faculty:

James Bernard
Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering
VRAC Faculty Affiliate and HCI Graduate Faculty

 

Department: Mechanical Engineering
College: Engineering
Phone: 294-0360
Contact: , home page

As an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering and former Director of VRAC, Dr. Bernard has facilitated VRAC’s extraordinary growth VRAC has enjoyed over the years. In fact, he was an early proponent of the new Human Computer Interaction Interdepartmental Graduate Program and led the initial efforts to help the HCI initiative become a reality.

Dr. Bernard’s research interests include text and hypermedia management, Interval based calculations on distribution functions, software engineering, and technology foresight. However, he most enjoys researching design and vehicle dynamics.

Research:

Support for Globalization Course

Support for Globalization Course

Human Computer Interaction

Virtual Religion: Integrating Information Technology into the Religious Studies Curriculum

A Virtual Reality Applications Facility for Visualization of Joint Battlespace

Military Applications of Immersive Environments

Visualization of the Joint Battlespace

Evaluating Human Operator Performance in a Fully Immersive Virtual Reality Environment

Advanced Simulator Networking for Vehicle and Equipment Distributed Product Design

Advancing the State of the Art in Flight Simulation Via the Use of Synthetic Environments

Acquisition of a high performance computer for the C6 system

Preparation of a proposal for the C6

Synthetic Environments as Enabling Technology for Product Development: Phase II

Synthetic Environments as Enabling Technology for Product Development: Phase I

Virtual Prototyping Refinement

Acquisition of a High Performance Computing Infrastructure for Interactive Synthetic Environments

A Leadership Laboratory for Synthetic Environments

Virtual Reality Technology for Training Human Factors Analysis

Carver Fellows in Virtual Reality

Phase II: Analytical Review of Rollover Dynamics

Development and demonstration of a model vocational education program for assisting small manufacturing enterprises in adopting, implementing, operating, and managing new manufacturing technologies

Tire Modeling and Vehicle Data Postprocessing for the National Advanced Driving Simulator

Phase II: Physical Principles Associated with Rollover Mechanisms

Phase I: Physical Principles Associated with Rollover Mechanisms

Sensitivity Analyses of Tilt Table Test Procedures

Development of Multibody Models of Washing Machines

IAVSD Benchmark

Vertical Axis Washer Design

Design of a High Efficiency Laundry Product

Finite Element Analysis

Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology

News:

04-23-2012
Iowa State University's virtual reality lab greets visionary who set stage for cutting-edge research.

07-23-2008
Bernard named interim dean of Iowa State University College of Engineering

04-19-2006
Newt Gingrich to address Iowa State globalization course

10-15-2003
"James Oliver to Lead Virtual Reality Applications Center"

02-24-2003
Bernard named ASME Fellow

10-01-2000
"It's A Twister"

10-29-1996
"Virtual Reality Grows Up at ISU"