Teaching at Cleveland State
University
Course offered in Spring 2012
Kinect as an Education and Research Device
The Kinect sensor introduced by Microsoft for its Xbox 360 game console
proved to be a very interesting and powerful device far beyond its intended
use. Many practical applications based on Kinect have been developed, mostly in
the medicine field. The release of the Kinect SDK makes it much easier to
develop interesting applications that use the Natural User Interface to
interact with computers. I strongly believe that Kinect has great potential to
be used as an education device in classroom instructions as well as used as a
powerful tool in research, especially in physical and occupational therapy. In
spring 2012, I will be experimenting with using Kinect to build
multidisciplinary applications in the senior design (EEC490) course. The
project was made possible by a Teaching
Enhancement Award from the CSU Center for
Teaching Excellence.
iPod Touch as an Education Device in Classroom
In spring 2009, I experimented
with using iPod touch as an education device in my Computer Networks class. This project was made possible by a Teaching Enhancement Award from the CSU Center for Teaching Excellence.
In June, I gave a talk on this topic to a group of science teachers (middle and
high schools) from the greater Cleveland
region. The power point slides for the talk can be found here. Recently, I also gave a guest lecture on
iPod touch programming for ESC120. The power point slides for the talk can be
found here. I welcome educators and students who share
my interest to get in touch with me.
In fall 2010, together with my
colleague, Dr. Nigamanth Sridhar, we offered an iPhone application development
course as EEC492/693/793. The course, again is made possible by a Teaching
Enhancement Award from CSU
Center for Teaching
Excellence. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering also provided
significant funding to equip the lab with 16 Macbooks.
Previously offered courses
- EEC688/788 Secure and Dependable Computing
- EEC492/693/793 iPhone/iPod Touch Application
Development (sponsored by CSU Center
for Teaching Excellence via a Teaching Enhancement Award)
- EEC484/584 Computer Networks, Fall 2010
- EEC484/584 Computer Networks, Spring 2010
- EEC484/584 Computer Networks, Fall 2009
- EEC484/584 Computer Networks, Fall 2009
- EEC688/788 Secure and Dependable Computing,
Fall 2009
- EEC484/584 Computer Networks, Spring 2009
- EEC688/788 Secure and Dependable Computing,
Spring 2009
- EEC484/584 Computer Networks, Fall 2008
- EEC681/781 Distributed Computing Systems,
Fall 2008
- EEC584 Computer Networks, Spring 2008
- EEC693 Secure and Dependable Computing,
Spring 2008
- EEC484/584 Computer Networks, Fall 2007
- EEC484/584 Computer Networks, Spring 2006
- EEC693/793 Secure and Dependable Computing (Special
Topics in Electrical Engineering), Spring 2007
- EEC484/584 Computer Networks, Fall 2006
- EEC681/781 Distributed Computing Systems,
Fall 2006
- EEC681/781 Distributed Computing Systems,
Spring 2006
- EEC693/793 Secure and Dependable Computing (Special
Topics in Electrical Engineering) , Spring 2006
- EEC685/785 Modeling & Performance Evaluation of
Computer Systems, Fall 2005
- EEC484/584 Computer Networks, Fall 2005
- EEC682/782 Computer Networks I, Spring 2005
(now replaced by EEC484/584)
- EEC681/781 Distributed Computing Systems,
Fall 2004
Last modified: January 12 2012,
Dr. Wenbing Zhao