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CSI (Center for Systems Integration) T eaching application development, Building Research Collaborations, interacting with industry and academia, and encouraging
CSI (Center for Systems Integration) T eaching application
development, Building Research Collaborations, interacting with
industry and academia, and encouraging social entrepreneurship.
Ravi Shankar, PhD, MBA, PE, Fellow (AHA) Professor, College of
Engineering and Computer Science Francis X McAfee, MFA Associate
Professor, College of Arts and Letters Don Ploger, PhD Associate
Professor, College of Education Michael Harris, PhD Associate
Professor, College of Arts and Letters Ravi S Behara, PhD Associate
Professor, College of Business Florida Atlantic University, FL
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Center for Systems Integration Formed in 1993 - with funding
from Motorola Paging & NSF Funding: from industry and federal
sources - $4.3 M Recent Grants: OPP (One Pass to Production) from
iDEN, Motorola, at $1.1 M SBA (Small Business Administration) at
$123 K Recent Submissions: NSF - Robotics in Math Education -
$450K, 8/12 8/14 NSF Partnership for Innovation Semantic Web
Research - $600K 1/13- 12/14 Planned Submissions: NSF /TUES May
2012 Android Projects - $200K Current Focus: Mobile, Web, and
Complex Systems Philosophy: Open Source, Multi-Disciplinary
Collaboration, Social Entrepreneurship, industry alliance, and
small business formation by our students See www.csi.fau.edu,
android.fau.edu, robotics.fau.edu,
semanticweb.fau.eduwww.csi.fau.edu
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Success Stories (past two years) Several Multidisciplinary
courses: Android Apps ~325 High school, UG, Grad, Engineers (Spring
2012 Four way collaboration 65 students) Robotics - ~45 UG and
Grads; 15 High school (Sp12) Semantic Web - ~40 Grad students Steve
Jobs way: Integrate technology, art, humanities, business,
innovation, research, and education, as appropriate Key Additions:
Use all open source tools; leverage university infrastructure; and
Market Apps to raise revenue for authors & university
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ESP Course for High School Students (Su 2010) Provided high
school students chance to learn application
development---promotional, artistic, and programming. Encouraged
entrepreneurship/commerciali zation. 7 Game Apps to be marketed
http://android.fau.edu/
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ESP Course (Su 11): 30 students (9 High Schools)
http://vimeo.com/album/1660512 Marketable Applications: 7+
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Summer 2011: Falafel Copter FAU Android Group
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Physiology and Impact of Diet on body shape FAU Android
Group
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Back Exercise Animation FAU Android Group
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Methodology ( Past 2 years) Driving Factors: NSF Funding
Criteria Broad Impact, Intellectual Merit, STEM, Integration of
Resch & Education, Diversity, Dissemination, Sustenance, and
Assessment, (in addition to a good scientific/technical proposal).
Strategic Decision made to address these issues and Apply OPP
principles (to significantly increase design productivity)
developed with Motorola grant. See www.csi.fau.edu The experience,
however, has been truly rewarding in its own right! Teaching: 425
(High school to Graduate) Students & Business --- STEM Focus
App Development: Games, Social Impact, Educational Others: Chess
Robotics, Semantic Web ALL Open Source Tools: Code/Designs
available; community help & service
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Methodology (2 years). Collaborations: with arts & letters,
education, business Soon others: nursing, urban planning, and
science Websites (FAU and Student Blog Sites): -- Dissemination
android.fau.edu (100K+ hits), robotics.fau.edu, semanticweb.fau.edu
New student and team blog sites: free wordpress.com Business
Ventures: -- Broad Impact 4 Student companies Engineering &
Business Majors; University relationship ( Appstractions,
Mobilitude, DroidTroiz, Pathway Media) 2nd prize in university
business competition; FAU Owl Radio; NSF partner; and Video Clips
Commercialization: -- Sustenance 14 Apps to be marketed (by Su 12)
Goals: Revenue for the authors and self-sustenance Proposals
submitted: 4 to NSF (not funded); 1990s: 3 funded Led to this
re-thinking Now, better infrastructure and higher probability
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Proposal Wish to use my sabbatical leave during Fall 12-Sp13
for this Build CSI (Consortium for Small Scale Innovations)
Leverage our experience with mobile systems Help /contribute to
building a different type of infrastructure multi-college and
multi-university collaborations Involve high schools, enhance STEM
and diversity goals Build and market Apps; and share revenue with
authors Seed research collaboration of these authors/groups; and
submit proposals Relevant Potential Submissions: Large
multi-institutional proposals on STEM to NSF/ DoEd - $2M / 5 years
Healthy Aging Focus : IGERT Integrative Graduate Education &
Research Traineeship
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11533/nsf11533.htm - 5/13, 7/13,
$3.3 M/ 5 years. Collaborative research that transcends traditional
disciplinary boundaries
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11533/nsf11533.htm Smart Health and
Wellbeing: Empowered Individuals; Sensors, Devices, and Robotics.
2/13, $200 K to $2 M, 2 to 5 Years
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12512/nsf12512.pdf -
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12512/nsf12512.pdf
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Other NSF Links http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2013/Pri
nt%20By%20Tab%20PDFs/24-NSF- wide_Investments_fy2013.pdf
http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2013/Pri
nt%20By%20Tab%20PDFs/24-NSF- wide_Investments_fy2013.pdf
http://www.nsf.gov/news/strategicplan/nsfstr
ategicplan_2011_2016.pdf
http://www.nsf.gov/news/strategicplan/nsfstr
ategicplan_2011_2016.pdf FAU Android Group
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2. Social Impact Games: Engineering Undergraduates
Collaboration with Arts & Letters: Anthropology and Fine Arts
(Sp11) Spring 2012: Four way collaboration, including Business
College, and students from four disciplines (60 Students)
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3. Android Chess Robotics: Undergrads and 9-12 Collaborators:
Education, Arts & Letters, and High Schools, STEM Focus
http://truther2faurobotics.wordpress.com/ http://robotics.fau.edu/
Fall 2011: Undergraduate Engineering course on Robotic Art Spring
2012: Mechatronics for Pre-Engineering high school students Kits
and Apps NSF DRK-12 submitted
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4. Smart Web Applications : Combining Semantic and Intelligent
Web concepts Example from Fall 10: Android Off-Road Trail : Using
GeonamesGeonames Fall 2011 Apps: Academic and Medical - Focus on
Personal Empowerment http://fwythedabney.wordpress.com/
http://semanticweb.fau.edu/ Integration of Open Source Tools &
Standards: Jena, Lucene, Protg, Nutch, Jade, RDF, OWL, SWRL,
SPARQL, Solr, etc Focus of NSF/PFI: Partnership for Innovation