Agenda:
10:15-10:45am | Concussion & Athlete Monitoring System Design - Kim Rowe, CEO, Rowebots
The questions of developing the Concussion & Athlete Monitoring System are discussed in the presentation: the reasons to develop the system, critical IoT and Wearable design factors, Security for IoT devices and more.
11:00-11:30am | Rotational and Linear QVLA Sensing - Brad Engstrand, President, Motion Controls
An in depth discussion of QVLA technology including the reference quality emitter, light frequencies used, target definition, surface qualities, dirt, high aspect versus low aspect tubing, lens arrangements and signal conditioning if needed. Strengths and weaknesses versus traditional technologies for linear and rotational sensing. New frontiers in RGB sensing creating a poor man’s spectrometer with our reference quality emitter.
11:45am-12:45pm | The Future of Engineering Education Panel
This panel discussion will provide attendees with an insight into the current status of engineering education and its challenges in training its students for the next part of their professional career, whether in education or in industry. The well-balanced panel of a high level engineering academic administrator, two panelists from the sensors industry and a current engineering student is expected to provide a representative sample of the educational ecosystem dynamic, issues and recommended activities and actions to optimize success for current engineering students and future engineers.
Chair: Roger Grace, Founder & President, Roger Grace Associates
Panelists:
Tamim Halawani Al-Tamimi, Student, Northeastern University
Brian Kinkade, Founder, Positive Impact
Tom Nguyen, CEO, DunAn Sensing
Kelly Zelesnik, Academic Dean, Lorain County Community College
1:15-1:45pm | Sensors in the Brain: The Emergence of Cybernetic Interfaces - Philip Troyk, PhD, CEO/Professor, Sigenics, Inc/Illinois Institute of Technology
Once limited only to science fiction, designing and implementing electronics for sensing and stimulation of the human brain are rapidly becoming science. Creating miniature wireless sensor modules, called neural prostheses, for implantation into the brain requires a combination of unique system/circuit design and packaging techniques. Clinical testing of a broad range of new neural prostheses is on-going, with the most advanced ones using subminiature fully wireless modules. The design and testing of an implantable modular system for restoration of vision to those will blindness will be presented.
