Robert H. Bishop, University of Texas at Austin

Title and Summary

Coming soon.

Biography

Dr. Bishop specializes in guidance, navigation and control of aerospace vehicles. He has served on the Cockrell School of Engineering faculty since 1990. He has 10 years of industrial experience and has published numerous journal articles and three books. He was the recipient of the 1997 Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award, the 1999 John Leland Atwood Award, and was elected to The UT Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2002. Dr. Bishop was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2007.

Francisco Esquembre, Universidad de Murcia

Time for a digital library of simulations for Control Engineering education

New features recently added to Easy Java Simulations (EJS) make it an authoring tool very well suited for the creation and support of a digital library of virtual and remote laboratories for the teaching and learning of Control Engineering. These ready-to-use laboratories can be easily downloaded, inspected, and modified to customize them according to local needs. We revise in this speech these new features, show existing examples, and share the experience of the ComPADRE USA National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathway partner (http://www.compadre.org/osp), which already hosts an extensive, and growing, number of simulations and curricular material for teaching Physics. Our hope is to inspire a similar movement in the Control Engineering educational world. More information about EJS can be found at http://www.um.es/fem/Ejs.

Biography

Francisco Esquembre was born in Alicante (Oct 1963) and received the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics in June 1991, from the University of Murcia, Spain, where he works since 1986, holding a permanent job as Assistant Professor since 1994. His academic expertise includes Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems and Numerical Analysis. He has participated in the CoLoS, SMISLE, SERVIVE, CoLab, Supercommet 2, and Mosem2 European projects, as well as in several other international, national, and regional-funded research projects. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Murcia, where he currently teaches. His research includes computer assisted teaching and learning as well as the simulation of scientific processes for didactical purposes. Francisco is a member of the OpenSourcePhysics project (http://www.compadre.org/osp) and is the author of the Easy Java Simulations authoring tool (http://www.um.es/fem/Ejs). Francisco can be contacted at fem@um.es.