Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 2017 MLK, Jr. Luncheon Series II (February 8, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/38044 38044-6859813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 11:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Interested in discussions on social culture at UofM? How about social entrepreneurship, diversity, inclusion, and many other important topics? Then look no further than the MLK, Jr. Luncheon Series.

These events are held every Winter term, hosted by Tau Beta Pi and the College of Engineering and seek to promote a culture of inclusion while helping encourage attendees to continue their development as a "whole person" rather than simply as an "engineer." Lunch will be served.

Please RSVP at: https://tbp.engin.umich.edu/calendar/event/946/

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:05:24 -0500 2017-02-08T11:30:00-05:00 2017-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Social / Informal Gathering Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
North Campus Sustainability Hour (February 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39094 39094-7686207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Planet Blue

Noon - 1:00pm
Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd Floor), U-M North Campus
Additional info at: http://umncsi.org/2017/02/13/the-sustainability-cultural-indicators-program/
Sponsored by the Michigan College of Engineering and the North Campus Sustainability Initiative

Light refreshments will be provided by Sazon Catering.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:32:28 -0500 2017-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2017-02-27T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Planet Blue Lecture / Discussion campus arrows
Michigan Engineering Staff Development: Building the High Performance Team (March 14, 2017 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/39409 39409-8044738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 1:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

In this 3-hour workshop you’ll learn:
-Leadership techniques for building high performance teams.
-How to build team communication.
-How to improve team performance.

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyCcQ6UiMLHPBHasVtPKbVuorX9xT76QlInW1FmGJh5Rrygg/viewform

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:45:34 -0500 2017-03-14T13:30:00-04:00 2017-03-14T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Class / Instruction Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Womentoring: Female Faculty–Grad Student Mixer (April 5, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40086 40086-8466107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

The Graduate Society of Women Engineers in combination with the College of Engineering Community Grant Program is hosting Womentoring, a female faculty-graduate student mixer in the Johnson Rooms at the Lurie Engineering Center. Professors, professionals, and post-docs will lead table discussions on mentoring, implicit bias, getting published, finding fellowships, choosing a post-doc mentor, job search for international students, and more. Lunch will be provided! RSVP required.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:29:06 -0400 2017-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Retirement Reception for Professor Jeffrey K. Liker (May 15, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40899 40899-8820299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 15, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Please join us to celebrate Professor Jeffrey K. Liker's retirement and his distinguished career at The University of Michigan.

Monday May 15, 2017
4:00 pm
The Johnson Rooms
Lurie Engineering Center
1221 Beal Ave

Remarks will begin at 4:45 pm

Dr. Jeffrey K. Liker received his B.S. degree from Northeastern University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts in 1978 and 1980, respectively. He joined the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor faculty as an assistant professor in 1982 and was promoted to associate professor in 1990 and professor in 2000.

Professor Liker created the IOE department courses in the areas of engineering and lean management. He cofounded the Japan Technology Management program, which brought over $6 million in funding and led to a quasi-endowment for IOE worth over $600,000. He chaired or co-chaired committees of 28 successful Ph.D. students.

He published 65 peer-reviewed journal articles in the best journals in his field. He also published 15 books, including the international best seller, The Toyota Way, which is in 26 languages and has sold over 950,000 copies. His newest book is The Toyota Way to Service Excellence: Lean Transformation in Service Organizations. His articles and books have won thirteen Shingo Prizes for Research Excellence and also won the 2005 Institute of Industrial Engineers Book of the Year Award and 2007 Sloan Industry Studies Book of the Year. In 2012 he was inducted into the Association of Manufacturing Excellence Hall of Fame and in 2016 inducted into the Shingo Academy.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 12 May 2017 14:31:18 -0400 2017-05-15T16:00:00-04:00 2017-05-15T17:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Reception / Open House Jeff Liker
GradSWE Female Faculty-Student Summer Mixer (July 26, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41436 41436-9263713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 11:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

The tri-annual GradSWE Female Faculty-Student Mixer is here! Join us on July 26th from 11:30 AM-12:30 PM in the
Johnson Rooms in Lurie Engineering Center to network with graduate students, faculty, post-docs, and professionals.
Bowls of questions at each table will spur conversations between attendees. Lunch will be provided. RSVP required.
Students: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/female-faculty-student-summer-mixer-registration-34764741277. Faculty/post-
doc/professional: https://goo.gl/forms/Lsk2Nm8FXqfCUJ3O2. Email jillkw@umich.edu with any questions!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 05 Jul 2017 11:58:26 -0400 2017-07-26T11:30:00-04:00 2017-07-26T12:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Social / Informal Gathering Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
PhD Defense: Keegan Behm (August 4, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41923 41923-9489373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 4, 2017 11:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Studies of High-Energy Photon Sources from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator

Co-Chair: Professor Karl Krushelnick
Co-Chair: Professor Alexander Thomas

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Presentation Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:55:33 -0400 2017-08-04T11:30:00-04:00 2017-08-04T13:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Presentation Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Examinations (August 17, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41032 41032-8910498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 17, 2017 12:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Final exams are taken. Courses' grades are due 72 hours after final examinations.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 07 Aug 2017 11:08:34 -0400 2017-08-17T00:00:00-04:00 2017-08-17T23:59:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Class / Instruction exams in a box
Examinations (August 18, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41032 41032-8910499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 18, 2017 12:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Final exams are taken. Courses' grades are due 72 hours after final examinations.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 07 Aug 2017 11:08:34 -0400 2017-08-18T00:00:00-04:00 2017-08-18T23:59:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Class / Instruction exams in a box
NERS New Student Orientation (August 30, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41332 41332-9141935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

For NERS new students

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Meeting Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:01:14 -0400 2017-08-30T10:00:00-04:00 2017-08-30T12:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Meeting Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Fall Term Classes Begin (September 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41036 41036-8910503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Classes begin for the Fall 2017 term.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:37:09 -0400 2017-09-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-05T08:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Class / Instruction Student writes in notebook
First Year Grad School Boot Camp: Grad Student Mixer: "Cookies, Coffee, and Conversation" (September 12, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43559 43559-9818662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

New College of Engineering graduate students are invited to attend this kick-off for a series of events that are being offered to introduce you to fellow first-year students, expand your grad school toolbox, network with older grad students and professors, and learn more about what UM has to offer.

For more information, please email avibereg@umich.edu.

Sponsored by the Materials Science & Engineering department, and the CoE Office of Student Affairs' Grad Student Community Grant Program.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:51:35 -0400 2017-09-12T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Social / Informal Gathering Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
International Coffee Hour (September 15, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43418 43418-9759949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 4:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

International Coffee Hour is a great place for international and U.S. students, scholars, faculty and staff to socialize with each other and meet new people from around the world. No registration is required.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:54:38 -0400 2017-09-15T16:30:00-04:00 2017-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Social / Informal Gathering Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
International Coffee Hour (September 15, 2017 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43038 43038-9697105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 4:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: International Center

International Coffee Hour is a great place for international and U.S. students, scholars, faculty and staff to socialize with each other and meet new people from around the world. No registration is required.

While walk-ins are welcome at the event, early registration is appreciated so we can better prepare for the event.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 07 Sep 2017 13:17:47 -0400 2017-09-15T16:30:00-04:00 2017-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr International Center Social / Informal Gathering coffee
North Campus Sustainability Hour I (September 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44531 44531-9923121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Join the North Campus Sustainability Initiative and Tau Beta Pi in hosting the first North Campus Sustainability Seminar of the semester. We will be joined by Prof. Guikema of the IOE and Civil Eng. Departments who will offer a talk entitled:

Modeling and Analysis to Foster Societal Safety and Sustainability in a Changing World

This presentation provides an overview of Prof. Guikema's research. His research focus is on issues related to climate adaptation and the sustainability of cities and infrastructure, disaster risk analysis, critical infrastructure modeling, natural hazards, and terrorism risk. The work of his research group is a mix of developing and testing new methods and applying methods to better understand problems of societal importance. Much of what his group does is strongly interdisciplinary.

Sponsored by Tau Beta Pi.

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Presentation Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:08:37 -0400 2017-09-18T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Tau Beta Pi Presentation Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
North Campus Sustainability Hour: Seth Guikema (September 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44526 44526-9923120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Title: Modeling and Analysis to Foster Societal Safety and Sustainability in a Changing World

This presentation provides an overview of Prof. Guikema's research. His research focus is on issues related to climate adaptation and the sustainability of cities and infrastructure, disaster risk analysis, critical infrastructure modeling, natural hazards, and terrorism risk. The work of his research group is a mix of developing and testing new methods and applying methods to better understand problems of societal importance. Much of what his group does is strongly interdisciplinary.

Light refreshments will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:14:04 -0400 2017-09-18T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Disability Awareness & Etiquette Workshop (September 19, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41919 41919-9489370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

If you are providing a service, it is important to know the best ways to communicate with and about individuals who may have disabilities.

This session will help you to understand:
• How to best serve individuals with disabilities
• Give you some etiquette pointers that you can use in your everyday life.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:25:40 -0400 2017-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-19T11:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Disability Awareness
Trivia Night for 1st Year PhD College of Engineering Students (September 19, 2017 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43544 43544-9818650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 6:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

INFORMS is organizing a TRIVIA NIGHT for 1st year College of Engineering PhD students. This will serve as an opportunity for you to meet students from other departments and have some fun.

The event is funded by the College of Engineering Graduate Student Community Grant program, so everything is FREE! We will be serving pizza.

If you're interested, please RSVP before 5pm on Wednesday 13th September. Register as an individual – you will be sorted into mixed teams.

If you would like to invite any non-COE friends (PhD students only), then send them the form and they can register. However, they will not be guaranteed a place as priority is given to students in Engineering.

If you have any questions, please contact Tim Williams at tgw@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 05 Sep 2017 08:05:06 -0400 2017-09-19T18:30:00-04:00 2017-09-19T21:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Social / Informal Gathering Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
How to Publish with IEEE (September 20, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43401 43401-9759930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Learn how to:
Select an appropriate IEEE periodical or conference
Organize your manuscript
Improve your chances of a successful peer review

The discussion will include:
Insights into what editors look for
Reasons why editors and reviewers reject papers
Recommendations for how to avoid common mistakes and ethical lapses that will prevent your manuscript from being accepted
Tools & resources to help authors including IEEE's AuthorLab, Publication Recommender, Graphics Checker, and Reference Preparation Assistance
Strategies for using IEEE Xplore effectively for a literature review

Sponsored by IEEE; UM Library; CoE Government Relations

Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFYucVfmzyIFgEgKsLPWXBRCHhrKuB06_AxX4dv8cQEQ0zhg/viewform

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:47:48 -0400 2017-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T13:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia Kickoff (September 20, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43281 43281-9751013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

This is the kickoff for a series of events this year focused on the teaching aspect of an academic career hosted by the American Society for Engineering Education's student chapter. The goal of the series is to bring together graduate students who are interested in faculty positions and engineering education.

The kickoff will include a presentation on resources for graduate students interested in developing their teaching skills, along with a dinner.

RSVP is required at https://goo.gl/forms/C134aTyyGxUKvtQ92

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:26:23 -0400 2017-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T19:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
2017 NextProf Future Faculty Workshop (September 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42762 42762-9653819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

NextProf-UM is designed to prepare Engineering doctoral students from all over the United States for the academic job market and navigating the rigors of first faculty positions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:33:48 -0400 2017-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Workshop / Seminar Next Prof Event Graphic
2017 NextProf Future Faculty Workshop (September 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42762 42762-9653820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

NextProf-UM is designed to prepare Engineering doctoral students from all over the United States for the academic job market and navigating the rigors of first faculty positions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:33:48 -0400 2017-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Workshop / Seminar Next Prof Event Graphic
2017 NextProf Future Faculty Workshop (September 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42762 42762-9653821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

NextProf-UM is designed to prepare Engineering doctoral students from all over the United States for the academic job market and navigating the rigors of first faculty positions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:33:48 -0400 2017-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Workshop / Seminar Next Prof Event Graphic
2017 NextProf Future Faculty Workshop (September 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42762 42762-9653822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

NextProf-UM is designed to prepare Engineering doctoral students from all over the United States for the academic job market and navigating the rigors of first faculty positions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:33:48 -0400 2017-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Workshop / Seminar Next Prof Event Graphic
Intercultural Awareness (October 2, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44380 44380-9911801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

There are many hidden ways in which culture influences behavior. Starting with an understanding of American culture, this session focuses on cultural differences between countries and how "common sense" assumptions we make about others may be flawed.

You will learn to:
- Determine some American cultural values and norms that might differ from other cultures.
- Discuss some of the challenges persons from other cultures might face at a US educational institution, as a student or employee.
- Identify examples of verbal and nonverbal communication, symbolic meaning, cultural norms and cultural values.

You will benefit by:
- Obtaining a general framework for understanding culture.
- Increasing self-awareness and improving competency in both inter -and intra-cultural communications.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:57:05 -0400 2017-10-02T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T11:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
North Campus Sustainability Hour II (October 2, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44599 44599-9934420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Listen to a engaging talk on sustainability at the North Campus Sustainability Hour while enjoying a fresh lunch.

When: Mon. Oct. 02, 2017 noon–1 p.m.

Where: Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (on campus)

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Presentation Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:29:27 -0400 2017-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Tau Beta Pi Presentation Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
The Improvisation Mindset (October 10, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44389 44389-9911811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

All of us have fundamental needs of being heard, feeling like we make a contribution, feeling supported and encouraged in what we do, and knowing we are appreciated and valued. In addition, being present, practicing active listening, and affirming and adding (yes and!) without judgment allow our relationships to be stronger and more effective.

This active workshop fosters innovation, risk taking, and inclusion by engaging participants in activities based on improvisational theater. Participants will work on developing skills in enhancing presence, active listening, and story-telling.

Attendees at this workshop will actively participate in exercises from Improv to explore strategies for active listening, cooperation, generosity, comfort with spontaneity, and responsiveness to unexpected situations. Our time will be spent doing activities, then reflecting together to debrief.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:20:33 -0400 2017-10-10T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T14:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
GradSWE Faculty-Student Fall Mixer (October 11, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44968 44968-10072847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

Join GradSWE for its tri-annual Female Faculty-Student Mixer where you will be able to network with professors and post-docs from the University of Michigan! We'll be seating attendees based on career interests and histories, so please select two career paths on the RSVP form that interest you. Lunch will be provided. RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gradswe-faculty-student-fall-mixer-registration-38086965138

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Meeting Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:33:15 -0400 2017-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Graduate Society of Women Engineers Meeting GradSWE mixer
Leaders Creating Cultures at Their Best (October 12, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44412 44412-9911837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

Especially for supervisors and managers. Get the tools you need to create a thriving work team where health and well-being contribute to success.

Attend the workshop to:
- Increase your team's engagement through well-being - Learn how creating a culture of health and well-being within your work team can result in a happier, healthier, less stressed and more satisfied work team.
- Become the leader you aspire to be - Obtain the needed tools and resources to inspire and motivate your work team to reach shared health and well-being goals.
- Think holistically - Understand how and why the dimensions of well-being are important to the success of your work team.
- Re-invent your team's culture - Learn about all five dimensions of workplace culture and the important role you play in creating a healthier work environment that others want to join in.
- Overcome barriers - Understand the structural and personal barriers that individuals and teams face when creating a healthy work environment.
- Discover the multitude of resources available - Learn how to partner with your MHealthy triad.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:30:08 -0400 2017-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T11:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
North Campus Sustainability Hour III (October 12, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44600 44600-9934423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Listen to an engaging talk on sustainability at the North Campus Sustainability Hour while enjoying a fresh lunch.

When: Thu. Oct. 12, 2017 noon–1 p.m.

Where: Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (on campus)

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Presentation Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:31:22 -0400 2017-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Tau Beta Pi Presentation Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Speaker #1 - Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia discussion (October 12, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45012 45012-10069951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

As part of our "Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia" series, the American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter is holding a series of talks about teaching. For the first talk in the series, Dr. Courtney Peckens from the Hope College Engineering Department will speak about her experiences in academia, followed by a discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:29:26 -0400 2017-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Open Session - Allyhood Development Training (October 17, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42126 42126-9558370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Spectrum Center

This session is open to the entire community

The Spectrum Center's LGBTQ Allyhood Development Training Program, started in 2005, seeks to support an individual or organization’s process of development as it relates to LGBTQ inclusivity and advocacy. Allyhood Development Training (ADT) uses a social justice framework to illustrate the lived experiences of LGBTQ identified people to workshop participants.

Through active engagement in the training, participants will grow in their personal awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions as it relates to their engagement in doing ally work. The purpose of having the Allyhood Development Training is to promote a campus community in which everyone is treated with respect and dignity.

Registration Link: http://bit.ly/2vq2WNs

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:21:06 -0400 2017-10-17T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar ADT
Panos Papadopoulos: Multiscale Modeling in Continuum Mechanics: A connection to the Irving-Kirkwood procedure (October 19, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45076 45076-10081476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

This talk describes a method for extending the classical Irving-Kirkwood procedure used in statistical mechanics for extracting local fluxes to the problem of continuum-on-continuum multiscale modeling. Expressions for stress and heat flux derived here are contrasted to those obtained using the standard Hill-Mandel approach. The polar nature of the macroscopic solid and the role of multiscale invariance are also addressed in the context of this method. Applications are explored within the finite element-based homogenization of solids.

Bio: Panos Papadopoulos is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory. After obtaining his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Aristotle University, Greece, he moved to California to pursue his graduate studies.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:27:18 -0400 2017-10-19T15:30:00-04:00 2017-10-19T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar MICDE
Peachman Lecture: Future Ship, Offshore and Nautical Research (October 19, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45456 45456-10186743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

The Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
at Michigan Engineering invites you to attend

THE CAPTAIN RALPH R. AND FLORENCE PEACHMAN LECTURE

presented by

Bas Buchner
President, MARIN

Future Ship, Offshore and Nautical Research: Bridging the Gap Between Design and Operations

Developing safe, smart and clean ships, offshore structures and ports is the challenge of the maritime industry. What sort of trends do we foresee in transport over sea, naval ships, offshore energy and nautical port design? Is it really possible to develop zero emission ships? Is offshore renewable energy going to be an alternative for offshore oil and gas? Do floating ports and cities help in times of sea level rise and overpopulation? Research should be focused on supporting this challenge. What should be our focus in this research? What interesting physics need to be studied? What will be the tools of the future? What is the role of the human factor in this?


Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 4 pm
General Motors Room, Lurie Engineering Center

*Reception immediately following.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Oct 2017 14:13:32 -0400 2017-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion Portrait of Bas Buchner
AE Defense: Drift Counteraction Optimal Control (October 20, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44798 44798-9980567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Drift Counteraction Optimal Control: Theory and Applications to Autonomous Cars and Spacecraft

In many engineering systems there is an inherent tendency of process variables to drift. Such drift may be caused by large persistent disturbances (e.g., wind gusts) or when the control authority is limited (e.g., underactuated systems). In other systems, similar drift is caused by finite resources (fuel, energy, component life, etc.) being continuously depleted. This dissertation advances theory and methods for designing control algorithms that maximize the time or, in general, a yield function before a given system violates prescribed constraints. Such problems are referred to as drift counteraction optimal control (DCOC) problems since the controller may be viewed as counteracting drift in order to delay constraint violation. Both deterministic and stochastic settings of the DCOC problem are considered and new theoretical results are derived, including properties of the objective function, conditions under which a solution to the DCOC problem exists, and characteristics of a solution. In addition, new algorithms based on dynamic programming, approximate dynamic programming, and model predictive control are developed to solve the DCOC problem. Several engineering applications of DCOC are proposed with a focus on spacecraft control and driving policies for autonomous vehicles, where the effectiveness of the developed approaches is demonstrated in numerical case studies.

Dissertation Committee:
Chair: Prof. Ilya V. Kolmanovsky
Cognate Member: Prof. Jing Sun
Members: Prof. Ella M. Atkins and Prof. Anouck R.Girard

Publications

Journal Papers
R. A. E. Zidek, A. Bemporad, and I. V. Kolmanovsky. “Drift counteraction optimal control for spacecraft using linear and nonlinear programming”, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2017, under review.

R. A. E. Zidek and I. V. Kolmanovsky. “Drift counteraction optimal control for deterministic systems and enhancing convergence of value iteration”, Automatica, 2017, pp. 108-115.

R. A. E. Zidek and I. V. Kolmanovsky. “Approximate closed-form solution to a linear quadratic optimal control problem with disturbance”, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 40, Special Issue on Computational Guidance and Control, 2017, pp. 477-483.

Conference Papers
R. A. E. Zidek, I. V. Kolmanovsky, and A. Bemporad. “Stochastic MPC approach to drift counteraction”, American Control Conference, 2018, under review.

R. A. E. Zidek and I. V. Kolmanovsky. “Optimal driving policies for autonomous vehicles based on stochastic drift counteraction”, 20th IFAC World Congress, 2017, pp. 292-298.

R. A. E. Zidek, A. Bemporad, and I. V. Kolmanovsky. “Optimal and receding horizon drift counteraction control: linear programming approaches”, American Control Conference, 2017, pp. 2636-2641.

R. A. E. Zidek and I. V. Kolmanovsky. “A new algorithm for a special class of deterministic drift counteraction optimal control problems”, American Control Conference, 2017, pp. 623-629.

R. A. E. Zidek, C. D. Petersen, A. Bemporad, and I. V. Kolmanovsky. “Receding horizon drift counteraction and its application to spacecraft attitude control”, AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2017, Paper AAS 17-465.

R. A. E. Zidek and I. V. Kolmanovsky. “Stochastic drift counteraction optimal control and enhancing convergence of value iteration”, Conference on Decision and Control, 2016, pp. 1119-1124.

R. A. E. Zidek and I. V. Kolmanovsky. “Deterministic drift counteraction optimal control for attitude control of spacecraft with time-varying mass”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2016, Paper AIAA 0369.

R. A. E. Zidek and I. V. Kolmanovsky. “Geostationary satellite station keeping using drift counteraction optimal control”, AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2016, Paper AAS 16-517.

R. A. E. Zidek and I. V. Kolmanovsky. “Deterministic drift counteraction optimal control and its application to satellite life extension”, Conference on Decision and Control, 2015, pp. 3397-3402.

R. A. E. Zidek and I. V. Kolmanovsky. “Approximate optimal control of nonlinear systems with quadratic performance criteria”, American Control Conference, 2015, pp. 5587-5592.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:09:42 -0400 2017-10-20T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T11:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Zideck photo
Negotiating Publishing Contracts for Journal Articles (October 20, 2017 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45222 45222-10116108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:15am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

This workshop will focus on publishing contracts for journal articles. After a brief overview of negotiation techniques and the law, participants will negotiate mock publishing contracts. The group will reconvene to debrief those negotiations.

Learn which terms of your publishing agreement you might want to negotiate. How will you go about doing that? Will UM policies and procedures (see UM Standard Practice Guide) or research sponsor requirements affect how you proceed? Join us to explore these and other questions about publishing contracts.

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeM_HdG_NI7o5JpZgJLCjdGAPER5cPdETEVfIoZPb2XV-PLBw/viewform.

Questions? Please email us at negotiating@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:45:41 -0400 2017-10-20T11:15:00-04:00 2017-10-20T12:45:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Change It Up! (October 20, 2017 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44416 44416-9911839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 1:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

Change it Up! brings bystander intervention skills to the University of Michigan community for the purpose of building inclusive, respectful and safe communities. It is based on a nationally recognized four-stage bystander intervention model that helps individuals intervene in situations that negatively impact individuals, organizations, and the campus community.

You will learn to:
- Identify self-awareness and social responsibility as qualities of strong personal leadership
- Discuss your own and others’ identities and experiences
- Determine the various options for effectively intervening during a negative situation
- Develop your ability to assess which intervention option is based on the situation
- Discuss and practice how to leverage bystander intervention skills within their campus communities

You will benefit by:
- Receiving high impact learning through educational theater
- Increasing your motivation to intervene in harmful situations
- Gaining ability to assess the effectiveness of multiple options for intervention
- Expanding your skills and confidence to successfully intervene in harmful situations

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:37:01 -0400 2017-10-20T13:30:00-04:00 2017-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Second 7 Week Classes Begin (October 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41770 41770-9470814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Second 7 week classes begin

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Class / Instruction Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:20:58 -0400 2017-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Class / Instruction Student writes in notebook
Technology for the Future (October 25, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45457 45457-10186746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract:
For the past 70 years, IBM Research has produced numerous technology breakthroughs in both hardware and software that have powered the information technology (IT) industry. The last few years have seen profound shifts in IT with the rise of cloud computing, mobile engagement platforms, and the availability of big data. The research agenda today focused on four key areas: (1) reimaging computing – a quest for new materials, devices and architectures to radically change what it means to compute beyond classical scaling with new paradigms such as hardware neuromorphic computing and quantum computing; (2) developing core artificial intelligence (AI) platform – advancing the foundation of the most profound change in computing since the arrival of the programmable paradigm; (3) applying a deep domain expertise combined with data and AI to transform businesses, industries and the world; and (4) reinventing global business through blockchain by creating a shared and secure ledger to redefine transactions and make business friction-free.

Bio:
Mr. Lemnios leads Physical Sciences and Government Programs, globally across IBM Research, to extend fundamental scientific understanding and breakthroughs that enable the future of information technology. Strategic initiatives include quantum computing, neuromorphic devices and architectures, molecular imaging, silicon nanophotonics, and magnetic memory technology. This team have been responsible for leading technical breakthroughs across the industry and many of IBM's major awards, including: Nobel Prizes, Kavli Prizes, and the Millennium Technology Prize.

Mr. Lemnios previously served as VP Research Strategy and Worldwide Operations. In that role, he led the formation and execution of the IBM Research strategy and operations across IBM's twelve global laboratories and network of collaboratories, led the IBM Global Technology Outlook and worked across IBM to set the strategic direction of IBM Research.

Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Lemnios served three terms in high level civilian leadership in the Department of Defense with detailed and extended interactions across the whole of US government and with leaders across US allied nations. Mr. Lemnios was confirmed as The Honorable Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research & Engineering) by the United States Senate. In this position, Mr. Lemnios was the Chief Technology Officer for Department of Defense and shaped the Department’s technical strategy to support the President’s national security objectives and the Secretary’s priorities. He launched Department and international initiatives in large data analytics, decision support, engineering education, electronic warfare, cyber, autonomy, advanced propulsion, hypersonics, and rail gun concepts as future capabilities for the nation. Mr. Lemnios also served as the Chief Technology Officer of MIT Lincoln Laboratory and led the development of advanced technologies in support of national security.

Mr. Lemnios received his BSEE from the University of Michigan and his MSEE from Washington University in St. Louis and an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Tiffin University. He has served on numerous national security, industry and academic committees. He has authored over 40 papers, holds 4 patents in advanced GaAs device and MMIC technology and is a Fellow of the IEEE. Mr. Lemnios received special recognition from the Australian Government Department of Defence and was awarded Office of Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service and the Office of Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:24:14 -0400 2017-10-25T10:30:00-04:00 2017-10-25T11:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Honorably Zachary J. Lemnios
AE Defense: Conjugate Analysis of Two-Dimensional Ablation and Pyrolysis in Rocket Nozzles (October 26, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46100 46100-10390028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The development of a methodology and computational framework for performing conjugate analyses of transient, two-dimensional ablation of pyrolyzing materials in rocket nozzle applications is presented. This new engineering methodology comprehensively incorporates aero-thermal-chemical processes relevant to nozzles and other high-temperature components, making it possible, for the first time, to rigorously capture the strong interactions and interdependencies that exist between the reacting flowfield and the ablating material. By basing thermal protection system engineering more firmly on first principles, improved analysis accuracy can be achieved.

This computational framework couples a multi-species, reacting flow solver to a two-dimensional material response solver. Five different treatments of the surface energy balance at the ablating wall, with increasing levels of fidelity, are investigated. The Integrated Equilibrium Surface Chemistry treatment computes the surface energy balance and recession rate directly from the diffusive fluxes at the ablating wall, without making transport coefficient or unity Lewis number assumptions, or requiring pre-computed surface thermochemistry tables. This method can inherently account for the effects that recession, wall temperature, blowing, and the presence of ablation product species in the boundary layer have on the flowfield and ablation response. As a result, improved agreement with experimental surface recession data is obtained.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article:
Peter G. Cross and Iain D. Boyd, “Two-Dimensional Modeling of Ablation and Pyrolysis with Application to Rocket Nozzles,” Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 54(1):212–224, January–February 2017, doi:10.2514/1.A33656.

Conference Papers:
Peter G. Cross and Iain D. Boyd, “Reduced Reaction Mechanism for Rocket Nozzle Ablation Simulations,” 47th AIAA Thermophysics Conference, June 2017, doi:10.2514/6.2017-3682. AIAA 2017–3682.

Peter G. Cross and Iain D. Boyd, “Conjugate Analysis of Rocket Nozzle Ablation,” 47th AIAA Thermophysics Conference, June 2017, doi:10.2514/6.2017-3351. AIAA 2017–3351.

Peter G. Cross and Iain D. Boyd, “Two-Dimensional Modeling of Ablation and Pyrolysis with Application to Rocket Nozzles,” 46th AIAA Thermophysics Conference, June 2016, doi:10.2514/6.2016-3383. AIAA 2016–3383.

Presentations:
Peter G. Cross and Iain D. Boyd, “Conjugate Analyses of Ablation in Rocket Nozzles,” 9th Ablation Workshop, Bozeman, MT, August 2017.

Peter G. Cross and Iain D. Boyd, “Decoupled and Conjugate Analyses of Rocket Nozzle Ablation,” National Space & Missile Materials Symposium, Indian Wells, CA, June 2017.

Peter G. Cross and Iain D. Boyd, “Decoupled and Conjugate Analyses of Rocket Nozzle Ablation,” 8th Ablation Workshop, Tucson, AZ, October 2016.

Peter G. Cross and Iain D. Boyd, “Towards Conjugate Analysis of Rocket Nozzle Ablation,” 7th Ablation Workshop, Tullahoma, TN, October 2015.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:00:20 -0400 2017-10-26T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
ECE Alumni Career Panel (October 26, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45460 45460-10186749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Come hear Electrical and Computer Engineering alumni speak about their careers! Dinner provided.

The panel includes:
Karen Fireman
Former Economic Analysis and Industrial Base Team Lead, Naval Sea Systems Command

Jordi Ribas
Corporate VP, Microsoft

Katherine Herrick
Chief Engineer, Raytheon

Mitchell Rohde,
CEO & Co-Founder, Quantum Signal LLC

K. Cyrus Hadavi
CEO & Chairman, Adexa

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:30:16 -0400 2017-10-26T17:30:00-04:00 2017-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lecture / Discussion speakers
Alumni Board Meeting (October 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43120 43120-9728884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

The Alumni Board meets every year during Homecoming weekend on North Campus. No registration required! Join the meeting and:
-Help elect new officers and board members.
-Learn about the board’s exciting future plans.

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Meeting Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:50:53 -0400 2017-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T10:45:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Meeting man talking at a meeting
North Campus Sustainability Hour IV (October 30, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44603 44603-9934424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Listen to an engaging talk on sustainability at the North Campus Sustainability Hour while enjoying a fresh lunch.

When: Mon. Oct. 30, 2017 noon–1 p.m.

Where: Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (on campus)

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Presentation Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:32:42 -0400 2017-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Tau Beta Pi Presentation Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Advisor Luncheon (October 31, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46383 46383-10475463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering Transfer Support (METS)

Engineering Transfer Students and their advisors will get together for a great lunch and great conversation.
RSVP required: https://mets.engin.umich.edu/events/

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:15:42 -0400 2017-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Transfer Support (METS) Social / Informal Gathering Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Change It Up Workshop for Master's Students (November 1, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45221 45221-10116105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

As part of New Graduate Student Orientation, all incoming master's students are strongly encouraged to attend one of these workshop sessions:

October 20, 10:00-11:30, East Room, Pierpont Commons

November 1, 10:00-11:30, Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center

Change it Up! brings bystander intervention skills to participants for the purpose of building safe, inclusive, and respectful communities. Change it Up! is based on a nationally recognized four-step bystander intervention model that will develop your skills and confidence when intervening in harmful situations inside and outside of the classroom.

Space is limited, so register by 10/18 at https://goo.gl/forms/jxQZh93sVkQ98sHs1.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:51:08 -0400 2017-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T11:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
First Year Grad School Boot Camp: Graduate Student & Professor Mixer: "Boot Camp Finale" (November 7, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43564 43564-9821429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

New College of Engineering graduate students are invited to attend this last event of the "First Year Grad School Boot Camp" series.

For more information, email avibreg@umich.edu.

Sponsored by the Materials Science & Engineering department, and the CoE Office of Student Affair's Grad Student Community Grant Program.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:19:28 -0400 2017-11-07T10:30:00-05:00 2017-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Social / Informal Gathering Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Unconscious Bias (November 9, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44417 44417-9911840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

The unconscious mind is a powerful and intrinsic force in helping to shape our overall behavior in our everyday lives. This interactive session is designed to examine how unconscious bias can affect one's perceptions, decisions, and interactions.

You will learn to:
- Examine your own background and identities to interact more authentically with co-workers, customers and the community
- Discuss how the brain functions, and relate how unconscious bias is a natural function of the human mind
- Identify patterns of unconscious bias that influence decision-making processes
- Confront internal biases and practice conscious awareness
- Practice strategies to create transformational and systemic change in the workplace

You will benefit by:
- Raising self-awareness, sparking conversation with others and initiating new actions
- Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
- Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
- Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:18:46 -0500 2017-11-09T10:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
2017 Wilbert Steffy Distinguished Lecture (November 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46438 46438-10489750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Tony Cox
President, Cox Associates
Clinical Professor, University of Colorado

Title: Causal Analytics for Risk Management: Making Advanced Analytics More Useful

Operations research provides powerful methods for choosing feasible values of decision variables to optimize an objective function. In practice, however, how decisions affect the objective function, and even what decisions are feasible, are often initially unknown. Managing risks effectively usually requires using available data, however limited, to answer the following questions, and then improve the answers in light of experience:

1. DESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS: What's happening? What has changed recently? What should we be worrying about?
2. PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS: What will (probably) happen if we do nothing new?
3. CAUSAL ANALYTICS: What will (probably) happen if we take different actions or implement different policies? How soon are the consequences likely to occur, and how sure can we be?
4. PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS: What should we do next? How should we allocate available resources to explore, evaluate, and implement different actions or policies in different locations?
5. EVALUATION ANALYTICS: How well are our risk management policies and decisions working? Are they producing (only) their intended effects? For what conditions or sub-populations do they work or fail?
6. LEARNING ANALYTICS: How might we do better, taking into account value of information and opportunities to learn from small trials before scaling up?
7. COLLABORATIVE ANALYTICS: How can we manage uncertain risks more effectively together?

This talk discusses recent advances in these areas and suggests how to integrate and apply them to important policy questions such as whether, when, and how to revise risk management regulations or policies. Current technical methods of risk analytics, including change point analysis and prescriptive maintenance, quasi-experimental design and analysis, causal graph modeling, Bayesian Networks and influence diagrams, Granger causality and transfer entropy methods for time series, causal analysis and modeling, and deep learning and low-regret learning provide a valuable toolkit for using data to assess and improve the performance of risk management decisions and policies by actively discovering what works best and how to improve over time.

Tony Cox is President of Cox Associates, a Denver-based applied research company specializing in health, safety, and environmental risk analysis; epidemiology; policy analytics; data science; and operations research. Since 1986, Cox Associates' analysts and scientists have applied epidemiological, risk analysis, and operations research models to measurably improve health and environment risk assessment and decision-making for public and private sector clients. In 2006, Cox Associates was inducted into the Edelman Academy of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), recognizing outstanding real-world achievements in the practice of operations research and the management sciences. In 2012, Dr. Cox was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), "For applications of operations research and risk analysis to significant national problems." He has served as a member of the National Academies' Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications (BMSA) (2012-2016). In 2013, he co-founded NextHealth Technologies, a Denver-based company offering advanced data analytics solutions to healthcare plans to reduce health, financial, and member attrition risks.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:50:22 -0400 2017-11-10T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Straight Talk®: Using Strategic Communication for High Impact Results (November 14, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44419 44419-9911843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 9:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

The key to workplace success is being a strong communicator. Being a strong communicator means knowing yourself and how to expertly navigate conversations that cut through assumptions, clarify needs and expectations, and maximize group productivity. Using the Straight Talk® communication style inventory, this session will explore good communication concepts and practices based on the work by communications expert and organizational leadership consultant Eric Douglas.

You will learn to:
- Recognize the four Straight Talk® styles and the strengths, weaknesses, similarities, and differences among them
- Identify your unique Straight Talk® profile and determine how it contributes to your success
- Determine practical ways to effectively adapt your style to improve your communication with others
- Discuss a range of strategies to proactively apply the strengths of your style and others back to your work

You will benefit by:
- Developing positive working relationships and higher levels of trust with your work colleagues
- Increasing your self-awareness, personal productivity, and efficiency by using more effective communication with others
- Decreasing or even eliminating conflicts that naturally occur from individual differences in style
- Increasing your ability to work in groups to solve problems and find successful solutions

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:46:04 -0400 2017-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Speaker #2 - Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia (November 14, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45013 45013-10069953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

As part of our "Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia" series, the American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter is holding a series of talks about teaching. For the second talk in the series, Dr. Diane Peters from the Kettering University Mechanical Engineering Department will speak about her experiences in academia, followed by a discussion.

RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/v6PPGRwSyERtlYml2

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:35:39 -0400 2017-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
North Campus Sustainability Hour V (November 22, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44604 44604-9934426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Listen to an engaging talk on sustainability at the North Campus Sustainability Hour while enjoying a fresh lunch.

When: Wed. Nov. 22, 2017 noon–1 p.m.

Where: Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (on campus)

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Presentation Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:34:58 -0400 2017-11-22T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-22T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Tau Beta Pi Presentation Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Fall Term Classes Resume (November 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41039 41039-8910507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Thanksgiving recess ends; classes resume and College offices open at 8am on Monday, November 27.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:32:32 -0400 2017-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Class / Instruction Student writes in notebook
North Campus Sustainability Hour VI (November 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44605 44605-9934427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Listen to an engaging talk on sustainability at the North Campus Sustainability Hour while enjoying a fresh lunch.

When: Mon. Nov. 27, 2017 noon–1 p.m.

Where: Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (on campus)

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Presentation Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:36:20 -0400 2017-11-27T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Tau Beta Pi Presentation Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Positive Leadership: It’s in Every One of Us (November 28, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44420 44420-9911844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

The practice of positive organizational psychology suggests that regardless of our role we each have the capacity to be a leader who positively influences our own vitality and productivity and also that of our colleagues and organizations. With an understanding of some research based principles, and experience with two positive leadership practices; you can claim your identity as a positive leader and lead yourself and your organization to greater good, whatever your position or role.

You will learn to:
- Describe the benefits of practicing positive organizational psychology
- Differentiate between “positive psychology” and “being positive”
- Recognize, embrace and develop your identity as a positive leader
- Demonstrate how even small contributions can positively impact energy and productivity
- Apply the Fundamental State of Leadership process to gain a new understanding of and perspective on a presented problem
- Use preferred futuring methods to focus your creativity and energy to proactively create your future

You will benefit by:
- Maximizing your ability to use positive organizational practices in your work
- Claiming your identity as a positive leader to benefit your own vitality and that of others
- Understanding and affirming the positive contributions of people at all levels
- Accessing and sharing the new possibilities for energy and productivity that positive organizational psychology offers

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:52:14 -0400 2017-11-28T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-28T16:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Cultural Competency: Communicating Across Cultures (November 29, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45223 45223-10116109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

College of Engineering Graduate Students are invited to register for this workshop, which is designed to increase the awareness of different communication styles and explore strategies for effective communication.

Lunch provided!

Register by 11/21 at https://goo.gl/forms/HlpcyWmeH6ICYw7A3.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:02:54 -0400 2017-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T13:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Methods for Improving MRI-Based Conductivity Mapping (December 1, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46968 46968-10711286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

The electrical properties - permittivity and conductivity - of a material describe how electromagnetic waves behave in that material. Electrical properties are frequency-dependent parameters and, for a liquid sample, are measured with a dielectric probe and a network analyzer. This measurement technique is not feasible in vivo, but methods have been developed to make these measurements using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This work focuses on measuring conductivity, or the ability to conduct electric current. Mapping the electrical properties within the human body can provide important information for MRI safety and diagnostic applications. First, the specific absorption rate (SAR) in an MRI scan is proportional to conductivity, and limited to minimize the risk of heating in a subject. Knowledge of subject-specific conductivity maps could lead to better, subject-specific SAR estimation. Second, several small studies in recent years have shown that conductivity is elevated in malignant tumors as compared to healthy tissue. There are open research questions regarding the correlation between conductivity and other diagnostic metrics. Both of these applications benefit from accurate conductivity maps. In this work we describe three different methods for improving the accuracy of conductivity maps. The first is a novel regularized, model-based approach which we refer to as the Inverse Laplacian method. The Inverse Laplacian method resulted in lower reconstruction bias and error due to noise in simulations than the conventional filtering method. The Inverse Laplacian method also produced conductivity maps closer to the measured values in a phantom and with reduced noise in the human brain, as compared to the filtering method. The second is a method for combining multi-coil MRI data for conductivity mapping, because the use of multi-coil receivers can drastically improve the SNR in conductivity maps. The noise in the combined phase data using the proposed method was slightly elevated as compared to the optimal combination method, but the conductivity uniformity in a uniform gel phantom was greater than that of the optimal combination method. Furthermore, by visual inspection, the human brain conductivity calculated from data combined using the proposed method had minimal bias and noise amplification. Finally, we present a method for mapping conductivity tensors, as opposed to scalar values, which provides an additional layer of information to conductivity maps. Our proposed mathematical framework yields accurate tensor quantities provided the object can rotate 90 degrees in any direction. However, restricting the object rotation to mimic the constraints on a human subject yields slightly inaccurate results. We also present a dictionary-based approach to tensor calculations to try to improve the tensor estimates using restricted rotations.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:04:53 -0500 2017-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
North Campus Sustainability Hour VII (December 13, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44606 44606-9934428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Listen to an engaging talk on sustainability at the North Campus Sustainability Hour while enjoying a fresh lunch.

When: Wed. Dec. 13, 2017 noon–1 p.m.

Where: Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (on campus)

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Presentation Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:40:42 -0400 2017-12-13T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-13T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Tau Beta Pi Presentation Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Christmas Day (offices closed) (December 25, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47821 47821-11015159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 25, 2017 12:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Offices are closed in observance of Christmas Day.

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Other Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:29:34 -0500 2017-12-25T00:00:00-05:00 2017-12-25T23:59:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Other Red sculpture in front of the Lurie Engineering Center
Season Day (offices closed) (December 26, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47822 47822-11015160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 26, 2017 12:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Offices are closed for Season Days from Tuesday, December 26 through Friday, December 29.

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Other Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:30:36 -0500 2017-12-26T00:00:00-05:00 2017-12-26T23:59:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Other woman with scarf and warm coat in the snow
Season Day (offices closed) (December 27, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47822 47822-11015161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 27, 2017 12:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Offices are closed for Season Days from Tuesday, December 26 through Friday, December 29.

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Other Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:30:36 -0500 2017-12-27T00:00:00-05:00 2017-12-27T23:59:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Other woman with scarf and warm coat in the snow
Season Day (offices closed) (December 28, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47822 47822-11015162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 12:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Offices are closed for Season Days from Tuesday, December 26 through Friday, December 29.

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Other Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:30:36 -0500 2017-12-28T00:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T23:59:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Other woman with scarf and warm coat in the snow
Season Day (offices closed) (December 29, 2017 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47822 47822-11015163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 29, 2017 12:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Offices are closed for Season Days from Tuesday, December 26 through Friday, December 29.

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Other Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:30:36 -0500 2017-12-29T00:00:00-05:00 2017-12-29T23:59:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Other woman with scarf and warm coat in the snow
New Year's Day (offices closed) (January 1, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47823 47823-11015164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 1, 2018 12:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Offices are closed in observance of the New Year's Day holiday.

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Other Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:28:11 -0500 2018-01-01T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-01T23:59:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Other sculpture on North Campus
Winter Term Classes Begin (January 3, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41045 41045-8910520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 12:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Classes begin

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Class / Instruction Mon, 07 Aug 2017 10:32:16 -0400 2018-01-03T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-03T23:59:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Class / Instruction writing in notebook
Finding an Extra Hour Every Day: Time Management and Technology Strategies for Busy Professionals (January 9, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44490 44490-9920283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Human Resources

Everyone wishes they had extra time in their day. Explore the most common areas of productivity loss (and possible gain) affecting many busy professionals today. Come and learn useful strategies for finding at least one extra hour of productivity every day!

You will learn to:
- Identify key projects and integrate planning tools to better prioritize your work
- Determine when to say “No” to unnecessary tasks
- Apply techniques to clear the clutter in your mind for better focus and attention
- Choose different strategies for making your time in meetings more productive and efficient
- Employ the concept of “padding” to better manage incoming information

You will benefit by:
- Learning how to be honest with yourself about responsibilities, capabilities, and capacity
- Developing strategies which allow you to identify important responsibilities and how to best allocate time to them
- Knowing how to take advantage of expected and unexpected “downtime”

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:08:37 -0400 2018-01-09T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-09T16:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Human Resources Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Investigation of the Performance of Photon Counting Arrays Based on Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Transistors (January 10, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48082 48082-11178039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Projection x-ray imaging is commonly employed to visualize internal human anatomy in order to diagnose medical conditions and facilitate medical procedures. Modern projection imaging is typically performed using an active matrix, flat panel imager that is comprised of a converter layer overlying a monolithic, large-area pixelated array fabricated using a thin-film amorphous silicon process. The images are formed by converting x-ray photons into electrical signals, and then integrating those signals over a frame time – a method referred to as fluence integration.

Recently, imagers employing a different method for creating x-ray images – referred to as photon counting – have been developed and used clinically to perform mammographic imaging (a form of projection imaging). Photon counting involves measuring the energy of each interacting x-ray photon and digitally recording the number of times photons exceed one or more energy thresholds. Because the imaging information is stored digitally, photon counting imagers are less susceptible to noise than fluence-integrating imagers – potentially improving image quality and/or decreasing the amount of radiation required to acquire an image.

Current photon counting imagers are based on crystalline silicon and have limited detection areas. An imager with larger detection area would allow photon counting to be used in other projection imaging modalities – such as radiography (which produces, for example, chest x-ray images) and fluoroscopy (which is used, for example, to non-invasively insert stents and other medical devices). However, strategies to increase detection area, such as tiling multiple arrays, result in increased imager complexity and/or cost. For this reason, our group has been exploring the possibility of creating photon counting arrays using a different semiconductor material, referred to as low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si). This material is fabricated using another thin-film process (which also allows the economic manufacture of monolithic, large-area arrays) and has favorable properties for creating complex, high speed circuits.

Using poly-Si, a set of prototype arrays have been designed and fabricated. The pixels of the arrays have a pitch of 1 mm and consist of four components: an amplifier, a comparator, a clock generator, and a counter. Several circuit variations were created for each component, and circuit simulations were performed in order to determine the energy resolution and count rate capability of each variation of each component.

For the amplifier component, all circuit variations were determined to have an energy resolution of ~10% when presented with a 70 keV input x-ray (a typical x‑ray energy used in diagnostic imaging). This degree of energy resolution is comparable to that reported for photon counting imagers fabricated using crystalline silicon. In addition, while count rates for the amplifier component were determined to be roughly one order of magnitude too low for radiographic and fluoroscopic applications (which require rates on the order of 1 million counts per second per square millimeter [cps/mm2]), a hypothetical poly-Si amplifier circuit variation was identified and determined to have count rate capabilities suitable for these applications (with energy resolution similar to that of the prototype designs). In addition, the count rates for the comparator, clock generator, and counter circuit variations were found to range from 100 to 3000 kcps/mm2. Finally, due to on-going improvements in the poly-Si fabrication process (driven largely by the display industry), future photon counting arrays employing poly-Si could have pixel pitches as small as 250 um – a size suitable for radiographic and fluoroscopic imaging.

Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: 2210 Lurie Engineering Center (LEC)
Chair: Dr. Larry E. Antonuk

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Presentation Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:32:29 -0500 2018-01-10T10:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T11:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Logo
Development and Applications of Ultrasound Techniques for Characterization and Stimulation of Engineered Tissues (January 11, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48080 48080-11178037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Mechanobiology is central in the development, pathology, and regeneration of musculoskeletal tissues, in which mechanical factors play important roles. Therefore there is a need for methods to characterize the composition and mechanical properties of developing musculoskeletal tissues over time. Ultrasound elastographic techniques have been developed for noninvasive imaging of spatial heterogeneity in tissue stiffness. However, their application for quantitative assessment of tissue mechanical properties, especially viscoelastic properties, has not been exploited. Additionally, ultrasound energy may be used to apply mechanical stimulation to engineered constructs at the microscale, and thereby to enhance tissue regeneration.

We have developed a multimode ultrasound viscoelastography (MUVE) system for assessing microscale mechanical properties of engineered hydrogels. MUVE uses focused ultrasound pulses to apply acoustic radiation force (ARF) to deform samples, while concurrently measuring sample dimensions using coaxial high frequency ultrasound imaging. We used MUVE to perform creep tests on agarose, collagen, and fibrin hydrogels of defined concentrations, as well as to monitor the mechanical properties of cell-seeded constructs over time. Local and bulk viscoelastic properties were extracted from strain-time curves through fitting of relevant constitutive models, showing clear differences between concentrations and materials. In particular, we showed that MUVE is capable of mapping heterogeneity of samples in 3D. Using inclusion of dense agarose microbeads within agarose, collagen and fibrin hydrogels, we determined the spatial resolution of MUVE to be approximately 200 μm in both the lateral and axial directions. Comparison of MUVE to nanoindentation and shear rheometry showed that our ultrasound-based technique was superior in generating consistent, microscale data, particularly for very soft materials.

We have also adapted MUVE to generate localized cyclic compression, as a means to mechanically stimulate engineered tissue constructs at the microscale. Selected treatment protocols were shown to enhance the osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells in collagen-fibrin hydrogels. Constructs treated at 1 Hz at an acoustic pressure of 0.7 MPa for 30 minutes per day showed accelerated osteogenesis and increased mineralization by 10 to 30 percent, relative to unstimulated controls. In separate experiments, the ultrasound pulse intensity was increased over time to compensate for changes in matrix properties over time, and a 35 percent increase in mineralization was achieved.

We also extended the application of a previously-developed spectral ultrasound imaging (SUSI) technique to an animal model for early detection of heterotopic ossification (HO). The quantitative information on acoustic scatterer size and concentration derived from SUSI was used to differentiate tissue composition in a burn/tenotomy mice model from the control model. Importantly, HO foci were detected as early as one week after injury using SUSI, which is 3-5 weeks earlier than when using conventional micro-computed tomography.

Taken together, these results demonstrate that ultrasound-based techniques can non-invasively and quantitatively characterize viscoelastic properties of soft materials in 3D, as well as their composition over time. Ultrasound pulses can also be used to stimulate engineered constructs to promote musculoskeletal tissue formation. MUVE, SUSI, and ultrasound stimulation can be combined into an integrated system to investigate the roles of matrix composition, static mechanical environment, and dynamic mechanical stimuli in tissue regeneration, as well as the interactions of these factors and their evolution over time. Ultrasound-based techniques therefore have promising potential in noninvasively characterizing the composition and biomechanics, as well as providing mechanical intervention in native and engineered tissues as they develop over time.

Date: Thursday, January 11, 2018
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: General Motors Conference Room, Lurie Engineering Center
Chair: Dr. Cheri X. Deng & Dr. Jan P Stegemann

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Presentation Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:24:58 -0500 2018-01-11T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T15:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Presentation BME Logo