Caption: Engineering Open House Guide - 2009
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Unlocking Potential 27 locomotive simulator for visitors to learn how a locomotive is operated, and demonstrations of both the tools used in maintenance and traffic control. We will also have a booth with Operation Lifesaver. Location: 1233 This exhibit is suitable for: All Outdoor Exhibits Steel Bridge Team ASCE Steel bridge is an annual competition put on by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Institute of Steel Contractors. Students compete against one another and are judged for speed, efficiency, and bridge stiffness. Location: Crane Bay This exhibit is suitable for: All Structural Engineers Association ASCE This exhibit will have posters of outstanding structures across the world and a computer displaying software for civil engineering design. We will show how the program works and let viewers play/interact with it. Location: Crane Bay This exhibit is suitable for: All What is Quicksand? Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization Come find out what quicksand is, and see a demonstration that examines many interesting aspects of quicksand and ‘liquefied’ soils. Location: Crane Bay This exhibit is suitable for: High School, College, General Public Gamebuilders You and up to three friends try Remote Control Sports to fend off hordes of enemies to Utility Vehicle (RC SUV) save the galaxy. Player-cooperaProject Q Our current project entails a re- tion is required to survive. mote control sports utility vehicle Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: Gen(RC SUV). We intend to fully control an SUV using a control- eral Public ling device, such as a joystick or Communications/Protocol a cellular phone. Location: Open area southwest Framework of Beckman Institute SIGOps This exhibit is suitable for: All Today, most protocol implementations are written from scratch for specific purposes, or an Siebel Center for overly general approach is taken Computer Science by using XML and other serialization techniques. There are !Multiplicity drawbacks to each method. Our !BANG We are demonstrating a network protocol framework captures the essence of what is needed to protocol and client which work define a protocol, and allows for together to distribute processeasy code generation for protoing-intensive problems among multiple computers, speeding up col and message validation. Location: Atrium the process considerably. Our implementation gives the ad-hoc This exhibit is suitable for: College, General Public flexibility and range that most common clusters lack. Crescendo Location: Atrium SIGSoft This exhibit is suitable for: ColCrescendo is a distributed demolege cratic music library and player. It allows many people to share muBookworm sic and vote for what they’d like SIGSoft Bookworm is a searchable index to hear. Crescendo is distributed, so it’s possible to use more than of ACM’s library. A clean interone database of music. Alternaface provides a simple way of tively, you can set up your own finding your favorite math, scidatabase and plug it into a public ence, or programming book in player so that others can enjoy ACM’s extensive collection. your music collection. Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: High Location: Atrium School, College, General Public This exhibit is suitable for: All Chromatactix
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