PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT
Thus far, my research experiences have taken place during both the academic school year as well as the summer session. During the second semester of my freshman year, I was placed on the UNIX team which was mentored by Mr. Christopher Edwards. During the spring semester, our team presented our project entitled, “The Impact on Students learning open source software to Analyze TCP Traffic.” Our team used a passive network discovery to fingerprint vulnerabilities within Ethernet broadcast frames. During the summer of 2006, I received an internship at the University of Kansas under the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets. I was a member of the Robotic Simulation Team under the mentoring of Dr. Arvin Agah. This project was entitled, “Robotic Formations.” Our research involved the assimilation and development of robotics that deploy and retrieve seismic sensors in order to prevent global warming.
During the second half of my sophomore year, my research was based upon redesigning a network based on the University of North Carolina Academic Computing Model. The network team goal for the 2006-2007 research programs was to take a fresh look at the Undergraduate Research Computer Lab network to make fully functional and secure. On June 1, 2007, I participated in another research internship at the University of Kansas where I was a member of the Seismic Tetwalked Team. Our research included designing and developing a robot that was originally created by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center called the seismic TETwalker. This robot was created in a computer, simulation software program that demonstrated the collection of seismic data of ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland.
For the 2008 academic semester, I was a member of the Polar Grid Condor Team and the purpose of our research team was to install a supercomputing Condor pool. On June 1, 2008, I participated in the Summer Research Opportunities Program under the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets at Penn State University. As a member of the 2008 Glacial Visualization Team, the title of our project was entitled, "Monitoring Glaciel Advance and Retreat of the Skaftafellsjokull Glacier, Iceland."
Since the fall of 2005, I have attended numerous, national conferences. The first conference I attended was held on September 29, 2005, which was hosted by the National Technical Association’s (NTA) National Conference and Technical Career Opportunity Fair. Some of the other conferences I have attended include another National Technical Association’s (NTA) National Conference and Technical Career Opportunity Fair in Chicago, IL on July 29, 2006 where Cheniece Arthur and I received third place for an undergraduate researcher’s award for our summer internship project, the Association of Computer/Information Sciences and Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI) Conference and Symposium in Atlanta, GA on February 8, 2007, Research in the Capital Undergraduate Research Symposium for the North Carolina General Assembly in Raleigh, NC on April 17, 2007, and the University of New Hampshire Undergraduate Research Conference Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Symposium in Durham, NH on April 25, 2007. November 10, 2007, I attended the Super Computing Conference 07 in Reno, NV and worked as a student volunteer an entire week and also I attended the NSF Directors Meeting at Clark University in Atlanta, GA on September 15, 2008.
As I embark on my upcoming future educational endeavors, I look forward to increasing my knowledge in the field of computers and accomplishing one more of my educational goals, a degree in computer science and a minor in Remote Sensing. I would feel honored and will strive to meet all expectations when I graduate from Elizabeth City State University in 2009.
Please feel free to contact me at: blcarmichael@mail.ecsu.edu