{"id":5212,"date":"2022-02-28T14:13:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T14:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quanser.com\/event-webinar\/the-why-lab-empowering-creativity-and-curiosity\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:41:04","slug":"the-why-lab-empowering-creativity-and-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"event-webinar","link":"https:\/\/www.quanser.com\/events-webinars\/the-why-lab-empowering-creativity-and-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"The WHY Lab &#8211; Empowering Creativity and Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, March 17th, 2022<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>12 AM EDT (UTC\/GMT-4)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW135771665 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW135771665 BCX8\">Given the number of challenges in today\u2019s modern world, it\u2019s more important than ever to properly educate and prepare our young engineers while keeping them interested and motivated. The WHY lab at the University of New Mexico is an Electrical and Computer Engineering resource open to all students who wish to pursue their research or class projects. In this webinar, Dr. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW135771665 BCX8\">Hamke<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW135771665 BCX8\"> will discuss his student-centric approach to encourage and support engineering students \u2013 from undergraduate to graduate level &#8211; to <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW135771665 BCX8\">finding<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW135771665 BCX8\"> creative solutions in a project-oriented environment. The process will be illustrated with <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW135771665 BCX8\">Quanser<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW135771665 BCX8\">QDrone<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW135771665 BCX8\"> related projects and their resulting solutions.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW135771665 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3N2SHnV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9280 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quanser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Webinar-WATCH-NOW-button.png\" alt=\"Watch now\" width=\"260\" height=\"58\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW163611112 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW163611112 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">Mr. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW163611112 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">Hamke<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW163611112 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\"> received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the New Mexico State University (1983), a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico (1998), and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico (2020). His career has included the study and the introduction and use of digital communication <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW163611112 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">system<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW163611112 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\"> in the battle space. He has also worked on <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW163611112 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">development<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW163611112 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\"> of avionics systems to include flight control, navigation, and camera pointing systems for drones. Currently, he is employed as a lecturer in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ece.unm.edu\/index.html\">Electrical and Computer Engineering department<\/a> at the University of New Mexico. His activities include research of applying machine learning algorithms to signal processing and biomedical systems.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW163611112 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6262,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[],"event-webinar-category":[299],"application":[],"class_list":["post-5212","event-webinar","type-event-webinar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-webinar-category-webinars"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The WHY Lab - Empowering Creativity and Curiosity - Quanser<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quanser.com\/events-webinars\/the-why-lab-empowering-creativity-and-curiosity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The WHY Lab - Empowering Creativity and Curiosity - Quanser\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thursday, March 17th, 2022 12 AM EDT (UTC\/GMT-4) Given the number of challenges in today\u2019s modern world, it\u2019s more important than ever to properly educate and prepare our young engineers while keeping them interested and motivated. 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