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2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
J. W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Coastal Engineering ◽  
Corps Of Engineers ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
National Science ◽  
Wave Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Title Pages

This conference was sponsored jointly by the Council on Wave Research and the University of Florida The National Science Foundation assisted by making a grant to pay the travel expenses of some of the foreign authors. Appreciation is expressed to the University of Florida Coastal Engineering Laboratory and to the Jacksonville District of the Corps of Engineers for photographs supplied to illustrate the cover and the section title pages of this publication.

scholarly journals Complete Proceedings - Single PDF Download

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
J. W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Coastal Engineering ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Technical Work ◽  
Wave Research ◽  
The University

For the information of those attending their first Congress on Coastal Engineering, I should explain briefly the functions and organization of the Council on Wave Research. The first of these Congresses was held in Long Beach, California, in 1950 under the auspices of the University of California. There was at that time no permanent organization with the responsibility for focusing attention on this area of scientific and technical work or for arranging subsequent meetings. At the suggestion of the late Professor Boris A. Bakhmeteff, the Engineering Foundation, an agency of the American engineering societies, formed the Council on Wave Research to promote research in the sciences related to coastal engineering and to hold occasional congresses and conferences for the purpose of making the results of both scientific research and professional experience available to practicing engineers .

Senior Designs to Aid the Disabled: The UAB Experience

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan W. Eberhardt ◽  
Laura K. Vogtle ◽  
Gary Edwards
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Senior Design ◽  
National Science ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The University

Abstract This paper presents a review of two years experience regarding senior design projects to aid persons with disabilities, for mechanical engineering students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The efforts are funded by the National Science Foundation and are aimed at developing alternative, low cost, custom devices to aid specific disabled individuals or targeted groups. A collaboration has been established with UAB Occupational Therapy and United Cerebral Palsy of Birmingham (UCP), who have provided projects which combine depth in both engineering and life sciences. The “UAB experience” described in the following includes project selection, development, student advising and overall significance. Completed designs are listed, along with efforts to bring the products to a marketable level.

A difficult choice

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
François Grosjean
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
National Science ◽  
The University

In 1984, the author obtained a grant from the National Science Foundation to research the processing of mixed speech in bilinguals. He describes the studies that he undertook with his team along with other bilingual studies started during his sabbatical. In 1986, the author met with Noam Chomsky to talk about bilingualism and he reports on this encounter. This was also a time where he had to decide whether he should remain at Northeastern, accept a position that McGill had offered him, or return to Switzerland in search of a permanent position there. Finally, in 1987, the University of Neuchâtel offered him a professorship which he accepted.

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