Introduction

Robotica ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-399
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Nelson ◽  
Hyung Suck Cho
Keyword(s):  
Optical Tweezers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Loop Control ◽  
Touch Sensor ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

This special issue on Micro/Nano Robotic Perception, Control and Manipulation describes several complementary research efforts from Asia, the United States, and Europe. The topic is timely and the work published in this special issue shows how traditional robotics research is contributing to the emerging micro and nano technologies that are already beginning to demonstrate a strong impact on our society. At milli to microscales, three research efforts in inspection and microassembly are presented. From the University of Minnesota, a force controlled microgripper for photonics microassembly applications is presented. Another important aspect of microassembly is the tracking and alignment of microparts using vision feedback. Work by Dr. Yesin at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich (ETHZ) is directed towards using CAD model-based full 3DOF tracking for closed-loop control of automated microassembly. Moving towards submicron and nano scales, work from the University of Oldenburg in Germany in developing a novel platform for nanohandling using mobile microrobots has given rise to interesting concepts in how systems that perform future nanomanipulation tasks may be configured. A paper co-authored by researchers at the University of California-Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University considers the use of optical tweezers integrated with chemical linkages for manufacturing 2D and 3D structures at micro and nanoscales. A microbial separation system at the University of Nagoya uses a novel touch sensor and a micropipette, and demonstrates the interesting research problems that exist in the rapidly emerging field of BioMicroRobotics. It is clear that micro/nano robotics research efforts, like those presented in this special issue, represent a key component of robotics studies, and illustrate one direction where robotics must head in order to ensure that the field of robotics remains relevant to science, engineering and society as a whole.

Twenty-Second British Commonwealth Lecture

1967 ◽  
Vol 71 (675) ◽  
pp. 149-184
Author(s):  
S. Dhawan
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Government ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
Indian Institute Of Science ◽  
The University

The Twenty-Second British Commonwealth Lecture, “Aeronautical Research in India”, was given by Dr. S. Dhawan, MA, BSc(Eng), MS, FRAeS, Director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on 3rd November 1966. The Chair was taken by the President, Mr. A. D. Baxter, MEng, FRAeS, and the distinguished audience included His Excellency Dr. J. Mehta, High Commissioner for India.Before the Lecture the President introduced Lord Caldecote, DSC, MA, FRAeS, immediate Past President of the Society of British Aerospace Companies Limited, who presented the four SB AC Scholarship Awards for 1966 to the recipients.Introducing the Lecturer, Mr. Baxter said that the British Commonwealth Lecture had been established immediately after the Second World War to foster interest and understanding in aeronautical developments between Great Britain and her partners in the Commonwealth. He thought that object had been successfully achieved by the efforts of a long and distinguished list of lecturers, both from home and overseas; now they were to add another distinguished name to that list. Dr. Dhawan had taken his first degree in mathematics and physics at Lahore in 1938; in 1941 he obtained his MA from the Punjab University and, from the same university, his BSc in Engineering in 1944. After a period as an Assistant Supervisor with the Hindustan Aircraft Company, he was selected by the Government of India for advanced studies abroad in aeronautics. Dr. Dhawan had gone to the United States where he took a Masters Degree in Aeronautics at the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Aeronautics at the Californian Institute of Technology. Returning to India in 1951, he joined the Department of Aeronautics at the Indian Institute of Science, becoming Assistant Professor in 1952 and Professor and Head of the Department in 1955 and, since 1963 Director of the Institute.

Siegfried Giedion, Modernism and American Material Culture

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Tallack
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Space Time ◽  
World War ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Teaching Position ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
New Tradition

The Swiss architectural critic and historian of technology, Siegfried Giedion, was born in 1893 and died in 1968. Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (1941) and Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History (1948) are his two most well-known books and both came out of time spent in the United States between 1938 and 1945. World War Two kept Giedion in America though he, unlike many other German-speaking European intellectuals, came home and in 1946 took up a teaching position at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich where he later became professor of art history. While in the United States he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (1938–39), saw them in print as Space, Time and Architecture, and also completed most of the research in industrial archives and patent offices for Mechanization Takes Command. These two books are an important but, for the past twenty years, a mostly neglected, analysis of American material culture by a European intellectual, whose interests in Modernism included painting — notably Cubism and Constructivism — as well as architecture and planning. The period which saw the publication of Giedion's key works is, itself, an overlooked phase in the trans-Atlantic relationship between Modernism and modernization.

Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Keyword(s):  
Gifted Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Health ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Australasian Journal ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The University

Welcome to the second issue of the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education for 2021. I am proud to introduce this issue of the journal, which is a special issue of the work of Professor Emerita C. June Maker and her colleagues on the fidelity of implementation of the Real Engagement in Active Problem Solving (REAPS) model. All four studies that form a part of the special issue were undertaken with Australian participants. The institutions that the authors of the articles represent include the University of Arizona, the University of Georgia, the University of British Columbia, the World Health Organization, and the Vail Unified School District in the United States.

ETHWorld - Implementation of a Virtual Campus Infrastructure and E-Learning at ETH Zurich

2003 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Anders Hagstrom ◽  
Walter Schaufelberger
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Academic Planning ◽  
Virtual Campus ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
And Control

ETH World is a strategic initiative for establishing a new virtual campus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. ETH World will provide services in the areas of research, teaching, learning and infrastructure for the established disciplines in technology and natural science at ETH. The initiative aims to develop the excellence of ETH Zurich, making use of the new facilities and infrastructure instruments and methods that technological development offers. It is an integral part of the university, supporting its academic planning, infrastructure and financing processes. In its first part this paper describes the background of ETH World and an international conceptual competition organized in 2000 to seek ideas for the “infostructure” of this new academic environment. Some results of the competition are presented along with other projects that have been launched as building blocks of ETH World. The second part looks in some detail at e-learning as one of the focal points of ETH World, presenting two cases studies in architecture and control engineering education.

scholarly journals Go West: surgical fellowships in the US

2008 ◽  
Vol 90 (8) ◽  
pp. 272-274
Author(s):  
Matt Freudmann ◽  
Lucy Wales
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Vascular Surgery ◽  
Surgical Training ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
The West ◽  
Transplant Centre ◽  
Transplant Center ◽  
The Us ◽  
The University

As a final-year trainee in vascular surgery, I was working at the West London Renal and Transplant Centre for Professor Nadey Hakim and Vassilios Papalois. I am very grateful to both of them for encouraging me to apply for a visiting fellowship to the United States, enabling me to experience some of the benefits of surgical training abroad and to broaden my perspectives in transplantation. I was awarded a visiting fellowship to the University of Minnesota Transplant Center by Professor David Sutherland, head of the division of transplant surgery.

Free radicals in the European periphery: ‘translating’ organic chemistry from Zurich to Barcelona in the early twentieth century

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
AGUSTÍ NIETO-GALAN
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
European Periphery ◽  
Free Radical Chemistry ◽  
The University ◽  
Scientific Standards

In 1915, after acquiring first-hand knowledge of the new free radical chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Antonio García Banús (1888–1955) became professor of organic chemistry at the University of Barcelona and created his own research group, which was to last from 1915 until 1936. He was a gifted teacher and a prolific writer who attempted to introduce international scientific standards into his local environment. This paper analyses the bridges that Banús built between the experimental culture of organic chemistry at the ETH and the University of Barcelona. It presents a case study which aims to provide new historical data for the general analysis of groups who conducted their work in the European periphery.

scholarly journals Valentine Louis Telegdi. 11 January 1922 — 8 April 2006

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 291-304
Author(s):  
Laurie M. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Wolfgang Pauli ◽  
Electromagnetic Interactions ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Experimental Physicist ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Valentine Telegdi was an outstandingly original experimental physicist who contributed greatly to our understanding of the weak and electromagnetic interactions of elementary particles. Outspoken and colourful in expression, Telegdi (usually called ‘Val’) had the reputation of being a ‘conscience of physics’, known for his incisive and sometimes acerbic wit. In this respect he was reminiscent of Wolfgang Pauli, one of his teachers, whom he greatly admired. However, Val could be warm and caring to friends, professional associates and students. After receiving his doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich in 1950, he began his academic career at the University of Chicago in 1951, and his reputation grew rapidly. In 1968 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 1972 the University of Chicago appointed him as the first Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics.

scholarly journals Educating nurse leaders to think globally with international collaborative learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-190
Author(s):  
Helga Bragadóttir ◽  
Teddie Potter
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nurse Leaders ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Nursing Administration ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
The University

Given the rapid pace of change and globalization, leaders in healthcare must be educated to think globally even if they only act locally. This short article discusses the experience of a collaborative online international learning (COIL) project between the University of Iceland (UI) and the University of Minnesota (UMN) in the United States. The project was embedded into graduate courses in nursing administration and leadership. COIL courses require substantial collaboration but, when done well, COIL transforms teaching so that global awareness of students and faculty is enhanced and widens their horizons as well as their cultural sensitivity.

scholarly journals Asia in the Russian Imagination

Sibirica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Jane F. Hacking ◽  
Jeffrey S. Hardy ◽  
Matthew P. Romaniello
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
The United States ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The University

This special issue of Sibirica is devoted to exploring Russia’s complicated relationship with Asia. Along with an edited volume (Russia in Asia: Imaginations, Interactions, and Realities, forthcoming), it is an outgrowth of the “Asia in the Russian Imagination” conference that was held at the University of Utah in March 2018. This conference brought together an interdisciplinary body of scholars from the United States, Canada, and Russia to discuss how Russians imagined and interacted with the peoples of Eurasia. Chronologically this conversation spanned the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia, and included not just the geography and peoples possessed by Russia but also the bordering states of Japan, China, and the Ottoman Empire. This is certainly not a new line of inquiry, but there is still much to be understood about these complex relationships, both real and imagined.

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