Center for Advanced Engineering Environments

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 Knowledge discovery and exploitation, Visual simulation, Intelligent synthesis, and advanced learning technologies, and their application to complex engineering 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 engineering systems.

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

Specific Objectives

The Center has the following five specific objectives:

1. Conduct innovative research on applications of collaborative distributed Knowledge discovery and exploitation, visual simulation, and intelligent synthesis to complex engineering systems.
2. Develop innovative technologies, strategies and approaches for advanced learning environments/networks.
3. Act as pathfinder, by demonstrating to the research community what can be done (high-potential, high-risk research).
4. Help identify future directions of research in support of the aeronautical and space missions in the next decades.
5. 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 Knowledge discovery and exploitation, 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 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 state-of-the-art monographs and special publications on timely topics.

Past and Current Research Projects

The center's past and current research projects can be found here.

Facilities

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