Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. ASCE Speaker Series: Exponent (October 19, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56461 56461-13906085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:54:07 -0400 2018-10-19T12:30:00-04:00 2018-10-19T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Careers / Jobs ASCE Speaker Series
Campus to Career workshop: Ace the interview! (October 23, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56739 56739-13988200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

Are you ready to learn more about the three different stages of transitioning from graduate school to post-graduation career? Come join us for the Campus to Career Workshop 3 part series!

The purpose of this workshop is to assist students in understanding the importance of networking, developing a professional network as a graduate student, presenting their best at the job interview and receiving the offer, and finally negotiating their offer effectively.

The "Ace the interview" workshop will focus on the second stage and we will have a representative from the Engineering Career Resource Center share their insights and knowledge with us. Lunch will be provided!

If interested, please RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/campus-to-career-workshop-ace-the-interview-registration-50971766927

Please email Dhanya Abraham (dmabe@umich.edu) or Maryam Akram (akramrym@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 14 Oct 2018 15:52:25 -0400 2018-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Graduate Society of Women Engineers Workshop / Seminar Ace The Interview
Design for Global Health Academic Program Information Sessions (October 25, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56788 56788-14003780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 5:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Global Health Design Initiative

Students are invited to come learn about the Design for Global Health Academic Program! The UM Global Health Design Initiative (GHDI) application for the Design for Global Health Academic Program is open! This program consists of a summer fieldwork experience in Ghana or Ethiopia to inform a novel design project to be completed during Fall 2019. Participants will gain extensive design experience and exposure to healthcare practices in low-resource settings. This opportunity is open to engineering and non-engineering students with senior standing by Fall 2019.

To learn more about GHDI and to apply, visit https://globalhealthdesign.engin.umich.edu/. Please direct inquiries to globalhealthdesign@umich.edu.

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:28:01 -0400 2018-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-25T18:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Global Health Design Initiative Careers / Jobs Global Health Design Initiative block M logo
ASCE Speaker Series: Aristeo (October 26, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56462 56462-13906086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:55:37 -0400 2018-10-26T12:30:00-04:00 2018-10-26T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Careers / Jobs ASCE Speaker Series
Mapping the Underworld of Buried Utilities (October 31, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57188 57188-14128649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Records of the locations and properties of vast underground utility networks are incomplete, inaccurate, and many times unavailable. This lack of information of underground pipes poses a critical challenge to maintaining and upgrading underground infrastructure, a grand engineering challenge outlined by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). It is also a main reason for the over six million of utility interruptions every year that cause injuries, fatalities, property damages, and environmental pollutions, amounting to billions of dollars in loss. Although sensing methods such as ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been exploited and proven its promise, it usage in urban environment is limited because of the complexity of the underworld and its reflection on the GPR signals and image signatures. We have created new methods to more accurately determine the location and dimension of underground pipes by fusing data from utility specifications and regulations and contextual cues, termed as “virtual sensors”, and GPR scans. Algorithms have been devised to extract image signatures from GPR radargrams to guide field robots in real-time, extract spatial rules from text documents, and integrating multiple sources of heterogeneous data. Research findings have been implemented as an autonomous robotic system with the capacity of adapting to complex spatial configurations of underground networks to generate accurate, geospatial 3D pipe models. Research findings are expected to shift the paradigm of the current practice in mapping underground pipes.
Dr. Hubo Cai is an Associate Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue University. He is the founding director of the Laboratory of Computer-Integrated Infrastructure Informatics (LCIII) and the codirector of the Discrete Event Simulation (DES) Laboratory.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:33:09 -0400 2018-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Construction Engineering Management Seminar Series
CEE Halloween Party (October 31, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56895 56895-14021556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 2:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

GSAC invites grad students, faculty, postdocs, and staff to the CEE Halloween party on Halloween day, Wednesday, October 31st from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the Blue Lounge (1280 GGB).
Don't forget to fly over on your broom and dress up in your best Halloween costume ever. There will be a Costume Contest with prizes(!), Halloween Snacks and Ice Cream Specials!!!

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:48:18 -0400 2018-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Social / Informal Gathering round gray bowl on white marble board
Behaviorally Stable Vehicle Platooning for Energy Savings (November 1, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57190 57190-14128651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A cooperative vehicle platoon is a set of vehicles driving together with low in-vehicle distance enabled by the connected and automated vehicle technology. One of the major benefits of vehicle platooning is energy savings due to air drag reduction. However, as vehicles at different positions in a platoon save differently from the platooning, e.g., the lead vehicles may save little, some drivers or owners of vehicles may not be willing to join or stay in the platoon even if they are advised to do so, yielding behaviorally unstable platoons. The instability further lead to chaos in traffic flow, which is likely to bring unnecessary traffic congestions. As such behavioral side of the problem has been drawn little attention in literature, this study intends to fill this void by focusing on the drivers and owners’ economic consideration of platooning. We envision a freeway system where vehicles are capable of platooning but each platoon has limited size. A novel utility function is proposed to measure a vehicle’s benefit in platooning. Based on that, a mathematical programming model is established to find the optimal platoon formation that specifies which vehicles should be platooned together and their platoon speeds as well as positions to achieve the maximum system benefit. A benefit allocation mechanism, either charges or compensates the vehicles, is then created to incentivize them to form and maintain the desired platoon formation. The model framework is further extended to the setting with an environmental concern, where the proposed mechanism has been shown to benefit not only the vehicles, but also the whole society by bringing greater reductions on traffic emissions.

Xiaotong Sun is a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:45:13 -0400 2018-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Engineering Seminar
1st-Gen Aero Student Career Clinic (November 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57202 57202-14128669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

We are holding a special event for students who are the first in their family to attend college. The College has told us you meet this criterion. Karen Albrecht, a distinguished alum and member of the Aero Department's Industrial Advisory Board (and the first in her family to attend college), will be on campus Friday 11/2 from 12-1:30. She would like to meet you and help you with your resumes, interview techniques, career advice, and financial advice.

We hope you can attend! The meeting is Friday 11/2 from 12-1:30 in room GGBL 1045 (GG Brown Labs). Lunch will be provided. Some information about Karen Albrecht is attached below.

Please register by Wednesday, October 31st!

Karen’s illustrious career as an Aerospace Engineer began at NASA JSC where she developed analytic methods for composite primary structure under fatigue and fracture mechanics for Space Shuttle. Karen participated in the Longitudinal Study of Astronaut Health (LSAH).

At Lockheed Martin, she worked on Missile Launching Systems, Basic Res
earch, Commercial Aircraft, Undersea Systems, SMART Structures, Robotics, and high-performance Military Aircraft. She developed embedded fiber optics technology. She is a Master Black Belt in 6-sigma and Lean Engineering.

Karen serves on several university engineering and non-profit boards. Karen is the 2007 Distinguished Alumnus –Aerospace for the UM.

Karen is now CEO of Karen Albrecht Enterprises a Career and Personal Development Organization. Karen has delivered over 200 seminars for courses she developed and gives her time and knowledge to help students navigate career fairs and polish their resumes. Karen has set up an endowment fund for Aerospace undergraduate education and provides scholarships for Aerospace Engineering students who need the support to finish their education at the University of Michigan.

Education and Experience
BSE, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
MS, Mechanical Engineering, Rice University
Certified Coach, Neurolinguistic Programming
Certified Life Coach, Fowler Wainwright Institute
Significant post-grad coursework in Technology, Management, and Leadership

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Meeting Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:36:13 -0400 2018-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Aerospace Engineering Meeting GG Brown Laboratory
ASCE Speaker Series: US Navy Corps of Engineers (November 2, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56463 56463-13906087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:56:40 -0400 2018-11-02T12:30:00-04:00 2018-11-02T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Careers / Jobs ASCE Speaker Series
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes: Their Importance in Wind Engineering (November 6, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57192 57192-14128652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Windstorms cause the most damage annually of any natural hazard in the United States. In most years, an overwhelming percentage of this damage is caused by severe convective storms (i.e., thunderstorms and tornadoes). Despite these losses, very little is known about the characteristics of these events, their relation to wind loading, and how they differ from current prescriptions available in wind load codes and standards. This talk will focus on the ongoing and future work that is occurring at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in an attempt to increase understanding of these phenomena and their impacts. Specifically, discussion will include: 1) characterization of tornado and thunderstorm winds relevant to engineering; 2) interpretation of the loading from these events and how they differ from wind load codes and standards 3) analysis of damage from recent tornado and thunderstorm events and 4) the development of a full-scale laboratory at UIUC to capture these events and address potential mitigation strategies.

Franklin Lombardo is an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Illinois.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:53:07 -0400 2018-11-06T16:30:00-05:00 2018-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Engineering Seminar
Affordable and Wearable Biosensors to Understand Workers’ Mental and Physical Stress (November 7, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57193 57193-14128653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Occupational stress is defined as the harmful physical and mental responses that happen when job requirements are greater than a worker's capacity. Construction is one of the most stressful occupations because it involves physiologically and psychologically demanding tasks performed in a hazardous environment. Various survey instruments for measuring workers′ perceived mental and physical stress have been used, e.g., the perceived stress and fatigue severity scales. These methods can document subjects′ overall stress. However, they have several key limitations. They are subjective, invasive, and cannot be used for continuous stress monitoring. To address these issues, my doctoral research applies several signal processing and machine learning techniques to propose a comprehensive and efficient stress measurement framework by acquiring high-quality physiological signals from wearable biosensors at job sites. Results yielded a high of 80.13 % mental stress and 90.00% physical stress recognition accuracy. These results are promising given that stress recognition with sensitive and wired physiological devices in the clinical domain has, at best, a similar level of accuracy. The proposed physiological signal-based stress recognition framework is expected to help us better understand workplace stressors and to improve worker productivity, safety, and well-being through early detection and mitigation of factors that cause stress.

Houtan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Tishman Construction Management Program, working under the supervision of Prof. SangHyun Lee. Houtan received his bachelor′s degree in civil engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University in 2012.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:06:42 -0500 2018-11-07T13:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T14:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Construction Engineering Management Seminar Series
Design for Global Health Academic Program Information Sessions (November 7, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56788 56788-14003782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 5:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Global Health Design Initiative

Students are invited to come learn about the Design for Global Health Academic Program! The UM Global Health Design Initiative (GHDI) application for the Design for Global Health Academic Program is open! This program consists of a summer fieldwork experience in Ghana or Ethiopia to inform a novel design project to be completed during Fall 2019. Participants will gain extensive design experience and exposure to healthcare practices in low-resource settings. This opportunity is open to engineering and non-engineering students with senior standing by Fall 2019.

To learn more about GHDI and to apply, visit https://globalhealthdesign.engin.umich.edu/. Please direct inquiries to globalhealthdesign@umich.edu.

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:28:01 -0400 2018-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Global Health Design Initiative Careers / Jobs Global Health Design Initiative block M logo
Controlling connected automated vehicles: From theory to experiments (November 8, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57194 57194-14128654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details to be announced.

Gabor Orosz is an associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:09:31 -0400 2018-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Engineering Seminar
When an engineer has a bad day (November 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57380 57380-14184482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professional Engineers are problem solvers. As part of the design process, we typically work with others to design solutions to infrastructure problems, including identifying feasible solutions, evaluating the alternates, completing a design and overseeing construction. Professional engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public with the design process. However, what happens when things do not go as planned on a design project? Jon and Catherine will present a case study from a slope failure project. The design process was supposed to stabilize an existing slope supporting a roadway, but resulted in a failure of a retaining wall. The project details will be presented to demonstrate the “lessons learned” from this project and to provide insight as to what type of issues may result on a project, even when there is “sound engineering analysis” to support the design.

Jonathan Zaremski, PE, is currently the Geotechnical Group Manager with Somat Engineering. He received his BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1998. Catherine Weirauch, PE, is currently a project manager in the geotechnical group at Somat Engineering. She received her BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2007.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:04:25 -0500 2018-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical seminar series
ASCE Speaker Series: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (November 9, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56464 56464-13906088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:57:42 -0400 2018-11-09T12:30:00-05:00 2018-11-09T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Careers / Jobs ASCE Speaker Series
Structural Seminar Series (November 13, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57196 57196-14128655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of the seminar to be announced.

Matthew Lewis is a senior associate at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE) and Thai Dam is an associate at WJE. WJE is a worldwide, employee-owned interdisciplinary firm consisting of engineers, architects, and materials scientists.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:27:52 -0500 2018-11-13T16:30:00-05:00 2018-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Engineering Seminar
Civil and Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Open House (November 13, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57483 57483-14202420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 5:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering is a growing engineering field that focuses on society, cities, the environment, and technology. Join us to learn about careers, internship opportunities, international projects, and other exciting events in CEE.

The event will be casual and fun, and we’ll have food and drinks.

If this sounds interesting, you should consider dropping by. Bring a friend. If you can’t make it, contact blankm@umich.edu and we can set you up with a personal visit.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 07 Nov 2018 13:02:51 -0500 2018-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 2018-11-13T18:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Reception / Open House Two people talking at party
Personalized thermal control through integrated human environment data (November 14, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57264 57264-14146529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details about the seminar to be announced.

Da Li is a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 05 Nov 2018 11:53:10 -0500 2018-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T14:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Construction Engineering Management Seminar Series
Transportation Seminar Series (November 15, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57265 57265-14146531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of this seminar to be announced.

Merhrnaz Ghavami is an assistant professor in the Civil and Engineering department.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Nov 2018 08:49:47 -0400 2018-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar Series
ASCE Speaker Series: Wade Trim (November 16, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56465 56465-13906090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:01:17 -0400 2018-11-16T12:30:00-05:00 2018-11-16T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Careers / Jobs ASCE Speaker Series
Opportunities for convergence research in natural hazards engineering (November 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57273 57273-14312562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of the seminar to be announced.

Forrest Masters, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor of Civil and Coastal Engineering in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment at the University of Florida and serves as Associate Dean for Research and Facilities in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. His research interests primarily focus on the hurricane boundary layer and its effect on the built environment, with emphasis on the advancement of damage mitigation strategies and building product innovation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:04:01 -0500 2018-11-20T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Structural Seminar Series (November 20, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57268 57268-14146532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of the seminar will be announced.

Hadi Salehi is a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Michigan State University.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Nov 2018 08:54:33 -0400 2018-11-20T16:30:00-05:00 2018-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Structural Materials Evaluation Using Nondestructive Testing Methods (November 27, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57269 57269-14146535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of this seminar to be announced.

Roland Bogdani is a Senior Project Engineer at SME with 7 years of experience in providing engineering assessment of existing structures including pedestrian, highway, and railroad bridges, as well as commercial and historical buildings, and high-rise structures. He is a specialist in providing nondestructive assessment of concrete structures using ultrasonic and impulse radar testing equipment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:09:53 -0500 2018-11-27T16:30:00-05:00 2018-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Lean construction: Principles and practice (November 28, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57271 57271-14146536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Brad will discuss provide a brief history of lean construction, discuss the five principles, and provide an overview of some of the tools that are used to help create a lean culture on Turner projects.

Brad Booker is the regional lean manager at Turner Construction for the Great Lakes and Canada area.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:06:21 -0500 2018-11-28T13:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T14:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Construction Engineering Management Seminar Series
Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Programs Open House (November 28, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57689 57689-14261245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 6:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

OUR DEPARTMENT strives to be the leading educational and research institution addressing transformative advances in the understanding, design, and long-term protection of interconnected civil and environmental infrastructure systems and the natural environment.

JOIN US FOR DINNER and learn about the impact you could have as a graduate student in the University of Michigan Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:50:37 -0500 2018-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T20:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Reception / Open House People talking and eating
Testing Scenario Library Generation for Connected and Automated Vehicle Evaluation (November 29, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57272 57272-14146537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of seminar to be announced.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:10:57 -0500 2018-11-29T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar Series
ASCE Speaker Series: Ruby + Associates (November 30, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56466 56466-13906091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:02:23 -0400 2018-11-30T12:30:00-05:00 2018-11-30T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Careers / Jobs ASCE Speaker Series
Opportunities for convergence research in natural hazards engineering (December 4, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57273 57273-14146538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of the seminar to be announced.

Forrest Masters, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor of Civil and Coastal Engineering in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment at the University of Florida and serves as Associate Dean for Research and Facilities in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. His research interests primarily focus on the hurricane boundary layer and its effect on the built environment, with emphasis on the advancement of damage mitigation strategies and building product innovation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:04:01 -0500 2018-12-04T16:30:00-05:00 2018-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Planning and Execution for Adaptive Robotized Construction Joint Filling (December 5, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57274 57274-14146539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of this seminar to be announced.

Kurt Lundeen is a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:17:17 -0400 2018-12-05T13:00:00-05:00 2018-12-05T14:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Construction Engineering Management Seminar Series
An Innovative Method towards Automation of Model Selection using Big Simulated Data and Machine Learning (December 6, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57275 57275-14146540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of this seminar to be announced.

Ali Shirazi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:19:36 -0400 2018-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 2018-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar Series
ASCE Speaker Series: Beaubien Engineering (December 7, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56467 56467-13906092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:03:26 -0400 2018-12-07T12:30:00-05:00 2018-12-07T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Careers / Jobs ASCE Speaker Series
Structural Seminar Series (December 11, 2018 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57276 57276-14146541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details of this seminar are to be announced.

Jim Corsiglia is a principal structural engineer at Harley, Ellis, Devereaux in Southfield.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:24:05 -0400 2018-12-11T16:30:00-05:00 2018-12-11T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
CoE Multicultural Potluck (December 12, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58228 58228-14444068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council

We will be hosting the first-ever CoE Multicultural Potluck. Within Michigan's CoE we're fortunate to have great diversity, but there are seldom opportunities for us students to share our cultures with each other. With this event, we invite students to share a very important aspect of their culture...

FOOD!


Students are encouraged to prepare and bring in dishes from any culture they want and share those dishes potluck-style by giving out samples. Here, we're taking a flexible view of what culture means. It could mean food from a certain region or nation, or just food that you're excited about and want to share with others.

If you are interested in the prospect of bringing or preparing a taste of your culture (or a culture you're fond of!) then please check out the following Google Sheet and consider booking a spot. You bring the food, and we'll take care of the rest!

https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/spreadsheets/d/10T_L9A5RUNHyHVa6_xW9_8VERHnQjhgXrdI0Q7bWqD4/edit?usp=drive_web

Of course, you don't need to bring food to participate. If you still want to attend but don't want to bring any food, please RSVP at the following link. RSVP will be required to attend so we can plan resources accordingly.

https://goo.gl/forms/PG8v06wkk2i9PWEi1

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email us!

Thanks,
Potluck Planning Committee
MEGC E-Board

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:21:41 -0500 2018-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 2018-12-12T14:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council Social / Informal Gathering CoE Multicultural Potluck
"Exploring the vulnerability of advanced signal control systems under cyber attacks using falsified vehicle trajectory data" (January 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58480 58480-14508634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details to TBA.

Ed Huang is a Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD candidate at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:54:22 -0500 2019-01-10T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
The Promise of Smart Materials in Earthquake Resistant Design (January 11, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59444 59444-14743407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 11:00am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Damage from recent earthquakes underscores the importance of developing new
approaches and technologies to improve the performance of structures during
earthquakes. The presentation will highlight applications of one class of smart
materials, shape memory alloys, in improving the performance of structures
subjected to earthquake loading. Shape memory alloys belong to a class of shape
memory materials which can undergo large deformations while reverting back to
their original, undeformed shape. This unique property has led to the development
of numerous applications in the biomedical, aerospace, and commercial industry. A
multi-scale and multi-disciplinary approach is taken to explore the potential use of
these systems for applications in earthquake engineering.

Reginald DesRoches is the Dean of William and Stephanie Sick of Engineering of Rice University.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:31:15 -0500 2019-01-11T11:00:00-05:00 2019-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
CEE Department Laboratory Safety Meeting (January 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58442 58442-14500261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

At the CEE Department Laboratory Safety Meeting, we'll discuss current and new safety issues, expectations, and requirements.

Who should attend? All laboratory personnel including but not limited to students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and visitors. Everyone who works in CEE laboratories, except those working in computer laboratories.

Light refreshments will be served.

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Meeting Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:38:22 -0500 2019-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T15:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Meeting assorted-color hard hat beside intermodal container
Predictive Analytics for Internet of Things (IoT) Enabled Systems (January 17, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58481 58481-14508635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

In this talk, we try to address some of these challenges through predictive data
analytics methodologies designed for IoT enabled systems. Specifically, we establish non-parametric models that predict the evolution of condition/system monitoring signals through borrowing strength from historical and in-service data. These frameworks leverage on kernel methods, functional component analysis and
Bayesian inference. Further, we discuss how these methods can consistently scale to big data settings. The methodologies are validated using numerical studies and a case study with real world data in the application to cloud-based vehicle health
monitoring service systems.

Raed Al Kontar is an Assistant Professor in Industrial and Operations Engineering department at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on developing data analytics and decision-making methodologies specifically tailored for Internet of Things (IoT) enabled smart and connected products/systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:01:56 -0500 2019-01-17T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Foamed Glass Aggregate: An Ultra-Lightweight Fill and Insulation Alternative (January 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59874 59874-14797308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Foamed Glass Aggregate (FGA) is a lightweight fill and insulation alternative that has been widely used in Europe over the past three decades for roadway, commercial, and residential construction. Beneficial properties of this material include a low unit weight, good insulating values, high friction angle, non-reactive behavior, volume stability, and porosity. Additionally, FGA is made from 100% recycled glass and has an attractive carbon and energy footprint compared to other lightweight fill and insulation options. This presentation will cover the history, manufacturing, engineering properties, application areas, and design considerations
for foamed glass aggregate. Several brief case studies will be described and will focus on recent projects installed in the U.S.
Theresa Loux is the Technical Manager for AeroAggregates where her primary responsibilities include overseeing Aero’s quality control program and technical documentation, education and outreach efforts, and engineering support.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:03:12 -0500 2019-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Tailoring the Mechanics of Origami to Make Deployable & Adaptable Structures (January 18, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59751 59751-14786502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The art of origami can be used to create a rich variety of deployable, reconfigurable, and adaptable three-dimensional systems. By designing the geometry & mechanical properties of the origami, it is possible to create engineering systems ranging from micro-robots to large-scale adaptable architecture.This talk will present his group’s work on different origami geometries and discuss how their properties are suited to making unique functional structures. They will present cellular and tubular origami which can be used for stiff large-structures and energy absorbing devices. Using
curved creases, they'll show a broad range of possible geometric designs that possess highly anisotropic properties. An origami with a hyperbolic paraboloid geometry is used to achieve bistable and multi-stable characteristics that can aid in actuation. Finally, they'll show new work on using active material systems to achieve structures that can self-assemble. Lunch will be provided.

Professor Evgueni Filipov is an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. His research interests lie in the field of deployable and reconfigurable structural systems. Folding and adaptable structures based on the principles of origami can have practical applications ranging in scale and discipline from biomedical robotics to deployable architecture.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Jan 2019 08:48:42 -0500 2019-01-18T12:30:00-05:00 2019-01-18T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar
Canopy Interception: Understanding Leaf Wetness and its Influence on Vegetation Water and Carbon Fluxes (January 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59667 59667-14777902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Canopy interception of rain, dew, and fog occurs in ecosystems worldwide. A ubiquitous effect of leaf wetness on plant water balance is the interference of the water droplets with the leaf energy balance, which increases leaf albedo and emissivity and decreases leaf temperature through droplet evaporation. This in turns affects the vegetation carbon uptake rate, with potential consequences for the whole global carbon cycle. Here, I use the specific example of dew deposition to understand how leaf wetness affects water and CO2 fluxes of plants. First, I will present a simple leaf energy balance that characterizes the effect of deposition and the evaporation of dew on transpiration and carbon uptake. The model is driven by five common meteorological variables and is used to explore the tradeoffs between energy, water, and carbon balances for leaves of different sizes across a range of environmental conditions. I will then present results from a laboratory experiment
where Colocasia esculenta leaves were misted with isotopically enriched water to mimic canopy interception. Leaf water isotopes and water potential measurements corroborates the results of the model.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:08:43 -0500 2019-01-18T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-18T16:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Real-Time Sensor Anomaly Detection and Recovery in Connected Automated Vehicle Sensors (January 24, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58482 58482-14508636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

Yiyang Wang is a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:50:34 -0500 2019-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Advanced Laboratory Testing to Characterize Stiff, Geologically Aged Clays (January 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60181 60181-14846874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This lecture is part of a webinar series sponsored by International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.

Richard Jardine is Professor of Geomechanics and Deputy Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Imperial College - London,

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:01:21 -0500 2019-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Research Lab Open House (January 25, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59670 59670-14777906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Come inside GG Brown and EWRE’s most exclusive doors and “hunt down” its best kept secrets. Make new connections with faculty and graduate students over a sponsored lunch.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:53:20 -0500 2019-01-25T12:30:00-05:00 2019-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Reception / Open House Lab Open House
Better Assemblies Through Geometric Frustration (January 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60291 60291-14857788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Department of Physics

In hard materials, geometric frustration (GF) is most often associated with the disruption of long-range order in the bulk and proliferation of defects in the ground state. Soft and self-assembled materials, on the other hand, are composed of intrinsically flexible building blocks held together deformable and non-covalent forces. As such, soft assemblies systems are able to tolerate some measure of local misfit due to frustration, allowing imperfect order to extend over at least some
finite range.

This talk will overview an emerging paradigm for self-organized soft materials, geometrically-frustrated assemblies (GFAs), where interactions between self-assembling elements (e.g. particles, macromolecules, proteins) favor local packing motifs that are incompatible with uniform global order in the assembly. This classification applies to a broad range of material assemblies including self-twisting
protein filament bundles, amyloid fibers, chiral smectics and membranes, particle-coated droplets, curved protein shells and phase-separated lipid vesicles. In assemblies, GF leads to a host of anomalous structural and thermodynamic
properties, including heterogeneous and internally-stressed equilibrium structures, self-limiting assembly and topological defects in the equilibrium assembly structures.

I will highlight the some of the basic principles and common outcomes of GF in soft matter assemblies, as well as, outstanding questions not yet addressed about the unique properties and behaviors of this broad class of systems. Finally, I will describe opportunities and challenges to exploit the scale-dependent thermodynamics of GFA to engineer new classes of intentionally ill-fitting assemblies that target equilibrium architectures with well-defined dimensions on length scales that extend far beyond the size of the building blocks or their interactions.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:44:48 -0500 2019-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Department of Physics Workshop / Seminar GG Brown Laboratory
Unbiased nonlinear transport model estimation using linearly projected data in the big data era (January 31, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58483 58483-14508637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 31, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA.

Wai Wong is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:07:15 -0500 2019-01-31T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Winter Kickoff Social - American Society for Engineering Education (February 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60776 60776-14963952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

Please join the American Society for Engineering Education to kick off this semester's programming with some snacks, socializing, and networking, as well as an overview of our upcoming programming! Come to find out what ASEE is all about, to catch up with friends, to chat about engineering education, or just for some snacks!

This event is a part of our Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia series, sponsored by a CoE Graduate Student Community Grant.

RSVP recommended here: https://goo.gl/forms/TEgtK51HwcHwWnwH2

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Meeting Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:02:48 -0500 2019-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Meeting GG Brown Laboratory
Testing Scenario Library Generation for CAV Evaluation based on Reinforcement Learning Techniques (February 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58485 58485-14508639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Shuo Feng is a PhD student in the Department of Automation at the Tsinghua University.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:14:32 -0500 2019-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
New Perspectives on Classical Soil Mechanics (February 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60804 60804-14970660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The classical soil mechanics has been founded to support practice-driven geotechnical engineering solutions. In terms of fundamental soil properties, classical soil mechanics uses the basic mechanics concepts and utilizes experimentally observed soil behavior to develop application-driven engineering parameters. The microscopic mechanisms of these parameters are typically overlooked. This presentation will describe a framework that integrates computational models with characterization of the fundamental properties of soils to understand the structural and interaction bases of soil engineering parameters. The framework allows predicting soil engineering behaviors from the most fundamental characterizations. It has the potential of transforming soil mechanism into a predictive mechanics and catalyze the introduction of new sets of experimental tools for soil mechanics research.
Dr. Xiong (Bill) Yu is a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Case Western Reserve University.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:03:06 -0500 2019-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Elevator Pitch Help from ECRC Peer Advisors for ME Students (February 13, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60750 60750-14961652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

ME Students: Navigating the job search process can be difficult, especially when you're not sure how to approach networking with recruiters. The ECRC student peer advisors are coming to your department to help you develop your elevator pitch! Come by between classes and chat with a peer advisor to get more practice introducing yourself to employers, ask any questions you may have with the concluding of the career fair, and to learn more about the many services the ECRC offers to help students succeed in their unique job search.

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 06 Feb 2019 13:10:39 -0500 2019-02-13T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T15:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs GG Brown Laboratory
On the supply function of ride-hailing systems (February 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60815 60815-14970670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Zhengtian Xu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Feb 2019 09:44:55 -0500 2019-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Geotechnical Seminar (February 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60865 60865-14979677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Conveyance systems for drinking water to major cities are critical infrastructure components. Most systems utilize a combination of pipelines and tunnels, which were typically built 50 to 100 years ago. Some of these systems are either susceptible to risks of rupture or failure, or are experiencing significant operations and maintenance issues. Two examples from opposite coasts in North America are the Delaware Aqueduct in New York State, and the Second Narrows Undercrossing in Vancouver, British Columbia. For the Delaware Aqueduct, a portion of the original tunnel is experiencing significant leakage below the Hudson River within a high-permeability rock mass. For the Second Narrows Undercrossing, construction of three pipelines across the Burrard Inlet at shallow depths and in liquefiable soils put them at risk for both scour/anchor strike damage and failure during the potential large earthquakes that could occur in the area. Specific issues and technical challenges will be presented for each project.

Samuel Swartz is a Principal Tunnel Engineer based out of Chicago, IL. With more than 20 years of experience in the tunneling industry, he has provided tunnel design on a number of challenging projects across North America, and in Australia and New Zealand. A native of Ann Arbor, he received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in Civil/Geotechnical Engineering, and a Master’s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Geotechnical Engineering.
Jake Facey is a Senior Staff Engineer based out of Pittsburgh, PA. His work experience spans three years. In that time, he has contributed to the design of numerous large- and small-scale projects across the United States and Canada. Jake graduated from the University of Michigan in 2016 with a focus in Geotechnical Engineering.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:02:15 -0500 2019-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Wind-resilient and sustainable architectural engineering (February 18, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61162 61162-15043039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sustainable and wind-resilient building design requires realistic modelling of urban microclimate interaction with building at various scales (component → building → neighbourhood → city). This includes both (i) normally recurring microclimate conditions driven by thermal variations and/or normal wind for building energy performance design, and (ii) extreme climate conditions such as hurricane landfall, tornado touchdown or extreme winter for capacity and safety design. Alan Davenport’s “wind-loading-chain” links the modelling of extreme synoptic wind, exposure, aerodynamics, and dynamics to particular design criteria. Its expansion to (i) non-synoptic extreme winds such as tornadoes and downbursts; (ii) normal micro-climatic loads such as thermal loads, (iii) optimal tall building/bridge aerodynamic solutions; (iv) performance based wind design methods for emerging tall-mass-timber buildings; and (v) community level wind performance assessments, will be presented, through representative research projects from each category. The roles of computational fluid dynamics and Artificial Intelligence (deployed at SHARCNet) complimenting the physical experiments (enabled by the Boundary Layer Wind
Tunnel Laboratory and WindEEE Dome) in realizing windresilient and sustainable architectural engineering will be emphasized.

Dr. Bitsuamlak is Canada Research Chair in Wind Engineering at Western University. He serves as Director (Research) for both the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory and WindEEE Research Institute, and Western’s Site-leader for SHARCNet computing centre. His team is actively working on modelling microclimate effects to enhance the performance of buildings and cities for extreme wind (e.g. hurricane and tornado safety), and normal climate (Building thermal and energy performance).

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:57:47 -0500 2019-02-18T12:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar lightning struck on desert
Smart city logistics: Trends in sustainable deliveries (February 21, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60818 60818-14970673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Monireh Mahmoudi is a professor in the College of Agriculture & Natural Resources at the Michigan State University. Mahmoudi's research focuses on the application and development of operations research methods in logistics and operations planning in recycling plastic packaging.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Feb 2019 09:49:12 -0500 2019-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Geomechanics of Sinkholes (February 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60866 60866-14979678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sinkholes pose a major threat to environment, infrastructure, and human safety. They can develop via a cluster of inter-related processes, including bedrock dissolution, rock collapse, soil washing away, and soil collapse. Current practices involved in the sinkhole hazard assessment are generally of a qualitative, empirical nature and largely based on geological characteristics of the karst terrains. This talk aims to present a quantitative analysis of the interplay of multiple mechanisms involved during sinkhole development. The dominant mechanism behind sinkholes formed in rocks is the dissolution of soluble karstic rocks. Dissolution process may be enhanced by potentially aggressive groundwater acidity and the presence of caves or fissures. Specific dissolution rate of the constituent mineral (limestone or dolomite) and the surface area available for reaction are related via a chemo-mechanical coupling with the consideration of the damage-enhanced dissolution mechanism. The second part of the analysis explores the cover collapse type of sinkholes in which the critical mechanism is the growth and upward propagation of cavity. A strain-softening constitutive model is used to describe the strength evolution dependent on accumulated plastic deviatoric strain and erosion progression of soils around the cavity. The numerical results demonstrate the feasibility of expanding classical geomechanics to address intricate, often coupled processes in sinkholes.

Dr. Hu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Toledo. He received his B.E. in Structural Engineering from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Duke University. His present research interests are primarily in geohazards and energy geotechnics.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:15:34 -0500 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Faculty Speaker #1 - Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia discussions (February 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61333 61333-15088053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

Dr. Rick Hill, Assistant Dean for Research and External Initiatives in the College of Engineering & Science at the University of Detroit Mercy, will be joining us for a discussion about his career path as part of our "Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia" series, which is sponsored by a CoE Graduate Student Community Grant.

Anyone considering a career path in academia or with an interest in teaching should consider attending - whether you're just trying to decide if that's the path you want to take, or whether you're already applying to positions. Dr. Hill will be speaking about his experience, as well as talking about the differences between working at Detroit Mercy and what we see here at UM. While anyone is welcome, the discussion will be of most interest to graduate students and postdocs.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:45:22 -0500 2019-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Lecture / Discussion GG Brown Laboratory
A decentralized game theoretical approach for vehicle platooning under economic concern (February 28, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60819 60819-14970674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Xiaotong Sun is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:31:29 -0500 2019-02-28T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Evaluating Site Seismic Parameters for Construction (February 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60867 60867-14979679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Geotechnical engineers are frequently faced with addressing seismicity issues
associated with construction of new buildings or additions to existing buildings. According to building codes and related guidelines, the geotechnical engineer has several methods to evaluate seismicity issues at sites where new construction is planned. The findings developed from the geotechnical engineer’s evaluation are then used by the project structural engineer in their design of the proposed building. This presentation will provide a broad overview of Mr. Jedele’s experience with the methods available in the geotechnical engineer’s toolbox and include several case histories where these tools have been used and compared with each other.

Mr. Jedele received his baccalaureate and MS degrees from the University of Michigan. He is a Past President of the ASCE Geo-Institute Board of Governors, and he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of Geo-Professionals. In 1991 Larry was named the Engineer of the Year by the Michigan Section of ASCE and earlier by the Ann Arbor Branch of ASCE. He is a registered engineer in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Feb 2019 07:57:16 -0500 2019-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Effects of charging infrastructure and non-electric taxi competition on electric taxi adoption incentives in NYC (March 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61447 61447-15106032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Jae Young Jung is a technical expert in operations research at the Ford Motor Company.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:15:13 -0500 2019-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Geotechnical Seminar (March 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61446 61446-15106031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Mr. Roarty is a Senior Vice President in Geotechnical Engineering and Heavy Underground Design at NTH Consultants, Ltd. in Detroit, MI. He specializes in subsurface investigation, ground improvement, underground design, forensic evaluation, litigation defense, and construction contract administration.Mr. Roarty has co-authored magazine articles and technical proceedings as well as numerous reports related to geotechnical and forensic evaluations and rehabilitation work.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:11:51 -0500 2019-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Intel on Campus with GradSWE (March 19, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62153 62153-15302378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 6:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

Intel representatives are coming to town to meet graduate engineers in an info session hosted by GradSWE. Come by to learn more about Intel and to directly speak with the reps for potential recruitment. Food will be provided! RSVP required.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:43:54 -0400 2019-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T19:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Graduate Society of Women Engineers Careers / Jobs GG Brown Laboratory
Ford Mobility Routing Solutions (March 21, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61450 61450-15106036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA.

Crystal Wang is a Routing Product Supervisor for the Ford Motor Company.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:06:29 -0400 2019-03-21T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Geophysical imaging of bedrock weathering profiles: A case study in the Nepal Himalayas (March 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62277 62277-15344239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This seminar will include two shorter presentations; Mr. William Medwedeff will talk on “Geophysical imaging of bedrock weathering profiles: A case study in the Nepal Himalayas,” and Mr. Logan Knoper will give a presentation on “A temporal perspective on monsoon landslides in the Himalayas through high-resolution satellite imagery.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Mar 2019 07:58:00 -0400 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Increasing GPS localization accuracy with reinforcement learning (March 28, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62282 62282-15344246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Ethan Zhang is a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:22:15 -0400 2019-03-28T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Influence of slickwater additives on fate of residual fracturing fluids and flowback composition in shale gas reservoirs (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62284 62284-15344247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Understanding the fate of residual hydraulic fracturing fluids and the mechanisms
that control flowback fluid composition are necessary components to the environmentally sustainable development of shale gas reservoirs. Fracturing fluids contain an array of chemical additives that will influence mineral dissolution reactions and water imbibition at the shale fracture/matrix interface. This presentation will summarize results from a series of experimental studies that examined the impact of acid and surfactants commonly used in slickwater fracturing fluids with respect to their ability to mobilize contaminants from and influence water imbibition into the shale matrix.

Brian Ellis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan (U-M).His research interests cover topics related to the sustainable development of subsurface energy resources and geologic CO2 sequestration.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:58:25 -0400 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Optimizing Traffic Signal Control with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in the Traffic Stream (April 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59689 59689-14777953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The presentation will discuss on-going work to develop optimization algorithms,
simulation tools, and sensor capabilities for enhancing traffic signal control operations when the traffic stream consists of connected vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and conventional vehicles. Early versions of the optimization were deployed and tested at theTraffic Engineering and Research Laboratory (TERL), a Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) closed-course facility. The results from the field test confirmed the feasibility of the concept and are now used to enhance the algorithm and prepare it for field deployment as part of the I-STREET real-world testbed in Gainesville, Florida. The research, led by UF, is funded by NSF and FDOT, and involves two industry partners: ISS and Econolite.

Dr. Elefteriadou is the Director of the UF Transportation Institute (UFTI) and the Barbara Goldsby Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research focus is traffic operations, traffic flow theory and simulation

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:02:51 -0400 2019-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Life-Cycle, Risk, Resilience and Sustainability of Infrastructure (April 10, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62829 62829-15477381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Our knowledge to model, analyze, design, maintain, monitor, manage, predict and optimize the life-cycle performance of structures and infrastructure under uncertainty is continually growing. However, in many countries, including the United States, the civil infrastructure is no longer within desired levels of performance. Decisions resilence- and sustainability regarding infrastructure systems should be supported by an integrated risky-based life-cycle multi-objective optimization framework by considering, among other factors, the likelihood of successful performance and the total expected cost accrued over the entire life-cycle. The primary objective of this lecture is to present a framework for risk-, resilience- and sustainability-informed decision making for structural systems and networks in a life-cycle multi-objective optimization context. Risk-based performance metrics allow engineers to combine the probability of structural failure with the consequences corresponding to this event. The sustainability performance metric is established considering the risks associated with economic, social, and environmental impacts, utility theory, and the decision maker’s risk attitude. Applications include time-variant reliability, risk, resilience, and sustainability of bridges, bridge transportation networks, and interdependent infrastructure systems under multi-hazards.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Apr 2019 13:31:19 -0400 2019-04-10T12:30:00-04:00 2019-04-10T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Blackfriars Bridge
Modeling and simulation research on human interactions with advanced vehicle technologies (April 11, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62567 62567-15405805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

Dr. Heejin Jeong is a research fellow in UMTRI's Human Factors Group. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan with a focus on human factors and systems engineering. His primary research focuses on supporting human decision making in human interactions with autonomous systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Apr 2019 09:19:55 -0400 2019-04-11T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Steel Bridge North Central Regional Competition (April 12, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56335 56335-13880809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: University of Michigan Steel Bridge Team

The university will be hosting various schools from Michigan and Ohio as they compete in the National Student Steel Bridge Competition in the North Central region.

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Other Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:12:15 -0400 2019-04-12T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T23:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory University of Michigan Steel Bridge Team Other GG Brown Laboratory
MiTSO Speaker Series: Workshop on VISSIM Traffic Simulation (April 12, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62970 62970-15526386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 10:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Curious about how traffic engineers simulate a traffic system? Analyze traffic conditions? Evaluate traffic control systems?
Join us at the PTV VISSIM workshop! Refreshments provided!

Dr. Yiheng Feng is an assistant research scientist at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the department of systems and industrial engineering at University of Arizona in 2015. His research mainly focuses on traffic control with connected and automated vehicles, cyber security of transportation infrastructure and CAV testing and evaluation.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Apr 2019 08:07:06 -0400 2019-04-12T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-12T11:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Sunset aligning with the streets of Manhattan.
LGBTQA+ Allyhood Development Training (April 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62890 62890-15486012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council

In recognition of the Day of Silence, MEGC in collaboration with the ME Department will be offering Allyhood Development Training in the Blue Lounge on Friday, April 12th from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Approximately 10-13% of students across the university identifies with the LGBTQA+ community and we are committed to creating a more inclusive and welcoming environment for LGBTQA+ students and allies within our department (and across COE).

Food and Refreshments will be provided!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Apr 2019 19:48:37 -0400 2019-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council Workshop / Seminar LGBT Flag
MEGC Allyhood Development Training (April 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62949 62949-15520076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

In recognition of the Day of Silence, MEGC in collaboration with the ME Department will be offering Allyhood Development Training in the Blue Lounge on Friday, April 12th from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Approximately 10-13% of students across the university identifies with the LGBTQA+ community and we are committed to creating a more inclusive and welcoming environment for LGBTQA+ students and allies within our department (and across COE).

Food and Refreshments will be provided!

Learn more about interesting ways that students all across the U.S. are taking a vow of silence here.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:34:19 -0400 2019-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar MECG Logo
LGBTQ and Ally Trivia Night (April 12, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63006 63006-15534806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 5:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council

Come join us for some fun LGBTQ and ally trivia. The purpose of the trivia is to provide a fun way to educate the public on the challenges that LGBTQ students face, as well as how to be better allies to them. Bring your friends! There will be food and prizes!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:53:40 -0400 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T18:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council Social / Informal Gathering Trivia
Steel Bridge North Central Regional Competition (April 13, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56335 56335-13880810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:00am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: University of Michigan Steel Bridge Team

The university will be hosting various schools from Michigan and Ohio as they compete in the National Student Steel Bridge Competition in the North Central region.

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Other Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:12:15 -0400 2019-04-13T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-13T23:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory University of Michigan Steel Bridge Team Other GG Brown Laboratory
Observation in Support of Analysis and Design of RC Structures (April 18, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63053 63053-15543230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The talk describes findings from numerical and experimental research as well as field work focused on the performance of RC structures. It includes a series of examples in which observations from the field and the laboratory were indispensable to support analyses leading to credible explanations of phenomena ranging from building collapses to basic resistance mechanisms in RC. Special attention is given to research addressing issues faced in the U.S. in the recent adoption of design provisions to allow the use of high strength steel (HSS) reinforcing bars (with yield stresses of up to 700 MPa) in buildings required to resist earthquake demands. The new provisions in the U.S. Building Code (ACI318-19) were motivated by industry and the need to reduce congestion and labor costs. The central questions in this process had to do with the plausible effects of the use of HSS reinforcement on both cyclic drift capacity and seismic drift demand of RC structures. In the case of drift capacity the main concerns included:
1) effects of different stress-strain curves on the distribution of curvature along an element,
2) reduced ultimate elongation and toughness of high-strength steels,
3) redefinition of limits to amount of reinforcement.
In the case of drift demand the described research explored the plausible effects of reductions in reinforcement ratio and, therefore, post-cracking stiffness. The problem of drift demand is examined in reference to earthquake records that have been obtained in the last 20 years and challenge common preconceptions about the properties of ground motion.
To close, a summary is presented to emphasize the importance of the use of data (observation) to support analysis and design in engineering, and the audience is offered open resources to access large collections of field and laboratory data related to the seismic performance of RC structures. Examples of new research directions (related to structural resilience and repair) are also offered to elicit questions and discussion.

Mr. Pujol is a professor in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:41:47 -0400 2019-04-18T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-18T15:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar
Bicycling Safety in the Future of Mobility (September 5, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66378 66378-16734107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Bicycling is an important component of future mobility for its economic, environmental, and health benefits. However, the safety issues of riding a bicycle on roadways with mixed traffic have been a major concern.

This talk covers a number of recent research projects that utilize naturalistic driving data and naturalistic cycling data to (1) examine and understand the interactions between motorists and bicyclists, and (2) support the development of automated vehicles so that they can safely interact with bicyclists on the road. The outcomes of the work could be used to support the designs of better road infrastructures, testing and benchmarking automated driving technologies, and support laws and regulations that aim to improve the safety of all road users.

Fred Feng is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at UM-Dearborn. His research interests include behavioral data analytics, human factors, cognitive ergonomics, and human-machine interaction.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 08:52:43 -0400 2019-09-05T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-05T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series: Sachse Construction (September 6, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66226 66226-16719605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 6, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sachse Construction, headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, offers premium commercial construction services nationwide that deliver projects on time and within budget.

It’s a commitment that’s won the trust of clients from national retail chains to private and institutional owners since 1991. Sachse has built millions of square feet of retail, restaurant, airport, education, office, healthcare, industrial, multi-family and hospitality space throughout the United States and Canada. Clients choose Sachse to guide projects to completion nationwide, with hard work, high standards, reliability, value and the integrity to do the right thing.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:03:58 -0400 2019-09-06T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-06T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series (September 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66530 66530-16744977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

The first seminar in the Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series of the fall 2019 semester.

Tuesday, September 10th
4pm
2147 GG Brown

Challenges in Prosthetic Limbs: Design, Control, Use, and Utility
Presented by: Assistant Professor Peter G. Adamczyk of the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Abstract
Artificial limbs offer an opportunity to improve movement through biomimetic devices. One approach is to directly replace joint function, but achieving humanlike performance is challenging for design, control, cost and longevity of the systems. An alternative approach is to exploit biomechanical workarounds for lost function rather than directly replacing it. This presentation will describe several such “semi-active” prostheses – low-power systems that modulate their mechanical properties but cannot power body movement – that aim to add adaptability and versatility with minimal addition of weight, height, complexity, power demand and cost.
Another challenge in rehabilitation and assistive technology is determining which among several interventions is most beneficial to everyday movement. “Real-world” assessment using wearable sensors is a popular approach, but current analysis techniques struggle to reduce days-long data sets to generalizable knowledge. The second part of this presentation will describe this challenge and a novel approach to data reduction aimed at enabling lab-like scientific findings from long-term wearable data sets, with upcoming application to prosthetic ankle-foot systems.

Bio
Dr. Peter Adamczyk earned degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University (B.S.) and the University of Michigan (M.S. and Ph.D) in the areas of Robotics and Biomechanics. He spent several years running a startup company dedicated to advancing the science and technology of lower-limb prosthetics and real-world motion assessment. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he directs the Biomechatronics, Assistive Devices, Gait Engineering and Rehabilitation Laboratory (UW BADGER Lab, http://uwbadgerlab.engr.wisc.edu).

Dr. Adamczyk’s research aims to enhance physical and functional recovery from impairments affecting walking, running, and standing. Core foci include the design of semi-active foot prostheses for gait restoration after amputation; wearable sensors for movement assessment during real-life activities; and rehabilitation robotics to explore motor learning and neural adaptation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:49:02 -0400 2019-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Workshop / Seminar Peter G. Adamczyk
Construction Seminar (September 11, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66383 66383-16734184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Branden is a Project Controls Manager at Barton Malow Company. He has an extensive background working with owners, facility operators, construction managers, and design staff in various stages of the project lifecycle, from project planning, design, construction, and closeout.

He graduated with a dual degree Master of Architecture and Master of Engineering in Construction Engineering and Management from the University of Michigan, and with a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from Ball State University.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:42:38 -0400 2019-09-11T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-11T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Asymmetric interaction on dynamics in network connectivity among agents (September 12, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66681 66681-16770196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

There is an increasing body of literature on understanding the process of evacuation, and it focuses both on people's behavior and emergency management. We need to consider aspects of interaction among people under nonotice disaster for planning with evacuation demand. This seminar examines the effect of social interaction on discrete choice during the network formation process. The primary objective is to evaluate influence on risk regarding from others in greater detail while considering how influencers and network structures affect one-to-one interactions. This talk examines an analytical framework for simultaneous evaluation of social interaction and social network formation. The framework is well suited to dynamic disaster situations because local interaction heavily influences human decision-making, and because network formation changes over time.

Junji Urata is an assistant professor in Department of Civil Engineering at University of Tokyo. His research interests include behavioral modeling, analytics of traffic demand, social interaction, dynamic programming, and high performance computing.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:30:50 -0400 2019-09-12T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series: Aristeo (September 13, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66227 66227-16719607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Aristeo Construction Company has evolved into a full service general contractor offering a comprehensive suite of services across the U.S. At Aristeo, they are proud of their employees. Their reputation is directly attributed to the hard work, attention to detail, and positive attitude of their employees – from construction project managers and field engineers to interns and office staff.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:12:00 -0400 2019-09-13T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-13T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Intel Info Session, hosted by IEEE (September 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67035 67035-16796463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Come meet with Intel recruiters and learn about their full time and internship opportunities!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:09:29 -0400 2019-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-15T18:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs GG Brown Laboratory
3M Info Session, hosted by TBP (September 15, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66622 66622-16767969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 15, 2019 5:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

At 3M, our 91,000 employees do work that matters, applying our science in ways that make a positive impact on people’s lives. Here, you’ll be part of a global company known for its uncompromising integrity. You’ll work within a giant melting pot of smart, motivated people who are rewarded for their commitment to doing challenging work that pushes them to learn and grow. Here, your opportunities are endless.

https://www.3m.com/

Food will be provided by Cottage Inn Pizza.

Majors: Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Operations Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Degrees: Bachelor's, Master's
Positions: Full-time, Intern
Citizenship Requirement: U.S. Citizenship
Collecting resumes?: Yes

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:42:16 -0400 2019-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-15T18:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs GG Brown Laboratory
Tech Talk with IMC Trading, hosted by SWE (September 16, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66374 66374-16734102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 6:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

IMC is among the world’s leading technology-driven trading firms, and a market maker in securities listed on exchanges across the globe. Our cutting-edge technology drives everything we do. High performance algorithms, smart strategies and collaborative teams are the core of our business.Today, IMC is 500+ people working together to build software and trade financial products in our offices in Amsterdam, Chicago and Sydney. What does this mean for you? The chance to join a multi-national, multi-cultural team of exceptional individuals, focused on making IMC the world’s best trading firm.

We are currently recruiting Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering for full-time and intern roles.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 05 Sep 2019 08:37:16 -0400 2019-09-16T18:30:00-04:00 2019-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs GG Brown Laboratory
Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series (September 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66532 66532-16744980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

Part of the Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series

Spencer H. Bryngelson
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar
California Institute of Technology
Working with Tim Colonius

Tuesday, September 17, 2019
4:00 p.m.
2147 GG Brown

Abstract
Multi-component flows play a central role in engineering problems ranging from the design of biomedical devices for therapy to naval and aircraft development. I will consider cellular, cavitating, and droplet flows as canonical examples of such flows. Each case is treated using novel computational techniques for simulation. This includes a sub-grid disperse flow model that is based upon particle population moments and improved via recurrent neural networks. The high-fidelity spectral and discretely-conservative interface-capturing methods used to solve for the flow will be discussed, including a presentation of our new open-source solver, MFC, that implements them. These large-scale simulations are complemented by novel analyses based-upon non-modal stability theory, chaotic dynamical systems, and stochastic and data-driven techniques. These are interpreted as they apply to microfluidics, rheometry, and even feeding humpback whales.

Bio
Dr. Spencer Bryngelson is a Senior Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, working with Professor Tim Colonius. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-Coupled Combustion (XPACC), a PSAAP II center. He received his PhD and MS in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2017 and 2015, respectively, working with Professor Jonathan Freund. In 2013, he obtained BS degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mathematics from the University of Michigan–Dearborn. His research lives at the intersection of fluid dynamics and computational physics, with a focus on biomedical, defense, and environmental applications. In pursuit of this, he develops high-performance software, physical models, numerical methods, and techniques for physics-based and data-driven analysis

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:07:48 -0400 2019-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Workshop / Seminar Computational Methods for Multi-Component Flows: From the Microcirculation to Feeding Humpback Whales
FocusCEE Info Session (September 17, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65414 65414-16595554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 6:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) is a growing engineering field that looks at society, cities, the environment, and technology.

This year, we're also launching FocusCEE, a new program that allows you to focus your engineering education in CEE by tailoring your curriculum to a particular theme. Each focus area combines a major in CEE with additional courses that often meet the requirements for a specific LSA minor.

Stop by our info session to learn more! The whole thing will be super casual, fun and we’ll have food and drinks.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:31:44 -0400 2019-09-17T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T20:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Reception / Open House FocusCEE areas: Community Policy and Planning, Smart Cities, Sustainability
Info Session with Novacoast (Security Analyst and Entry Level IT) hosted by SWE (September 17, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66377 66377-16734105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 6:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Novacoast is an IT Professional Services and Software Development firm, headquartered in Santa Barbara and offices nation wide with practice areas in information security, including Internet security, identity management, desktop management, open source, Mac, and enterprise application development.

Novacoast is recruiting all engineering majors for intern and full time positions.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 05 Sep 2019 08:43:28 -0400 2019-09-17T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T20:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs GG Brown Laboratory
Construction Seminar (September 18, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66402 66402-16734194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBD

Ci-Jyun (Polar) is currently a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan. He is working with Prof. Vineet R. Kamat in the Laboratory for Interactive Visualization in Engineering (LIVE Robotics group). His research interests include autonomous construction robot, scene understanding, computer vision, and machine learning. Polar also holds a M.S. in Robotics from University of Michigan, and M.S. and B.S. in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:50:59 -0400 2019-09-18T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-18T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Connectivity and Automation: Opportunities and Challenges for Transportation Engineering (September 19, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67279 67279-16831251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

In the last decade, the rapid development of communication technology, coupled with artificial intelligence with big data, had significantly impacted and will continue to transform people’s daily travel. This creates significant opportunities for innovation in the field of transportation engineering. Such opportunities are manifested by the availability of massive mobility service data that is not seen before and the rapid development of autonomous vehicle technologies. In this talk, Dr. Liu will discuss the future trends for transportation engineering, drawing his experience as a seasoned transportation researcher and in the last two years as a business executive in a mobility service company. He will also discuss his research work on connected vehicle based traffic signal control and the process of transferring the research results into a commercial product, which is currently being offered as software as a service on the market. It is his hope that this talk can shed some light on opportunities and challenges for future transportation research and education.

Dr. Henry Liu is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also a Research Professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and the Director for the Center for
Connected and Automated Transportation (USDOT Region 5 University Transportation Center).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:27:09 -0400 2019-09-19T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series: Turner Construction (September 20, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66228 66228-16719608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Turner is a North America-based, international construction services company and is a leading builder in diverse market segments. The company has earned recognition for undertaking large, complex projects, fostering innovation, embracing emerging technologies, and making a difference for their clients, employees and community.

With a staff of 10,000 employees, the company completes $12 billion of construction on 1,500 projects each year. Turner offers clients the accessibility and support of a local firm with the stability and resources of a multi-national organization.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:16:10 -0400 2019-09-20T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-20T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series (September 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67552 67552-16892242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

Speaker: Amy Marconnet - Associate Professor at Purdue University

Abstract
Nanostructuring material s allows independent control of multiple material s properties. High conductivity material s such as carbon nanotube forests are useful as thermal interface materials (TIMs) for dissipating power in electronic devices, while low conductivity material s like nanoporous silicon for thermal barrier coatings and enhanced thermoelectric performance. Beyond thermal transport, storage of thermal energy is critical for effective heat removal for applications involving
highly-transient heat fluxes, and during material processing. Often to achieve the desired functionality, multiples material s are combined together to form heterogeneous composites. For example, in lithium-ion batteries, the particulate active material s (with micro- and nano-scale features) are sandwiched between metal electrodes and polymer-based separators with microscale thicknesses to form macroscale battery cells. This seminar will discuss methods to understand and
control thermal transport and development of accurate and reliable experimental and analytical techniques for thermal characterization across multiple length scales. Further, I will highlight the integration of material synthesis with thermal property measurements and physics-based analysis to provide new avenues for improved material s and device performance.

Bio
Amy Marconnet i s an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. She received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wi Wisconsin – Madison in 2007, and an M.S. and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2009 and 2012, respectively. She then worked briefly as a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at Purdue University in 2013. Research in the Marconnet Thermal and
Energy Conversion (MTEC) Lab integrates metrology and analysis of underlying transport mechanisms with design and development of nanostructured material s for heat transfer and energy conversion applications.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:27:34 -0400 2019-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Amy Marconnet
Construction Seminar (September 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66404 66404-16734196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Maurice Traylor is the Career Services Manager at the Engineering Career Resource Center. Catherine Lund is the Senior Career Services Manager with focus on Corporate Partner Companies at the Engineering Career Resource Center.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:54:42 -0400 2019-09-25T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-25T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Deep Learning for Construction Management (September 26, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67469 67469-16857945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 1:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Deep Learning for Construction Management: Earthmoving Productivity Analysis, Bridge Damage Prediction, and Construction Specifications Review

This presentation introduces three representative deep learning research studies that have been conducted by the Construction Innovation Laboratory at Seoul National University for the past five years: site video analysis for automated earthmoving productivity estimation, bridge damage prediction for preventive bridge maintenance, and text mining for automated construction specifications review.

Dr. Seokho Chi is an associate professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea. After obtaining B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Korea University, he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). Before joining Seoul National University in 2013, Dr. Chi worked at Center for Transportation Research in UT Austin, and Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:30:44 -0400 2019-09-26T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T14:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Bridge
Toward Reliable Design of Facility Location: Addressing the Threat of Probabilistic Disruptions (September 26, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67554 67554-16892239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Yanfeng Ouyang, Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be giving a talk titled "Toward Reliable Design of Facility Location: Addressing the Threat of Probabilistic Disruptions".

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:31:16 -0400 2019-09-26T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series: HDR (September 27, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66232 66232-16719610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

HBR specializes in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. They are most well-known for adding beauty and structure to communities through high-performance buildings and smart infrastructure, they provide much more than that. HBR creates an unshakable foundation for progress because their multidisciplinary teams which also include scientists, economists, builders, analysts and artists.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:25:23 -0400 2019-09-27T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
ASCE Seminar Series: Navy (September 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67009 67009-16796436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:15:37 -0400 2019-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series (October 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67537 67537-16892234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

Impacting Healthcare Costs with a University of Michigan innovation – FlexDex

Dr. Kent Bowden, General Surgery, Cadillac Hospital, Munson Healthcare System

Abstract
Driven by minimally invasive procedures that require intensive suturing, the adoption of robotics in general surgery has accelerated dramatically in spite of high costs and steep learning curve. While big hospitals are able to absorb the cost of owning and maintaining multi-million dollar DaVinci surgical robots and associated infrastructure, small community hospitals face a difficult decision.

In this talk, I will present this dilemma faced by Cadillac Hospital, which serves the rural community of about 80,000 residents in seven counties in northern Michigan. A few years ago, we had to decide to either invest significant time, money, and personnel in creating and running a robotics program, or lose our patients and surgeons to bigger hospitals and medical centers. This would be a loss for the
local community, economy, and quality of living. Instead, we looked for alternate options. There weren’t many but the most promising one seemed to be a technology from our own state – FlexDex – created at the University of Michigan.

I will describe how I ended up adopting FlexDex and pioneering complex surgical procedures with it just as they would be performed on the DaVinci surgical robot but at much lower costs to the hospital. I have now performed over four hundred FlexDex procedures including hernia repair, colon resection, fundoplication, and hysterectomy. The savings from this decision and the “notoriety” that this brought us has expanded our surgical efficiency as well as capabilities.

FlexDex is now spreading all over the world and is being adopted in urology, gynecology, cardiothoracic, bariatric, and whipple procedures among others. I will discuss the future potential of this technology in providing greater access to minimally invasive surgery world-wide at an affordable cost. I will also discuss ongoing technology needs and challenges that remain in surgery that might
inspire new research and innovation at universities.

Bio
Dr. Kent Bowden, D.O. is a General Surgeon at Cadillac Hospital, Munson Healthcare. He trained at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University and graduated in 2005. He completed his Residency at Ingham Regional Medical Center in Lansing, MI in 2010, and joined private practice in a rural hospital where he could have a broad-spectrum practice. His objective as a surgeon is to
provide cost-effective, personalized and world-class care to patients in his local community. In addition to pioneering cases with FlexDex, he enjoys coaching basketball at his children's school and spending time outdoors with his family. Dr. Bowden is a Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons (FACOS).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:10:54 -0400 2019-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Mechanical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Dr. Kent Bowden
OVERCOMING THE SCHEDULING CONUNDRUM (October 2, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66406 66406-16734197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Gui started his career in 1969 and has served as contractor chief scheduler, program manager, construction manager, forensic scheduler, and expert witness. He has pioneered innovations in project management throughout his 50-year career. He holds four US patents and has numerous patents pending on his graphical path method. Dr. Gui pursued MS studies at Vanderbilt University in 1966-1967 and obtained his PhD in civil engineering from Michigan in 1972. From 1973-1989, Dr. Gui taught two graduate courses in network-based project scheduling in the College of Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, at Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:29:25 -0400 2019-10-02T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-02T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Drone-based Timely Humanitarian Delivery of Perishable Items (October 4, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67812 67812-16952009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 10:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This talk argues that drones can efficiently address problems of emergency delivery of medicine and other items to patients that are not easily accessible via disaster-impacted roads, where items may be perishable over time, may have deadlines for delivery, and may have possible substitutions from the available inventories.

Pitu Mirchandani is a professor Professor for the IE & CSE departments at Arizona State University and is also AVNET Chair for Supply Chain Networks.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:54:24 -0400 2019-10-04T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-04T12:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series: Stacy and Witbeck, Inc. (October 4, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66233 66233-16719611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Stacy and Witbeck has gained a reputation of being an ethical and trustworthy partner on building complicated projects. They are one of the country’s largest heavy civil contractors and a top builder of light rail, commuter rail, and streetcar systems. Stacy and Witbeck are recognized throughout the construction industry for their ability to manage complex urban projects while creating a cooperative relationship with owners, stakeholders, subcontractors, and the communities in which they work.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:28:55 -0400 2019-10-04T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-04T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
2019 CEE Alumni Reception Seminar (October 4, 2019 1:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67671 67671-16915700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 1:45pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

As co-founder of Thompson | Dorfman Partners, LLC, a multi-family housing developer based in Northern California, Mr. Dorfman manages the company’s development and financing. Prior to founding TDP, he was a senior vice president with Irvine Apartment Communities, and directed site acquisition and development activities for the apartment REIT’s California Division. Aside from his established career in real estate development, Mr. Dorfman serves on the boards of a number of local non-profits. He is also the 2007 recipient of the College of Engineering’s Alumni Merit Award in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 26 Sep 2019 08:05:01 -0400 2019-10-04T13:45:00-04:00 2019-10-04T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEE
Construction Seminar (October 9, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66408 66408-16734208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Contractor claims on construction projects not only have a potential negative financial impact, they can also significantly impact the project team dynamics by shifting focus from completion of a project to defending for/against a claim. This presentation considers the impact that contracting methods, contract language, change management, and team dynamics can have on preventing claims. It also considers the events which most commonly result in claims, signs a claim may be coming, and what to do when a claim is received.

About the Speaker: Jerry Schulte serves as an Associate Director of Construction for the University of Michigan’s – Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) department. His primary role is managing the day-to-day operations of AEC’s construction group. This group is responsible for all construction on the Ann Arbor campus and for capital projects on the Dearborn and Flint campuses. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Civil Engineering program and is a licensed professional engineer in three states.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 03 Oct 2019 07:55:35 -0400 2019-10-09T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-09T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Itinerary Planning for Cooperative Truck Platooning (October 10, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68127 68127-17011967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A cooperative truck platoon is a set of virtually linked trucks driving with a small intra-vehicle gap enabled by connected and automated vehicle technologies. One of the primary benefits of truck platooning is energy saving. The focus of this talk is on scheduling travel itineraries of a given set of trucks to maximize platooning opportunities to save energy.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:48:48 -0400 2019-10-10T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
The Role of Structural Dynamics in Smart Cities: What ambient vibrations tell us about structures, people and the environment (October 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67815 67815-16952013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

As the concepts of Smart Cities, Internet-of-things, and Digital Twins continue to evolve, stakeholders are beginning to ask increasingly complex questions about infrastructure: How will the built environment and its inhabitants respond to emergencies and natural disasters?

Day-to-day (ambient) structural vibrations are an under-exploited source of information for answering these questions. Using a variety of experimental data, this talk will explore ambient vibrations at both the infrastructure scale and the human scale.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:49:10 -0400 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Smart cities
DPR Company Information Session, hosted by ASCE (October 10, 2019 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68029 68029-16986092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 6:15pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Come join representatives from DPR to discuss what the industry leaders are doing to transform the construction industry and how U of M students are helping DPR lead the way.

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 04 Oct 2019 14:12:56 -0400 2019-10-10T18:15:00-04:00 2019-10-10T19:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs GG Brown Laboratory
ASCE Seminar Series: Arup (October 11, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66237 66237-16719613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Arup made its name in the twentieth century as the designer and engineer behind some of the world’s most ambitious structures. That creative strength and independence of mind continues to guide them. Today, Arup employs more than 14,000 people, in more than 34 countries – in a culture underpinned by Sir Ove Arup’s aims and values.

Arup was founded on the belief that the built environment can change people’s lives for the better. Every day, everywhere, Arup strives to meet this aim – helping clients solve their biggest challenges by harnessing our diverse skills and constantly expanding what’s technically possible.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:34:34 -0400 2019-10-11T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-11T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Construction Seminar (October 16, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66410 66410-16734209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Da Li is a Civil and Environmental PhD student at the University of Michigan. Li's research topics include indoor building energy monitoring and control.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:08:07 -0400 2019-10-16T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-16T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Safety-assured vehicle routing in dense drone traffic (October 17, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68511 68511-17094813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Drone delivery is a reality today and will become more widespread in the years to come. In this talk, I will describe several operational challenges related to drone delivery with a focus on traffic management and vehicle routing, and introduce my team’s recent effort on fulfilling the multi-billion dollar on-demand food delivery market using large fleets of drones.

Dr. Yanchao Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Wayne State University (WSU).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:07:19 -0400 2019-10-17T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series: Jones Carter (October 18, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66240 66240-16719615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jones Carter's vision has meaning for their employees, their clients, and their communities, and captures the essence of what their firm is and always wants to be. For 40 years, Jones Carter has assembled deep technical expertise in many practices, sharing that knowledge across each discipline and geographic region within a single, unified company.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:38:15 -0400 2019-10-18T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series