The EPICS - Engineering Projects in Community Service is an engineering design program that operates in a service-learning context. EPICS students earn academic credit for their participation in design teams that solve technology-based problems for not-for-profit organizations in the local community. The teams are: multidisciplinary - drawing students from across engineering and around the university; vertically-integrated - maintaining a mix of freshman through seniors each semester; and long-term - each student participates in a project for up to seven semesters. The continuity, technical depth, and disciplinary breadth of these teams enable delivery of projects of significant benefit to the community. Since its founding in ECE at Purdue in 1995, EPICS has grown to an Engineering-wide program that includes students from over 20 disciplines across the university. Over 2000 Purdue students have participated in EPICS, delivering over 150 projects to the local community. EPICS programs are operating at eighteen universities under the National EPICS Program.
Jamieson is co-founder and director of the EPICS program. EPICS co-founders Jamieson and Edward J. Coyle and co-director William C. Oakes were awarded the U.S. National Academy of Engineering's 2005 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education "for innovations in the education of tomorrow's engineering leaders by developing and disseminating the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program." Jamieson and Coyle have jointly received the 1997 ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education and Purdue's Class of 1922 Annual Award for Outstanding Innovation in Helping Students Learn for their work on the EPICS Program. Jamieson has been recognized with the 2000 IEEE Education Society's Harriet B. Rigas "Outstanding Woman Engineering Educator" Award and was named 2002 Indiana Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Jamieson was in the inaugural class of recipients of the NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars. In 2005, she was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering "for innovations in integrating engineering education and community service."
Purdue's Future Engineer. Prior to her appointment as Dean, Jamieson served as co-chair of Purdue Engineering's Curriculum Reform Task Force. The Task Force is considering the global and technological changes that will shape engineering over the next 20 years, identify the attributes that will characterize Purdue Engineering graduates of the future, and develop the key attributes of an engineering curriculum that prepares our students for 21st century careers.
EE 649:
Speech Processing by Computer.
Notes for this graduate course in
speech processing are on line at the course web site.
The course was last offered at Purdue in the Spring 2002 semester.
Jamieson was 2005 Vice President for Publication Services and Products. She was 2003 IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities and created IEEE's Focus on Technologies initiative.
She was 1998-1999 President of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society
. Two President's Columns
from the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
(July 1999
and
(September 1999)
have discussed the issue of women in engineering
and signal processing.
Classroom Climate Workshops:
Under a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Purdue's
Women in Engineering Programs,
Women in Science Programs,
and Division of Theatre
collaborated to use interactive theater to increase awareness of issues of
gender equity in the classroom.
In Spring 1997, four pilot workshops were conducted for
faculty in the Schools of Engineering and the School of
Science, with Jamieson as the facilitator for the workshops.
The project led to a
videotape and resource guide for faculty classroom
climate workshops on gender equity.
Spoken Language Processing Research: Under the direction of Professors Jamieson and Harper , the Spoken Language Processing Group at Purdue conducts research in the areas of speech recognition, integration of speech and natural language processing systems, recognition of spoken proper names, and integration of speech, gesture, and gaze in discourse understanding. This work has been supported by grants from NSF and the Purdue Research Foundation.
Scalable Parallel Research Applications Laboratory (SPiRAL): The SPiRAL project developed libraries, algorithms, and tools to enable the effective use of scalable high performance computing technologies. The research focused on the application area of computer vision and image processing (CVIP). It included development of scalable and portable algorithms for CVIP problems, development of an architecture-independent computational model to serve as a platform for algorithm development and scalability analysis, and development of applications-driven library-based prototype software tools that bridge the software gap between usability and high performance. Project directors were Jamieson, Susanne Hambrusch , and Ed Delp . This project was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The Cloner Project:
The Cloner prototyping environment for computer vision and image
processing algorithms and tasks used the notion of organizing library
algorithms as algorithm families,
where performance annotation and scalability analysis are used
to select algorithms for execution.
The Cloner Project built on work on the
Characteristics of Parallel Algorithms
(L. H. Jamieson, D. Gannon, and R. J. Douglass, editors,
MIT Press, 1987).
This project was supported by the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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