Center for Advanced Engineering Environments

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The Center for Advanced Engineering Environments (CAEE) is a research center within the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University. Established in 2001, CAEE focuses on various research areas including collaborative distributed knowledge discovery, interactive visual simulations, intelligent synthesis, and the development of advanced learning and training technologies. The center's research aims to enhance the application of these technologies in complex engineering systems of the future.

The activities of the center include the synergistic coupling of modeling, visual simulations, intelligent agents, multimedia and synthetic environments, human-technology interactions, computational intelligence, computational, information, and collaboration technologies in the multidisciplinary analysis, sensitivity studies, optimization, design, and operation of complex engineering systems.

The Center is located at the Old Dominion University Peninsula Higher Education Center in Hampton, Virginia. It is located very close to NASA's Langley Research Center.^[1]

The Center has the following five specific objectives:

1. Conduct innovative research on applications of the aforementioned areas to complex engineering systems.
2. Develop innovative paradigms, technologies, and strategies for Advanced Learning/Training Environments.
3. Act as a pathfinder, by demonstrating to the research community what can be done (high-potential, high-risk research).^[2]
4. Help in identifying future directions of research, and future interdisciplinary areas, in support of future complex engineering systems.^[3]
5. Form strategic partnerships with technology providers, and industry and research organizations to accelerate technology and workforce development.

In addition to research, the activities of the Center include forming strategic partnerships and collaborative agreements with leading universities, industry, and software vendors who are developing collaborative distributed knowledge discovery and exploitation systems and intelligent synthesis environments for future aerospace and other high-tech engineering systems; organizing workshops and national symposia; and writing monographs and special publications on timely topics.

The current research activities of the center include:

• Collaborative distributed engineering knowledge discovery and exploitation
• Interactive distributed visual simulation environment and 3D virtual worlds^[4][5]
• Pervasive blended lifelong cyberlearning (using learning and research networks, personal/collaborative learning environments, 3D interactive immersive classrooms, and other emerging learning spaces/platforms)
• Distributed heterogeneous augmented and hyper-reality systems
• Brain-based, intelligent, and multimodal human-technology interfaces
• Intelligent, adaptive cyber-physical ecosystems and emergent engineering ^[6]

The CAEE website provides the following facilities:

• Comprehensive Information Retrieval
• Intelligent Question/Answering – Search Facility
• Patent Applications/Filings Search Facility
• Space and Technology News and Blog Alerts
• Knowledge Repositories
• Links to Multimedia Sites
  • NASA Sites
  • International Space Agencies
  • Other Sites

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