Given an assumption that students can best learn and appreciate concepts involved with creating and analyzing experimental designs by actually performing their own statistical experiments, the question facing many instructors is, “How can we best provide interesting situations which allow students to practice the design techniques that are discussed in class”? We describe several settings that ...

Today’s Internet architecture is facing significant challenges posed by an ever increasing array of devices and applications, tremendous amount of traffic, as well as serious security threats. There has been considerable debate in the networking community on how to evolve or redesign the Internet. However, our graduate networking courses often favor the mechanical analysis of specific protocol ...

Most software systems evolve, with time, in response to changing functional and non-function requirements. This evolution aaects both the dynamic behavior of the system as well as the form of the static software ar-tifacts (e.g., source code, user documentation, requirements speciications, design diagrams, test scripts) that comprise the system. A major challenge facing software practitioners i...

This thesis proposes an automated methodology for the design of complex multiple-mode hydromechanical transmissions. High fuel prices and strict emission regulations are today drivers of the development of new fuel-efficient drive transmissions for construction machinery. Hydromechanical transmissions have high energy efficiency and a wide torque/speed conversion range. They are today strong ca...

Since the fabrication of nanoscale memristors by HP Labs in 2008, there has been a renewed interest in the use of crossbars of nanoscale memristors as digital storage and neuromorphic computing devices. However, the same success has not been replicated in the use of crossbars for performing general-purpose computations that can support the existing software infrastructure originally designed fo...