Current Events
Date: 02/19/2016
Inspired Engineering Technology Senior Shares His Ingenuity
Electrical power engineering technology scholar, John McClure works full-time as an electronics design engineer, and in his “spare time” designed and built an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that holds promise as a teaching aid for engineering technology design courses. His inspiration was a microprocessor architecture course that he took at the University of Houston during the summer of 2015.
Full story here: http://www.uh.edu/technology/news-events/stories/2016/february/021916-mcclure-john.php
Date: 11/3/2015
Room 120J, 4:00-5:30PM
Robert Prather is currently an IT Manager for Spectra Energy with oversight of the company’s U.S. SCADA systems. He has a degree in electrical engineering and is most noted for building a full scale Boeing 777 flight simulator in his house. He developed an avionics software suite, which has a user base in more than 50 countries and is in use at NASA. He is also finishing his first book entitled American Boy, Nigerian Girl, a memoir about traveling to Nigeria to marry his bride.
UG Research Day 2015
Date: 10/22/2015
Rockwell Pavillion, MD Anderson Library, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
- Team iGuide
- Team Sober Wheel
- Team ReptEco
- Team SLIP
- Team Autonomous Pool Chemical System
Date: 09/15/2015,
120J, 4:00-5:30PM
Since the beginning of the course, we have had many professionals from various fields to provide insights and kindle the student minds which have resulted in producing many brilliant projects. In one such event, we had Dr. Richard Jackson, a General Physician who has practiced medicine for over 40 years to talk to the students about developing a humanitarian project which would benefit a lot of lives in third world countries.
His main idea revolves around launching a solar powered computer lab to provide education through internet connectivity for the community. This project aims to provide one way of overcoming many challenges by enabling access to both IT and the internet without the need for existing electricity and internet access. His lecture was powerful enough to drive a couple of teams to immediately contact both Dr. Mequanint Moges and Dr. Richard Jackson to work on this concept.