Dr. Vaughan was invited by Professor Youmin Hu, who is from the department of mechanical and electrical engineering. Since March 1, 2016, the assistant professor Joshua E. Vaughan from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA came to our department to give a lecture for the Mechatronics Creative Decisions and Design course and communicated with advanced manufacturing and intelligence laboratory.
Dr. Vaughan's main research directions are energy-conscious control design, concurrent design of commands–feedback controllers–physical systems, and mobile robotics. From 2006 to 2007, he won the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Project; from 2008 to 2009, he was a Siemens Energy and Automation Postdoctoral Fellow, and from 2009 to 2010 he was Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2012, Dr. Vaughan was a Future Faculty Workshop Invited Participant. Dr. Vaughan was also awarded the 2013 – 2014 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Rising Star Award and was the 2015 Young Researcher of the Year in the University of Louisiana at Lafayette College of Engineering.
This semester, assistant professor Joshua E. Vaughan was invited to give a lecture for the Mechatronics Creative Decisions and Design course in our college. On March 1st, he elaborated to the undergraduates the first key process in engineering design——understanding the functions that the product is to fulfill. With some simple yet vivid real-life examples, he showed the class the actual meaning of product functions and the tools to accomplish these functions. On March 2nd, Dr. Vaughan gave a speech about the importance of technical communication and the tools of technical communication, during which he encouraged the class to divide into groups to discuss how to improve the efficiency of the communication.
The course was scheduled very tightly and students found it fulfilling. The students who attended this course all expressed that not only can you learn a lot of useful knowledge from Assistant Professor Joshua E. Vaughan’s lecture, you can also experience the original and authentic American teaching style, which can only be experienced via TV otherwise.
