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Archived News 2006

Announcing the 1st Annual Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Symposium (March 2006)
Agenda Available

Graduate Students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering will be holding the 1st Annual Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Symposium on Friday, April 21st, 2006. The symposium will feature oral and poster presentations by graduate students in the department. The students are also working on inviting industry leaders from the Southern California region. Please check back on this site for preliminary program description and other details. For more information, contact Symposium Organizers Mark Johnson or Tao Zhan.

Stahovich awarded Microsoft grant (March 2006)

Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Thomas Stahovich has received a $40,000 grant from Microsoft Research for his proposal titled “A Pen-based Circuit Analysis Tutor”. His proposal was one of only 11 chosen from 165 submissions by international researchers from 18 countries. Funding is provided by Microsoft’s Tablet PC Technology initiative, designed to make teaching and learning more engaging and effective through the use of this new technology, where a slate-type computer that can be operated with a stylus rather than a keyboard or mouse. Stahovich has developed technology that allows the Tablet PC to interpret hand-drawn circuit schematics. He is now adapting it to create an intelligent tutoring system that can provide feedback and guidance to students in Electrical Engineering circuit analysis courses.