Center for Advanced Engineering Environments

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The Center for Advanced Engineering Environments (CAEE) is one of the enterprise centers of the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University. The center was created in 2001 to serve as a focal point for the diverse research activities pertaining to Collaborative distributed Engineering Knowledge/Information management, Visual simulation, Intelligent synthesis, and advanced learning technologies, and their application to complex aerospace systems.

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

The Center is located at the Old Dominion University Peninsula Higher Education Center in Hampton, Virginia.

[edit] Specific Objectives

The Center has the following five specific objectives:

Conduct innovative research on applications of collaborative distributed engineering Knowledge/Information management, visual simulation, and intelligent synthesis to complex aerospace systems.
Develop innovative technologies, strategies and approaches for advanced learning environments/networks.
Act as pathfinder, by demonstrating to the research community what can be done (high-potential, high-risk research).
Help identify future directions of research in support of the aeronautical and space missions in the next decades.
Help in the rapid transfer of research results to industry and in broadening awareness among researchers and engineers of the state-of-the-art in collaborative distributed engineering Knowledge/Information management, intelligent synthesis, and advanced learning, as well as in other technology areas which can impact these activities.

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 engineering Knowledge/Information management systems and intelligent synthesis environments for future aerospace and other high-tech engineering systems; organizing workshops and national symposia; and writing state-of-the-art monographs and special NASA publications on timely topics.