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[UPDATE (!) "The Bridge is also a finalist in another competition: http://indiegamechallenge.com/2012-finalists/ (Be sure to vote for them!!!)]
TyTaylor and Mario Castaneda, 2011 EECS graduates, recently won the Seattle Independent Game Competition with their videogame, “The Bridge.” In August, The Bridge was a finalist in Microsoft’s Dream.Build.Play international videogame competition, where it was won the Honorable Mention for Innovation, and in October, The Bridge was a finalist for the IndieCade international independent game festival in Culver City, CA, where it was a nominee for Best Visuals. The game is also a finalist in the Independent Game Festival (IGF) Student Showcase for the 14'th presentation of its prestigious awards, celebrating the brightest and most innovative creations to come out of universities and games programs from around the world in the past year!
The Bridge is a 2-D logic-based puzzle game that forces the player to reevaluate their preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher—Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor, and venture through impossible architectures. Explore increasingly difficult worlds, each uniquely detailed and guaranteed to leave the player with a pronounced sense of accomplishment, while immersing the player into a captivating story. The Bridge exemplifies games as an art form, with beautifully hand-drawn art in the style of a black-and-white lithograph.
Prof. Garcia-Sanz, the Milton and Tamar Maltz Professor of Energy Innovation, in the EECS department has published a new book: "Wind Energy Systems: Control Engineering Design" through the CRC Press. This book describes the design and field experiementation of real-world multi-megawatt wind turbines and their control systems. It introduces the main topics of modern wind turbine design and control, including (1) the description of classical and advanced turbines, (2) dynamic modeling, (3) control objectives and strategies, (4) standards and certification, (5) controller design, and (6) a large number of applications like onshore and offshore wind turbines, floating wind turbines, airborne wind energy systems, advanced experimentation and real experiementation.
Prof. Wen H. Ko in the EECS department has received a new NIH R21 grant. This award will allow the team to explore and develop a non-hermetic, biocompatible micropackage technology for microfabricated wireless implantable devices or systems used in bio-medical research and clinical care.
The award is $400K for two years. Prof. Ko has been on Case faculty since 1959, and Professor Emeritus since 1993. He is a Life Fellow of both IEEE and AIMBE with numerous awards and achievements. His collaborators on this NIH award include Prof. Chris Zorman and Prof. Philip Feng, both from the EECS department.
The EECS department is proud to announce that Meral Ozsoyoglu, Andrew R. Jennings Professor of Computing, has been named an ACM Fellow this year. The ACM Fellows Program was established by Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. The ACM Fellows serve as distinguished colleagues to whom the ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership as the world of information technology evolves.
Prof. Ozsoyoglu was named a fellow in recognition for "contributions to database management systems".
For more information about the award (and ACM!) go to: http://www.acm.org/press-room/
Rockwell Automation named senior Stephen Hatch one of its three Student Associate Innovation Award winners. Hatch, a computer engineering major, is doing a co-op at Rockwell Automation, during which he developed an automated way to compare icons for several hundred devices against a known baseline. His work “was important to guarantee the quality of the software in a fast and easily reproducible manner, and ultimately promote a positive user experience,” his manager said. The award honors three students who demonstrate leadership skills and develop creative solutions to business challenges.
Joseph Potkay from Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center (and a Research Assistant Professor in EECS) and his co-workers have developed a new artificial lung device that can use air as a ventilating gas instead of pure oxygen. The invention could mean that oxygen cylinders may no longer be needed in artificial lungs.
Potkay and his co-workers created microfluidic channels and made them branch into smaller channels and then into artificial capillaries, similar to how arteries and capillaries work in a real lung.
With pig blood injected into the device fluid inlet they fed air into the gas inlet resulting in oxygen molecules diffusing across the gas exchange membrane into the blood on the way to the blood outlet. Blood coming from the inlet would typically be rich in carbon dioxide and would diffuse across the membrane to the air outlet.
The device exhibited oxygen exchange efficiencies three to five times better than found in current devices in which pure oxygen is needed, enabling air to be used as the ventilating gas. This is the first demonstration that features as small as those found in the lungs are effective.
(From the CWRU "daily")
CWRU Cutters, the university’s autonomous robotic lawn mowing team, won first place at the Institute of Navigation’s Autonomous Robotic Lawnmower competition in Dayton last weekend. The team includes undergraduate and graduate students from electrical engineering, computer engineering, and mechanical engineering.
For the first time in the competition’s eight-year history, CWRU Cutter, the team’s robot lawn mower, earned the “Best Quality of Cut Award” for mowing 80 percent of the competition’s cutting field area while creating an aesthetically pleasing look to the resulting field. Teams from 15 universities competed, including Auburn and Wright State, which placed second and third respectively.
The team has been invited to attend the Institute of Navigation’s Global Navigation Satellite Systems conference in Portland, Ore., in September, where they can present for 20 minutes and display the mower for attendees.
Find more on the competition here or email Roger Quinn or Brad Hughes.
Steve Umans has been selected to be the new recipient of the IEEE PES Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award for the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES)! This award recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of electromechanical energy conversion. Steve is an Adjunct Professor in the EECS department.
The IEEE Power & Energy Society sponsors twenty-five society-level awards. All award recipients are selected through a vetted nomination process. Both the EECS department and the IEEE Power & Energy Society are very proud of Prof. Uman's accomplishment! He will receive this award and recognition at the Awards Dinner on Tuesday, July 26th at the IEEE PES General Meeting in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Joshua Schwarz, a freshman in EECS, has pledged to create one facebook app every week for a full year. Thus far he has created fifteen apps (as of April 16!). The apps have titles such as "Relationship Mania", "Teddy Bear Hugs", and "Social Horoscope" - the latter app allows you to select an astrological sign and connect with a friend having that sign.
Joshua was interviewed by Channel 3 news (see this link for a brief story and the video of his interview). He also regularly updates his website which has links to all his apps)
We wish Joshua good luck with the project (and with his studies also of course!)
Misha Rabinovich has started his tenure as the Editor in Chief of the important IEEE Internet Computing magazine. The magazine has an impact factor that places it 3rd out of all IEEE magazines and 13th out of all of IEEE's 125 publications. The internet affects us - personally and professionally - in ways that were not even imagined even several years ago. The future promises even greater importance of the area of internet computing and acting as Editor in Chief of this prestigious technical publication is indeed an honor (and a major responsibility!).
Misha's research in the area of Internet Security was also highlighted in an article, "Network Defense Gone Wrong" in the February issue of the IEEE Spectrum.
Read Misha's "debut" editorial in the magazine (follow the links to the Jan/Feb issue in 2011).
