Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)

Center Creates and Disseminates Innovative Networking Course

The Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) is based at the University of Massachusetts, but the impact of the Center's work is felt far and wide. CASA faculty and students created a novel course and brought it to a university in Puerto Rico.

In Fall 2005, CASA professor Jim Kurose and research scientist Mike Zink led a team of nine undergrad and graduate students in a course exploring recent weather radar research by developing, deploying, and measuring novel outdoor wireless networks based on the 802.11 standard.

Professor Kurose and students Brian Donovan, Tim Ireland, and Adam Nyzio offered a two-day version of the course at CASA partner University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. The course included lectures and hands-on outdoor installation and experimentation with wireless networks.

The initial course, UMASS Computer Science 496A, was archived in a multimedia format called jMANIC that provides a browser-based viewer of synchronized video, audio, and graphics with search and logging capabilities. CASA student Byron Wallace developed jMANIC as part of the CASA Education and Outreach thrust.

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The Puerto Rico two-day course is available on CD and on the CASA education page at http://www.casa.umass.edu/educationandoutreach/multimedia.html.

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Last modified: April 12, 2007