Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University

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Mathematics

their first two years, students often fail to make connections between related concepts intheir calculus and introductory science courses. This disconnect early in their curriculum canhamper engineering majors in their ability to understand how these courses relate to theirdiscipline and can serve as a “turn-off” for students who fail to engage in these courses. Here wepresent how we have tried to address this problem by integrating basic calculus concepts into theintroductory freshman and sophomore biology, chemistry and physics science laboratory courses.In this paper, we will feature a biology laboratory experiment where students examine a growthcurve for algae, a chemistry lab involving an instantaneous rate calculation for a rocket launch

Conference Session

Manufacturing Curriculum and Course Innovations

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing, Automation and Robotics, and CAE in Manufacturing Processes fields. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Development of Multifunctional Educational SpacesAbstractThis paper focuses on multifunctional educational space development for engineering programs,especially for mechanical and manufacturing engineering. The author has been designing anddeveloping new instructional spaces in his school for the last ten years. Most of these spacesoriginally was aimed for a single function, laboratory or classroom. Due to limitations in spaceand growing research needs, this engineering program requires development of multipurposelearning and research spaces. Recent efforts included design and

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ioana Voiculescu, City College of the City University of New York; Benjamin Liaw, City College of the City University of New York

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-1284: A NOVEL LABWORK APPROACH FOR TEACHING AMECHATRONICS COURSEIoana Voiculescu, City College of the City University of New York Professor Ioana Voiculescu received a Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Politehnica University, Timisoara, Romania, in 1997 in the field of Precision Mechanics. She finished her second doctorate in 2005, also in Mechanical Engineering, but with the emphasis in MEMS. She has worked for five years at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, DC in the area of MEMS gas sensors and gas preconcentrators. Currently, she is developing a MEMS laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at City College of New York. She is an IEEE

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Alim

variousorganizations. A few of them are currently attending Graduate programs elsewhere. Theenrollment is consistently increasing, and gradually the VLSI and Microelectronics option isbecoming both popular and familiar for professional growth of the prospective students. TheCity of Huntsville in Alabama is projected to be one of the Microelectronics cities in thenation by 2008. Therefore, this program is anticipated with sustained flowing students andthereby expected continued growth.At present there is no VLSI and Microelectronics laboratory available on campus for hands-ontraining of the students. However, in this option the first batch comprising of five studentsgraduated in May 2001. Each of these students is employed and pursuing career growth. Inthe

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nuri Yilmazer, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Remzi Seker, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2011-1446: A PROJECT BASED HANDS-ON DIGITAL LOGIC COURSENuri Yilmazer, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Nuri Yilmazer received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Cukurova Uni- versity, Adana, Turkey in 1996, and the M.S. and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from University of Florida and Syracuse University in 2000 and 2006 respectively. He worked as a Post Doctoral Research Associate in Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory at Syracuse University from 2006 to 2007. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX. His current research interests

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip du Plessix, University of Calgary; Graham Armitage, University of Calgary; Kara Chomistek, University of Calgary; Clifton Johnston, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Mohamed Nazir, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Diane Douglas, University of Calgary; Brigit Knecht, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

University ofCalgary, Schulich School of Engineering for the first year design and communication courses.These courses promote a hands-on, inquiry based learning environment where students build andtest a variety of projects in a dynamic, open-ended curriculum. To allow for a truly hands-ondesign experience, the laboratories are equipped with tool chests containing various hand andpower tools, available for student use during the construction and testing of their projects.Despite the fact that there have been few injuries in the design laboratories, it became clearthrough observations of students and instructors that many of the tools were being usedincorrectly. Allowing for student use of hand tools in the laboratory comes with inherent

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Upper-Level Physics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Mowry, University of St. Thomas-St. Paul

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Engineering Physics & Physics

the number ofcontact hours. An eighteen month investigation was conducted to address this challenge. Basedon the results of this study a modular pedagogy was developed that satisfied the ‘applied’mission objectives without significantly increasing the number of contact hours. The newmodular pedagogy combines state-of-the art laboratory metrology and analysis practices withenough theory to enable the students to understand the significance of their measurements. Aboutthree weeks are required to complete each module. Based on inputs from multiple professionalsources, applied modules were developed for the following topics: Mathematical foundation offield theory, E&M dynamics, transmission lines, antennas, and the use of finite element

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore Heindel, Iowa State University

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-856: UPDATING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MEASUREMENTS ANDINSTRUMENTATION – A CASE STUDYTheodore Heindel, Iowa State University Ted Heindel is the William and Virginia Binger Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. He taught ME 370 at ISU from spring 2003 through spring 2005 and was responsible for major course modifications, including development of several new laboratory exercises. He is currently teaching thermal science courses, including fluid mechanics and heat transfer. He also has an active research program in multiphase flow characterization and visualization and gas-liquid mass transfer enhancement, and is the director of a one-of-a-kind X-ray

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University; Munish Sharma, Northern Illinois University

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Computing & Information Technology

Paper ID #7474Internet Accessible Remote Experimentation with Integrated Learning Man-agement SystemDr. Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University Abul K. M. Azad is a Professor with the Technology Department of Northern Illinois University. He has a Ph.D. in Control and Systems Engineering and M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering. He has been in academics for 15+ years, and his research interests include remote laboratories, mechatronic systems, mobile robotics, and educational research. In these areas, Dr. Azad has over 100 refereed journal and conference papers, edited books, and book chapters. So far, he has

Conference Session

Distance and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Jumoke 'Kemi Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University

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Electrical and Computer

experiences and results in developing and delivering two coreElectrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) courses with laboratory components completelyonline using an internet based distance learning delivery system and the Mobile Studiotechnology and pedagogy. The challenge in offering ECE courses online is the fact they have avery intensive hands-on component, such as design and laboratory experiments, that requirestudents to use expensive laboratory equipment to complete and demonstrate their projects. Thisimplied that until now, institutions offering ECE laboratory courses had to have students attendthe laboratory courses on their campuses. Our ECE department is in the process of redesigningand delivering all 200-level and 300-level electrical

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain; Bruce Cain

@me.msstate.eduAbstractThe undergraduate laboratory sequence in mechanical engineering (ME) at Mississippi StateUniversity (MSU) begins with ME 3701—Experimental Orientation, a one-hour laboratoryfocusing on engineering measurements, instrumentation, and modern data acquisition (DAQ)systems. Instruction and student projects in ME at MSU concerning modern DAQ systems havechanged considerably in past five years. One driving force in changing the DAQ instruction isthe departmental requirement of student laptop ownership. Modern DAQ systems are currentlyintroduced using National Instruments, Inc., PCMCIA data acquisition cards and DAQ signalaccessories hosted by the students’ laptops. Using the students’ laptops with department ownedPCMCIA DAQ cards has eliminated the

Conference Session

Outreach Projects and General Energy Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valentina Cecchi, Drexel University; Michael Kleinberg, Drexel University; Milo Tong, Drexel University; Bridget Kleinberg, Drexel University; Karen Miu, Drexel University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

students, were re-designed and adapted for outreach education. Aniterative design procedure was employed with the active involvement of and feedback from anon-engineer and a high school student. New laboratory manuals were developed and a new setof laboratory activities were selected. Assessment surveys were also created to evaluate theparticipants’ understanding of the material and the effectiveness of the hardware laboratoryexperience.I. Introduction In response to the general public’s increasing interest in power and energy systems,especially for non-engineering professionals that require education and training in electric powersystems, the power engineering community has responded with the development of severaleducational courses, e.g. [1

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill D. Bailey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Manufacturing

students with a minimum of resources. Page 23.865.2BackgroundThe community college which is the focus of this study had offered a one year machiningdiploma for many years. A second year was added to complete an associate degree program inTool, Die and Mold Making. The addition of the second year was accomplished in part throughthe addition of a second laboratory space and the addition of a full time instructor, and a part-time evening instructor. The new laboratory space included conventional equipment thatduplicated some of the equipment in the original laboratory, with the addition of CNC EDM, andCNC Wire EDM machines and some computers for CAD

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie Borror, Arizona State Universtiy; Douglas Montgomery, Arizona State University; Carmen Pena, University of Texas, Pan American

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Engineering Management

identified as containing non-conformity. The web-based modulewas written in Netbeans and utilizes the Glassfish application server. A MySQL databasemaintains the Mouse Factory information and student records. A major advantage of thisapproach is that Netbeans, Glassfish and MySQL are all open-source software packages.Figure 2. Bill of Materials Page 15.1185.4 Page 15.1185.5Figure 3. Critical Point - CoverSPC Lab OneThe first SPC laboratory allows students to collect and analyze historical quality data using SPCtools to formulate a quality improvement plan. The first SPC laboratory currently contains fourcomponents

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Bazuin; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad; Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

processing (DSP) course, ECE 455.This has come about in response to industrial demands for students with more real-time, real-world experience, not just theory and computer simulations. In the laboratory, students workdirectly with audio signal sources, TI DSP based evaluation modules and development tools, andwrite software for real-time operations. This approach helps the students to better understand theapplication of the DSP concepts learned. Working with real-time signal processing at theundergraduate level has proven to be a challenge for both students and instructors. This paperdiscusses the real-time DSP laboratory and enumerates the opportunities and challengesassociated with teaching real-time, hands-on signal processing to undergraduate

Collection

2016 ERC

Authors

Douglas Friedman

Safe Science: Promoting a Culture of Safety in WATERAcademic Chemical SCIENCE AND Research TECHNOLOGY BOARD Douglas Friedman Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology Briefing to the ASEE National Meeting of Engineering Research Deans BOARD ON CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY March 9, 2016 The Task at Hand• Examine laboratory safety in chemical research in non- industrial settings.• Compare practices and attitudes in these settings with knowledge about promoting safe practices from the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

therefore added to several laboratories so that thestudents would use it in both fundamental and advanced courses. The process of upgrading theinstrumentation capability of these laboratories was supported by an Instrumentation andLaboratory Improvement (ILI) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a curriculumdevelopment grant from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundationand a grant for CAMILLIE data-acquisition system from Sagian Inc.The courses at LSSU that incorporate data-acquisition systems are:Electrical and Computer Engineering: EE101 Introduction to Electrical Engineering EE210 Circuits and Machines EE425 Digital

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred S. Andrawis

Session 1526 The Development of Hands-on Fiber Optics Undergraduate Course ALFRED S. ANDRAWIS Electrical Engineering Department South Dakota State UniversityAbstract  This paper outlines the development of a one credit undergraduate laboratory courseto be taught concurrent with a lecture course. Students in this laboratory course learn about avariety of subjects pertinent to fiber optics and contemporary design techniques forcommunication systems and sensing within electrical engineering curriculum.This laboratory

Collection

2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott; Kemi Ladeji-Osias; Petronella James

the Bachelors of Science degree in electricalengineering. The current undergraduate program in electrical engineering being offered atMorgan State University is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET). This paper presents the steps taken by our department to provide studentsin the Harford county area with the ability to complete the second half of an ElectricalEngineering program at their respective two year institution.Key words: Online Electrical Engineering courses, Engineering for Community College StudentsTeaching Online ECE laboratory courses I. Introduction The implementation of the federal government’s Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC)of 2005 will result in the relocation of

Collection

2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott; Kemi Ladeji-Osias; Petronella James

the Bachelors of Science degree in electricalengineering. The current undergraduate program in electrical engineering being offered atMorgan State University is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET). This paper presents the steps taken by our department to provide studentsin the Harford county area with the ability to complete the second half of an ElectricalEngineering program at their respective two year institution.Key words: Online Electrical Engineering courses, Engineering for Community College StudentsTeaching Online ECE laboratory courses I. Introduction The implementation of the federal government’s Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC)of 2005 will result in the relocation of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Matthew McConnell, Case Western Reserve University; Kenneth A. Loparo, Case Western Reserve University; Nicholas A. Barendt, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

providing students with a hands-on laboratory experience featuring thedevelopment tools, network topologies, and design paradigms needed for building real-world IoTproducts, primarily IoT Edge Devices. This paper describes the development process, lessonslearned, and exemplar student outcomes from our work.The IoT sector has grown rapidly in the past few years to become a critical infrastructure thataffects our daily lives in many ways. 1 IoT sensor networks deployed throughout our homes,offices, hospitals, factories, cities, power grid, and beyond provide the opportunity for greatersecurity, safer environments, reduced energy consumption, higher levels of comfort, and manyother benefits. Managing these ever-expanding networks using only Cloud

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henrik Åkesson, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Lars Hakansson, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Ingvar Gustavsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Ingvar Claesson, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Johan Zackrisson, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Thomas Lago, Acticut Inernational AB

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Instrumentation

vibration analysis.Ingvar Gustavsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology Ingvar Gustavsson is Associate Professor of Electronics and Measurement Technology at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden.Johan Zackrisson, Blekinge Institute of Technology Johan Zackrisson is a Software Engineer, responsible for realizing all the software used in the remote laboratories at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden.Ingvar Claesson, Blekinge Institute of Technology Ingvar Claesson is professor in applied signal processing at the dept. of applied signal processing, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden. His research are in Speech Enhancement in Noisy Environments, Mechanical Application

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Pedagogy of Lab-Oriented Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Gregory J Kowalski, Northeastern University; Andrew F. Carbonar, Northeastern University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Pedagogical Best PracticesAbstractThe pedagogy of laboratory courses has been well discussed in the literature, but the extent towhich these best practices are incorporated into laboratory experiment design varies wildly. AtNortheastern University, various capstone design teams over the years have been tasked withdesigning new experimental apparatus for the undergraduate teaching laboratories along withappropriate lab handouts and other instructional material. In many cases, the students involved inthese projects have taken the lab class for which they are designing the experiment and havereported negative experiences, and therefore are motivated to try to improve the class for futurestudents. Student designed labs have the potential to reduce burden

Conference Session

Using Communication and Writing Techniques to Improve Student Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Sean Poust, University of California-Berkeley

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Chemical Engineering

capstone design and laboratorycourses. The course runs as a one-semester, stand-alone course (not coupled to a complementarytechnical or laboratory course) with assignments ranging from laboratory reports, design reports,resumes, cover letters, interviews, technical presentations, and project proposals tocommunication with lay audiences. This paper takes a case study approach to examine theevolution of the laboratory report assignment over the course of three semesters. We found thatincorporating additional authenticity into laboratory report writing assignment motivated studentengagement and learning. Midterm and final course evaluations are used as data to reflect on theeffectiveness of three iterations of the assignment:· Fall 2011: Common

Conference Session

Technical Session IV

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Jennifer Felder Marley, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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FYEE Conference Sessions

challenge when designing the students to reconnect their lab setup and to remembera first-year engineering course. It is increasingly difficult where they were in the lab procedure.for first-year students to maintain their focus throughout Instead, we propose that students be given the supporta 150-minute laboratory session. An alternative is to necessary to complete a substantial laboratory experience increate laboratory experiences that provide students with just one academic period of 50 minutes. This can beself-contained hands-on experiences that can be accomplished using a combination of four strategies:completed within a traditional 50-minute window. Inelectrical and computer

Conference Session

Micro-/Nano-Technology Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yoli Jeune, University of Florida; Henry Hess, University of Florida

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Materials

AC 2008-2024: USING MICROTUBULES TO ILLUSTRATE POLYMERPROPERTIESYoli Jeune, University of Florida Yoli Jeune is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Florida. She has received a Bachelors degree in Clinical Laboratory Sciences (1999) and a Masters degree in Secondary Science Education with a concentration in Biology (2002) from the University of South Florida. She worked for 3.5 years at the Hillsborough County School District in Florida teaching Biology and Chemistry to High School students. She is a recipient of the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan, and Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bob White; Tycho Fredericks; Steven Butt

“come alive” through an activity-based engineering statistics course at Western Michigan University. This three-semester hourcourse is structured to include laboratory sessions, workshop sessions, and problem-based lecturesessions. The laboratory activities are intended to provide the student with an opportunity tobecome proficient in designing basic experiments, collecting data, and analyzing problems usingPC-based statistical software. The workshop sessions involve short lecture segments mixed withteam-based problem-solving activities and software tutorials. With the exception of lectureperiods, course sessions do not take place in a classroom, but rather are held in a computer-teaching laboratory or in one of the laboratories managed by the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fong K. Mak, Gannon University; Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

University Dr. Sundaram is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Gannon Univer- sity. His areas of research include computational architectures for signal and image processing as well as novel methods to improve engineering education pedagogy. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Teaching of Design of Experiment to the First Year Electrical Engineering StudentsAbstract: In the traditional Electrical Engineering curriculum, courses are introduced and taughtprogressively from the most fundamental subjects, such as circuit theory, for example, to moreadvanced subjects such as power electronics and electric drives. To complement the teaching ofconcepts, laboratory

Conference Session

Manufacturing Materials and Processes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ergin Erdem, Robert Morris University; Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

been chosen as the teaching medium. Three main aspects of theteaching methods include: 1) In-class teaching of lecture material (i.e., casting processes) 2)Hands-on sand casting laboratory where students are engaged in conducting and assisting invarious steps of sand casting process (i.e., premixing, mold preparation, actual casting process,trimming sprues, runners, gates etc.) 3) Numerical and graphical analysis of the casting processthrough simulation. The integrated methodology would be comprised of classroom and labactivities, in which two sessions are conducted in the classroom environment, and one session isconducted in the casting lab. The first classroom lecture incorporates describing the variousaspects of the casting processes such

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabina Jeschke, University of Stuttgart; Olivier Pfeiffer, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Thomas Richter, University of Stuttgart

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

development of interactive mathematical objects especially supporting the visualization of complex mathematics and physics related problems.Thomas Richter, University of Stuttgart After receiving his Ph.D degree in mathematical physics at the Berlin University of Technology (TU-Berlin), Thomas Richter worked for two years in the private enterprise "Algovision Technology" as project leader for image compression. In 2002, Thomas Richter returned to the TU Berlin, working on Virtual Laboratories at the DFG-funded mathematical research center "Matheon" of the Berlin universities. Since 2003, he continued his research and standardization work on image compression in cooperation with Pegasus Imaging, a