeling of Ion Implantation Methods for Ultra-Shallow Junctions in Silicon
V.J. Phillip Y. Shi, ECE Robustness of Digital Watermarking
G. Di Benedetto C.A. Venanzi, Chemistry Using Sequence-Dependent Aspects of DNA to Predict Binding Pattern of Amiloride
H.V. Bhagat R. Scherl, CIS Mobile Agents for the Web
B.A. Cangro A.U. Meyer, ECE Modeling and Parameter Identification of Electroretinograms to Improve their Diagnostic Utility in Clinical Ophthalmology
J.B. Chua S. Schreibman, HSS Encoding Literary Objects for Archiving and Presentation in a Digital Medium
A. Rattrovo S.V.Malhotra, ChemE Computer Modeling and Physiochemical
Study of the Halogenated analogs of common Drugs
R. Nayampally B. Pietrucha, ECE, Adjunct Low Cost Web-based Alarm System
L. Buckley A. Rosato, ME A. Rosato, ME
T. Swaszek K. McDermott, IE Robotic/AGV Computer Integration Project
N. Akand D. Misra, ECE Hardware MP3 Player (playback from IDE/ATAPI drive)
S.K. Pandit M. Zhou, ECE Identifying Specific Facial Region Using Facial Data in Stereolithographic (.stl) File Format.

Honors and Distance Learning Course Development

The first of three request for proposals was circulated at NJIT in November, resulting in nineteen faculty being awarded $72,000 in stipends for their design and development of honors and distance learning courses in computing-related curricula, to be offered during the 2001-2002 academic year.  Given the number of sections many of these courses offer, between 700 and 900 students will benefit from this curricula development and enhancement each academic year.  Innovations from members of five NJIT departments are represented in the table below.  The next call for proposals will be conducted this summer, with the aim of adding even more honors and distance learning courses for the following two academic years.

Faculty Member and Department Course
Michael A. Baltrush, CS

CIS432 - Advanced Operating Systems
Michael Bieber, IS New: World Wide Web Standards (DL)
John D. Carpinelli, ECE CoE 353 and CoE 353H - Computer Organization for DL
Il Im, IS New: Electronic Commerce
Lou Kondic and Burt Tilley, MATH

New: Honors Topics in Scientific Computing
James McHugh, CS CIS 251 - Computer Organization, Multimedia-based DL/Live
Marvin Nakayama, CS CIS 341 - Introduction to Logic and Automata DL
Vincent Oria, IS New: Database Systems: From Files to the Web
Paul Ranky, IE New: IT 420 Computer Systems and Networks
John W. Ryon III, CS New: Principles of Component Programming
Julian M. Scher, IS CIS431H - Database System Design & Management
Richard Scherl, CS and David Keys, MATH, Rutgers-Newark New: Logic with Applications to Computer Science
Murray Turoff, IS CIS 447H - Human Computer Interface Design
Bartel Van de Walle, IS CIS 465H - Advanced Information Systems
Sal Washah, IS CIS456H - Open System Networking
Brian Whitworth, IS CIS270 - Multi-Media Information Systems-DL
Mengchu Zhou, CoE CoE495H - Computer Engineering Project

 

Enterprise Development Center Collaboration

Students are earning credit toward their degrees while working with our corporate partners and in the EDC, providing direct involvement in the growth of the digital economy by assisting young start-up entrepreneurs gain a firm hold on a market niche. Supervised by Prof. James McHugh, 12 student participants are doing Master's projects that focus on Internet related software technologies and applications, financial application modeling and interface design, and XML applications.  As the incubators grow, both undergraduate and graduate students will have even more opportunities to get hands-on experience in IT-related fields. 

Information Technology Research and Dissemination

Many of the investigators on the NJ I-TOWER project are presenting their research at major conferences and publishing their results in relevant IT journals and proceedings.  Here is just a sampling of  recent and upcoming work (italics indicate NJIT faculty):

B. An, Symeon Papavassiliou, and Ali Akansu.  "A Geocast Cellular Architecture for Mobile Cellular Networks."  In Proc. ACM Second International Workshop on Networked Group Communication (ACM NGC2000), pp. 59-67, November 2000.

D. Cui and A.M. Haimovich, “Design and Performance of Turbo Space-Time Coded Modulation,'' presented at Globecom2000, Nov. 27-Dec.1, 2000, San-Francisco, CA.

 J. Gao, Wu, and M. C. Zhou, “A Petri net-based formal reasoning algorithm for fuzzy production rule-based systems,” Proc. 2000 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, pp. 3093-3097, Oct. 8-11, 2000.

 J. Gao, C. Zhou, and H. Wang, “Mesh simplication with average planes for 3-D image,” Proc. 2000 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, pp. 1412-1417, Oct. 8-11, 2000.

S. Papavassiliou, S. Tekinay, K. Malick, and K. Walker. Walker "Performance Evaluation Framework and Quality of Service Issues for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in the MOSAIC ATD." In Proc. IEEE MILCOM2000, October 2000.

Y. Q. Shi and X. Zhang, "2-D interleaving by using successive packing," 38th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 4-6, 2000. 

Y. Tang, M. C. Zhou, and R. Qiu, “Design of virtual production lines in back-end semiconductor manufacturing systems,” Proc. 2000 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, pp. 1733-1738, Oct. 8-11, 2000.

 S. Xu, S. Papavassiliou and K Amouris.  "On the Optimal Multi-Zone Configuration for the Position-Guided Sliding-Window Routing (PSR) Protocol for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks." In Proc. IEEE MILCOM2000, October 2000.

J. Bang, N. Ansari and S. Tekinay, “Selective-Delay Push-In Buffering Mechanism for QoS Provisioning in ATM Switching Nodes Loaded with ON-OFF Arrival Processes,” to be presented at 15th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN-15), Beppu City, Japan, January 31 - February 2, 2001.

R. Bucher and D. Misra, “A Synthesizable VHDL Model of the Exact Solution for Three Dimensional Hyperbolic Positioning System,” VLSI Design journal (In review).

T. Chang and X. Sun, “Analysis and control monolithic piezoelectric nano-actuator,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, to appear in January 2001.

T. Chang and D. Chang, “The use of dynamic animation to improve learning,” submitted to the 2001 International Conference on Engineering Education, Oslo, Norway.

 D. Cui and A.M. Haimovich, “Parallel Concatenated Turbo Space-Time Coded Modulation: Principles and Performance Analysis,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, in review.

 D. Cui and A.M. Haimovich, “Performance of Parallel Concatenated Space-Time Codes,'' IEEE Communications Letters, in review.

D. Cui and A.M. Haimovich, “Error Performance of Turbo Space-Time Coded Modulation over Fading Channels,'' submitted to ICC 2001, June 11-15, 2001 Helsinki, Finland.

 F.P. Deek, K. Ho, and H. Ramadhan, "A Review of Web-Based Learning Systems for Programming", Proceedings of the 13th World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia and on Educational Telecommunications, Tampere, Finland, 2001.

 F.P. Deek and H. Kimmel, "Curriculum Models for Computing and Information Technology: Are we Keeping up with the Changes?", Proceedings of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2001.

 R.K. Ghosh, and D. Misra (Editors), CIT 2000, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Technology, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing, New Delhi, 308 pages, 2001. (ISBN 0-07-043546-4).

 L. Ho, D. Cavuto, S. Papavassiliou and A. Zawadzki. "Proactive Network/Service Fault Detection in Wide Area Networks," to appear in Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2001.

J. Huang and Y. Q. Shi, "Gray image embedding," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Sydney, Australia, May 2001. (Accepted)

 S. Kimmel, H. Kimmel and F.P. Deek, "Applying Problem-Solving Heuristics to a Freshman Engineering Course", Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2001.

 S. Li and N. Ansari, “Chapter 1.3: Switch Architectures and Scheduling Algorithms,” in ATM Handbook (F. Golshani and F. Groom, ed.), International Engineering Consortium, pp. 37-54, 2000.

H. Liu, N. Ansari and Y.Q. Shi, “Modeling MPEG Coded Video Traffic by Markov-Modulated Self-Similar Processes,” Journal of VLSI Signal Processing (special issue on Multimedia Signal Processing), to appear.

H. Liu, N. Ansari and Y.Q. Shi, “On-line Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for VBR Video Transmission,” to be presented at IEEE International Conference Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC’2001), Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2-4, 2001, pp. -.

H. Liu, N. Ansari and Y.Q. Shi, “The Tale of A Simple Accurate MPEG Video Traffic Model,” to be presented at Proc. 2001 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’2001), Helsinki, Finland, June 11-15, 2001.

S. Papavassiliou. "On Network and Service Management for Wide Area Electronic Commerce Networks" to appear in International Journal of Network Management, 2001.

D. Wei, J. Chen and N. Ansari, “An Efficient Expression of Timestamp and Period in Packet-based and Cell-based Scheduler,” to be presented at Proc. 2001 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’2001), Helsinki, Finland, June 11-15, 2001.

L. Zhao, A.M. Haimovich and H. Grebel, “Performance of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Communications in the Presence of Interference,'' to be presented at ICC 2001, June 11-15 2001, Helsinki, Finland.

L. Zhao, A.M. Haimovich and H. Grebel, “Comparison of PPM Ultra-Wideband Communications and Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum in the Presence of Interference,'' in preparation.

In the works:

Laboratory and Classroom Renovation: This year, NJ I-TOWER will provide new and additional equipment in Electrical and Computer Engineering laboratories.  Significant funds will also be used to outfit the first of two wireless classrooms to be used for undergraduates in computing-related programs.

Faculty Development: In conjunction with the Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable, NJ I-TOWER will be sponsoring three 3-day Faculty Institutes this semester.  Faculty will have hands-on training with some of the newest IT tools and software used in educational environments.

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