Indianapolis, Indiana – donated 100 seats of Winmax Desktop Software to the. The value of the software is estimated at $500,000. Richard Porter, a 1977 Indiana State alumnus and president of TE-CO in Ohio, helped get the ball rolling on a partnership between Hurco and Indiana State. Porter, who has his bachelor degree in business management from Indiana State, serves on Hurco's board of directors and the Sycamore Athletic Foundation board, helped secure the gift and build the relationship between Hurco and his alma mater.
Porter spoke with Phil Ness, associate vice president for athletic development with the Indiana State University Foundation, about Hurco's interest in doing outreach with universities and Ness put him in touch with Bob English, dean of the College of Technology. 'I was kind of the matchmaker who got the two parties together,' Porter said. 'Bob says he sees a growth in the number of students in the field, but the manufacturing labs were dated with mid-70s and -80s equipment. We've now plunged the college 30 years into the future with this partnership, so they now have 21st century equipment. Students will now get to use the latest technology that will help them when they enter a manufacturing environment.'
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Students in three programs – mechanical engineering technology, automation and control engineering technology, and advanced manufacturing management (which will be renamed manufacturing engineering technology) – will benefit from the new software. The three programs combined serve about 300 students. Students who graduate from the programs will be able to take the software with them, and Hurco has pledged to donate additional seats each year as needed. 'We donated the exact same software that resides in the Winmax CNC (computer numeric control) on the machines we build to cut metal parts, but this software is for offline programming on PC computers,' said Hurco sales manager David Plank. 'Instead of a machinist using their hands to make parts on manual machines, conversational software allows them to become programmers in a very short time so they can program the machine to make the parts.' Last year, Plank, who serves on the College of Technology's executive advisory board, helped begin the planning for a partnership between the company and Indiana State that gave way to the software donation. Hurco representatives recently trained college faculty on using the software.
“While the software will allow more flexibility for students creating code for the CNC machine to make the parts, it could also benefit faculty and the community,” said M. Affan Badar, chair of the department of applied engineering and technology management.
'I hope it will generate more student excitement and enhance the program, while also being a good experience for students to put on their resumes. It will also be a tool for faculty who do research in manufacturing process planning.
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And if there is a local business that doesn't have a good CNC machine, there's potential for them to collaborate with us. It's a win-win situation for everyone.'
The software being donated was originally created to make Hurco's customer base more efficient. 'Machine shops need to write programs without interrupting production,' Plank said. 'This software frees up machine or lab time and empowers people to write programs away from the machine as other parts are being worked on because they can access the software wherever they are.' The software installation is only the first step of the partnership between Indiana State and Hurco, which is also working to replace old CNC machines and install new CNC machines in the College of Technology.
'To be successful, we have to be in touch with young professional coming out of school, so we have long standing relationships with schools that train machine operators, programmers and advanced manufacturing technologists,' Plank said. The new relationship with Hurco is a fruitful one, not only because of the equipment donation but also the potential it has for workforce development and the expertise it will allow the college to tap into.
'The software will be used to simulate CNC equipment, which is a big deal for us because manufacturing is an area of great growth,' English said. 'According to the Manufacturing Institute, there is approximately an unmet need of 600,000 jobs in that area, so we're trying to do our part and fill that need - gearing up in the area of manufacturing - and one important facet of that is CNC equipment, like the software they're giving us that will allow students to learn more about it.' Indiana State students will gain through the use of Hurco software, and machines provide a leg up for them when they enter the job market, said Maggie Smith, Hurco marketing director. 'What students will learn with Hurco products will increase their worth because when they step into any job, they'll be able to run the machine. As a company founded in Indianapolis in 1968, it's important to us to support the next generation of machinist and engineers in our state and relationships like we have with Indiana State are important and beneficial for all of us.'
Source: Indiana State University. Washington, D.C. – Five pediatric medical device innovators were awarded $50,000 each in seed funding at the second annual Competition held earlier this month. The FDA funded consortium, led by the at Children’s National Health System and the, awarded $250,000 in grant money to companies with promising pediatric medical devices that address a significant unmet pediatric need. Winning innovations include:. Nanofiber Solutions, Columbus, Ohio – patient-specific nanofiber tissue engineered vascular graft (TEVG) to enhance the available treatments for children suffering from congenital heart disease (CHD).
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Advanced Sensor Technology and GE Healthcare, Baltimore, Md. Newton, Massachusetts and Los Angeles – has pioneered core technology underlying new levels of flexibility in articulated arms and hands.
Barrett is the leader in advanced robotic manipulators, and its technology is featured by PBS's Miles O'Brien - a reporter and amputee. O'Brien introduces this PBS NewsHour segment on advanced prosthetic hands by telling us 'A hand without a sense of touch isn't really a hand at all.'
It's something that amputees and prosthetic hand researchers have been acutely aware of for a long time, but creating dexterous robotic hands with a sense of touch isn't trivial. UCLA's Veronica Santos, PhD, is performing key research to advance prosthetic hands and arms and make them feel like your native limb. Santos is constructing a language of touch that a computer and a human can both understand by using SynTouch's BioTac sensors to explore objects of varied shapes, sizes and textures, and using BarrettHands on a pair of force-controlled WAM arms from Barrett Technology to control these explorations. The BioTac is the most human-like tactile sensor in the world, and the BarrettHand and WAM arm have long been the platform of choice for robotics researchers.
Santos uses these advanced robotic technologies to enable her prosthetic-hand research, but technology isn't the ultimate objective. Santos envisions prosthetic arms and hands, which amputees use seamlessly. Her ideal outcome is that 'All of the robotics, algorithms, and intelligence that we have built in at the very low level acts just like your spinal cord. You don't even know they're there.' Seamlessly integrating this advanced technology into prosthetic limbs is an incredible challenge. Meanwhile, Case Western Reserve University researcher Dustin Tyler, PhD is also working on technology to advance prosthetic hands.
His research focuses on the seamless transmission of sensory data to amputees. By implanting electrodes that encircle nerves, data from sensors on prosthetic hands can be transmitted to the brain. Combining advanced tactile sensors and seamless transmission of sensory data won't give amputees their hands back, but 'it will make you forget you don't have your hand' says Tyler. Is working with Dr.
Tyler's group to provide custom NumaTac sensors to be used in his research. Source: Barrett Technology Inc.
And SynTouch. Bizkaia, Spain – The healthcare sector is not escaping from the revolution in information and communications technologies. Thanks to the latest advances in microelectronics and communications technologies, it is not difficult to imagine a future with medical sensors connected to the Internet. Thanks to the Ladon security protocol developed by the researcher Jasone Astorga in the 12T (Telematics Research and Engineering) research group, a little more progress has been made in the area of the remote monitoring of patients by means of implanted sensors. Ladon offers features that make it possible to deploy applications that guarantee the privacy of sensors of this type, in other words, the medical information is only made available in response to legitimate, authorized requests.
The ageing of society needs new, more cost-effective solutions to improve the life quality of patients and cut the burden that is placed on the social welfare system. In modern western societies, the fitting of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) is growing rapidly.
Devices of this type control heart rhythm and, if necessary, send an appropriate response to make the heart beat at the right rhythm. They also record heart activity patterns when abnormal heart rhythm is detected. This information is periodically checked and monitored by a doctor to plan future treatment. To do this, the information is transmitted in wireless mode to an external device.
At the moment, this communication is carried out in hospitals. The main manufacturers of pacemakers and DCIs have started to market remote management devices.
The remote monitoring of implantable, wireless medical sensors is a constantly advancing field, which nevertheless still has clear shortcomings. The direct connection of medical sensors to the Internet is the next natural step in this evolution, and will enable doctors to obtain the information stored by the sensors at any moment and from any device connected to the Internet.
Despite its great potential, the success of a monitoring system of this type is determined, among other things, by the protection of the privacy of the information transmitted. A researcher in the UPV/EHU's Department of Communications Engineering has developed the Ladon security protocol, an efficient mechanism to authenticate, authorize, and establish the end-to-end keys (keys for communication between the terminal used by the doctor and the patient's device), which offers revolutionary features for sensors of this type. Energy efficiency, memory space, and latency There are three key parameters in the development of new solutions for implantable medical sensors: energy consumption, memory space, and latency.
Energy efficiency is the most important design parameter for any protocol that has to work in these devices, since replacing the batteries used in them means opening up a wound in the patient's chest. As the UPV/EHU researcher Jasone Astorga explained, it has been found that “the energy consumption of this Ladon protocol is negligible in comparison with the usual consumption of a pacemaker or ICD when applying its therapy (stimulating or defibrillating), and has no significant impact on how long the batteries last.” On the other hand, they have found that the deployment of this security application in the sensors has led to very little memory consumption. And finally, the latency incorporated by the protocol in the setting up of a secure communication is also less. All this turns it into a protocol suited to deploying functionalities to authenticate and control access in the sensors and for the setting up of a secret key that can be used to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the medical information transmitted over the wireless network. Apart from its application in the remote monitoring of medical sensors, all the checks carried out in relation to the protocol lead to the conclusion that this is a protocol to authenticate, authorize and set up the keys that is right for use even in the securization of critical applications from the point of view of delay, like remote surgery, for example. In any case, the possibility of marketing this protocol for these purposes is still a long way off, as validations would have to be conducted on real pacemakers. 'We have carried out our validation on a commercial sensor, not on a real pacemaker,' said the researcher.
In other words, 'one would have to conduct studies using real medical sensors and real patients. In any case, we believe that it is a step forward down the road along which the remote monitoring of patients using implanted medical sensors can go on advancing,' Astorga explained. ' Source: UPV/EHU-University. West Lafayette, Indiana – The biggest cash donation in Purdue University’s history will fund initiatives designed to foster groundbreaking research, expand high-tech job growth throughout Indiana as well as nationally and globally, and enhance opportunities for students. Earlier this week, Lilly Endowment Inc. Announced a $40 million grant to support five transformational projects in the colleges of and as well as. “This is an important moment in Purdue history,” President Mitch Daniels said.
“It’s now our duty to turn it into a significant event in Indiana history by delivering even more world-class engineers, technologists and leaders of all kinds, along with the discoveries, innovations and new jobs that great research produces.” Sara B. Cobb, vice president of education for Lilly Endowment, said, “These projects hold great promise to be real game-changers. With its considerable strengths in engineering and technology, Purdue is poised for significant impact in research, education, and economic development.” The Endowment grant, which helps build on Purdue’s global reputation for excellence in engineering and technology, will provide:. $13 million for the, a project envisioned by and for students. The center – accessible 24 hours a day and seven days a week - will provide engineering and technology students with open-bay space, collaborative areas and computer-aided design studios in which they can develop, build and test extracurricular and course-based design projects. Students will enter the workforce with an enhanced skill set developed from the learning and hands-on activities.
$5 million for expansion of the College of Engineering’s, the nation’s largest university propulsion laboratory, which uniquely can study a single combustion site in the largest of liquid rocket or gas turbine engines at full-scale temperature, pressure and flow conditions. Originally developed in 1964 as part of the Apollo space program, the labs will be expanded to include five new test cells and a laser diagnostics lab for environmental controls. This expansion will significantly increase research collaborations with the world’s leading gas turbine firms as well as expand entrepreneurial opportunities. $13.5 million for a $54 million Flex Lab in the College of Engineering that will enable faculty teams to collaborate on research that ranges from advanced manufacturing to imaging, and from information technology to medical devices. The planned 75,000ft 2 Flex Lab is critical to the strategic growth in engineering and will boost industry- and government-funded research collaborations and intellectual property development.
In 2014 the College of Engineering received 106 U.S. And international-issued patents and generated 16 startup companies, 15 of which are located in Indiana. This lab expansion will spark a 30% increase. Designed to adapt to the creative and innovative needs of professors and their students, Flex Lab will house wet-lab, dry-lab and open collaboration spaces that support many disciplines.
$5 million for the, a facility that will fuse classrooms, libraries, and study and collaboration areas into one adaptable space – an innovation that no other American university offers. The active-learning approach encourages students to be more active and engaged in their learning activities and the knowledge gained. Early indications of this new approach are profound: higher student GPAs and decreased number of students who earn a grade of D or F or withdraw from these courses. The facility will consist of 38,00ft 2 of study space and 59,000ft 2 of classroom space. $3.5 million for the College of Technology’s transformation into the, which will introduce student-driven, project-based courses designed to address the expressed needs of the Indiana industries that employ so many of Purdue’s technology graduates. The college’s goal will be to create a student-centered curriculum that features a range of experiential and competency-based degree programs to provide students with deep technical skills grounded with a foundation in the humanities, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
“This support from Lilly Endowment accelerates Engineering’s expansion in ways that will make a real difference for students and drive innovations that will have impact in our state and the world,” said Leah Jamieson, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “Growth in engineering contributes to economic development. Engineering discoveries, and translation of those discoveries to market, build the innovation economy.
Moreover, engineering jobs pay well and create fulfilling opportunities for our students.” With Purdue’s plan to strategically grow the number of students and faculty in the College of Engineering, Purdue will contribute one out of 20 of the new engineers in response to the national call to graduate 10,000 more engineers per year, Jamieson said. Gary Bertoline, dean of the College of Technology, said, “The Polytechnic Institute will change the way we teach to match the way students best learn. Instead of creating an environment in which students hope to succeed, we will create a culture that encourages students to build their success by being active learners, active innovators, and active risk takers. This grant is a foundation for building that change.” David Joyce, president and CEO of GE Aviation, applauded the Lilly Endowment investment as a step toward providing more of the engineering and technology graduates who will be needed for the future of manufacturing, along with increasing research that moves industry forward. GE formed a partnership with Purdue last year to provide research and development in advanced manufacturing, and is building an advanced engine assembly site in Lafayette.
“GE is proud to be the largest corporate employer of Purdue graduates in the world. We value the skills and experiences they bring to our businesses, and are happy that the Lilly Endowment grant will be used to further their studies and provide opportunities for even more students in the College of Engineering and College of Technology,” he said. Through the Innovation Design Center, the grant will provide opportunities for the colleges of Engineering and Technology to work together, the deans said.
“Having our technology and engineering students work together is one more step in producing graduates who are prepared to make a difference on a broader scale,” Bertoline said. Lilly Endowment has supported other research and technology efforts at Purdue University, including a nearly $26 million grant in 2001 that launched Discovery Park, Purdue’s complex for advanced interdisciplinary research and education. In 2005 the Endowment gave an additional $25 million for continued development of Discovery Park.
The Active Learning Center, under construction in the heart of campus at the former site of the Engineering Administration Building and the North Power Plant, will blend and integrate centrally scheduled active-learning classrooms, library/information services, formal study spaces, collaborative work areas and informal learning spaces. During the class day, 40% of the center will be library/study spaces.
During the evening and throughout the night, the study space will expand to nearly the entire building. Inside the center, six libraries currently located at various points on campus will come together to form the Thomas S. And Harvey D. Wilmeth Library of Engineering and Science. Students will be able to tailor spaces to their own needs, pursuing information on their own or meeting in discussion and study groups.
“The Active Learning Center will enable the growth of an innovative and successful teaching/learning methodology, that is, the individual learning by and through team collaboration in a facility that supports learning taking place seamlessly between the classroom and library spaces,” Purdue Libraries Dean James L. Mullins said.
The Innovation Design Center, Zucrow Labs expansion, Flex Lab and Active Learning Center are all scheduled to be ready for use in 2017. Source: Purdue University.