Continuing Education at Purdue University, 1975–2019

Continuing Education at Purdue University, 1975–2019 is intended to provide a follow-up to the monograph written by Dr. Frank K. Burrin after his retirement as director of Purdue Continuing Education in 1984, Continuing Education at Purdue University: The First Hundred Years (1874–1974). Burrin became ill shortly after his retirement, and he was not able to complete his project. His notes were later compiled, edited, and published by Elizabeth Boyd Thompson. This monograph presents forty-five years of the history of Continuing Education and Conferences at Purdue under the leadership of eight deans and directors.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/continuinged/1001/thumbnail.jp

Market scenarios and alternative administrative frameworks for US educational satellite systems

Costs and benefits of developing an operational educational satellite system in the U.S. are analyzed. Scenarios are developed for each educational submarket and satellite channel and ground terminal requirements for a large-scale educational telecommunications system are estimated. Alternative organizational frameworks for such a system are described

Real-time application programming interfaces for depicting aquatic internet of things

Although recent years portray an increase demand for Internet of Things (IoT) applications in aquatic setting, there is a lack of standardization in collecting and displaying these data to a wider set of audiences ranging from marine biologists, whale-watching companies and environmentalists. More flexible APIs and long-range data access are necessary, providing the facilitated remote ac cess to the data, while reducing significantly the cost of fuel and time when obtaining the data from oceanic settings. The main goal of this thesis is to produce the robust back-end and an API for: (i) managing the IoT devices to be applied in aquatic setting; (ii) obtaining the status and the telemetry in real-time; and (iii) visualizing the collected data from IoT devices such as temperature, pressure, humidity, luminosity, GPS position, etc. The final product advances the state of the art in back-end development for collecting, storing and displaying larger datasets (e.g. collected telemetries, radio transmission data) in Single-page applications (SPAs). It will, moreover, use the latest back-end and front-end development tech niques (e.g. React.JS, Laravel) while optimizing database querying, and providing the real-time access to the data on any device, and without the need of refreshing the page.Embora nos últimos anos tenha existido um aumento no desenvolvimento de projetos na área da Internet das coisas (IoT) em ambientes aquáticos, não existe uma padronização na recolha e exibição dos dados obtidos com esses mesmos projetos de modo a possibilitar o seu aproveita mento por um conjunto diverso de utilizadores, que variam desde os biólogos marinhos, passando pelas empresas de observação de baleias até aos ambientalistas. Para que tal seja possível são necessárias APIs mais flexíveis e acesso a dados de longo alcance, fornecendo acesso remoto facil itado aos dados, reduzindo significativamente o custo de combustível e tempo ao obter os dados de configurações oceânicas. O principal objetivo desta tese é desenvolver um back office robusto e uma API para: (i) gerir os dispositivos de IoT a serem utilizados em ambientes aquáticos; (ii) obter o estado e a telemetria em tempo real; e (iii) visualizar os dados recolhidos pelos dispositivos de IoT como por exemplo, temperatura, pressão, humidade, luminosidade, posição do GPS, etc... O produto final contribui para o avanço da tecnologia, pois providencia um back office para recolher, guardar e exibir um grande conjunto de dados (por exemplo, multimédia recolhida, telemetrias, dados de transmissão de rádio) em aplicações de uma única página (SPAs). Além disso, utilizará as mais recentes técnicas de desenvolvimento de back-end e front-end (por exemplo, React.JS, Laravel), otimizando a consulta à base de dados e fornecendo o acesso em tempo real aos dados em qualquer dispositivo, e sem a necessidade de atualizar a página

Engineering Division

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Science-Technology Division

The objectives of the Science-Technology Division shall be to draw together those members of the Special Libraries Association having an interest in the role of library and information science as applied to the recording, retrieval and dissemination of knowledge and information in all areas of science and technology, and to promote and improve the communication, dissemination and use of such knowledge for the benefit of libraries and their users