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David J. Lovell Associate Professor |
1173 Glenn L. Martin Hall, College Park, MD, 20742 Phone: (301) 405-7995 Fax: (301) 405-2585 email: lovell@umd.edu
Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering Institute for Systems Research Applied
Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Program Engineers Without Borders
TEACHING
Spring 2016 ENCE 402 - Simulation and Design of Experiments. Review of statistics and hypothesis testing, sample design
and design of experiments, generation of discrete and continuous
distributions and their applications. Introduction of simulation languages
and simulation of discrete and continuous engineering systems. Output
analysis, model validation and sensitivity and reliability analysis. |
Summer 2016 ENES 100 (Young Scholars Program)
- Introduction to Engineering Design.
Students work in teams to design and build search and rescue robots, while learning CAD, 3-D printing, electronics, and programming. |
Fall 2016 ENES 100 - Introduction to
Engineering Design.
Students work in teams to design and build over-sand rover vehicles, while learning CAD, 3-D printing, mechanics, electronics, programming,
and fundamentals of engineering design. ENCE 688D / ENSE 698E – Sensor
Systems. Design
and operation of instrumented systems, sensing system architecture and
specifications. Requirements and specifications for sensing systems, sensor
mechanisms, physics-based analytical and simulation models of sensors, sensor
failure mechanisms, signal representation, signal processing, noise and other
sources of interference, interfaces, statistical analysis of sensor outputs,
networks of sensors, system validation, and systems-level analysis and design
including optimization and tradeoffs. |