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April 2011

CURRICULUM VITAE

DANIEL RAVIV I. Personal Information 1. Name and Title Daniel Raviv Professor, Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (CEECS) Department 2. Address Home:

9214 Tivoli Place Boca Raton, Florida 33434 Office:

Science and Engineering Bldg., Room 472 Florida Atlantic University 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, Florida 33431 3. Telephone etc. Home:

(561) 488-2445 Cell:

(561) 271-2013 Office:

(561) 297-2773 (direct) or: (561) 297-3412 (department) Fax: (561) 297-2336 E-mail: RAVIVD@FAU.EDU http://www.ee.fau.edu/faculty/raviv.htm 4. Marital Status Married, 3 Children 5. Birthplace and Date Kfar Saba, Israel October 21, 1953 6. Citizenship U.S.A. Citizen Israeli Citizen

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II. Professional Information 1. Educational Background 1.1 Degrees Academic degrees August 87:

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics (EEAP) Dept., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio August 82:

M.Sc., Electrical Engineering Dept., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa March 80:

B.Sc., Electrical Engineering Dept., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Cum Laude Non-Academic degree

January 73: Practical Engineer, Mechanical Engineering, ORT, Junior Professional College and high school, Givataim, Israel Cum Laude 1.2 Professional Development Activities

Leadership Skills, workshop, University of Maryland, College Park, February 27-28, 2009 Eureka!, half-day workshop by Eureka! Ranch, University of Maryland, College Park, October 22, 2008 Invention to Venture, workshop, College Park, Maryland, September 12, 2008 Benevon, a two-day workshop, Boca Raton, Florida, September 2006 The Enneagram in Business: Train the Trainer Program, California, August 15-20, 2005 Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Faculty Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia,

December 4-6, 1998 Institute for Inventive Thinking, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Two-day Seminar on Inventive and

Innovative Thinking, Akron, Ohio, August 17-18, 1998 Institute for Inventive Thinking, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Three-day Seminar on Inventive and

Innovative Thinking, Akron, Ohio, March 30- April 1, 1998 Enhancing Student Success Through a Model “Introduction to Engineering” Course. Offered by the NSF

Chautauqua Short Courses for College Teachers, California State University, Dominguez Hills, California, March 21-23, 1996

Team training, Motorola (Plantation, Florida), January 1996 TRIZ/ Ideation Methodology workshop, Boca Raton, Florida, March 1996 In-Process Control for Manufacturing. IEEE Videoconference Seminar. Offered at the Center for

Automation and Intelligent Systems research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, September 24, 1986

Application of AI. IEEE Videoconference Seminar. Offered at the Center for Automation and Intelligent Systems Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, February 26, 1986

Expert Systems and Prolog, IEEE Video-conference Seminar, Center for Automation and Intelligent Systems Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, December 4, 1985

Quantitative Synthesis of Control Systems, IMI (30 hours), February-May 1985 Advanced Estimation, Israel Association for Automatic Control, (two-day workshop), June 1984

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Designing Real-Time Hardware for Digital Signal Processing, Integrated Computer Systems (32 hours), April 1984

Microprocessor Development System (MDS), Intel (2 days), September 1983 Workshop on Microprocessors 8086, IAI (52 hours), July-August 1983 Dynamics of Real-Time Digital Simulation, Applied Dynamics International (24 hours), March 1983

2. Employment History

August 1989 - Present: Professor, Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (CEECS) Department (effective 8/99), Florida Atlantic University (FAU). (8/88-8/89 Visiting Assistant Professor; 8/89-4/93 Assistant Professor; 4/93-8/99 Associate Professor; 8/97-5/98 and 8/08-8-09 on sabbatical) Assistant Provost for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (part of 2009-10) As the Assistant to the Provost for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, I oversaw related activities at the university level, including setting the vision and objectives, improving communications between colleges, exploring existing related programs and activities, planning interdisciplinary education experiences for students, faculty & businesses, and eventually covering/initiating a spectrum of programs/activities from ideation to commercialization. The work included exploring funds; preparing the stage for “proof-of-concept” laboratory; improving students’ related skills; planning for a university-wide certificate; and expanding beyond FAU borders, e.g., national workshops, and collaborations. Special Assistant to the Provost (2007-08) As a Special Assistant to the Provost I have taken the lead to improve College Algebra high DFW rate. Implementation of some of the recommendations resulted in reduction of DFW rate from nearly 70% to 28% Main research activities are in the areas of Computer Vision, robotics and control, vision-based real-time navigation algorithms for autonomous vehicles (driverless cars), Inventive, Creative & Innovative Thinking, and Green Innovation

August 2008 – August 2009: Visiting Professor (on Sabbatical) -- Johns Hopkins University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, working with the Center for Leadership Education (CLE), and -- University and Maryland, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, working with Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech)

August 1989-95: Visiting Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland. (8/89-6/90 working at NIST. The collaboration continued until 1995.) Developed real-time algorithms for navigation and control of mobile robots. The algorithms were tested on the SUN 3/140 workstation (UNIX), the CYBER 855 (NOS/VE), the PIPE vision system, and the Denning mobile robot

August 1986- August ‘88: Manager of the Robotics ("Sensors and Manipulators") Laboratory, Center for Automation and Intelligent Systems Research (CAISR), Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics Department, Case Western Reserve University

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Responsibilities: Developing the Laboratory (hardware and software); conducting research in the Robotics area (Computer Vision, Tactile Sensors, Control); working on industrial research projects; supervising engineers and students; managing budget

August 1985- August ‘87: Research Assistant at CAISR Developed new methods (resulted in a US patent, several research papers, and a Ph.D. dissertation) for 3-D surface reconstruction. The algorithms were tested using VAX 782 (RSX) and PDP 11/24 computers, the Intellidex 650 robot, and the GE Optomation vision system

August 1982- August ‘85: Senior Development Engineer at the Israel Military Industries (I.M.I.) in a high-tech large-scale multi-discipline project. The work involved: - Theoretical analysis of a time-varying six-degree-of-freedom multi-input-multi-output real-time control system - Analysis using a six-degree-of-freedom simulation, and a Continuous System Modeling Program - Designing, building and testing digital and analog controllers (using Intel 8086 microprocessor) - Multi-sensor integration (sensor fusion) - Hardware-in-the-loop tests using HP mini-computer From June 1984: Leader of the Control Group

March 1980- August ‘82: Teaching Assistant, Lab Assistant, and Researcher, Electrical Engineering (EE) Dept., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology The research dealt with digital realization of analog controllers for control systems. The algorithms were tested on the IBM 370

February 1973- February ‘76: Military service in the Israeli Air Force Among other activities: developed automation and control laboratories for education purposes 3. Instructional Experience 3.1 Courses Taught at FAU “Introduction to Creativity” EGN2935/EGN3935 (Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011) “Control Systems 2” EEL4930 and EEL5654 (Spring 2011) “Creativity and Innovation” EEL 4935/EEL5935 (Fall 2009) “Engineering Leadership” EEL4930, (Co-taught with Dr. Neelakanta, Summer 2008) “Innovative Thinking” IDS 6358, (multidisciplinary graduate course, Spring 2007) “Digital signal Processing” EEL4510 (Spring 2005, Spring 2008) “Engineering Design I (ED1)” EGN4410 (Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Fall 2002) “Engineering Design II (ED2)” EGN4411 (Summer 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Summer 2008) “Design and Analysis of Algorithms” COT4400 (Summer 2000) “Fundamental of Engineering” EGN1002 (Fall 1998, Spring 2004) “Senior Project II” EEL4915 (Spring 1997) “Inventive Problem Solving In Engineering” EEL4930, EGN4040, EGN5040, EGN3935 (Spring 1996, Fall 1997, Summer 1997, Summer 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, summer 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Summer 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Summer 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Summer 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Summer 2004, Fall 2004 (offered also to Grad students under EGN5934), Spring 2005 (twice, once for FAU students and also for High School Engineering Academy), summer 2005 twice (HS), Fall 2005, Spring 2006 (HS-EA), Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Summer 2009 part 1) “Discoveries in Engineering: Innovative Problem Solving” EGN3009 (for High school summer 2006(ESP), Spring 2007(EA), summer 2007(ESP))

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“Analog Electronic for Non-EE Major” EEL3003 (Summer 96) “Networks Analysis” EEL3111 (Summer 1995, Fall 1995, Spring 2000, Summer 2000) “Circuits I” EEL3111, formerly “Networks Analysis” (Fall 2003, Summer 2004, Fall 2005, summer 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009) “Linear Systems” EEL4652 (Summer 1992, Summer 1994) “Digital Control 1” EEL5653 (Fall 1991, Fall 1992, Fall 1993, Fall 1995, Fall 1997) “Robotics Laboratory” ELR5660L (Summer 1991, Supervisor) “Special Topics in Computer Vision” EEL6935 (Spring 1991, Spring 1992, Spring 1993, Spring 1994) “Control 1” EEL4652 (Fall 1988, Spring 1989, Fall 1990, Spring 1993, Spring 1994, Spring 1995, Spring 1996, Spring 1997, Fall 1998, Fall 2004, Fall 2010, Summer 2011) “Probability and Random Processes” EEL4541 (Fall 1994, Spring 1995, Summer 1995, Summer 1996, Summer 1998, Spring 1999) “Electronic Circuits” EEL4361 (Summer 1995) “Network Analysis 1” EEL3111 (Summer 1995) “Network Analysis 2” EEL3131(Fall 1988, Spring 1989, Summer 1989, Spring 1991, Summer 1991, Fall 1991, Spring 1992) “Control Laboratory” EEL4652L (Summer 1994) “Laboratory 2” ELR4309 (Summer 1989) 3.2 Ph.D. Dissertation Supervision

Advisor of: Tom Kelly, Ph.D. Student, EE Dept. 1998-2005 Advisor of: H. Hakan Yakali, Ph.D. Student, EE Dept. Graduated Spring 1994 Advisor of: Kunal Joarder, Ph.D. Student, EE Dept. Graduated Summer 1995 Advisor of: Sridhar Kundur, Ph.D. Student, EE Dept. Graduated January 1996 Advisor of: Lingdi Yang, Ph.D. Student, EE Dept. Graduated December 1997 Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee, Mr. Linfeng Guo (EE Department, since 1999) Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee: Mr. Gunther (Psychology Dept., Graduated 1994) Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee: Mr. Sal Riggio (EE) (Graduated 4/1994) Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee: Mr. Tom Frederick (EE) (Graduated 12/1997) Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee: Mr. Lixin Liu (EE) (Graduated 1996) Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee: Mr. Ping Cao (EE) (Graduated 10/1992) Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee: Mr. Jian Wang (EE) (Graduated 11/1992) Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee: Mr. Kenneth Finlon (EE) Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee: Mr. Xie Xangdong (EE) (Graduated 7/1994) Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee: Mr. Jen-Yu Shieh. (Graduated 1/1993) Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee: Mr. Yingli Wang (Graduated 3/1997) Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee: Mr. Ying Bai (Since 1994) Member of Doctoral Supervisory Committee: Mr. Daoxi Xiu (ME) (Graduated 7/1998)

3.3 M.Sc. Thesis Supervision

Advisor, Eiki Martinson, M.Sc.Student, (EE) (Graduated, December 2010) Member of Master Supervisory Committee: Waazim Reza (CEECS) (Graduated December 2010) Member of Master Supervisory Committee: Sagar Aghera (CEECS) (Expected graduation Summer

2011) Member of Master Supervisory Committee: Reena Friedel (CEECS) (Expected graduation Spring 2012) Advisor of: Brandon Moore, (EE), (Since January 2005) Member of Master Supervisory Committe: Mrs. Melissa Morris (ME) (Graduated Spring 2008) Advisor, William Mackunis, M.Sc.Student, (EE) (Graduated, Spring 2003) Advisor, Tom Kelly, M.Sc.Student, (EE) (Graduated, December 1998) Advisor, Erkut Ergen, M.Sc.Student, (EE) (Graduated, Summer 1997) Advisor, Bruce Mooney, M.Sc.Student, (EE) (Fall 1994-Fall 1996) Advisor, Krishnan Srivatsan, M.Sc.Student, (EE) (Graduated, Summer 1994)

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Advisor, Nissim Ozery, M.Sc.Student, (EE) (Graduated, Fall 1994) Advised J. Yepes, M.Sc.Student, (EE) ( Graduated 1994, non-thesis project) Advised M. Abdulla, M.Sc.Student, (EE) (January 1991-January 1993) Advised: Ms. Geetha (ECE) (Fall 1991) Member of Master Supervisory Committee: Melissa Morris (ME) (2004) Member of Master Supervisory Committee: Stuart Kaskawits (EE) (Graduated 1994) Member of Master Supervisory Committee: Kannan Rajamani (EE) (Graduate 10/1995) Member of Master Supervisory Committe: Sriran Thagarajan (EE) Member of Master Supervisory Committee: Mehrdad Badie (EE) Member of Master Supervisory Committee: Terry Glatt (EE). (Graduated 5/1991) Member of Master Supervisory Committee: Irena Wechsler (EE) (Graduated 1994) Member of Master Supervisory Committee: J. Park (OE), (Graduated 1989) Member of Master Supervisory Committee: David Howard (EE), (Graduated 5/1997)

3.4 Independent Studies

Independent studies: Innovative Thinking, Arthur Rozenbaum, ME, Spring 2007 Independent studies: Melissa Rogers (Morris), EE, Fall 2005+ Spring 2006 Independent studies: Ross Gilson, EE, Fall 2005+ Spring 2006 Independent studies: Eiki Martinson, EE, Spring 2005 Independent studies: Brandon Moore, EE, Fall 2005 Independent studies: Karen Ginsberg, CSE Dept., Spring 2004 Independent studies: Rabih, EE Dept., Spring 2003 Independent studies: Wayne Krug, EE Dept., Spring 2002 Independent studies: Mellisa Rogers, EE Dept., Summer 2002 Independent studies: Okee, EE Dept., Summer 2000 Independent studies: Richard Viens, EE Dept., Spring 1999 Independent studies: Jesper Poulsen, EE Dept., Fall 1998 Independent studies: S. Kundur, Ph.D Candidate, EE Dept., Fall 1995 Independent studies: L. Yang, Ph.D Candidate, EE Dept., Spring 1994 Independent studies: E. Djaja, EE Dept., Spring 1994 Independent studies: T. Kelly, EE Dept., Fall 1993 Independent studies: V. Bennett EE Dept., Summer 1993 Independent studies: J. Kunal, Ph.D Candidate, EE Dept., Spring 1992 Independent studies: J. Kunal, Ph.D Candidate, EE Dept., Fall 1992 Independent studies: E. Tal, CE Dept., Fall semester 1991 Independent studies: J. McKoendrick, Ph.D Candidate, CS Dept., Jan. 1989- Aug. 1989

3.5 Senior and Design Project Supervisory Advised five groups in project design, Innovative Thinking (graduate) Class, Spring 2007. Advised six groups in designing transportation safety devices, Inventive Problem Solving Class, Fall

2005 Advised IEEE student group on Robotics Project, Fall 2004 and Spring 2005

The student team won 3rd place in ASME competition, Jacksonville, Florida, April 2005 Project title: “Bulk Material Transportation” Advised IEEE student group on Robotics Project, Fall 2003 and Spring 2004 Advised six groups in designing transportation safety devices, Inventive Problem Solving Class, Spring

2004 Design project coordinator/advisor for all students in Engineering Design 1 and Design 2 Courses

(Spring 2001, Summer 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003) In Fall 2002/ Spring 2003 advised more than 70 students. Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: J.J. Vitalien (Fall 2000, Spring 2001)

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Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: O. Narcisse (Fall 2000, Spring 2001) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: A. Shehadeh (Spring 2000, Fall 2000) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: A. Francisco Risco (Fall 1999, Spring 2000) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: A. Benkirane (Spring 2000, Summer 2000) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: William DeRidder (Spring 1999, Fall 1999) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Bennett McLean (Spring 1999, Fall 1999) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Adrian Hinds (Spring 1999, Fall 1999) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Amy Lynn smith (Spring 1999, Fall 1999) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Mike James Hough (Spring 1999, Fall 1999) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Fahd Zougari Laghrari (Spring 1999, Fall 1999) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Ida Mantashi (Spring 1999, Fall 1999) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Richard Moldovan (Spring 1999, Fall 1999) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Argyrides Christodoulos (Spring 1999, Summer 1999) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Dani Aramouni (Spring 1999, Fall 1999) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Andre Smikle (Fall 1998, Spring 1999) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Chuck Barr (Fall 1998, Spring 1999) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Peter Aragona (Spring 1998, Fall 1998) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Mark Rybaczuk (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Stephen Gagnon (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Enrico Celestini (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Amato Carbonara (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Kirby Nell (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Nicholas Michaux (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Joseph D’Agostino (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Michael Hand (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Michael Gritz (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Victor Lezama (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Forrest Eggleston (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Chris Pernice (Fall 1996, Spring 1997) Senior project 1 Advisor of: Leslie Addamission (Summer 1996) Senior project 2 Advisor of: Scott Smiley (Summer 1995) Senior project 2 Advisor of: Mark Dye (Summer 1995) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: K. Johnson (Spring 1995, Summer 1995) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: P. Palen (Spring 1995, Summer 1995) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: E. E. Ergen (Fall 1994, Spring 1995) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: M. Hajimiry (Fall 1994, Spring 1995) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: S. Shayevich (Fall 1993, Spring 1994) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Raymond Tostensen (Fall 1993, Spring 1994) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: James York (Fall 1993, Spring 1994) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: C. McCullar (Fall 1992, Spring 1993) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: C. Carnes (Fall 1992, Spring 1993) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: A. Rahman (Fall 1992, Spring 1993) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: T. Ngoc (Fall 1992, Spring 1993) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: C. Ngoc (Fall 1992, Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: M. Ahmadpour (Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: D. Bautista (Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: N. Maharajh (Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: A. Nopmark (Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: J. Rabinowitz (Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: Damien Mayer (Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: Frederick Woodbridge (Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: F. Amor (Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: F. Leblanc Moriniere (Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: M. Lindsey (Spring 1993)

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Senior project 1 Advisor of: A. Abuzahra (Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: I. Garcia (Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: T. Truong (Spring 1993) Senior project 1 Advisor of: K. Duong (Spring 1993) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: R. Yassin (Spring 1992, Summer 1992) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Y.Alunaidi (Spring 1992, Summer 1992) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Judeth Chitkowski (spring 1991, fall 1991) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: David Schultz (spring 1991, fall 1991) Senior project 1+2 Advisor of: Angel Gomez (spring 1991, fall 1991) Senior project 1 Advisor of: Jose Luis Vasquez (spring 1991) Senior project 1 Advisor of: Saeed Hardanian (spring 1991) Senior project 1 Advisor of: Richard Golasky (spring 1991) Senior project 2 Advisor of: Ken Gustafson (fall 1990) Senior project 2 Advisor of: Jefferey Jones (fall 1990) Senior project 2 Advisor of: Thomas Kelly (fall 1990) Senior project 2 Advisor of: Homayon Lofti (fall 1990) Senior project 2 Advisor of: Stephanie Moorman (fall 1990)

3.6 Other Instructional Activities at FAU

New courses Developing a new interdisciplinary course (EEL4930/EEL5934) “Innovative Product Design.”

This new hands-on course aims at teaching students the art and science of designing and prototyping products and services that are designed for the end user. It touches topics from all engineering disciplines, art, etc. The course is designed to attract non-engineering disciplines as well. Developed and taught a course (EEL4930/EEL5654) “Control systems 2.”

This course provides a broad perspective of control topics to engineering students. Topics include:

Modeling and sensors review; Design review; Digital control; Fuzzy logic; Sliding mode control; Swarm behavior; Predator/prey self control; and System of systems. Preparing a special course for the Honor College at FAU on Innovation and Creativity.

Developed and taught an interdisciplinary course (EGN2935/EGN3935) “Introduction to

Creativity.” This multi-disciplinary course provides a broad perspective of creativity to all interested university students. It introduces students to basics of creativity, and boosts their creative problem solving skills. The course attracted many students from non-engineering disciplines. Developed and taught an interdisciplinary graduate course (IDS6358) “Innovative Thinking.”

This multi-disciplinary course provides a broad perspective of innovation as applied to engineering, science, technology, and business. It introduces students to new and powerful tools to boost their creative and innovative thinking skills. Developed and taught an interdisciplinary undergraduate/graduate course (EEL 4935/EEL5935)

“Creativity and Innovation.” This course is based on cumulative teaching experience. It incorporates my experience during the sabbatical leave at JHU and UMD. Co-Developed a new course “The Bridge to Engineering.”

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This interactive and interdisciplinary course introduces students for engineering practice and leadership. Students are introduced to engineering exploration, discovery, creativity and problem solving, inventiveness, teaming, leadership, and technical and personal communication. The course focuses on skills that are essential to engineers, and emphasizes hands-on and cooperation. The course includes writing elements totaling at least 3000 words. And should satisfy 3000 words of the Writing Across Curriculum (WAC) / Gordon Rule requirement. Students completing The Bridge to Engineering will have:

A. Significantly enhanced problem solving skills, which we describe as the ability to:

• explore historical, current, and new technologies • discover new knowledge • to be more creative and inventive • to effectively interact with peers and team members and lead teams • share their knowledge and solutions with others • “put it all together” for the betterment of the community

B. A significantly enhanced ability to formulate and evaluate engineering problems and design effective solutions through:

• acquisition of technical knowledge across several disciplines • good mathematical modeling skills • good research and writing skills • appreciation of the diverse environmental, social, and global issues pertaining to

engineering • appreciation of the principles of business, economics, and entrepreneurship • good skills in experimentation and interpretation of experimental results

C. An increased passion for the profession of engineering and a positive, “can do” attitude that distinguishes the best engineers

Team member (2003-2004), FAU-ITESM (Mexico) Collaboration in Engineering Creativity and Innovation Program

Developed and taught a new class titled: “Inventive Problem Solving in Engineering EGN4040”. (Also a course for graduate students, Fall 2004). The course was taught at the Graduate and Undergraduate levels as well as to High School students. It received enthusiastic attention and feedback and was highly appreciated by a former FAU President, Professor Anthony Catanese who wrote: “You are to be congratulated for expanding the borders of FAU and COE. Our community and region need the kind of leadership you are providing.” Informal short feedback by Dr. Jim Komiak, IEWS Engineering Fellow, BAE Systems after visiting the class (2002): “Please tell Daniel Raviv that I wish I had the opportunity to take all of his course. I'm already known for thinking out of the box and innovation, but imagine what I could do with that additional perspective !!!” The ABET 2008 evaluator wrote: “The BSEE program is an outstanding program with exceptional strength and dedication in teaching shown by faculty. The Innovative Thinking component is particularly unique and interesting.” The course is an elective in the College of Engineering, and was approved as part of Social Science Major, and as an elective for all Arts/humanities students. The course sparked interest in Broward County Magnet Schools Headquarters. They plan to offer elements of the course to their faculty and students. Elements of the hands-on activities of this course are also being used by the National Inventors Hall of Fame to develop a new National High School Competition that targets the inventive thinking process. The course has been developed and taught by Dr. Raviv. This first-of-its-kind course introduces students to out-of-the-box methodologies in inventive and innovative thinking based on: a) well established systematic

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and non-systematic approaches to inventive problem solving, b) results from NSF and NCIIA support to Dr. Raviv on unified frame for inventive problem solving strategies, and c) proven successful methods that are currently being used in high-tech innovative industries. The course emphasizes “out-of-the-box” activities, mainly using sophisticated 3-D puzzles (designed and built by the instructor), design concepts, and high-tech invention software to stimulate the students’ minds and to experience hands-on principles in inventive thinking. In addition, the course introduces students to the concept of intellectual property, in particular, Patents, Copyrights ©, Trademarks ®, Trade Secret, and Unfair Competition. Recently most of the lecture and interactive portions of the course have been incorporated into powerful and entertaining power point presentations. The course has been featured in the media several times.

In an e-mail from a student (Jun 17, 2004) Deena Pourang wrote: “… I just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed your class very much, but more importantly you taught me a great deal about how to think outside the box and reach my highest potential. Your passion for teaching is very different that what I have come to know through high school... and some other courses I've dual enrolled in at FAU. Your style is unique, and because of it you actually reach out to the students and really make them understand….Thanks for everything, I have applied much that I have learned in your class in my life...”

In an e-mail to Dr. Schlossberg, Assistant Dean for Student Services (September 12, 2006), Christina Zarrilli, FAU HS Class of 2009, wrote: “I really enjoyed Inventive Problem Solving. Dr. Raviv was terrific and it was fun taking class with such a diverse group of talented kids.” In an e-mail (6/26/2007) to Dr. Schlossberg, Theresa Olsen, Parent and Fort Lauderdale High School SAF Chairperson wrote: “My son, Chris Olsen, took the ESP Innovative Problem Solving class this June with Mr. Raviv and I just wanted to let you know he absolutely loved it. He had a lot of homework, but he enjoyed it and ending up learning a lot. Mr. Raviv is an excellent teacher. He really inspired my son and enhanced his love of learning. I also got to see how patient Mr. Raviv was with the students at the Open House/Robot competition that the parents were invited to attend. Thank you for all you do to help run this program for our students.” In an e-mail from Beverly Ward (7/26/2000) a student in “Algorithms” class wrote: “I’m sure you’ve been told this before but you make this material a lot more interesting with the hands-on exercises and humor. Thanks for all the effort, it really is appreciated.” In an e-mail (8/19/ 2008) Fernando Saint-Jean wrote: “Dr. Raviv's class on inventive thinking was not only extremely fun, but extremely useful. We were able to learn such things as thinking outside of the box, without missing the box altogether. Dr. Raviv never seized to amaze us, and with every new exercise we were continuously challenged to keep thinking of new innovative ways to solve a problem, freeing ourselves from self-imposed restrictions, which I guess was one of the main aims of the class.” Co-developed and taught a new class titled: “Introduction to Engineering EGN1002.” The course

introduces freshman-level students to engineering “Introduction to Engineering” EGN-1002. This is a college level course intended for “freshmen level” engineering students of all disciplines. It was developed and taught during the Fall 1998 semester by Dr. Raviv and other two professors, and has become a major initiative of the southeastern consortium of universities and community colleges. The course introduces students to engineering disciplines, education and profession. It includes topics taught in classroom, such as road map to FAU, access to advising and faculty, four-year overview, engineering concepts, time management, and ethics. Several weeks are devoted

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to problem solving, including overcoming mental blocks, paradigm shift, problem definition, strategies for problem solving, and evaluation and implementation of ideas. Presenting material is emphasized in the course. Students are assigned to lecture and discuss material on the different engineering disciplines. The course includes discussions on the different types of engineering work, job opportunities, co-op, and professional societies. The Laboratory topics include library and Internet skills, Word, Power-Point, Excel, and hands-on projects such as bridge design, noise-maker design, launcher design, logic circuit, and race car using mouse traps.

Dr. Raviv taught the course again in the Spring 2004. He incorporated national and international successful experiences of other schools, design concepts, new creativity/ problem-solving/ entrepreneurship approaches, and concepts developed under the FAU-Bridge NSF-sponsored project.

Developed and taught a new course sequence titled: “Engineering design I and II”

It is a new hands-on, interdisciplinary, team-based set of courses. In Fall Semester of 2002 he was unanimously elected by the other course instructors to be the faculty team leader. The course contributed greatly to the success of the ABET 2002 visit.

“Engineering Design I and II” EGN-4410 and EGN-4411 Dr. Raviv has been a key developer and lead instructor for the new interdisciplinary team-based design course sequence “Engineering Design I” and “Engineering Design II”. These courses have been considered to be the most important towards the ABET 2002 visit. Students are introduced to and apply design methodologies, creativity, and problem solving techniques to develop capstone design projects in a tri-disciplinary (electrical, computer and mechanical) team setting. They first conduct research, feasibility study, conceptual design, and generate and present proposals. Then they work on their projects where they implement their accumulated knowledge and skills. Grades are based on homework, projects, teaming, presentations, peer review, instructors and advisors evaluation, maintenance of records, group meetings, project development and functionality, and reports at the different stages of the projects. Topics include studying and applying the design process, creativity and problem solving, team building, proposal preparation, communication skills (written and oral presentations), project planning and management, engineering ethics, safety and environmental consideration, engineering economics and marketability

“Innovative Thinking,” Lifelong Learning Society, FAU (2001/2002)

“Innovative Thinking” Course description: This interactive course introduces participants to new and powerful tools to boost their creative problem solving skills. Enhance your quality of life by re-discovering your own personal thinking preferences, identifying and eliminating mental blocks, and enhancing your communication and teaming skills. Unlock your creative potential, and explore win-win approaches to define and solve problems of different kinds. The course uses fun and hands-on activities to stimulate innovation

“Teaching Enhancement,” a national initiative for teaching new professors teaching and learning

concepts. This is a new initiative by Dr. Raviv, in collaboration with the College of Education and the College of Engineering “Innovative Thinking” Professional Workshop for top FAU’s executives (Deans, Vice Presidents,

Directors, Provost, President and Associates), December 18, 2002 “Systematic Innovation” Professional Workshop (invited speaker) to the Division of Sponsored

Research and Graduate Studies at FAU, May 7, 2003

Invited Speaker. FAU College of Business/Management Department. Lecture set on inventive thinking Entrepreneurship program, 9/2000

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Invited Speaker. FAU College of Business/Marketing Department. Lecture set on inventive thinking to MBA executive program, 1999 Invited Speaker. FAU College of Business/Marketing Department. A lecture on autonomous driving

to MBA executive program, 1998 Invited Speaker. Lecture series on Computer Vision for graduate students in the Psychology

Department, Spring 91 Robotics class, Dillard High school/Magnet Program, (Fall 94, Spring 95)

3.7 Instructional Activities at Other Institutions ”Innovative Thinking,” ENES412, short course for high school students, University of Maryland,

Summer 2010. An e-mail (7/30/2010) from Rakesh Gopal, MBA, PMP®, CHIEP Project Manager, IBM Global Business Services: “It was indeed a pleasure to have you as Gaurav Gopal's first college professor. He spoke highly of you and my sincere thanks for conducting a highly interactive and educational course that focuses on innovative thinking & creativity, a must for technology heavy curriculum at Universities.” ”Creativity and Innovation,” 660.430, Johns Hopkins University, W.P. Carey Program in

Entrepreneurship & Management, Center for Leadership Education (CLE), Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 ”Innovative Thinking,” ENES808E, graduate course, University of Maryland, Spring 2009 ”Innovative Leadership,” ENES498, Hillman Entrepreneurship Program, University of Maryland,

Spring 2009 ”Special topics in Entrepreneurship: Introduction to Innovative Thinking,” ENES498, University of

Maryland, Winter 2009 ”Creativity and Innovation,” ENES498, Hillman Entrepreneurship Program, University of Maryland,

Fall 2008 During 8/82-8/85 taught (as a TA) “Control Systems Design” course at the Electrical Engineering

Dept., Technion Offered an internal course on “Guidance and Control” at IMI during the Spring semester of 1985. Offered an internal course on “Digital Control Systems” at IMI (1984-1985) Teaching Assistant at the Technion, taught:

“Introduction to Electrical Engineering,” “Signals and Systems,” “Principles of Linear Systems,” “Linear Control Systems,” “Control Systems Design,” “Linear Control Systems Lab.,” 3.8 Teaching/Leadership/Service/Research/Commitment Awards

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Advisor of two graduate students (Moore and Martinson) who became among top seven graduate teams in the USA and Canada, Collegiate Inventors Competition, National Inventors Hall of Fame, October 2006. Project title: Vacuum-Based Water Distillation Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Florida Atlantic University, 2006

University Researcher of the Year, Abacus Award, 2005-06, awarded by AeA (American

Electronics Association) Distinguished Teacher of the Year (DTOY) for 2004-05

Dr. Raviv was selected by FAU’s students for this prestigious award Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology, Presented at the

Fourteenth International Conference on College Teaching and Learning 4/2003. Dr. Raviv was nominated by the FAU’s Provost for this prestigious award The Dean’s Faculty Award, Florida Atlantic University, 12/2002. The Award is presented by the

Dean of Engineering for “Extraordinary Contributions Toward Achievement of the Goals of the College of Engineering” The Faculty Talon Award, Florida Atlantic University, 11/2002. The Award is presented by the

Alumni Association in “Recognition of Exceptional Leadership, Commitment, and Service to FAU Students.” (Presented to only one FAU Faculty per year) President’s Leadership Award, Florida Atlantic University 3/2001. The Award recognizes an

individual who has rendered services of an extraordinary nature and who have demonstrated leadership roles resulting in substantial benefits to the University and or community at large. (Presented to only one FAU Faculty per year) College of Engineering Students’ Choice for the Teacher of The Year Award 2002/03

College of Engineering Students’ Choice for the Teacher of The Year Award 2001/02

College of Engineering Students’ Choice for the Teacher of The Year Award 2000/01

Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Florida Atlantic University,

1998/99 Best Teaching Assistant Award (out of more than 50 TA's).

Three times: in 1980, 1981 and 1982 3.9 Additional information on teaching Consistently received very high teaching scores by the students in his classes Students’ responses – “Design and Analysis of Algorithms” COT4400 (Summer 2000) “Dr. Raviv is the Michael Jordan of Algorithms” a comment by a student, evaluating the instructor/course. Email from Beverly Ward July 26, 2000: “I’m sure you’ve been told this before but you make this material a lot more interesting with the hands-on exercises and humor. Thanks for all the effort, it really is appreciated.”

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E-mail from Teresa Koo, August 10, 2000: “…It is a pleasure to be in your class and I really have a good time. Thanks a lot for all your help. I look forward to take more classes from you.” 3.10 Other Records Please see section 7 4. Scholarly Achievements 4.1 Statement of Professional Interests

Sensor-Based Real-Time Robotic Systems and Control Computer Vision / vision-based autonomous navigation (driverless cars) Inventive and Innovative Problem Solving Green Innovation

4.2 Publications 4.2.1 Refereed Journals

(Authors listed in alphabetical order) M. Gonzalez, L. Klingler, S. Moosai, and D. Raviv, “Taking a College Algebra Course: An approach which increased students’ success rate,” PRIMUS, accepted for publication.

B. Moore, E. Martinson, and D. Raviv, “Waste to Water: a low energy water distillation method,” Desalination, 220, pp. 502-505, 2008

R. Berne, and D. Raviv, “Eight Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Thinking about the Case and Ethics of the Mount Graham, Large Binocular Telescope Project,” Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2004 D. Raviv, “Eight Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Thinking,” Cutting Ed (formerly,

Creativity, Innovation, and Design (CID) Report), November 2003.

D. Raviv and K. Joarder, “The Visual Looming Navigation Cue: A Unified Approach,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal,79, pp.331-363, September 2000

D. Raviv, “Teaching Inventive Thinking,” TRIZ journal, www.triz-journal.com, February2000

S. Kundur and D.Raviv, “Active Vision-Based Control Schemes for Autonomous Navigation Tasks,” Pattern Recognition, 33 (2000), pp. 295-308

S. Kundur and D.Raviv, “Novel Active-Vision-Based Visual Threat Cue for Autonomous Navigation Tasks,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 169-182, February 1999

S. Kundur and D.Raviv, “A Vision-Based Pragmatic Strategy for Autonomous Navigation,” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp.1221-1239, 1998

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D.Raviv, E. Djaja, “Technique for Enhancing the Closed Loop Performance of Digital Controller Obtained from the Discretization of Analog controllers,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, June 1999 (Also NISTIR 94-5527)

K. Joarder and D.Raviv, “A New Method to Calculate Looming from Surface Texture and Visual Fixation,” accepted for publication in the Transactions of the IEEE on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Also NISTIR)

S. Krishnan and D.Raviv, “Adaptive, Predictive 2-D Feature Tracking Algorithm for Motion Analysis,” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 28, No. 8, pp. 1103-1126, 1995 (A version of NISTIR-5460)

D.Raviv and M. Herman, “A Unified Approach to Camera Fixation and Vision-Based Road Following,” regular paper in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, August 1994, pp.1125-1141

D.Raviv, and J.S. Albus, “A Closed-Form Massively-Parallel Range-from-Image-Flow Algorithm,” IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Volume 22, No. 2, pp. 322-326, March/April 1992 (Also NIST-IR 90-4450)

D. Raviv, Y. H. Pao, and K. Loparo, “Reconstruction of Three Dimensional Surfaces from 2D Binary Images,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 701-710, Oct. 1989

D. Raviv, Y. H. Pao, and K. Loparo, “Segmentation Between Overlapping Parts: The Moving Shadows Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 880-883, July-August 1989 Submitted to Refereed Journals (or in preparation)

D. Raviv, B. Moore, and E. Martinson, “From Idea to Market: A Case Study for Sustainable Innovation,” submitted to the Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship.

D. Raviv, “Teaching Hands-on Inventive and Innovative Problem Solving,” Journal of Engineering Education. (in preparation)

D. Raviv, B. Moore, and E. Martinson, “An innovative water distillation process,” Desalination Journal, (in preparation) 4.2.2 Refereed Conference Proceedings

D. Raviv, and D. Barbe, “Ideation to Innovation (I2I) - An Interactive Educational Program,” abstract accepted for ICEE-2011 conference, iNEER network, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. August 21-26, 2011.

D. Raviv, and D. Barbe, “Ideation to Innovation (I2I) Workshop,” National ASEE Conference, Louisville, KY, June 2010

D. Raviv, M. Barak, and T. VanEpps, “Teaching Innovative Thinking: Future Directions,” National ASEE Conference, June, 2009

http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=11124

M. Morris and D. Raviv,” A Methodical Method for Determining Research Areas in Heart Disease Based on the Eight Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Problem Solving,” accepted pending some modifications, National ASEE Conference, June, 2009 http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=10403

D. Raviv and D. Barbe, “Ideation to Innovation” (I2I), poster presentation, NCIIA Conference, March, 2009

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D. Raviv, “Innovative Thinking: Desired Skills and Related Activities,” National ASEE Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 22-25, 2008 http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=7748

D. Raviv, Brandon A. Moore, and Eiki Martinson “From Idea to Market: A Case Study for Sustainable Innovation,” National ASEE Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2007 http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=4345

B. A. Moore, Eiki Martinson, and Daniel Raviv, “Waste to Water: A Low Energy Water Distillation Method,” Desalination, Greece, April 22-24, 2007

E. Martinson, Brandon A. Moore, and Daniel Raviv, “Turning waste heat into water: a new desalination process,” Sustainable Development 2007 Conference, Algarve, Portugal, April 25-27, 2007

D. Raviv, Brandon A. Moore, and Eiki Martinson “Low-cost vacuum-based water distillation,” Israel 8th Desalination Conference, Haifa, Israel, December 19-20, 2006

D. Raviv, “On Teaching and Assessing Engineering Innovation: Participants’ Perception,” National ASEE Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 2006

D. Raviv, M. Morris, and K. Ginsberg, “On Teaching and Assessing Engineering Innovation,” National ASEE Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 2005 http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=21072

D. Raviv, “Hands on Activities for Innovative Problem Solving,” National ASEE Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2004 http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=20677

R. Berne, and D. Raviv, “Application of the Eight Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Thinking to an Ethical Problem,” 3rd Annual Conference on Ethics and Social Responsibility in Engineering and Technology, New Orleans, October 15-17, 2003

D. Raviv, “Learning Systematic Problem Solving: Case Studies,” National ASEE Conference, VA, June 2003 http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=18147

MacKunis, William and D. Raviv, “A Simplistic Approach to Reactive Multi Agent Control,” National ASEE Conference, VA, June 2003 http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=18125

R. Berne, and D. Raviv, “Eight Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Thinking and the Case of the Mount Graham, Large Binocular Telescope,” National ASEE Conference, VA, June 2003 http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=18357

D. Raviv, “Eight Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Thinking,” National ASEE Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2002 http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=16716

D. Raviv, “Do We Teach Them How to Think?” National ASEE Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2002 http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=16713

D. Raviv, “Do We Teach Them How to Think?” Southeastern Chapter of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Gainesville, FL, April 2002

D. Raviv, “Teaching Hands-on Inventive Problem Solving,” National ASEE Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001

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http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=16476

D. Raviv, “Hands-on Inventive Solutions in Engineering Design,” National ASEE Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001 http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=15934

D. Raviv, “Hands-on Inventive Solutions,” Southeastern branch of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Citadel, South Carolina, April 2001

D. Raviv, “Teaching Inventive Thinking,” (paper and a half-day workshop) National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) conference, Washington, DC, March 2000

S. Kundur and D.Raviv, “An Image-Based Visual-Motion-Cue for Autonomous Navigation,” in proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 1997 Conference, Puerto Rico, pp. 7-14, June 17-19, 1997. Also presented in World Automation Conference (WAC)’ 98, Anchorage, Alaska, May 9-14, 1998

S. Kundur and D.Raviv, “A Vision-Based Pragmatic Strategy for Autonomous Navigation Tasks,” The 13th Israeli Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, Tel Aviv, Israel, February 3, 1997, pp. G-2

S. Kundur and D.Raviv, “A Change Detection Criterion for Machine Vision Application,” In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Visual Information Systems VISUAL ‘96, Melbourne , Australia, pp. 489-498

S. Kundur and D.Raviv, “Active Vision Based Control Schemes for Local Navigation Tasks,” In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Visual Information Systems VISUAL ‘96, Melbourne , Australia, pp. 479-488

S. Kundur and D.Raviv, “Novel Active vision Based Visual Threat Cue for Autonomous Navigation Tasks,” in proceedings of the CVPR 1996, San Francisco, June 16-20, 1996, pp. 606-612

S. Kundur and D.Raviv, “A Vision-Based Cue for Autonomous Navigation,” In proceedings of the 12th Israeli Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, Tel Aviv, Israel, pp. CV22-3, February 10, 1996

S. Kundur and D. Raviv, “An Image Based Visual Threat Cue for Autonomous Navigation,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computer Vision”, November 19-21, 1995, Coral Gables, FL, pp. 527-532 .

S. Kundur and D. Raviv, “Vision-Based Fuzzy Controllers for Navigation Tasks,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computer Vision”, November 19-21, 1995, Coral Gables, FL, pp. 347-352

K. Joarder and D. Raviv, “A Novel Method to Calculate the Looming Cue for Threat of Collision,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computer Vision”, November 19-21, 1995, Coral Gables, FL, pp. 341-346

S. Kundur and D.Raviv, “An Image-Based Texture-Independent Visual Motion Cue for Autonomous Navigation,” IASTED/Robotics and Manufacturing, June 1995, Cancun, Mexico, pp. 67-69

S. Kundur and D.Raviv, “Texture-Independent Vision-Based Closed-Loop Fuzzy Controllers for Navigation Tasks,” IEEE/Intelligent Vehicle Conference, Detroit, MI, pp. 287-292, 1995 (Also NISTIR 95-5637)

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D.Raviv and N. Ozery, “A Visual-Motion Fixation Invariant,” In proceeding of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 94 Conference, pp. 188-193, June 1994

K. Joarder and D.Raviv, “A New Method to Calculate Looming for Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance,” In proceeding of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 94 Conference, pp.777-780, June, 1994

M. Juberts and D.Raviv, “Vision-Based Vehicle Control for IVHS,” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles, pp. 195-200, Tokyo, Japan, July 14-16, 1993

D.Raviv, and M. Herman, “Visual Servoing Using Relevant 2-D Image Cues,” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles, pp. 473-480, Tokyo, Japan, July 14-16, 1993

M. Juberts and D.Raviv, “Vision-Based Mobility Control for IVHS,” In Proceedings of the IVHS America Third Annual Meeting, pp. 576-583, Washington DC, April 14-17, 1993 R. Bishop, M. Juberts and D. Raviv, “Autonomous road Following: A Vision Based Approach for

AVCS,” International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, Feb. 15-19, 1993

R. Bishop, M. Juberts and D. Raviv, “Autonomous Vision Based Technology AVCS,” 43rd Vehicular Technology Conference, New Jersey, 1993

D.Raviv, and M. Herman, “A New Approach to Vision Based Road Following for Autonomous Vehicles,” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics (SMC), Charlottesville, VA, Oct. 1991

D.Raviv, and M. Herman, “A New Approach to Vision and Control for Road Following,” In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Visual Motion, Princeton, NJ, Oct. 7-9, pp. 217-225, 1991

D.Raviv, and M. Herman, “Visual Control Signals for Road Following,” IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Controls, pp. 436-442, Arlington, VA, August 1991

D. Raviv, “A Quantitative Approach to Camera Fixation,” In Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 91) Conference, Hawaii, pp. 386-392, June1991

D. Raviv, and M. Herman, “Towards an Understanding of Camera Fixation,” IEEE conference on Robotics and Automation, Cincinnati, OH, May 1990

D. Raviv, Y. H. Pao, and K. Loparo, “Reconstruction of Three Dimensional Surfaces from Two Dimensional Binary Images,” IEEE International Workshop on Robotics: Trends, Technology, and Applications, Madrid, Spain, Sept. 1987 (Also CAISR Technical Report TR 87-121) Conference Workshops (presented by D. Raviv)

“On teaching and learning creative, inventive and innovative thinking,” 90-minute workshop, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Conference, Washington, DC, March 2011

“Are You Innovative?” 90-minute workshop, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 2010

“On Teaching and Assessing Engineering Innovation,” National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Conference, Portland, Oregon, March 2006

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“Systematic Innovation,” National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Conference, Boston, MA, March 2003

“The Eight Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Problem Solving,” National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Conference, Washington, DC, March 2002

“Creativity,” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Montreal, June 2002

“Hands-on Inventive Problem Solving,” National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Conference, Washington, DC, March 2001

“Hands-on Inventive Problem Solving,” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), New Mexico, June 2001 4.2.3 Refereed Technical Reports (Note that some Technical Reports appear as journal or conference papers) S. Kundur and D. Raviv, “Novel Active-Vision-Based Motion Cues for Local Navigation,” NISTIR 96-

5791. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board) S. Kundur and D. Raviv, “Scale-Space-Based Visual-Motion-Cue for Autonomous Navigation,”

NISTIR 96-5790. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board)

D. Raviv, E. Djaja and Z. Roth, “Technique for Enhancing the Closed Loop Performance of Digital Controller Obtained from the Discretization of Analog controllers,” NISTIR 94-5527. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board)

S. Kundur and D. Raviv, “A Change Detection Algorithm for Machine Vision Application,” NIST-IR 95-5670, Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board)

S. Kundur and D. Raviv, “An Image-Based Texture-Independent Visual Motion Cue for Autonomous Navigation,” NISTIR 95-5567. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board) S. Kundur and D. Raviv, “Texture-Independent Vision-Based Closed-Loop Fuzzy Controllers for

Navigation Tasks,” NISTIR 95-5637. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board)

K. Joarder and D. Raviv, “A New Method to Calculate Looming for Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance,” NIST-IR 5512-94, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, June 1994. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board); Also NTIS publication PB95-171435/AS

D.Raviv and N. Ozery, “A Visual-Motion Fixation Invariant,’ NIST-IR 5442-94, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, June 1994. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board)

S. Krishnan and D.Raviv, “Adaptive, Predictive 2-D Feature Tracking Algorithm for Finding the Focus Of Expansion,” NIST-IR 5460-94, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, June1994. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board)

P.G. Luebbers, A. Pandya and D. Raviv, “Feature Extraction Using Neural Networks for Vision-Based Autonomous Road Following,” CSE Department Tech Report, FAU (not refereed)

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D.Raviv and Kunal, J., “Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Using Visual Fixation and Looming,” NIST-IR 4996-92, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, September 1992. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board).(Also in SPIE's Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XI: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, Boston, MA, 1825-77, Nov. 1992)

D.Raviv and M. Herman, “Visual Servoing for Robot Vehicles Using relevant 2-D Image Cues,” NIST-IR 4921-92, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, September 1992. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board). Also a book chapter

D.Raviv, D. Orser and J.S.Albus, “On Logarithmic Retinae,” NIST-IR 4807-92, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, April 1992. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board). Also NTIS Publication, PB92-183649/AS

D.Raviv, “Flat Surfaces: A Visual Invariant,” NIST-IR 4794-92, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, March 92. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board). Also NTIS Publication, PB92-172741/AS

D.Raviv, “A Quantitative Approach To Looming,” NIST-IR 4808-92, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, April 1992. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board). Also NTIS Publication, PB92-183656/AS

D.Raviv, “Representations In Visual Motion,” NIST-IR 4747-92, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, January 1992. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board)

Attendees of the NSF Workshop (Including D. Raviv), Resulted in a report: “Promising Directions in Active Vision,” University of Chicago Technical Report CS 91-27,August 1991

D.Raviv, “Invariants In Visual Motion,” NIST-IR 91-4722, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, November 91. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board). Also NTIS Publication, PB92-133016/AS

D.Raviv, “An Integration-Based Method for Depth Estimation,” NIST-IR 91-4669, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, September 1991. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board); Also NTIS Publication PB92-112275/AS

D.Raviv and M. Herman, “A New Approach to Vision and Control for Road Following,” NIST-IR 91-4476, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, January 1991. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board); Also NTIS Publication PB91-157156/AS

D.Raviv and J.S. Albus, “A Closed-Form Massively-Parallel Range-from-Image-Flow Algorithms,” NIST-IR 90-4450, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Nov. 1990. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board)

D. Raviv, “A Quantitative Approach to Camera Fixation,” NIST-IR 90-4324, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, May 1990. Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board).Also NTIS Publication, PB90-228008/AS

D. Raviv, and M. Herman, “Towards An Understanding of Camera Fixation,” NISTIR 89-4217, US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, December 1989; Reviewed by WERB (Washington Editorial Review Board)

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4.2.4 Refereed-by-Abstract/Extended-Summary Conference Papers (Note that some papers appear as journal/conference papers or reports.)

D. Raviv, M. Morris, and K. Ginsberg, “Assessing Engineering Innovation,” Recent Advances in Robotics Conference, University of Florida, May 2005

D. Raviv, “Learning Systematic Problem Solving: Case Studies,” Recent Advances in Robotics Conference, Florida Atlantic University, April 2003

D. Raviv, “Do We Teach Them How to Think?” Recent Advances in Robotics Conference, Florida International University, April 2002

D. Raviv, “Eight Dimensional Strategies to Problem Solving,” Recent Advances in Robotics Conference, presentation only, Florida Atlantic University, April 2000

D. Raviv, “Teaching Inventive Thinking,” Recent Advances in Robotics Conference, http://www.me.ufl.edu/FLA99, University of Florida, April 29-30, 1999

S. Kundur and D. Raviv, “An Image-Based Visual-Motion-Cue for Autonomous Navigation,” in proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida International University, 1997, pp. 27-34

S. Kundur and D. Raviv, “Novel Active Vision-Based Motion Cues for Local Navigation,” Ninth Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, pp. 83-88, April 11-12, 1996

E.E. Ergen, D. Raviv and S. Kundur, “Vision-Based Autonomous Wall Following and Collision Avoidance,” Ninth Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, pp. 97-98, April 11-12, 1996

L. Yang and D. Raviv, “Invariant-Based Extraction of 3D Coordinates Using an Active-Translating Monocular camera,” Ninth Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, pp. 355-360, April 11-12, 1996

D. Raviv, “A Fixation Invariant,” SPIE's Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, Boston, MA, November 1994

T. Kelly and D. Raviv, “LOOMY: Applied Visual Looming for an Autonomous Vehicle,” Eighth Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, University of Central Florida, pp.10-13, Orlando, Florida, April 26, 1995

S. Kundur and D. Raviv, “An Imaged-Based Texture-Independent Visual Motion Cue for Autonomous Navigation,” Eighth Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, University of Central Florida, pp.14-21, Orlando, Florida, April 26, 1995

D. Raviv, E. Djaja and Z. Roth, “Technique for Enhancing the Closed Loop Performance of Digital Controllers Obtained from the Discretization of Analog controllers,” Eighth Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, University of Central Florida, pp.114-131, Orlando, Florida, April 26,1995

D. Raviv and N. Ozery, “A Visual Motion Fixation Invariant,” seventh annual conference on recent advances in Robotics, University of Florida, pp 148-152, Gainesville, Florida, April 1994

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K. Joarder and D. Raviv, “Surface Texture and Visual Fixation- A New Technique to Calculate

Looming,” seventh annual conference on recent advances in Robotics, University of Florida, pp 159- 163, Gainesville, Florida, April 1994

H.H. Yakali and D. Raviv, “Parallel Flight and Glide Slope Tracking Tasks of Aircraft Landing Using 2-D Visual Cues,” seventh annual conference on recent advances in Robotics, University of Florida, pp 172-179, Gainesville, Florida, April 1994

L. Yang and D. Raviv, “An Invariant-Based Method to Extract the Focus Of Expansion,” seventh annual conference on recent advances in Robotics, University of Florida, pp 180-188, Gainesville, Florida, April 1994

S. Kundur and D. Raviv, “Variations of Texture Coarseness with Depth: Preliminary results,” seventh annual conference on recent advances in Robotics, University of Florida, pp 189-197, Gainesville, Florida, April 1994

S. Krishnan and D. Raviv, “Adaptive 2-D Feature Tracking Algorithm for Finding the Focus of expansion,” seventh annual conference on recent advances in Robotics, University of Florida, pp 198-205, Gainesville, Florida, April 1994

D. Raviv, “Visual Motion Invariants,” SPIE's Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, Boston, MA, September1993

K. Joarder and D. Raviv, “Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Using Fixation and Looming,” sixth annual conference on recent advances in Robotics, pp 2.1-2.8, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, April 1993

H.H. Yakali and D. Raviv, “Vision Based Methods for Autonomous Road Following,” sixth annual conference on recent advances in Robotics, pp 3.1-3.8, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, April 1993

D. Raviv, “Flat Surface: A Visual Invariant,” sixth annual conference on recent advances in Robotics, pp 4.1-4.5, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, April 1993

D. Raviv, “On Visual Looming,” SPIE's Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XI: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, Boston, MA, 1825-74, Nov. 1992

D. Raviv and Kunal, J., “Navigation Using Looming and Fixation,” SPIE's Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XI: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, Boston, MA, 1825-77, Nov. 1992

H.H. Yakali and D.Raviv, “A New Approach for Autonomous Landing,” SPIE's Conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems, Boston, MA, Nov. 91.(Also appeared in the Fifth Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, FAU, June 1992)

D.Raviv, and M. Herman, “A Non-Reconstruction Approach to Road Following,” SPIE's Conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems, Boston, MA, 1608-01, pp.2-11, Nov. 1991

H.H. Yakali, D. Raviv, and M. Herman, “A New Vision Based Approach for Navigation,” SPIE's Conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems, Boston, MA, Nov. 1991

D. Raviv, “Reconstruction During Camera Fixation,” SPIE's Conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems, Boston, MA, 1382-33, pp.312-319, Nov. 1990

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D. Raviv, “Parallel Algorithm for 3D Surface Reconstruction,” SPIE's Conference on Advances in

Intelligent Robotics Systems, Philadelphia, PA, 1192-20, pp. 285-296, Nov. 1989

D. Raviv, “Extraction of the 'Time to Contact' from Real Visual Data,” SPIE's Conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems, Philadelphia, PA, 1194-03, pp.21-27, Nov. 1989

D. Raviv, “3D Visual Servo Control System,” SPIE's Conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems, Philadelphia, PA,1195-20, pp. 192-199, Nov. 1989

D. Raviv, Y. H. Pao, and K. Loparo, “3D Surface Reconstruction Using a Shadowgram and A-Priori Knowledge,” SPIE's Conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems, Cambridge, MA, 1005-29, pp. 214-218, Nov. 1988

D. Raviv, Y. H. Pao, and K. Loparo, “3D Surface Reconstruction from 2D Binary Images,” SPIE's Conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems, Cambridge, MA, 852-15, pp.154-161, Nov. 1987 4.2.5 Book and Book Chapters Book by Daniel Raviv “Everyone loves Speed Bumps, Don’t You? A Guide to Innovative Thinking.” Townsend Union Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0615479880 ISBN-10: 061547988X Executive summary

This guide to innovative thinking is a unified approach that builds on comprehensive problem solving knowledge from industry, business, marketing, math, science, engineering, technology, arts, and daily life. It is based on an eight dimensional methodology that approaches problems systematically, and stimulates innovation by quickly generating unique “out-of-the-box” unexpected and high-quality solutions. The combination of people’s knowledge and experience with this new thinking tool is a very promising one. The methodology provides top leaders, managers, and problem solvers with new insights and thinking strategies to solve everyday problems they face in the workplace.

With NIST team: “Minimalist Vision for Navigation,” in Visual Navigation, Invited by Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos, Editor, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, pp. 275-316, 1996

D.Raviv, M. Herman, “Visual Servoing for Robot Vehicles Using Relevant 2-D Image Cues,” in Active Perception Invited by Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos, Editor, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1993. (Also NIST-IR 4921-92) 4.2.6 Non-refereed Papers (Note that some papers appear as journal/conference papers or reports.)

D. Raviv, “Representations In Visual Motion,” FAU Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Boca Raton, Florida, June 1992 (Also NIST-IR 4747-92)

D. Raviv, D. Orser and J.S.Albus, “On Logarithmic Retinae,” FAU Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Boca Raton, Florida, June 1992 (Also NIST-IR 4807-92)

D. Raviv, “A Quantitative Approach To Looming,” FAU Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Boca Raton, Florida, June 1992 (Also NIST-IR 4808-92)

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D. Raviv, “Invariants In Visual Motion,” FAU Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Boca

Raton, Florida, June 1992 (Also NIST-IR 91-4722)

D. Raviv and J. Albus, “An Image-Flow Based Reconstruction Algorithm,” In Proceedings of the Forth Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, May 1991

D. Raviv and A Shapira, “Miniature Vision-Based Flight simulator,” In Proceedings of the Forth Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, May 1991.(Summary)

D. Raviv and M. Herman, “Vision-Based Control Signals For Road Following,” In Proceedings of the Forth Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, May 1991

H.H. Yakali, D. Raviv and M. Herman, “A New Approach For Road Following,” In Proceedings of the Forth Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, May 1991.(Extended Summary)

H.H. Yakali, D. Raviv, and M. Herman, “An Integrated Mobile Robot System for Testing Vision Algorithm,” In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, May 1990

D. Raviv, “A New Approach to Camera Fixation,” (extended summary), In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, May 1990

D. Raviv, and Z. Gershgorn, “3D Vision in Closed Loops,” In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, May 1989. (Extended Summary) 4.2.7 Non-refereed / Other Reports

D. Raviv and A. Shapira, “Miniature Flight Simulator- Hardware and Software,” FAU Robotics Center Internal Report, January 1991

Shankar, and D. Raviv, “Examining Underwater Distortions,” Internal Report, FAU, 1989

I.M.I. Internal Reports 4.2.8 Theses, Dissertations D. Raviv, “Moving Shadows Methods for Inferring Three Dimensional Surfaces,” Ph.D. Dissertation,

Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics (EEAP) Dept., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, August 1987.(Advisors: Y.H. Pao and K. Loparo) (G.P.A.: 4.0/4.0) D. Raviv, “Digital Realization of Analog Transfer Functions,” M.Sc. Thesis, Electrical Engineering

Dept., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, August 1982. (Advisor: E.T. Schoen). 4.3 Recent Presentations and visits (See also conference papers) Invited speaker, Holon Institute of Technology, Thinking in Eight Dimensions”, December 2010.

(Interviewed on the topic by a very respected Newspaper: Haaretz/ The Marker) Invited Speaker, Mtech, University of Maryland, “TRIZ” and “Ideation to Innovation”, November 19,

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Invited Speaker, Walter Johnson High School, Rockville, Maryland, on “Hands-on Creativity,” October 29, 2010 Invited Speaker, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), “Eight Keys to Innovation,”

October 29, 2010 Invited Speaker, International Incubator, Mtech, University of Maryland, “Innovation for Growth –

Dealing with Change,” September 29, 2010 Invited Keynote Speaker, Texas A&M at Kingsville, “Innovation” September 23, 2010 Invited Speaker, Ben Gurion University, “Spurring Creativity and Innovation, December 12, 2009 Invited Speaker, University of Maryland, Middle School Program, on Hands-on Parallel Programming,

July 17, 2009 Invited Speaker, Entrepreneurship Course for High School Students, University of Maryland, School

of Engineering, FL, “Innovative Thinking,” July 15, 2009 Invited Speaker, all day innovation/creativity workshop, Bio-Engineering program, Johns Hopkins

University, July 2, 2009 Invited Speaker, workshop to executives from China, University of Maryland, June 22, 2009 Invited Speaker, University of North Florida, School of Engineering, Jacksonville, FL, “Innovative

Thinking,” April 15, 2009 Invited Speaker, Chemical and Bio-Molecular Design Class, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,

MD, “Innovative Thinking,” April 7 and April 13, 2009 Invited session moderator: “Ideation:” generation of ideas for future expansion of Mtech (Maryland

Technology enterprise Institute, April 1, 2009 Invited Speaker, George Mason University, VA, “TRIZ in an hour,” March 25, 2009

Invited Speaker, Bio Medical Engineering Design Class, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD,

“Innovative Thinking,” February 24, 2009 Invited Speaker, Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), University of Maryland,

“Innovative Thinking,” February 18, 2009 Invited Speaker, Walter Johnson High School, Rockville, Maryland, on “Hands-on Creative

Thinking,” December 18, 2008 Invited Speaker, Entrepreneurship and Management Class (w/ Dr. Neil Rothman), Johns Hopkins

University, Baltimore, MD, “Innovative Thinking,” November 2008 Invited Panelist, George Mason University, VA, “TRIZ,” October 31, 2008

Invited speaker, “Innovative Problem Solving,” West Boca High School, March 22, 2007 Invited speaker, “Innovative Thinking,” KIF group, April 2006 Invited speaker, “Innovative Thinking,” American Technion Society, April 2006

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Invited speaker, “Innovative Thinking” and “Innovate Now” FAU Innovation Workshop, March 2006 Invited speaker, “Water distillation,” Board meeting, CoE, January 2006

Invited speaker, “Innovative Thinking,” University of North Florida, November 2005

Invited speaker, “Innovative Thinking,” Student Retention Center, Florida Atlantic University,

November 2005 Invited speaker, “Innovation” workshop, Nu-Ear Inc., San Diego , CA, August 2005 Invited speaker, “Eight Keys to Innovation,” MIT Media Laboratory, July 2005 Invited speaker, “Water distillation,” JCC Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 2005 Invited speaker, “Eight Keys to Innovation,” IBM Research Center, May 2005

Invited speaker, “Eight Keys to Innovation,” Ben Gurion University, May 2005 Invited speaker, “Visual Fields,” Technion, CS Department, May 2005 Invited speaker, “Innovative Thinking,” First Presbyterian Church, October 6, 2004 Invited speaker, “Eight Keys to Innovation,” LACCEI conference, Miami, Florida, June 2-4, 2004 Invited speaker, “Innovation,” Dr. Larry Lemansky, FAU Vice President for Research and Graduate

Studies, and Mr. Grossman, Director, FAU Foundation, January 23, 2004 Invited to a series of meetings re International Innovation Consortium, December 2003: Technion, IIT

Invited speaker, University of Maryland, Hinman’s Entrepreneurship Program, Workshops to

Undergraduate and Graduate Students, December 2003 Invited speaker, Olin College (MA) and Rowan University, March 2003

Invited speaker, Five invited International Lectures, December 2002: Tel Aviv University (Medical

School), Technion, IIT (Science and Technology Education department and Computer Science Department), Hebrew University (Computer Science Department), and Holon Institute of Technology. Invited speaker on Innovation Issues, International Association of Administrative Professionals, Fort

Lauderdale, May 14, 2003 Invited speaker, “Innovation Seminar,” Pace Micro Technology Inc., February 1, 2002

Keynote speaker at breakfast prior to induction ceremony, National Inventors Hall of Fame, December

8, 2001 Invited speaker, Rutgers University, “Innovative Thinking Methodologies,” October 31, 2001

National Inventors Hall of Fame visit at FAU by the President and CEO, and Education Director.

February 5-6, 2001 ”Eight Dimensions of Inventive Thinking,” The Altschuller Institute for TRIZ Studies Conference,

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“Camp Invention,” National Association for Laboratory Schools, (NALS) Conference, Florida Atlantic

University, 3/2000 5. Research 5.1 Sponsored Research/projects 5.1.1 Funded Projects

A University-Level Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” – Michael R. Levine, April 2011, $50,000. Part of NSF I/UCRC Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (CAKE) that provides a framework for interaction between the university faculty and students, and industry to pursue advanced research in the mentioned fields. A CAKE goal is to develop long-term partnerships between academia, industry and government that will feature strong industrial support and collaboration in research and education.

“Spark: A University-Level Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” – NCIIA, Received: Fall 2010, $7,500.

“Exploration of Technical Data,” – Relli Technology, Spring 2010, $25,000. Extended for the second year, effective Spring 2011, for additional $25,000. Part of NSF I/UCRC Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (CAKE) that provides a framework for interaction between the university faculty and students, and industry to pursue advanced research in the mentioned fields. A CAKE goal is to develop long-term partnerships between academia, industry and government that will feature strong industrial support and collaboration in research and education.

“Ideation to Innovation,” NCIIA grant to co-develop a one-day national workshop, D. Barbe (UMD) and D. Raviv, $20,000, October 2008 – April 2010. This proposal is focused on designing, developing, and piloting a one-day innovation-focused workshop aimed at future dissemination at different colleges in the nation by the NCIIA.

“Low Energy Vapor Distillation Method,” D. Raviv, PI, December 2004- December 2006) $309,803. D. Raviv, Principal investigator., This project is focused on a new low-energy method for water distillation, based on a recent US patent by Michael R. Levine. Two additional patents applications have been filed. Students involved: Tom Kelly, Eiki Martinson, Brandon Moore, and Danny Morris. Project extended with additional amount of $100,000 until August 2007

“The Bridge: Connecting Basic Math and Science with Engineering Design,” with Drs. J. Su, K. Stevens, and S. Nix (lead PI), September 2002-September 2003). $99,999. This National Science Foundation planning grant is focused on making meaningful changes to the curriculum in the College of Engineering. It may help overcome some existing challenges: Student diversity and retention, adjustments of students from community colleges to FAU, student preparation, instructional ability and reliability, etc.

“Writing in Discipline,” FAU grant to support the development of a course to be offered as part of FAU’s new Gordon rule writing curriculum, $2,500, 2003/04

“Creative and Innovative Thinking,” A set of mini workshops for Broward County Magnet Program Coordinators, November 2002 - April 2003. Dr. Raviv, P.I., $9,689. This grant allowed FAU to collaborate with the School Board on Teaching Creativity and Innovation

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“Recorder Technology for Pre Crash Identification,” FAU multi-college multi-disciplinary project with Loss Management Services, Inc., Summer 2000- Spring 2001. Dr. Raviv was the project Co-P.I. for the College of Engineering

“E-Teams for Solving Intelligent Vehicles Problems,” National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), March 2000-August 2002, $19,900

E-Teams Travel grant, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), May-August 2002, $2,000

“Task-Specific Retina,” National Science Foundation (NSF), Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER), Time extension until January 1999 and supplement for research on inventive thinking. Additional amount granted: $10,000

“Task-Specific Retina,” National Science Foundation (NSF), Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER), August 1996-July 1998. Amount granted: $50,000

“Optical-Flow-Based Active-Visual-Navigation,” National Science Foundation (NSF), March 1992- March 1995. Amount granted: $184,237. (Additional funds for undegraduate students (REU) Summer 1993 $8000)

“Vision-Based Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms for Mobile Robots,” US Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Continuation of Grant #60NANB9D0957, received in 1992, $20,000. (A $120,000 grant from the US Dept of Transportation was shared between NIST and FAU)

“Vision-Based Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms for Mobile Robots,” US Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Continuation of Grant #60NANB9D0957, 1992, $46,300. (A $100,000 grant from the US Dept of Transportation was shared between NIST and FAU)

Travel grant from the Southern Regional Education Board, November 1991, $750

“Vision-Based Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms for Mobile Robots,” US Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Continuation of Grant #60NANB9D0957, 1991, $15,000

“Vision-Based Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms for Mobile Robots,” US Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Continuation of Grant #60NANB9D0957, 1991, $5,000

“Vision-Based Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms for Mobile Robots,” US Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Continuation of Grant #60NANB9D0957, 1990, $4,000

“Vision-Based Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms for Mobile Robots,” US Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Grant #60NANB9D0957, 1989, $20,169

Partial support of a graduate student (Yakali), US Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1989-90, $6,000 ”Examining Underwater Visual Distortions,” FAU Foundation, 1989, $2,000

5.1.2 Recent Proposals or in preparation

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Proposal to Dept of Education: Problem Solving in Mathematics, PI: Dr. Goldwyn. Dr. Raviv is a Co-PI, in preparation

“A Multi-nation collaboration on Innovative Product Design,” with Dr. Peer Sathikh, NTU, Singapore, to be submitted to NCIIA, May 2011, in preparation

A University-Level Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” to be resubmitted to NCIIA, May 2011, in preparation

Proposal to Broward County School Board, with Ana Escuder and Joseph Furner (FAU), submitted for first feedback, $17,000.

Proposal to Motorola Education (PI: Dr. Zilouchian, Co-PI: Dr. Raviv), in preparation.

Education Proposal to Harris Corp. (PI: Dr. Zilouchian; not funded)

“Discovery-based approach to teaching and learning parallel algorithms,” National Science Foundation, REESE program, 2010, more than $1,200,000

“Bridge to Engineering,” in collaboration with Texas A&M, in preparation

“South Florida Innovation Center (SFIC) at FAU with the Institute for Innovative Thinking,” Ear-mark proposal (with Karl Stevens and Brenda Coto), Fall 2009, $735,000

“Weekend course for executives: IDS 6358 – Innovative Thinking, Fall 2009

“Innovative Thinking” Short course for industry, Fall 2009

“Research in Ethics” as a Priority Area: Proposing to Engage in Multi- and Cross-Disciplinary Research in Ethics on Institutional, Regional, Statewide, National, and International Levels, internal proposal, FAU (led by Mark Tunik), Fall 2009

“Innovative Thinking” as a Priority Area, internal proposal, FAU, Fall 2009

“Knowledge Transfer” as a Priority Area, internal proposal, FAU, (led by Roger Goldwyn) Fall 2009

“Learning to solve math problems” (provisional title), NSF, (led by Roger Goldwyn) Fall 2009

“Visual modeling and exploration of underwater environment,” proposal to FAU’s Ocean Center, (with Hari Kalva), Fall 2009.

“Discovery-based approach to learning parallel algorithms,” submitted to the National Science Foundation, 2009, $800,000

“Innovatability,” submitted to the National Science Foundation, 2007, $800,000

“Hands-on Innovation Activities,” submitted to the NCIIA, 2007, $31,500

“Mathematics and Science Partnership Grant,” Florida DoE proposal, with Dr. L. Berry and Mr. Glenn Thomas. The purpose of this initiative is to improve FCAT performance in grades 3-8 mathematics and science

“The Bridge: Connecting Basic Math and Science with Engineering Design,” with Drs. S. Nix (lead PI), K. Stevens, and J. Su, Implementation Proposal, requested funds: approximately $1.5M

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“Center for Meaning Learning,” A multidisciplinary and multi-college center with requested funding of

about $25M over 5 years, submitted to the National Science Foundation

“Curriculum Development Grant request for a Certificate Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Undergraduate Engineering Students,” with Dr. Klatt, and Mr. Keltie, Submitted to the Kaufmann Foundation, November 2003, $50,000

“Curriculum Development for Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Undergraduate Engineering Students,” with Dr. Klatt, and Mr. Keltie, NCIIA, November 2003, $20,000 “International Institute of Inventive and Innovative Thinking (IIIIT),” Florida Atlantic University. This

is a new initiative to enhance innovation skills in teaching, research, and community service 5.2 Patents and Disclosures

Patent application, USPTO, “Safety Promoting Techniques for Mobile Communication,” January 2011

Patent application (USPTO) and Invention disclosure (FAU), “LOW ENERGY VACUUM DISTILLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS,” November 2005. Co Inventors: Michael Levine, Daniel Raviv, Tom Kelly, Eiki Martinson, Brandon Moore.

Abstract: A sub-atmospheric pressure desalinating still employs a closed top, open bottom pipe filled with source water to be distilled, such as seawater, having a height greater than the height of a column of seawater that can be supported by the pressure at the bottom of the tank so that a sub-atmospheric pressure volume is formed at the top. Water from the source is also pumped into the sub-atmospheric volume and passed through an evaporator which enlarges its surface volume. A small percentage of the water is vaporized and the balance is cooled to provide the heat of vaporization and falls into the top of the seawater column, creating a downward flow. The vapor is drawn from the vacuum and condensed, preferably in a second sub-atmospheric volume above a column of fresh water. A degasser for the water to be distilled prevents the accumulation of gases dissolved in the seawater or the like in the sub-atmospheric volume

Patent application (USPTO) and Invention disclosure (FAU), “LOW ENERGY VACUUM DISTILLATION SYSTEM USING WASTE HEAT FROM WATER COOLED ELECTRICAL POWER PLANT,” August 2005. Co-Inventors: Daniel Raviv and Michael Levine

Abstract: An electric power generating plant using nuclear or fossil fuel to produce steam in a boiler which powers a turbine to generate electricity is disposed adjacent to a body of sea water or fresh water. Spent steam from the turbine is cooled in a primary heat exchanger with water from the body. The heated water from the heat exchanger is cooled in a near-vacuum chamber at the upper end of a column having its lower end in the body of water. The vapor produced in the evaporator is fed to a near-vacuum space in a second condenser supported below the sea level so as to be cooled by the sea water. The condenser has its lower end disposed in a sump of fresh water which is vented to atmosphere or sealed and pressurized, to provide support for the column. Fresh water produced by the condensation may be used for drinking water or other purposes and is pumped for utilization. In an alternative embodiment, the output of the cooling channel of the primary heat exchanger is fed to a cooling tower which further cools the output before it is fed to the vaporizer chamber

US patent # 4873651 (issued October 10, 89). “Method and Apparatus for Reconstruction Three Dimensional Surfaces from Two Dimensional Images”

A new multi terrain device for wheel chair (with William McKunis), 2003/04

VTC-based Collision Avoidance Retina, in preparation (with S. Kundur)

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Invention disclosure (invented at NIST). “Multi Transmitter/Receiver Mechanism”

Invention disclosure (invented at NIST) “360 Degree Optical Imager”

Invention disclosure “A New Tactile Sensor”

Invention disclosure “Obtaining High Resolution Images from Low Resolution Sequence”

Invention disclosure “An Artificial Minimalist Retina for Measuring Visual Threat”

Invention disclosure “A Vision-Based Car Detector for Parking Lots”

Invention disclosure “A Texture-Based Structure Light System for Visual-Threat-Based Autonomous Navigation”

Invention disclosure “Looming-Based Braking-Lights Logic” 6. Professional Service 6.1 Membership in Professional Societies

Member of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), since 2000 Member of the IEEE, since 1986 Member of the Tau-Beta-Pi, since 3/1996 Member of the National Association of Laboratory School (NALS), 2000-2001 Member of the National Inventive Thinking Association (NITA) 1996, 1999 Member of the Inventors Society of South Florida 1996

6.1.1 Students’ Societies, Advisory

Invited panel member, STEP Program, College of Engineering, January 2006, 2007 and 2008

Faculty advisor for the STEP Program at the College of Engineering 2004-2007

Faculty advisor for the IEEE Society at FAU, 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. IEEE-FAU Student team Received Runner-Up in the International Student Branch Web Site contest, sponsored by the student Activities Committees 2003-2004; FAU team, OwlTech, including IEEE members, won First Place out of 9 teams in a Robotic competition at the University of Florida (American Nuclear Society)

Faculty advisor for the Hispanic society at FAU, 2001 6.2 University Service

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Member of the Benevon team: Raising More Money, Since September 2006

Member and co-initiator of the FAU/OTT Innovation Seminar, March 30, 2006: Turning Your Ideas into Revenue -- From Innovation to Commercialization, Workshop and Certificate Program

Chair, Sub-committee for “Creative, Critical and Analytical Skills” Core Curriculum and General Education Task force, 2002-03

Member, Writing Across Curriculum and Writing Across Discipline Committee, 2004 (See also FAU Teaching Activities) 6.2.1 Administrative Positions

Assistant to the Provost for Innovation and entrepreneurship, 12/2009-8/2010

Special Assistant to the Provost for improving College Algebra, 2007-2008

Manager, Sensors and Manipulators (Robotics) Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University, 1986-1988 6.2.2 University Committees

Chair, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee 2010

SUS representative to Florida-STEM initiative 2010-

Member of CTL Advisory group, since 2008

Member of search committee, Director for Office of International Programs (OIP), 2005

Volunteer, Office of Technology Transfer (Jeanie McGuire, Director), FAU, since February 2005

Member, Writing Across Curriculum (WAC), and Writing in Discipline (WID) Committee, 2004-2006

Chairman of Sub-committee for Critical and Analytical Skills, part of the University Task Force on Core Curriculum and General Education (volunteer), since 2003 University Sabbatical committee, 2001

University Senate, Fall 92- May 94

6.2.3 College of Engineering Committees College Sustainability Committee, member, Spring 2010- College Personnel Committee, member, Fall 2002-Spring 2003

ABET Task Force Committee (January 1999-October 2002). Played a critical role in the preparation of

the College of Engineering and the EE Department for the successful ABET 2002 visit. His specific contributions include planning, teaching, preparation and evaluation of the Engineering Design class and portfolios. He also took the lead during the visit during the Design class and the Problem Solving class. He was the EE representative in the College ABET Task Force since its inception (January 1999-October 2002), and coordinated the ABET efforts between the EE Department and the College. The task force,

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under the leadership of Dr. Karl Stevens has completed a document that included goals, objectives, outcomes, assessment, etc. for the college! The document is available at the Dean’s office. Dr. Raviv was also played a crucial role in the EE Dept ad-hoc sub-committee for ABET. The sub-committee, under Dr. Messenger’s Leadership, together with the AA committee developed the “EE Roadmap to Excellence” Document Student Services Committee (1999-2008)

Manufacturing Committee (1994-96)

Search Committee for Robotics Center Manager (April, May 1996)

College of Engineering Policy and Development Committee (Fall 1994-Spring 1996)

College of Engineering Graduate Students Committee (Fall 1991-Spring 1993; Chair 1992-93)

6.2.4 Electrical Engineering and CEECS Departmental Committees Ad-hoc committee, Departmental Strategic Planning Committee (4/2011- 5/2011)

Digital and Image Signal Processing Committee/Group, (Fall 2009-) Teaching and Graduate Assistants Committee, (Fall 2009-) Students Affairs Committee, (Fall 2009-) Personnel Committee, (Fall 2006-2008)

EE Strategic Planning Committee, (Fall 2006-2008) ABET Task Force Committee (September 2006 - 2008)

Resource Committee (Fall 2000-Spring 2002, Fall 2004 – Spring 2006)

Personnel Committee (Fall 2002-Spring 2004, Chair 2002-03)

Student Services (1999-2006) Personnel Committee (Fall 1998-Summer 2000)

Academic Affairs Sub-Committee for ABET (April 1999 -2001) Academic Affairs Committee (member (Fall 1996-Spring 1997)

Search Committee for fiscal coordinator (Chair, April, May 1995)

Search Committee for new faculty at the EE Dept. (member March-May 1995)

Resource Committee (member (Fall 1993-Spring 1994) and Chair since Fall 1994, Spring 1995) Computer subcommittee (member) (Fall 1993-Fall 1995)

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Catalog committee, Chair (Fall 1990-Spring 1993) Equipment committee (Fall 1990- Summer 1991) Space Utilization committee, Chair (Fall19 90- Summer19 91) Undergraduate Students Advising Committee (April 1991-January 1992 and Fall 1992) 6.2.5 Other Service Activities at FAU Demonstrations

“Water Distillation - Indoor vacuum based apparatus,” since February 2006

“Vision-Based Mobility Using Autonomous Golf Cart,” (with Tom Kelly), May 1995. Several other Demos in 1996

“Vision-Based Mobility Using the HMMWV,” (with H.H. Yakali and the NIST team), Gaithersburg, Maryland, July-September 1992

“Vision-Based Obstacle Avoidance Using Miniature Flight Simulator,” (with K. Joarder) FAU Robotics Center, Spring, 1992

“Vision-Based Mobility Using Miniature Six-Degree-Of-Freedom Flight Simulator,” (with H.H. Yakali and S. Shapira) FAU Robotics Center, 1991

“3-D Vision in Closed Loops,” FAU Robotics Center, 1989 Other

Prepared a new industry/business questionnaire to explore interest in national innovation program, in collaboration with UMD, 2011

Initiated a new collaboration between FAU and Holon Institute of Technology (H.I.T.) for bringing students and faculty to FAU (with the Office of International Programs, currently examining MOU’s), 2010-

Exploring a new collaboration between FAU and Ben Gurion University (BGU) for bringing students and faculty to FAU (with the Office of International Programs), 2010-

College Manufacturing Group (1994-1997)

Prepared problems for Ph.D. qualifying exam (EE Dept.) in Control and Digital Control (1991-present)

Prepared problems for Ph.D. qualifying exam (ME Dept.) in Digital Control (Nov. 1992)

Prepared the Robotics Center Videotape (November 1990-May 1991)

Prepared part of the Robotics Center brochure (November 1990- May 1991)

Active participant in the "Autonomous Underwater Vehicles" group at FAU (1988-1991)

Advised Motorola students during (one time trip to Plantation) with Mrs. Goodwin (summer of 1991)

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Prepared material for PE exam in control (1990) 6.3 Technical Service 6.3.1 Conference/ Workshop Activities; National Committees

Office Of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Department of Commerce, Invited contributor to national vision, 2011

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXIX: SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 2011

Program Chair Elect for the (National) American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Entrepreneurship (ENT) Division, June 2010

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision, Boston, MA, November 2010

Invited to the NSF PEER review panel on Education, REESE, NSF, Arlington, Virginia, June 2010

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 2009

Invited to the NSF PEER review panel on Education, REESE, NSF, Arlington, Virginia, February 2008

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXI: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 2008

ASEE Entrepreneurship (ENT) Division committee, member at large, since June 2007

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XX: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 2007

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIX: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 2006

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVIII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 2005

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 2004

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 2003

Vice President, Electrical Engineering section of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) , South East Region. 2002-2003

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVI: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 2002

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XV: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 2001

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Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIV: Algorithms, Techniques and Active

Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 2000

Invited, Session Chair, World Automation Conference (WAC) 2000

Participated and contributed to a South Florida Consortium consisting of universities, colleges and community colleges from Palm Beach, Broward and Dade Counties. The “Southeast Florida Engineering Education Consortium” (SEFEEC) was initiated by Dr. Messenger. The main idea behind the consortium was to improve engineering articulation by identifying a common set of courses at the Community Colleges that could be accepted by all engineering programs at the upper division. More that 50 people were involved in the work

IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) committee member, 1999

Organizer of a session on “Active Vision,” Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVIII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 1999

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVIII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 1999

Invited to the NSF PEER review panel on “Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education," NSF, Arlington, Virginia, March 1999

Organized a seminar at FAU for Dr. Charles Prather, former manager of Du Pont Center for Creativity and Innovation, February 1999

Invited to the NSF PEER review panel on “Computer Vision,” NSF, Arlington, Virginia, March 1998

Invited to serve as a committee member for the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 1999 Conference

Invited session chair in WAC’98 conference (session C-WeR5), Anchorage, Alaska, May 9-14, 1998

Organizer of a session on “Active Vision,” Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 1998

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 1998

Invited to the NSF PEER review panel on “Computer Vision,” NSF, Arlington, Virginia, June 3-4, 1997

Organizer of a session on “Active Vision,” Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVI: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 1997

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVI: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 1997

Invited to the NSF PEER review panel on “Computer Vision” NSF, Arlington, Virginia, June 11-12, 1996

Chairman and organizer of a session on “Active Vision,” Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XV: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 1996

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Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XV: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 1996

Invited to the NSF SBIR review panel on “Computer Vision,” NSF, Arlington, Virginia, September 28, 1995. (20 proposals were reviewed by the panel members)

Committee member and reviewer of the IEEE Symposium on Computer Vision, Coral Gables, FL, (November 1995)

Chairman and organizer of a session on “Active Vision,” Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision IXX: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, PA, November 1995

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision IXX: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, PA, November 1995

Committee member, IEEE Computer Vision Conference, Miami, Nov. 1995

Session chair, IASTD Conference, Cancun Mexico, June 1995

Invited to WNFL/WKFX with Jim Olbracht, Wisconsin, May 19, 1995 (Radio Talk show)

Organizing member, IEEE/Intelligent Vehicles Conference 1994

Chairman and organizer of a session on “Active Vision,” Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 1994

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 1994

Committee member, Mobile Robot VIII, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, November 1994

Session chair, Seventh Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, University of Florida, April 1994

Invited to serve as a panelist for reviewing NSF proposals in the area of Robotics/ Intelligent Machines, March 1993

Committee member, Advance Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS) / Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS America)

Chairman and organizer of a session on “Active Vision,” Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, September 1993

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, September 1993

Committee member, Mobile Robot VIII, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, September 1993

Chairman and organizer of a session on “Active Vision” (A new session, solicited papers only), Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XI: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 1992

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XI: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 1992

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Committee member, Mobile Robot VII, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 1992

Session Chairman, Fifth Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, May 1992

Session Chairman on “3D reconstruction, modeling and representations,” Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision IX, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 1991.

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision IX: Neural, Biological, and 3-D Methods, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 1991

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision IX: Algorithms and Techniques, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 1991

Committee member, Mobile Robot VI, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 1991

Chairman of the Fourth Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Boca Raton, FL, May 1991

Invited to the NSF Workshop on "Active Vision," Chicago, August 1991.(& active participant in the preparation of the related document; see Reports section)

Session Chairman, Fourth Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, May 1991

Session Chairman on “3D reconstruction, modeling and representations,” Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision IX, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 1990

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision IX: Neural, Biological, and 3-D Methods, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 1990

Committee member, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision IX: Algorithms and Techniques, SPIE's Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 1990

Session Chairman, Third Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, May 1990

Session Chairman on “Planning for Robot Motion,” IEEE conference on Robotics and Automation, Cincinnati, OH, May 1990

Session Chairman, Second Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, May 1989

Correspondence responsibility, Second Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics, Florida Atlantic University, May 1989

Organized the Israeli IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) section conference on: “Computer Aided Control Systems Design- Applications,” Sept. 1984 6.3.2 Books Reviewed

Digital Control of Systems, by C. Fargeon, CRC Press. Reviewed in Jan. 1989

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6.3.3 Proposals Reviewed (sample)

NSF PEER review panel on Education, REESE, NSF, reviewed 10 proposals, Arlington, Virginia, February 2008

NSF SBIR review panels on “Computer Vision," NSF, Arlington, Virginia, 1995-1998. (20 proposals were reviewed per meeting by each of the panel members.)

“Advanced Vision Processor,” SBIR phase II, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. Reviewed May 96

“Optical Flow Based Algorithms,” SBIR phase II, submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. Reviewed March 95

NSF/EPSCoR Kentucky Program, Reviewed March 94

Ten Proposals for NSF/IRIS/RMI, March 1993

“Multi-resolution Retina,” SBIR phase II, submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. Reviewed May 93

“Development of Real Time Range Finder Using Optical Flow,” Continuation of Research Proposal, Submitted by J. C. S. Yang (University of Maryland), to Sensory Intelligence Group, Robot Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. Reviewed June 90

“Development of Real Time Range Finder Using Optical Flow,” Research Proposal, Submitted by J. C. S. Yang (University of Maryland), to Sensory Intelligence Group, Robot Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. Reviewed July 89 6.3.4 Papers Reviewed

Papers to ASEE ENT division 2003-present

Papers to the Journal of Robotics Systems 2004

Papers to Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 1999

Papers to PAMI, Robotics and Automation Transactions 1996

Fourteen papers for Computer Vision Conference (CVS) 1995

Papers for IAPR 1994

Papers for CVPR 1994

Reports for WERB/NIST. 1994/95

Conference and Journal papers submitted to IEEE conferences (IEEE Transactions Robotics and Automation, SMC, PAMI, etc.)

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7. World Record Co-holder of a Guinness World Record 2002: “World’s Largest Ball of Transparent Tape” 8. Community Service Invited Speaker, “Innovative Individual,” KEF group, Florida, June 2010 Keynote Speaker, Junior National Honor Society, A. D. Henderson University School, FAU, March 27,

2008 Invited Keynote Speaker, Junior National Honor Society, A. D. Henderson University School, FAU,

March 27, 2008 Invited Speaker, Broawrd Community College (BCC), on Innovative Thinking, November 19, 2007

Invited Speaker, G.T.A. presentation on Innovative Teaching, FAU, October 11, 2007 Invited Speaker, Stanford University, Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship (REE), October

2007 Board Member, American Technion Society (ATS) Boca Raton, Since 2005

Member, Academic Board, Florida-Israel Institute (at FAU), Since 2005

Invited, A.D. Henderson University School (at FAU), Fifth grade class, Hands on Thinking with

Puzzles, December 2004 Invited, A.D. Henderson University School (at FAU), Fourth grade class, Hands on Thinking with

Puzzles, April 2004 Invited speaker on Innovation Issues, International Association of Administrative Professionals, Fort

Lauderdale, May 14, 2003 (see also “presentations”)

Broward County Magnet Schools Headquarters: Workshop on Creative and Innovative Thinking, November 2002 and March 2003 (see also “grants”)

Broward County Magnet Schools school visits re advancing creativity and innovation, April 7, 03 (see also “grants”)

Judge, Broward County Science Fair, High School Engineering Division, February 7, 2003

Judge, Palm Beach County High Schools Debate, Wellington High School, October 2002

Judge, Palm Beach County High Schools Debate, PB School of the Arts, December 2002

H. Academy, honored guest, career and special interest day, October 28, 2002

Dillard High School Magnet Program, Program Evaluator, October 2002

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Broward County Magnet Schools Headquarters: Presentation on Innovative Thinking, August 2002

“Creativity,” Tau-Beta-Kappa, Invited speaker, February 2002

Boca Raton “Vision Down Town,” member, 2000/01

“Do We Teach Them How to Think?” Physics Department Colloquium, February 9, 2001

“Productive Thinking,” Company “A”, Boca Raton, January 3, 2001

Invited Speaker, OMNI Middle School, May 2000

Inventive Thinking Club at the Henderson University School for students in grades 4-8. (1999-2000)

Inventive Thinking Workshop, Center for Creative Education, West Palm Beach, FL, 6/16/1999

Technology and Information scientific advisor of the Museum of Discovery and Science, Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 1998-2003

Judge, Science Fair, Hebrew Academy, 1997 - 2001

A two-day 3-D puzzles activity at the Boca Raton library drew hundreds of residents from the local community who enjoyed the program (July 12-13, 1997). Recognized in the Annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon, Palm Beach, FL, April 23, 1998

A set of lectures on the inventive process using hands-on activities in several schools in the area was initiated. Schools involved are The Henderson University school at FAU, Hillel Day School, the Hebrew Academy and the Addison Mizner Elementary, 1998

Inventive Thinking Club at the Henderson University school for students in grades 4-8. (Academic year 1997-1998)

Inventive Thinking Sections for teachers and students in Technology Connection 98. Received the highest evaluations

Inventive Thinking Sections for teachers and students in Technology Connection 97. Received best possible evaluation (5.0/5.0)

An Inventive Thinking class received enthusiastic attention from the media and was highly appreciated by FAU president, professor Anthony Catanese

Regional Coordinator for South Florida, Camp Invention, 1996-2005. Camp Invention is a hands-on summer program of The National Inventors Hall of Fame. With a focus on creativity, fun and inventiveness, Camp Invention is designed to promote creative learning of science, math, literature, and history as well as teamwork with hands-on, interactive activities. Also a coordinator for Club Invention (2003-2005)

"Robotics Course", for Dillard High School/Magnet Program, at FAU (Fall 96, Spring 97) Students from the High School Visited FAU several times a year to learn about Robotics, experiment with Industrial robots, etc. In addition, Meetings at Motorola, (Plantation, FL) were conducted in preparation for the U.S. First Competition. The two-year Robotics Magnet Program grew from about fifteen students in the first year to more than seventy students in the third year. Several top students from Dillard High School Magnet Program decided to join FAU for their undergraduate studies as result of this activity

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"U.S. First Robotics Competition", with Dillard High School Students, April 1997. At the regional

competition, the FAU-Motorola-Dillard team finished among the top ten. The team competed nationally again in the FIRST competition and won a national award

Judge, Inventors Fair 1996, Fort Lauderdale, April 13, 1996

Advisor for Antonio Mujica (Top Undergraduate Student from Simon Boulivar University, Venezuela) 1996-97

Organized a one-day TRIZ/IDEATION Methodology course for Industry engineers and FAU Faculty and Students, Boca Raton, March 8, 1996. The methodology deals with systematic inventive thinking based on the analysis of several million worldwide patents

Judge, NEDC/JETS Competition, Nova High School, March 4, 1996

Judge, Science Fair, Hebrew Academy, March 1996

Invited Speaker, The Israeli House. Topic: “Creativity and Thinking Games,” February 18, 1996

Invited speaker to Hillel School at Boca Raton January 22, 1996. Subject: “Hands On Science”

Invited speaker to the Hebrew Academy of Margate, FL. January 24 , 1996. Subject: “Logical Thinking Through Hands-On”

Summer Advisor for Rodney Brown (Undergraduate Student from FL A&M)

Invited Lecture at the Henderson School, March 14, 1996

Invited speaker, EE Undergraduate Nights, November 8, 1995 and March 19, 1996

“Robotics Course,” for Dillard High School/Magnet Program, at FAU (Fall 95, Spring 96) Students from the High School Visited FAU several times a year to learn about Robotics, experiment with Industrial robots, etc. In addition, Meetings at Motorola, (Plantation, FL) were conducted for seven weeks (Feb-April 1996) in preparation for the U.S. First Competition

“U.S. First Robotics Competition,” with Dillard High School Students, March/April 1995. At the competition, the FAU-Motorola-Dillard team finished #10 out of 75 teams

“Robotics Course,” for Dillard High School/Magnet Program, at FAU (Fall 94, Spring 95) Students from the High School Visited FAU several times a year to learn about Robotics, experiment with Industrial robots, etc.

“U.S. First Robotics Competition,” with Dillard High School Students, March/April 1995

Lecture on Robotics, Career Day, Donna Klein Elementary and Middle School, Boca Raton, Spring 1995

“Robotics,” Invited speaker, Spanish River High School, Boca Raton, May 11, 1994

Board member, High-Tech Magnet program (Broward County), Fall 1993-Spring 94

Organized a “Science Club” for elementary school students and their parents, Spring semester 1993

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Judge, science fair, The Agnon School, Beachwood, Ohio, 1988

“Intelligent Robots,” Invited Talk, Michelson Club, Cleveland, Ohio, March 9, 1987

“Intelligent Robots,” Invited Talk, American Society for the Technion, Cleveland, Ohio, April 27, 1987