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Specific Areas of Interest:

Networks
• Net.Work.Virginia - is an advanced, broadband network delivering ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) service statewide. It is the result of a project led by Virginia Tech in association with Old Dominion University and the Virginia Community College System to develop universal access to advanced digital communications services for all of Virginia.

• Center for Wireless Telecommunications conducts research on radio frequency (RF) systems and components, antennas, satellite communication, wireless networks, and business and regulatory issues affecting wireless telecommunications.

• LMDS Research Consortium is bringing together licensees, equipment suppliers, and other interested organizations to support research and development of the 1150 megahertz wireless spectrum. The Virginia Tech Foundation recently won licenses in this spectrum that covers almost one third the area of Virginia including Roanoke, Bristol, Martinsville, and Danville areas.

• Mobil & Portable Radio Group focuses on developing propagation modeling and system design tools for future wireless communication links, as well as modem and DSP design and implementation.

• Fiber and Electro-Optics Research Center (FEORC) studies the use of fiber optic technology for the transmission of voice, television, and computer data signals.

Digital Libaries
• Digital Libraries Project at Virginia Tech

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project

Instructional Technology
• President's Message: Instructional Revolution states that the university has taken the lead in the development and use of sophisticated instructional technologies in the classroom.

• Office of Distance Education provides information, training, and degree attainment opportunities through a flexible delivery system that reduces constraints imposed by location, time, employment, or other factors.

• Asynchronous Communication Courses to Enable Student Success (ACCESS)is making significant changes in the way teaching and learning is conducted in the department of Biology and elsewhere in the College of Arts and Sciences.

• Center for Innovation in Learning aims to develop online courses and provide related infrastructure, technical support and assessment of results in targeted curricular areas. The Center also serves as an umbrella for coordinating communications and developing partnerships focused on integrating technology in learning.

• Southeastern University & College Coalition for Engineering Education's (SUCCESS's) Technology-Based Curriculum Delivery (TBCD) Coalition Focus Team (CFT) extends the reach and effectiveness of engineering education through the use of advance computing and communication technologies.

• Cyberschool is developing a virtual classroom.

• Virginia Tech CAVE(tm) will be used to enhance education through instructional technology.

• Educational Technologies Department Home Page

Specific Expertise of Interest
• Some Network Expertise

• Some Distance Learning Expertise

• Some Multimedia Expertise

• Some Instructional Technology Expertise

• Some Telecommunications Expertise

• Some Information Technology Expertise

• Some Internet Expertise

• Virginia Information Systems Center directed by James Armstrong provides provide research and development services in the design and analysis of information systems.

• Configurable Computing led by Peter Athanas does research in run-time reconfigurable computers and using configurable computing machines for signal processing, simulation acceleration, and computer graphics.

• Center for Human Computer Interaction directed by John Carroll promotes the development of techniques and tools that help ensure usability in user interfaces for computers.

• Macroeconomics & Group Decision Systems Laboratory led by Brian Kleiner focuses on the optimization of work system design through consideration of relevant personnel, technological, and environmental variables and their interactions, as well as the technology to support group synchronous and asynchronous decision making, communication and collaborative work in virtual and collocated environments.

• Virtual Simulations & Environments led by Ron Kriz offers an open lab that enables the engineer/scientist to better understand his/her data through the use of visual methods.

• Virginia Power Electronics Center (VPEC) directed by Fred Lee is involved in all areas of power electronics, from computer power supplies that convert less than 100 watts of power, to space and industrial systems that provide hundreds of kilowatts of power.