2009-2010 CGU Math Graduate Fellowships in Geometric Modeling

CGU-Boeing Partnership in Geometric Modeling for Industrial Applications

The School of Mathematical Sciences at CGU (www.cgu.edu/math) is pleased to announce the availability of fellowships (full tuition and stipend for one year) in the 2009-10 academic year for three fulltime graduate students to participate in our NSF-sponsored CGU-Boeing clinic projects. Eligible students must be citizens, nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States as of the date of the award (06/01/06). Both new and continuing students in the School of Mathematical Sciences at CGU are eligible and applications from women and underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged. Interested students should contact Professor Ali Nadim via Email: ali.nadim@cgu.edu for details of the application process.

This NSF-sponsored project enables a partnership between the School of Mathematical Sciences at Claremont Graduate University and The Boeing Company’s Mathematics and Computing Technologies division to train a select group of applied mathematicians who can develop and apply novel geometric modeling methods to industrial problems of interest in manufacturing, aerospace, product design, medical imaging, robotics and related engineering industries. This will be accomplished within the framework of CGU’s highly regarded Engineering and Industrial Applied Mathematics Clinic. Projects may involve: investigating methods for calculating self-intersections of surfaces; geometric model feature suppression using a surface offsetting and inverse offsetting process; building code for generating multivariate adaptive regression splines; and investigating the use of genetic algorithms to generate parametric geometry models of airplanes. These will involve mathematical approaches such as Parametric Splines, NURBS, Point Clouds, Level-Set Methods, Finite Element and Finite Volume Analysis, Image Processing, Computer Graphics, etc.  

The Clinic Program at CGU has been in existence since 1973 and covered close to two hundred challenging industrial math problems during this period. Each project is typically introduced by a liaison from the company at the start of the academic year and the students and faculty advisor(s) maintain regular communications with the company as they make progress on the project. Oral presentations at the company and written reports (interim and final) are also part of the Clinic requirements. Students earn academic credit toward their graduate degree by participating in the Clinic––equivalent to one full course each semester.