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New Jersey college and FAA ﬂying high with joint venture AMX system helps Federal Aviation Administration employees attend class without leaving the ofﬁce S TOCKTON COLLEGE AND THE FAA TECH Center enabled a simplistic user interface for ease of use with a wide array are geographically close in New Jersey, but intellectually even of usage scenarios within the facility. Many of Stockton’s electronic closer thanks to their shared interest in technology, research, classrooms are videoconferencing and lecture-capture capable, of particular importance to the FAA for continued collaboration.” and collaboration. “When we set out to design this room, videoconferencing kept ese collective pursuits led experts at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey to design and install a high-tech classroom coming up,” Roubos said. “If there’s a class at the FAA, and Stockat the Federal Aviation Administration’s William J. Hughes Techni- ton students want to take the class but not go there, they can sit in cal Center, which is located about 15 minutes from the school’s a classroom here and participate.” campus. “At Stockton, we are educating the next generation of air “This project solidiﬁes our relationship with traﬃc controllers and researchers,” said Demetrios Roubos, technical coordinator of audiovisual systems at Stockton. the FAA in terms of our students interning “ at program feeds quality people into the FAA. ey rec- there or working there after graduation.” ognized that and wanted to build a classroom at their location.” Among the programs Stockton oﬀers, the emerging Compuis joint project earned Stockton College the AMX Innovation Collaboration Initiatives Award. “It’s nice to see the recognition now tational Science is of particular interest down the road—literally because we worked on this project a while ago,” Roubos said. “It’s and ﬁguratively. Computational Science mixes computer science, also nice because the FAA folks still appreciate it. It’s been a year, and math, and traditional science to make accurate predictions using signiﬁcantly more parameters than in the past. For example, the they’re still thrilled with it.” “ e model for the new collaborative learning space was Stock- science of predicting the average amount of pollution that would ton’s electronic classroom, featuring AMX control equipment and travel from a chemical plant to a nearby river can now be accuratetouch panels, a podium computer, switching equipment to project ly modeled by computational scientists to take into consideration onto a larger screen, document camera, speakers, and ampliﬁers. wind speed and direction, river ﬂow, and other variables that previe use of the AMX control equipment and touch panel interfaces ously could not be compiled into one model or system. is extra information allows researchers to predict more precise outcomes. “Computational Science is important to the FAA, because the FAA is anticipating an increase in air traﬃc and a decrease in air traﬃc controllers,” Roubos explained. “ ey’re looking to bridge the gap with technology so they can use fewer ﬂight controllers to manage more planes.” Roubos, who graduated Stockton in 2008 and is currently in the Computational Science master’s program, said working with the federal agency beneﬁts both parties. “We have FAA employees who are professors, and they oﬀer courses at the FAA because a lot of students are employed there as well,” he said. “ is project solidiﬁes our relationship with the FAA in terms of our students interning there or working there after graduation.” e $25,000 in AMX technology and equipment that is part of the award will go a long way at Stockton, he added. Richard Stockton College of New Jersey universitybusiness.com September 2011 | 27 http://www.universitybusiness.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - September 2011

University Business - September 2011
Contents
Editor's Note
College Index
Ad Index
Behind the News
Viewpoint
Financial Aid
Money Matters
Internet Technology
Shared Governance
Acknowledging Achievement
Looking Back
Spotlight on Procurement
EduComm 2011
End Note

University Business - September 2011