Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. An Entrepreneurial Mindset: Supercharge your career in academia, industry or startups (June 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63906 63906-15985741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Lunch provided!

An Entrepreneurial Mindset has been shown to be critical for career resilience whether you are in academia, industry, or even government.  Research indicates that there are six behavioral components:  Opportunity Identification, Being Technologically Savvy, Willing to Experiment, Managing Risk, Building Relationships, and Persevering.  Come learn about each of these and how they might apply in your career.  Also learn about opportunities to learn more through the classes and programming offered by the Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering.

Registration is required by 6/13, at: https://forms.gle/po3V2hinu7B3JGuQ9. Questions may be directed to ajrose@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 04 Jun 2019 07:53:39 -0400 2019-06-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T13:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Ph.D. Defense: Karlo A. Malaga (July 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64315 64315-16314268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering Final Oral Examination

Karlo A. Malaga

Finite Element Electrode and Individual Patient Modeling to Optimize Restorative Neuroengineering

Parkinson disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET) are the most common neurological movement disorders among adults. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established surgical treatment for both conditions that involves implanting electrodes in the brain and then applying electrical stimulation. Despite the clinical effectiveness of DBS, its underlying mechanisms remain unclear. As DBS advances into a viable treatment for other conditions, it has become important to address the fundamental principles behind the procedure, specifically the spatial extent of stimulation. Furthermore, as DBS moves toward the adoption of closed-loop stimulation paradigms, an increased understanding of how neural recordings are affected by different biological factors is also key. Broadly, the work presented in this dissertation utilizes finite element electrode and individual patient modeling in an effort to help improve established procedures within neural stimulation and recording for restorative neuroengineering applications.

The therapeutic benefit of DBS is strongly dependent on the spatial distribution of the stimulation-induced electric field relative to the individual neuroanatomy of the patient undergoing treatment. To maximize symptom suppression while minimizing side effects, accurate predictions of the spread of stimulation in the brain are essential. Due to the inherent difficulty in measuring the electric field in vivo, computational models have been used to visualize and quantify the spatial extent of neural activation, termed the volume of tissue activated (VTA). The VTA is a stimulation parameter-dependent metric that can be used to predict clinical outcomes and optimize stimulation parameters. The clinical utility of these models hinges on their ability to make meaningful and accurate predictions. Significant efforts have gone towards validating VTA predictions with experimental and clinical data. Computational models have also been developed to increase understanding of neural recordings and how they are affected by different factors. These models employ many of the same tools used in VTA modeling, such as finite element analysis.

Tissue activation modeling continues to grow more complex. Models can now incorporate detailed neuroanatomy, heterogeneous and anisotropic tissue properties, explicit representation of the DBS lead and electrode-tissue interface, and clinically determined stimulation parameters. Each of these modeling advancements have been made in an effort to tailor DBS models to individual patients. However, there is still room for improvement when it comes to creating fully individualized models. For example, deep brain structures are typically derived from a brain atlas, translated, rotated, and scaled to best fit the anatomy of the patient. Anisotropic tissue properties, derived from diffusion tensor (DT) imaging, are also typically atlas-based. Since most atlases are based on a single subject, there is a limitation in how representative one can be to a patient population, especially one that is in a diseased state. To accurately characterize the VTA on an individual basis, model components should be derived from a single source (the patient).

The objective of this dissertation is two-fold: (1) to characterize the spatial extent of stimulation associated with therapeutic outcome and side effects in DBS for PD and ET by developing atlas-independent, fully individualized DT-based VTA models; (2) to investigate the effects of gliosis and the electrode-tissue interface on single-unit recording quality by developing a data-driven neural recording model. The significance of the work presented here is in the individualized modeling framework that it provides. As insight regarding stimulation spread in the brain increases, the techniques described here can be applied to other conditions to inform novel stimulation strategies and help bridge the gap between model-based evidence and clinical practice.

Date: Thursday, July 18, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: General Motors Conference Room, Lurie Engineering Center
Chair: Parag Patil

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:05:40 -0400 2019-07-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-18T10:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Defense
Making a First Impression Workshop (August 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64314 64314-16314266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Lunch Provided!

Description: Making a strong first impression is vital in the interview process. How you present yourself can help your chances of securing the internship or job you want. Come to this workshop to learn techniques that make you appear confident and powerful. Through exercises and discussion, we will explore what you can do to make a strong impression.

Registration is required by 8/4, at https://forms.gle/8rErJkzb2NVxqnJUA.

Sponsored by the CoE Office of Student Affairs. For questions, please email ajrose@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Jul 2019 09:57:34 -0400 2019-08-06T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-06T12:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Ph.D. Defense: Cameron M. Louttit (August 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65528 65528-16611701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering Final Oral Examination

Cameron M. Louttit

In Vitro Platforms for the Study and Manipulation of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps

Though only recently discovered, neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) have rapidly attracted scientific and clinical interest as a potent weapon in the arsenal of innate immunity. These structures, fibers of decondensed nuclear material on which neutrophils localize their vast antimicrobial and proinflammatory stores, are released into sites of inflammation or injury with the presumed aim of constraining and clearing bacteria. It has also been shown, however, that NETs cause substantial harm, contributing to the pathogeneses of autoimmune diseases, cancers, and thrombotic disorders as well as inciting non-specific inflammation and collateral host damage. Thus, NETs as currently understood represent a paradox in which protection seems to be outweighed by detriment. In this light, fundamental questions have arisen surrounding the identity, function, and utility of NETs in vivo. This work describes two novel platforms rationally designed to assist in understanding and contextualizing this paradox.

In the first approach, aimed at better understanding NET identity, a reductionist in vitro assay framework was iteratively developed to study NETs from the bottom up, beginning first with their DNA-histone fibrous substructure. Precise control of DNA-histone complexation yielded a robust, reproducible, and scalable structure that stood in stark contrast to low-yield and heterogeneous NET preparations. These structures, termed DNA-histone mesostructures (DHMs), mirrored both NET morphology and, to an extent, function. In doing so, DHMs provided a novel assay platform which elucidated the significant role of the isolated NET backbone in common NET-associated phenomena, such as bacterial trapping and immune activation. In addition, it permitted the confirmation and quantification of the role of the peptide LL-37 in altering NET degradation behavior. Beyond these structural studies, DHMs also yielded novel cell-based assays, including efforts to characterize the interaction between NET components and the immune system. Such studies elucidated the key role of DNA-histone synergism in NET-mediated immunostimulation, particularly amplified by the structural inclusion of non-methylated DNA. Additionally, they highlighted the importance of cell-structure proximity and contact in immune cell uptake and activation.

In the second approach, aimed at addressing the perceived pathophysiological imbalance mediated by NETs, a nanoparticulate platform was leveraged to modify cell-derived NETs in vitro with the aim of ultimately modifying them in situ. The chosen nanoparticles, hollow nanocapsules composed of polysaccharide, were internalized into neutrophils but avoided immediate NET induction; instead, they primed neutrophils for enhanced NET production only after classical stimulation. Importantly, the NETs produced by nanocapsule-loaded neutrophils were interwoven with these particles, thereby indicating significant promise for future therapeutic modification of these structures.

Though distinct in motivation and design, these two platforms demonstrate novel approaches to understanding NETs and have revealed substantial insights about both NET identity and utility as described in this work. For both, the simultaneous youth and breadth of the NET field provide a profoundly large and diverse application base. Further studies leveraging both NET-mimicking in vitro assay platforms and NET-binding nanoparticles will therefore continue to assist in the determination of both foundational and therapeutic NET biology.

Date: Thursday, August 22, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: General Motors Conference Room, Lurie Engineering Center
Chair: Dr. James Moon

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:05:06 -0400 2019-08-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Event
Robotics PhD Defense: Mia Stevens (September 3, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65320 65320-16571514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

As small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are utilized in an increasingly wide variety of commercial and civil applications, safety of flight within low altitude airspace can be improved through use of electronic geofence systems to partition the airspace. A geofence is defined as a volume of airspace with specific temporal, spatial, and permission constraints. This thesis develops geofencing as a tool for individual UAS and for managing airspace utilization through UAS Traffic Management (UTM). Permissions constraints determine which UAS may fly within each geofence. As a safety system, geofencing aims to keep the UAS within the airspace sectors (keep-in geofences) it has permission to access. Similarly, geofencing prevents the UAS from entering the airspace sectors it does not have permission to access (keep-out geofences). This thesis offers three specific contributions to geofencing.

First, a methodology is developed to enable the UTM system to build and manage the set of active geofences, ensuring a maximum of one geofence per volume of airspace at any given time. Spatial priority of geofences within the UTM system is awarded in order of request, with always active (static) geofences having top priority. Unlike static geofences, dynamic geofences appear and disappear at user-specified times and are spatially and temporally deconflicted to maximize authorized airspace volume. Polygon set operations are used to deconflict the horizontal boundaries of newly requested geofence sets from the existing UTM approved geofence set.

Second, a Triangle Weight Characterization with Adjacency (TWCA) algorithm is developed to efficiently determine whether a UAS is within a given geofence independent of the complexity of its boundary. This algorithm enables the UAS geofence module to quickly check whether the UAS is violating a geofence boundary by decomposing the horizontal boundary into triangles and tracking the occupied triangle over time through an adjacency graph. To test the performance of TWCA against the industry standard of Ray Casting, the run-time per query is calculated for randomly generated geofences and flight paths. The run-time of Ray Casting scales linearly with the number of geofence vertices while the average run-time of TWCA is constant independent of number of vertices. This time independence from geofence complexity is managed by a pre-processing step that enables real-time operation of this algorithm.

Third, to enable the UAS operator or geofence automation to intervene prior to a boundary violation, the geofence polygons are scaled to provide warning and override cues. This boundary layering algorithm utilizes a uniform and a directional buffer distance to scale keep-in geofences inward and keep-out geofences outward. The layering algorithm is designed to handle arbitrary concave polygons, with special cases identified and analyzed through Monte Carlo simulation. Multiple layering techniques are utilized in parallel to increase the likelihood of finding a scaled boundary solution. The statistical results show that the likelihood of success for inward and outward scaling decreases as buffer magnitude increases.

The contributions of this thesis are combined to form a full system simulation, from the request of a new geofence and access to an existing geofence through the prevention of the boundary violation by the UAS.

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Presentation Fri, 16 Aug 2019 08:11:12 -0400 2019-09-03T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-03T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Robotics Presentation Geofenced North Campus
PhD Defense: Andrew McKelvey (September 4, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66300 66300-16725816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Short-pulse Driven Transport Measurements in Dense Plasmas

Chair: Prof. Karl Krushelnick

Abstract: Accurate transport properties---such as opacity, and electrical & thermal conductivities---provide crucial input for the intricate physics models necessary to describe the dynamics of complex, high energy density (HED) systems. This includes stars, giant planets, and inertial confinement fusion plasmas. However, these theoretical transport models present challenges as the phase space often sits at the intersection of solid, liquid, gas, and plasma where many effects of comparable magnitude must be considered. Additionally, the transient nature of such high energy density materials complicates experimental measurement, and many theories remain sparsely benchmarked by data.
In the laboratory, HED material must be created via some combination of material compression to very high densities or by adding large amounts of energy to the material in a very short time. This thesis focuses on experiments utilizing the second technique. X-ray free-electron lasers (tau<100 fs) or short-pulse lasers (tau<1 ps) are capable of heating materials from room temperature to tens or even many hundreds of eV while keeping densities at appreciable fractions of their ambient value. This allows for the probing of material properties before hydrodynamics phenomena become dominant.
First, an experimental platform designed to constrain thermal conductivity models in warm dense matter is presented. Its basis relies on differentially heating multilayer targets (one high-Z layer and one low- to mid-Z layer) to generate a thermal gradient. This concept was first demonstrated using the Titan laser at the Jupiter Laser Facility, creating an intense proton beam to heat a gold/aluminum multilayer target. The temperature, reflectivity, and expansion of the rear surface were observed with time-resolved diagnostics as the thermal energy from the hot gold layer reached the coldest part of the aluminum layer. The data were compared with hydrodynamics models that self-consistently used the electrical and thermal conductivities to calculate observables. Measured temperatures were too low relative to predictions, possibly indicating the need to decrease tested conductivity models. This experiment was repeated using an X-ray free-electron laser at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) with gold/iron targets. Data are presented for this work along with calculations and a discussion of how the different drivers impact the experimental design and data quality.
Finally, data from a platform designed to measure opacities using short- pulse lasers at the Orion Laser Facility are presented. Spectroscopic measurements of silicon's K-shell that are both temporally and angularly resolved are benchmarked against the radiation transfer code Cretin. The validity of the commonly-used escape factor approximation is tested against the full solution of the radiation transfer equation and found to be in good agreement for presented experimental conditions. An analysis of the effects of radial gradients on spectroscopically inferred temperatures is found to lead to errors in the peak temperature as large as 50% as well as incorrect cooling rates. This emphasizes the importance of absolute emissivity calibrations and spatially resolved spot size measurements.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:43:56 -0400 2019-09-04T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-04T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion AndrewMcKelvey PhD defense flyer
Rackham Graduate School Tax Workshop (September 9, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65594 65594-16621788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Learn the ins and outs of filing taxes as a graduate student, especially if you are filing quarterly! The material for this session is aimed at domestic students.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/QAAVG.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:16:19 -0400 2019-09-09T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T15:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Sharing International Experiences with Employers (September 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65955 65955-16676313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Are you wondering how to incorporate your international experience into your resume and elevator pitch? Attend this workshop co-sponsored by the Engineering Career Resource Center and International Programs in Engineering for tips on how to articulate the skills, knowledge, and experience you gained while abroad. You will practice crafting impact-statements that clearly demonstrate to employers what you learned during your international experience. Bring a copy of your resume to edit during the workshop! (Note: this workshop is aimed at undergraduate students who have had a study, intern, research, or volunteer/service experience outside of the US).

The workshop will be held in the GM Conference Room at the Lurie Engineering Center. Space is limited and lunch will be served, please register through the Events section on Engineering Careers if planning to attend. If you have any dietary restrictions, please contact Matt Hancock at mhancoc@umich.edu.

This is a College of Engineering event.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:53:01 -0400 2019-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Prediction under chaos using a depth-averaged model of turbidity currents (September 12, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65223 65223-16555451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Abstract: In this talk, I will demonstrate a forward stratigraphic model based on depth-averaged governing equations for the flow of submarine turbidity currents over an erodible bed. This model is being used with some success by the Process Stratigraphy team at ExxonMobil to generate stratigraphic models for deepwater environments of deposition. The mathematical model consists of a system of nonlinear hyperbolic PDEs, with an additional so-called Exner equation for modeling the flow-bed sediment exchange and their bedload transport. The Exner equation plays a key role since a (slow time scale) change in the gradient of the bed influences the (fast time scale) momentum of the flow. The transport equations, along with closure models for sediment transport, TKE balance, and water entrainment, are solved using a first-order finite-volume method with a HLLC approximate Riemann solver and integrated using an explicit Euler scheme. The model shows the emergence of self-organized patterns in the deposits, including the creation of bedforms, channel formation, and avulsions, consistent with observations of modern systems and lab experiments. These occur even with uniform boundary conditions and symmetric initial conditions. The initial disturbances that trigger these mechanisms are ostensibly sourced by floating-point roundoff errors. An ensemble of simulations with slightly different initial conditions are used to analyze statistics on shapes of geomorphic elements and grain size distributions. The objective is to assess whether and under what conditions such a numerical model can be predictive and quantify the uncertainty in the results arising due to the irreducible chaos in the dynamical system.
Bio: Ramanathan Vishnampet is a Computational Data Scientist at the Global Business Lines Analytics & Optimization group at ExxonMobil Upstream Integrated Solutions. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his dissertation focused on an exact and consistent adjoint method for high-fidelity discretization of the compressible flow equations.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:09:39 -0400 2019-09-12T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-12T15:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar Vishnampet
Decoding the U of M Engineering Classroom (September 16, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65239 65239-16557462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

International GSIs (Graduate Student Instructors) often have questions about the U.S. college courses they teach: Are there U.S.-specific things I should be doing to prepare? How will I earn my students’ respect and trust? What do international engineering GSIs wish they had known when they taught for the first time here? This workshop will feature suggestions gathered from research and international, College of Engineering GSIs, to help you be successful in your teaching appointment.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:05:52 -0400 2019-09-16T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T15:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
It’s Time for Action: Generating an Active Learning Plan (September 24, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65240 65240-16557464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

Creating a plan to engage students in active learning can be challenging. In this workshop, you will learn about a variety of active learning techniques then begin to formulate a plan for implementing active learning in your own course.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:10:13 -0400 2019-09-24T10:30:00-04:00 2019-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Graduate Studies in Computational & Data Sciences Info Session - North Campus (September 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66513 66513-16744948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Learn about graduate programs that will prepare you for success in computationally intensive fields — pizza and pop provided

The Ph.D. in Scientific Computing is open to all Ph.D. students who will make extensive use of large-scale computation, computational methods, or algorithms for advanced computer architectures in their studies. It is a joint degree program, with students earning a Ph.D. from their current departments, “… and Scientific Computing” — for example, “Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing.”

The Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery and Engineering trains graduate students in computationally intensive research so they can excel in interdisciplinary HPC-focused research and product development environments. The certificate is open to all students currently pursuing Master’s or Ph.D. degrees at the University of Michigan.

The Graduate Certificate in Computational Neuroscience trains the next generation of interdisciplinary neuroscientists. The certificate program is open to all students pursuing Master’s or Ph.D. degrees at the University of Michigan.

The Graduate Certificate in Data Science is focused on developing core proficiencies in data analytics:
1) Modeling — Understanding of core data science principles, assumptions and applications;
2) Technology — Knowledge of basic protocols for data management, processing, computation, information extraction, and visualization;
3) Practice — Hands-on experience with real data, modeling tools, and technology resources.

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Meeting Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:45:05 -0400 2019-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Meeting Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
EER Seminar Series (Engineering Education Research) (September 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65182 65182-16547451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

TITLE: Advancing Evidence-based Biomedical Engineering Education in Real Time

Undergraduate biomedical engineering (BME) programs typically consist of courses from several different academic departments combined with BME-specific courses taught by faculty trained in a variety of disciplines. While some students embrace this diversity in courses and disciplinary perspectives, many struggle with how to translate these experiences into career opportunities. BME students are often concerned that they are perceived as a “jack of all trades, masters of none.” In 2016, the BME Department sought to find new ways to integrate BME professional practice into the curriculum.

Informed by organizational change theory, we asked: 1) Is there potential for change; 2) what strategies facilitate change; and 3) how can these strategies be implemented? As a result, we developed an Instructional Design Sequence, a new approach to instruction in which students, post docs, and faculty create short modules that use evidence-based teaching practices to expose BME students to BME professional practice.

This presentation describes how the Instructional Design Sequence was conceived and demonstrates how theory can be used to inform practice. The resultant Sequence is a transferrable model for transforming engineering education, offering a mechanism for integrating new career-relevant curriculum into undergraduate curriculum, while training future educators in evidence-based instructional practices.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:53:48 -0400 2019-09-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-09-25T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion EER Logo
Graduate Student Life Panel Session (September 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65053 65053-16509313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

This event features a panel of current CoE graduate students. These students will answer the questions you have about acclimating to the College of Engineering, finding resources, and establishing a healthy work/life balance. This is a good opportunity for you to ask about graduate student life!

Registration is required by 9/19/19, at https://forms.gle/mSQqxnauKor6Tcuv8.

Sponsored by the CoE Office of Student Affairs. Please direct questions to ajrose@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:31:44 -0400 2019-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
New Grad Student Orientation 2:0: Graduate Student Panel (September 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66598 66598-16767940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

September 26, 2019
12:00-1:00
Johnson Rooms, 3rd floor, Lurie Engineering Center
Lunch will be provided!

Now that you’ve been here for a while, we’re sure that you have some questions. This session will provide you with an opportunity to ask current graduate students for advice, resources, and other graduate student life issues. This will be a very relaxed and fun environment, allowing you to meet new people from across departments.

Panelists:
• Gary Collins, Aero PhD student
• Erin Evke, MS&E PhD student
• Chenwu Liao, ECE master’s student
• Trevor Smith, NERS master’s student

Please register at https://forms.gle/33Be959n31gNgYCh7, by 9/23.
Sponsored by the CoE Office of Student Affairs. For more information, email ajrose@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:34:47 -0400 2019-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Defense Dissertation: Impact of Neutral Density on the Operation of High-Power Magnetically Shielded Hall Thrusters (September 26, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66785 66785-16778974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dissertation Committee Names:

Professor Alec D. Gallimore, Co-Chair
Assistant Professor Benjamin A. Jorns, Co-Chair
Professor John E. Foster, Cognate
Dr. Richard R. Hofer, Member

Presentation Info:

Thursday, September 26th 2 PM
Johnsons Room, LEC

This work examines two innovative technologies in high-power electric propulsion – magnetic shielding and nesting channels. Magnetic shielding increases the lifetime of Hall thrusters by three orders of magnitude, while nested Hall thrusters allow these devices to be scaled to the very high powers necessary for Mars missions. Despite these advancements, there remain open questions about the exact implications on Hall thruster operation. These open questions pose large risks for transitioning the thrusters to flight. One of the most critical is how neutral gas particles emanating from various sources influence the overall performance and lifetime of these thrusters. There exist several sources of neutrals such as the background facility pressure, the cathode, and adjacent channels on nested Hall thrusters. As such, we investigate here the neutral density impacts on the operation of high-power Hall thrusters. In summary, we show that neutrals shift and compress the plasma, which leads to an increase thrust and efficiency with higher neutral density. Additionally, we find that these neutrals can change the near-wall ion behavior, which affects the erosion and overall lifetime. Ultimately, we have improved our understanding of the mechanisms behind neutral impacts on the performance and lifetime of magnetically shielded and nested Hall thrusters.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:12:32 -0400 2019-09-26T14:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Engineering Presentation cusson
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans-North Campus (September 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66333 66333-16727911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

Please join Julian Ramos, Deputy Director of the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation, and Henry Dyson, Director of ONSF, for an information session to learn more about The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. This fellowship provides up to two years of graduate study in any field and in any graduate degree-granting program in the United States. Each award is for up to $25,000 in stipend support, as well as 50 percent of required tuition and fees, up to $20,000 per year, for two years. The total value of the fellowship is $90,000. For more information visit: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/united-states/the-paul---daisy-soros-fellowships.html

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Presentation Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:35:23 -0400 2019-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Presentation ONSF
Taking Airbus into the Future–Flight Physics Outlook (October 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67658 67658-16909329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Marc Fischer
Head of Flight Physics
Senior Vice President, Engineering, Airbus Group

The talk provides a general overview of Airbus Group and Flight Physics, the global challenges of the aeronautical industry, and shows how Model Based Systems Engineering can contribute to meet these challenges.

Airbus Group is an aircraft manufacturer with three divisions for commercial aircraft, helicopters, and defense and space. We are a truly global player, who for more than 50 years has been pioneering innovation, setting the highest standards in terms of product developments, technology and environmental performance. The digital revolution offers unique opportunities to strive for even more ambitious solutions to serve the industry and our customers. Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is a key enabler in order to seek genuine multi-disciplinary optimization and processes, enabling a real step change in terms of aircraft design, manufacturing, and services, while continuously improving our environmental performance. The Michigan Centre for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft is a strategic partner to support Airbus’ ambition in this respect, and highlights of this partnership will be elaborated as part of this talk.

About the speaker...

Marc Fischer is a Senior Vice President within the Airbus Group, and has been leading the Airbus Flight Physics Center of Competence (EG) since November 2014.

The Center provides flight physics solutions to all Airbus products and is part of the overall aircraft design community and the Engineering function. Flight Physics employs 830 engineers across 6 sites and consists of seven domains, covering: Aerodynamics, Loads & Aeroelastics, Aircraft Performance, Mass Properties, Flight Dynamics Simulation, Policy, Development & Integration, and Business Transformation & Strategy.

Prior to his current role, Marc held various positions within the Loads & Aeroelastics Domain, including the posts of Head of Domain (2012-2014), and Head of Component Loads & Systems Support (2010-2012).

Originally, Marc joined Airbus as a structural engineer within the Structural Analysis department (2003-2005), which was followed by the positions of Executive Technical Assistant to the EVP Engineering (2006-2008) and A380 Assistant Chief Engineer (2008-2009).

Marc holds a Master of Engineering (MEng (Hons)) degree and PhD from Cardiff University, United Kingdom, as well as a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the College des Ingénieurs (CDI), Paris, France.

Having grown up at the border between Germany and France, Marc has developed a strong interest in foreign languages, and speaks German, French, English and Spanish. He is 44 years old and currently lives near Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France.

Marc.Fisher@airbus.com

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:09:19 -0400 2019-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Airbus 50-year anniversary flight formation
Alumni Panel on Consulting Careers (October 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67581 67581-16898648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Lunch provided!

Panelists:
Gregory Kernosek, Principal Engineer, EnviroSolutions, Inc.
Rianna Kosmalski, Consultant, PCUBED
Michael Woon, CEO & Co-founder, Retrospect

Description:
Are you considering a career as a consultant? Meet three of our graduate-level alumni who have experience in the consulting field. The panelists will briefly introduce themselves, discuss their transition into consulting, and describe their current firm. Most of the event then will be an open Q&A session for the audience. Panelists will discuss their current work, give tips on integrating into their sector, and share job search insights. This is an informal question-and-answer session, where you can feel comfortable asking questions.

Topics:
 How do you get into the profession and what is the typical career path?
 What are the myths versus the realities?
 What are the characteristics of people who tend to do well and are happy in the profession?
 What types of people tend not to do well or end up unhappy and why?
 Where is the profession heading (good and bad)?
 If you don’t stay in the profession until retirement, what are the exit routes to other professions?

Registration is required by 10/3, at https://forms.gle/Sz1RcQ1QuoU9YXya9. Please direct questions to ajrose@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:45:26 -0400 2019-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Consulting Career Panel for CoE Graduate Students (October 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65045 65045-16509305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

10/8/19
12:00-1:30
Johnson Rooms, 3rd floor, Lurie Engineering Center

Lunch provided!

Panelists:
Gregory Kernosek, Principal Engineer, EnviroSolutions, Inc.
Rianna Kosmalski, Consultant, PCUBED
Michael Woon,

Description:
Are you considering a career as a consultant? Meet three of our graduate-level alumni who have experience in the consulting field. The panelists will briefly introduce themselves, discuss their transition into consulting, and describe their current firm. Most of the event then will be an open Q&A session for the audience. Panelists will discuss their current work, give tips on integrating into their sector, and share job search insights. This is an informal question-and-answer session, where you can feel comfortable asking questions.

Possible Topics:
 How do you get into the profession and what is the typical career path?
 What are the myths versus the realities?
 What are the characteristics of people who tend to do well and are happy in the profession?
 What types of people tend not to do well or end up unhappy and why?
 Where is the profession heading (good and bad)?
 If you don’t stay in the profession until retirement, what are the exit routes to other professions?

Registration is required by 10/3, at https://forms.gle/Sz1RcQ1QuoU9YXya9. This event is sponsored by the CoE Office of Student Affairs. Please direct questions to ajrose@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:37:08 -0400 2019-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Making Teamwork Work (October 18, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65243 65243-16557477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

Effective use of groups in the classroom can increase student learning and enhance students' problem solving abilities, if instructors ensure that all students are engaged and included. In this session, participants will explore research-based methods for enhancing teamwork skills, engaging students, increasing cooperative learning, and supporting dysfunctional teams.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:19:33 -0400 2019-10-18T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Building Power with your Peers Workshop (October 21, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68359 68359-17069175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Graduate Student Advisory Comittee (GSAC)

Come think through and learn strategies to advocate for yourself and your peers. Topics relating to how to navigate power dynamics, ally mapping, and combating isolation will be discussed. Food will be provided. Both workshop dates will cover the same content. Co-Hosted by GEO's North Campus Organizing Committee (NCOC) and the Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Committee (AERO GSAC).

Any questions can be directed to northcampuschair@geo3550.org

RSVP required: https://forms.gle/1Fv6kWsEwCCNDQt8A

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:36:22 -0400 2019-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T15:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Graduate Student Advisory Comittee (GSAC) Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
EER Seminar Series (October 23, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67813 67813-16952010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Every instance of a design process can be represented with a design signature – a tracing of design activities over time that can be represented as a timeline. Design signatures can differ across levels of expertise of the designer(s) in significant ways. These representations have been shown to be effective for teaching undergraduate engineers about the complexities of design processes.

In this talk, I will review the research findings from an analysis of verbal protocols from 177 individuals with a wide range of expertise (from beginning undergrads through expert professionals in industry) who solved 401 separate design problems. We found that individuals with more expertise 1) use processes that demonstrate a higher level of complexity, 2) consider a broader set of information and objects during their design process, 3) spend longer solving the problem they were given, and 4) are more likely to demonstrate a cascade pattern in their tracing across design activities. I will also discuss several teaching activities that are derived from the research.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:45:24 -0400 2019-10-23T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Cindy Atman
Mentoring Plan Workshop (October 29, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67187 67187-16807431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Due to a high demand for the Mentoring Plan Workshops, the MORE Committee is offering a third workshop this Fall.
This workshop helps to enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor. Faculty and students will work independently to identify their own objectives and styles initially, and then faculty-student pairs will have time to work together to develop a mentoring plan: a two-way document to codify goals, needs, and shared expectations. Our mentoring committee places high value on this exercise because we know that of the Rackham students who have written mentoring plans, 86% report that they find them useful.
Registration is required of both the faculty and student. Lunch is provided. If a faculty member has recently attended a MORE workshop, they may attend the last hour of the workshop only.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:17:22 -0400 2019-10-29T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T12:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Are They Getting It? Low-Stakes Ways to Assess Student Learning (October 29, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65244 65244-16557478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are quick and useful ways to gather information on what, how much, and how well students learn. Instructors can use the data to create more effective learning environments. Participants in this session will experience several types of CATs and strategize ways to use CATs in their own class.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:21:07 -0400 2019-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T15:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Teaching In Tumultuous Times (November 4, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65245 65245-16557483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

Hateful graffiti, travel bans, mass shootings, threatening emails: Students report feeling alienated or confused when instructors in their courses do not acknowledge such unsettling events. As instructors, we need to decide whether and how to address such events with our students. This workshop provides an opportunity for instructors to think and work through several strategies for engaging with students about emerging events on campus and beyond.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:23:06 -0400 2019-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T14:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Sexual Harassment in STEM: A View from the National Academies (November 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68194 68194-17026799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Sexual harassment damages research integrity and shrinks the talent pool in science engineering and medicine.

In 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine assembled a committee to conduct a study on this problem. They published a landmark report in 2018 titled, Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Committee member and contributing author, U-M Professor Lilia Cortina will present its key findings and recommendations. Preventing all forms of sexual and gender-based misconduct remains a top priority for the University of Michigan.

RSVP TODAY
Food will be provided. Limited capacity.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:00:17 -0400 2019-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Lilia Cortina
Building Power with your Peers Workshop (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68359 68359-17069176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Graduate Student Advisory Comittee (GSAC)

Come think through and learn strategies to advocate for yourself and your peers. Topics relating to how to navigate power dynamics, ally mapping, and combating isolation will be discussed. Food will be provided. Both workshop dates will cover the same content. Co-Hosted by GEO's North Campus Organizing Committee (NCOC) and the Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Committee (AERO GSAC).

Any questions can be directed to northcampuschair@geo3550.org

RSVP required: https://forms.gle/1Fv6kWsEwCCNDQt8A

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:36:22 -0400 2019-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T18:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Graduate Student Advisory Comittee (GSAC) Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Building a Legacy with Dr. Susan Montgomery (November 12, 2019 5:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68643 68643-17130510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 5:45pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: MUSES

This year is MUSES' 20th year anniversary, and our theme this year is Building a Legacy. On Nov 12th, we will have the pleasure to host a very special guest, Dr. Susan Montgomery, that truly represents what legacy looks like.

Doctor Susan Montgomery has had an important role in mentoring and advising students and student organizations throughout her career. She joined the University of Michigan in 1993 after a two-year postdoc developing educational modules following her PhD from Princeton University. She has taught many courses over the years including ‘Teaching Engineering’ which molds future engineering faculty. She has served as an advisor for undergraduate chemical engineering students, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and Habitat for Humanity. Recently she received the “Achievement Award” at the Willie Hobbs Moore Luncheon, given to an individual in STEM whose achievements encourage and inspire others to achieve their goals. She is in the process of transitioning to phased retirement, and certainly her contributions to our organization and our community at the University of Michigan will be forever remembered.

All are welcome!

When: Nov 12th, at 6pm.
Where: Johnson Room, Lurie Engineering Center (1221 Beal Ave)

Dinner will be provided. Please, RSVP below so enough food is provided.
https://forms.gle/StwpgEtjUurczAVz9

for more information or questions, contact umichmuses@gmail.com

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Meeting Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-11-12T17:45:00-05:00 2019-11-12T19:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr MUSES Meeting This was taken with the old Nikkor f1.4 35mm AIS, wide open, making for a pretty abstract image.
Overcoming Procrastination (November 13, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68974 68974-17205315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

In this interactive workshop, Sara Long, MSW Candidate and Nidaa Shaikh, PsyD from the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) will identify common reasons students procrastinate and share strategies to avoid procrastination and more effectively manage time. At the end of the workshop, students will be able to define procrastination, have a better understanding of why they procrastinate, and be able to identify effective time management strategies they can implement into their life.

Registration is required by 11/11, at https://forms.gle/SK8fbHdpLwA9T71y7.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:15:24 -0400 2019-11-13T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T11:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
EER Seminar Series (November 13, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68977 68977-17205320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

As the data tsunami washed over everything including college campuses, universities invested heavily in data management systems and then layered on services to create the highly digitally-engineered environments in which we work today. Within that context, I’ll review the seeding and ongoing nurturing of two U-M services (Atlas and Problem Roulette) that share common themes of access and transparency. As examples of research enabled by these services, I’ll present evidence showing that: (i) on average, females study more for less reward in STEM subjects than male students, and (ii) increased selectivity, as measured by ACT/SAT scores, is a minor factor driving undergraduate grades upward. The talk will close by inviting your thoughts and discussion on potential future directions for these and similar services.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Prof. August E. (Gus) Evrard is a first-generation computational cosmologist and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy at U-M. Author of the first algorithm to enable multi-fluid simulation of galaxy and large-scale cosmic structure formation, Prof. Evrard's research is focused on understanding the population of clusters of galaxies, the rarest and largest gravitationally bound systems in the universe. Named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012, his research is documented in over 200 refereed papers with 22,000 total citations. Within the Office of Academic Innovation he leads two separate projects, one offering visual summaries of Michigan's recent academic landscape (Atlas) and another providing “points-free” study support using local exam content (Problem Roulette). Both are used by thousands of students each year at U-M.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:52:04 -0400 2019-11-13T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T16:20:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion August Evrard
Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety Symposium (November 18, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68251 68251-17035296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Please join us to learn more about how the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS) is improving the safety and quality of healthcare delivery by identifying, fostering, and promoting collaborative projects across the University.

Come enjoy refreshments, networking with colleagues and potential collaborators, poster presentations on cutting-edge healthcare research, and the opportunity to learn about current activities at CHEPS.

For questions, please email cheps-contact@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:08:35 -0400 2019-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T19:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Conference / Symposium A collage of images from past CHEPS symposia.
2019 Wilbert Steffy Distinguished Lecture: Ramayya Krishnan, Carnegie Mellon University (November 21, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66539 66539-16744990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Wilbert Steffy Lectureship was established in 2003 to honor one of U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering's early distinguished faculty members, Wilbert Steffy, who retired in 1976, after 29 years of service within the College of Engineering.

This seminar is open to all. U-M IOE graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Network Problems and Model Interpretability in Social Cyber Physical Systems

Bio:
A faculty member at CMU since 1988, Krishnan was appointed Dean when the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management became the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy in 2008. He was reappointed upon the completion of his first term as Dean in 2014.

Krishnan was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, a master’s degree in industrial engineering and operations research, and a PhD in management science and information systems. Krishnan’s research interests focus on consumer and social behavior in digitally instrumented environments. His work has addressed technical, policy, and business problems that arise in these contexts and he has published extensively on these topics. He has served as Department Editor for Information Systems at Management Science, the premier journal of the Operations Research and Management Science Community. Krishnan is current (2019) President of INFORMS and an INFORMS Fellow, and was formerly a member of the Global Agenda Council on Data Driven Development of the World Economic Forum, and president of the INFORMS Information Systems Society as well as the INFORMS Computing Society. He is the recipient of the prestigious Y. Nayuduamma award in 2015 for his contributions to telecommunications management and business technology, the Distinguished Alumnus award from the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras), the Distinguished PhD Alumnus award from the University of Texas, and the Bright Internet Award (Jae Kyu Lee Award) from the Korea Society of Management Information Systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:31:46 -0500 2019-11-21T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Photo of Ramayya Krishnan
Student Grant Proposal 2020: College of Engineering - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (December 9, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70098 70098-17532710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity created to further our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. We are looking for innovation in activities that will help create an engaging and inclusive environment for a diverse group of students.

Funds will be available for activities, events, and projects aimed at enhancing diversity, promoting equity, and fostering inclusion.

Grants will be awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students and awards will be made up to $1,500 per selected proposal. Please note that preference will be given to proposals that involve two or more student organizations or departments.

Deadline for applications: Jan 31, 2020
Selection of Awards: Feb 28, 2020
Funded Activity must be completed: Dec 31, 2020

Questions? Please contact Mariah Fiumara (mariahmo@umich.edu)

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Other Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:55:39 -0500 2019-12-09T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Other Michigan Engineering
Student Grant Proposal 2020: College of Engineering - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (December 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70098 70098-17532708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity created to further our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. We are looking for innovation in activities that will help create an engaging and inclusive environment for a diverse group of students.

Funds will be available for activities, events, and projects aimed at enhancing diversity, promoting equity, and fostering inclusion.

Grants will be awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students and awards will be made up to $1,500 per selected proposal. Please note that preference will be given to proposals that involve two or more student organizations or departments.

Deadline for applications: Jan 31, 2020
Selection of Awards: Feb 28, 2020
Funded Activity must be completed: Dec 31, 2020

Questions? Please contact Mariah Fiumara (mariahmo@umich.edu)

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Other Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:55:39 -0500 2019-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Other Michigan Engineering
GradSWE End of Year Party! (December 11, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69849 69849-17474729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

Join us to celebrate the end of the semester with a craft night! Bring your own or use the provided crafts and forget about finals and final projects for a little while... Food and chill vibes will be provided. Please contact Luisa at luisab@umich.edu with any questions. RSVP is required.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 02 Dec 2019 13:48:24 -0500 2019-12-11T17:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T19:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Graduate Society of Women Engineers Social / Informal Gathering Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Air Quality Monitoring Workshop (December 12, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69713 69713-17388800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Emerging Sensor Technologies and Data Analytics for Air Quality Monitoring: A Workshop

Today, poor air quality is linked to over 3 million deaths per year, mostly in large urban areas. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates that by 2050, poor air quality may become the largest cause of premature mortality in the world. This workshop will explore current research and practice in order to identify the gaps and limitations, and to prioritize future activities needed to address this challenge of growing global concern.

The workshop features outstanding individuals from industry; the Environmental Protection Agency; the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy; University of Cambridge; and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Sponsored by the Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSensing & Systems and the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, and the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Nov 2019 11:12:36 -0500 2019-12-12T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T17:15:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Electrical and Computer Engineering Workshop / Seminar Workshop flyer
Defense Dissertation: Ionization Instability of the Hollow Cathode Plume (December 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69883 69883-17480883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Marcel Georgin
Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Physics

Committee: Alec Gallimore, Benjamin Jorns, Ryan McBride, Ioannis Mikellides, and Timothy Sarver-Verhey

In this work, we study the formation of the poorly understood process of the spot-to-plume mode transition in hollow cathodes and the associated plasma instability that generates erosive high-energy ions. We propose a novel mechanism for the onset of this wave, that has its roots in existing experimental and numerical support, whereby an ionization instability between the electrons and neutrals may be destabilized by out-of-phase temperature fluctuations and giving rise to an enhancement in the plasma particle production through ionization. Experimentally, we show that temperature oscillations in the plasma are highly-correlated the presence of plasma turbulence, which is known to drive the heating of electrons in the plasma produced by the cathode. A zero-dimensional model is derived from first principles and is investigated through experiments. The results show that the model is able to largely capture the correct trends in the wave properties with varying experimental parameters.

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Presentation Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:59:33 -0500 2019-12-13T15:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Engineering Presentation Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Student Grant Proposal 2020: College of Engineering - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (December 16, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70098 70098-17532711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity created to further our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. We are looking for innovation in activities that will help create an engaging and inclusive environment for a diverse group of students.

Funds will be available for activities, events, and projects aimed at enhancing diversity, promoting equity, and fostering inclusion.

Grants will be awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students and awards will be made up to $1,500 per selected proposal. Please note that preference will be given to proposals that involve two or more student organizations or departments.

Deadline for applications: Jan 31, 2020
Selection of Awards: Feb 28, 2020
Funded Activity must be completed: Dec 31, 2020

Questions? Please contact Mariah Fiumara (mariahmo@umich.edu)

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Other Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:55:39 -0500 2019-12-16T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Other Michigan Engineering
Special Colloquium: Small Modular Reactors: What is New? (December 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70102 70102-17530520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are currently attracting attention because of the many advantages they offer, particularly in providing emission-free power and/or heat. Close to 100 designs have been reported, offering inherent and passive safety features, some of which are quite novel. This seminar will discuss some of these design features and their role in ensuring a level of defence-in-depth that allows SMRs to be in installed in proximity to users. Some suggested research and development topics related to the licensing of these reactors will be presented. An overview of efforts in the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan (a non-nuclear but a uranium-rich jurisdiction) in support of the prospect of adopting SMRs, will be summarized.

Biography
Esam Hussein earned degrees in nuclear engineering from Alexandria University (BScE and MScE) and McMaster University (PhD). He is currently the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Regina, Canada (on research leave to the end of the year) and was an engineering professor at the University of New Brunswick, and a nuclear design engineer with Ontario Hydro. His research has focused on the application of atomic/nuclear radiation in nondestructive testing and imaging, but he has turned his attention lately to the technology of small modular reactors.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:44:53 -0500 2019-12-16T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar headshot of speaker
BME Ph.D. Defense: Amos Cao (December 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70078 70078-17507831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a neuroimaging technique that provides an unparalleled ability to non-invasive study brain activity. Since its inception in the early 1990s, fMRI has become a dominant tool in studying neurological responses to tasks and stimuli and has been critical in our evolving understanding of brain mapping. These achievements in neuroscience would not be possible without critical breakthroughs in MRI theory and hardware advancements, which continue to increase the speed and resolution of fMRI acquisitions. This dissertation explores a highly signal efficient fMRI imaging strategy known as Oscillating Steady-State Imaging (OSSI) and presents specialized artifact compensation strategies for addressing the practical challenges of the OSSI method.

First, we develop analytical models and simulations of OSSI, which describe how the signal magnitude varies as a function of frequency. These simulations are then used to study how respiration-induced frequency changes cause artifactual signal fluctuations to a signal timecourse. Our simulations show that the severity of respiration artifacts changes with initial off-resonance. Furthermore, we show that respiration artifacts are primarily caused by transient signal effects rather than changes to steady-state magnitude. These findings inform the two correction strategies proposed in the remainder of the dissertation.

The second portion of this work describes "OSSCOR," a retrospective method to correct timecourse magnitude changes caused by temporally varying frequency. We show how the OSSI signal exhibits a frequency-time duality that can be used to reshape structured physiological noise into a low-rank matrix. We then use principal component analysis in a data-driven correction strategy to create nuisance regressors for subsequent fMRI analysis. We also describe a variation of our method where free induction decay (FID) signals can be used to create nuisance regressors, referred to as ``F-OSSCOR.'' Both OSSCOR and F-OSSCOR were found to significantly improve the functional sensitivity and signal stability compared to polynomial detrending alone, and OSSCOR was also found to significantly outperform a standard data-driven correction method.

Finally, we present a prospective correction method which utilizes FID measurements to estimate and correct for B0 changes in real-time. Prospective correction has the potential to outperform retrospective correction methods by directly reducing perturbations to steady-state magnetization during acquisition. We first present the results of a feasibility analysis where simulation was used to determine how scan parameters would affect correction performance. We then developed a prospective correction application using the RTHawk platform to perform data analysis and parameter adjustment in real-time. Our initial fMRI proof-of-concept shows that real-time correction can increase the number of activated voxels and improve overall image stability as measured by temporal SNR.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Dec 2019 13:00:13 -0500 2019-12-19T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-19T10:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME Event
Student Grant Proposal 2020: College of Engineering - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (December 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70098 70098-17532712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity created to further our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. We are looking for innovation in activities that will help create an engaging and inclusive environment for a diverse group of students.

Funds will be available for activities, events, and projects aimed at enhancing diversity, promoting equity, and fostering inclusion.

Grants will be awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students and awards will be made up to $1,500 per selected proposal. Please note that preference will be given to proposals that involve two or more student organizations or departments.

Deadline for applications: Jan 31, 2020
Selection of Awards: Feb 28, 2020
Funded Activity must be completed: Dec 31, 2020

Questions? Please contact Mariah Fiumara (mariahmo@umich.edu)

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Other Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:55:39 -0500 2019-12-23T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-23T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Other Michigan Engineering
Student Grant Proposal 2020: College of Engineering - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (December 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70098 70098-17532713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity created to further our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. We are looking for innovation in activities that will help create an engaging and inclusive environment for a diverse group of students.

Funds will be available for activities, events, and projects aimed at enhancing diversity, promoting equity, and fostering inclusion.

Grants will be awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students and awards will be made up to $1,500 per selected proposal. Please note that preference will be given to proposals that involve two or more student organizations or departments.

Deadline for applications: Jan 31, 2020
Selection of Awards: Feb 28, 2020
Funded Activity must be completed: Dec 31, 2020

Questions? Please contact Mariah Fiumara (mariahmo@umich.edu)

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Other Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:55:39 -0500 2019-12-30T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-30T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Other Michigan Engineering
Student Grant Proposal 2020: College of Engineering - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (January 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70098 70098-17532714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity created to further our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. We are looking for innovation in activities that will help create an engaging and inclusive environment for a diverse group of students.

Funds will be available for activities, events, and projects aimed at enhancing diversity, promoting equity, and fostering inclusion.

Grants will be awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students and awards will be made up to $1,500 per selected proposal. Please note that preference will be given to proposals that involve two or more student organizations or departments.

Deadline for applications: Jan 31, 2020
Selection of Awards: Feb 28, 2020
Funded Activity must be completed: Dec 31, 2020

Questions? Please contact Mariah Fiumara (mariahmo@umich.edu)

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Other Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:55:39 -0500 2020-01-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-06T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Other Michigan Engineering
Student Grant Proposal 2020: College of Engineering - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (January 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70098 70098-17532715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity created to further our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. We are looking for innovation in activities that will help create an engaging and inclusive environment for a diverse group of students.

Funds will be available for activities, events, and projects aimed at enhancing diversity, promoting equity, and fostering inclusion.

Grants will be awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students and awards will be made up to $1,500 per selected proposal. Please note that preference will be given to proposals that involve two or more student organizations or departments.

Deadline for applications: Jan 31, 2020
Selection of Awards: Feb 28, 2020
Funded Activity must be completed: Dec 31, 2020

Questions? Please contact Mariah Fiumara (mariahmo@umich.edu)

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Other Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:55:39 -0500 2020-01-13T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Other Michigan Engineering
Allen Sanderson: Teasing Out Ephemeral Data from HPC Applications or in SITU Visualization and Analysis (January 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71107 71107-17777072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Abstract: It is well known that as HPC applications have grown, I/O has become a bottleneck, which has required scientists to turn to in situ tools for data exploration. The focus of this exploration has typically been on simulation data. However, applications also produce ephemeral data that is optionally written to disk for post hoc analysis, but not otherwise saved or utilized by the application in subsequent time steps. One example of ephemeral data is runtime performance data. In this talk I will present the infrastructure implemented for efficiently collecting this and other data within the Uintah framework which was coupled to VisIt’s in situ toolkit for analysis and visualization. This collection and coupling allows performance data to be visualized using multiple domains giving insight previously not possible. As part this coupling, we take advantage of VisIt’s in situ custom user interface to create a “simulation dashboard” that allows for in situ computational steering and visual debugging allowing for improvements in the development and simulation workflow.

Bio: Allen Sanderson, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist at the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:02:08 -0500 2020-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar A. Sanderson
Student Grant Proposal 2020: College of Engineering - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (January 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70098 70098-17532716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity created to further our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. We are looking for innovation in activities that will help create an engaging and inclusive environment for a diverse group of students.

Funds will be available for activities, events, and projects aimed at enhancing diversity, promoting equity, and fostering inclusion.

Grants will be awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students and awards will be made up to $1,500 per selected proposal. Please note that preference will be given to proposals that involve two or more student organizations or departments.

Deadline for applications: Jan 31, 2020
Selection of Awards: Feb 28, 2020
Funded Activity must be completed: Dec 31, 2020

Questions? Please contact Mariah Fiumara (mariahmo@umich.edu)

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Other Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:55:39 -0500 2020-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Other Michigan Engineering
Using Improv for School & Work (January 21, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69746 69746-17415371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 10:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Presenter:
Gary Lehman, Adult Improv series, Education Director
Gary Lehman has been learning and performing improv since 2003. Gary is a middle and high school teacher during the day and teaches computers, makes the yearbook, coaches forensics, oversees the student sketch comedy troupe Voodoo Theatre, directs the middle school musical and play, and directs the high school improv group. Gary has a Master’s of Fine Arts in Drama & Theater, with a concentration in Improvisation from Eastern Michigan University. Gary is a nine-year member of the Resident Cast at Go Comedy Improv Theater in Ferndale, and is the Director of Go U: The Improv Academy. Gary is a member and Co-Director of the League of Pointless Improvisers. Gary has graduated from the following improv training programs : Improv Inferno (Am Arbor 2004), Second City Detroit Intro program (2005), Second City Detroit Conservatory (2006), Second City Detroit Graduate program (2008), iO Chicago Summer Intensive (2010), Annoyance Theater Summer Intensive (Chicago 2011), and UCB Level 101 Intensive (2018). Gary has lead workshops at Eastern Michigan University, University of Michigan, and University of Michigan Medical School.

Description:
In this workshop we will use improv exercises to work on aspects of human interaction, listening, group dynamics, and the improv concept of YES AND. This will be an active, participative, on-your-feet workshop. The focus is on using these exercises to work on and talk about the experience the individuals have playing them, and not on performance or performing comedic improv. We will still have fun, so come join the group and play!

Space is limited, so please register by 1/17 at https://forms.gle/Mipe7HkWbPmaUQtv5. For questions, please email ajrose@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:56:10 -0500 2020-01-21T10:30:00-05:00 2020-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Three Failure Fables | A CID Lecture (January 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70112 70112-17532719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

John Maxwell’s book Failing Forward states: "The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure."

Too often, the word “failure” has a negative connotation. We’re conditioned to the binary options of either failure or success. In reality, failure is a lot more nuanced and can even be intentional – to “test things out.”

Peter Adriaens is a professor of engineering, finance and entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan with appointments in three Schools. Join him as he tells three short stories from his career on failure and risk taking - and the lessons learned to achieve positive outcomes.

Failure and risk taking are close cousins. It’s those risk takers who embrace this relation who can flip the fear of failure into the anticipation of opportunity.

Food will be provided. Limited capacity.

RSVP today!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 13:57:49 -0500 2020-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Peter Adriaens
EER Seminar Series (January 22, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70268 70268-17556192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Team-based pedagogies are pervasive in higher education, especially in engineering. Some instructors choose group work for logistical reasons, such as “we only have five testbeds.” Others seek to provide a particular student experience: students can teach and learn from each other, they can undertake more complicated projects, and they can develop collaboration skills that will benefit them later in their careers. Whatever the reason for using team-based pedagogies, instructors must be cognizant of team dysfunctions – some of which are invisible to the instructors or even to members of the team – that can affect certain students’ experiences in our classes.

In this talk, I will (1) present evidence that particular groups are more likely to have negative team experiences (and that teamwork is inherently gendered and raced), (2) suggest mechanisms for identifying and remedying some team dysfunctions, and (3) argue that instructors have a moral obligation to critically examine teamwork practices in an attempt to equitably serve our diverse student population.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:48:31 -0500 2020-01-22T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-22T16:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Robin Fowler
Student Grant Proposal 2020: College of Engineering - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (January 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70098 70098-17532717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity created to further our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. We are looking for innovation in activities that will help create an engaging and inclusive environment for a diverse group of students.

Funds will be available for activities, events, and projects aimed at enhancing diversity, promoting equity, and fostering inclusion.

Grants will be awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students and awards will be made up to $1,500 per selected proposal. Please note that preference will be given to proposals that involve two or more student organizations or departments.

Deadline for applications: Jan 31, 2020
Selection of Awards: Feb 28, 2020
Funded Activity must be completed: Dec 31, 2020

Questions? Please contact Mariah Fiumara (mariahmo@umich.edu)

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Other Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:55:39 -0500 2020-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Other Michigan Engineering
Designing Learning Goals: Targeting Concepts Behind A Formula (January 27, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71357 71357-17819245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

What can we do to move our students beyond a “plug and chug” numerical competency to a deeper, conceptual understanding of formulae? In this session, instructors will learn about backwards design and the value of “beginning with the end in mind.” Instructors will then practice writing learning goals to target a common student misconceptions in their field, guided by research about discipline-specific bottlenecks.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:19:25 -0500 2020-01-27T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T11:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Student Grant Proposal 2020: College of Engineering - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (January 31, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70098 70098-17530449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity created to further our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. We are looking for innovation in activities that will help create an engaging and inclusive environment for a diverse group of students.

Funds will be available for activities, events, and projects aimed at enhancing diversity, promoting equity, and fostering inclusion.

Grants will be awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students and awards will be made up to $1,500 per selected proposal. Please note that preference will be given to proposals that involve two or more student organizations or departments.

Deadline for applications: Jan 31, 2020
Selection of Awards: Feb 28, 2020
Funded Activity must be completed: Dec 31, 2020

Questions? Please contact Mariah Fiumara (mariahmo@umich.edu)

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Other Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:55:39 -0500 2020-01-31T00:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T23:59:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Other Michigan Engineering
Personal Finance: Stock Market Strategy: Equity Derivatives (February 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71847 71847-17894522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

This workshop will demonstrate how equity derivatives (options) can be used to accomplish ALL of the following in a single setup:

• Create *and collect* profits when stocks go up.
• Create *and collect* profits even when stocks aren’t moving.
• Create and collect *profits*…during and after a market crash.
• Requires as little as 2 hours per week of direct attention.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:45:37 -0500 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T14:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
It’s Time for Action: Generating an Active Learning Plan (February 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71358 71358-17819247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

Creating a plan to engage students in active learning can be challenging. In this workshop, you will learn about a variety of active learning techniques then begin to formulate a plan for implementing active learning in your own course.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:21:04 -0500 2020-02-10T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T15:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
EER Seminar Series (February 12, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72341 72341-17974693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Abstract:
Learning analytics dashboards (LADs) have emerged from a growing interest in presenting and visualizing students’ learning activities in digital learning environments, and they are growing in popularity for both residential and online courses. Dashboard displays are seen as powerful metacognitive tools, and delivering them to learners is intended to support awareness and decision-making, and trigger self-reflection. Despite their increasing availability, recent meta-reviews of the existing research on LADs have revealed that there are few empirical studies on the impact of dashboards on student motivation, behavior, and skills. In this talk I will present the student dashboard we have designed and tested here at the University at Michigan, called MyLA (My Learning Analytics). In a partnership between the School of Information, School of Education, and the Teaching and Learning group at ITS, we have created a Canvas-integrated dashboard that uses design principles derived from Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) theory combined with a focus on accessible and actionable information. Based data from 10 Winter 2019 courses where MyLA was available, I will describe our early findings about how UM students have used the dashboard, and the relationships between dashboard use with performance and measures of self-regulation.

Bio: Dr. Teasley is a Research Professor in the School of Information, the Director of the Learning Education & Design Lab (LED Lab), and Core Faculty member of the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) at the University of Michigan. Her recent work has focused on assembling and utilizing institutionally-held student data to design and evaluate new ways to support student success in Higher Education. From 2016-2018 she was the president of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), and she is currently the chair of the International Alliance for the Advancement of Learning in the Digital Era (IAALDE).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:19:52 -0500 2020-02-12T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-12T16:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Stephanie Teasley
Tau Beta Pi Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon Series (February 17, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72850 72850-18085920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 11:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Tau Beta Pi Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon Series

"Semantic Robot Programming... and Making the World a Better Place"

featuring Professor Chad Jenkins

Monday, February 17, 2020

Please RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/DVwppYWzvbv3yj286

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd Floor)
The University of Michigan, North Campus

Professor Jenkins is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He is also the leader of the Laboratory for Progress (Perception, RObotics, and Grounded REasoning SystemS), Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, and Associate Director for the Michigan Robotics Institute.


Lunch provided by Jerusalem Gardens
Sponsored by Tau Beta Pi
and the
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:05:17 -0500 2020-02-17T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
The Science of Learning (February 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71359 71359-17819248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

In this workshop, we will summarize key findings on how people learn, and connect them to practical implications for teaching. Through interactive activities based on the science of learning, you will investigate teaching strategies you can use to optimize learning for all of your students.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:22:30 -0500 2020-02-18T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T11:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
BME Ph.D. Defense: Lauren L. Zimmerman (February 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72566 72566-18018159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering Final Oral Examination

Lauren L. Zimmerman

Investigating Neuromodulation as a Treatment for Female Sexual Dysfunction

Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) affects millions of women worldwide. FSD has a significant impact on quality of life and interpersonal relationships. The prevalence of at least one form of sexual dysfunction is 40-45% of adult women with 12% of women experiencing sexually related personal distress, yet there is no clear treatment option for a wide range of FSD deficits with high efficacy and low side effects.

Neuromodulation techniques using electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves have the potential to treat some forms of FSD. In clinical trials of sacral neuromodulation (SNM) and percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS) for bladder dysfunction, women have reported that their sexual dysfunction symptoms improved as well. Even though this effect has been observed clinically, very little research has been done to examine the mechanisms or the optimal method of treatment specifically for women with FSD. This thesis aims to bridge that gap by investigating neuromodulation as a treatment for FSD through both preclinical and clinical studies.

The first aim of this thesis is to investigate a possible mechanism of the improvement to sexual functioning in response to tibial nerve stimulation by evaluating vaginal blood flow responses in rats. In 16 ketamine-anesthetized female rats, the tibial nerve was stimulated for 30 minutes while vaginal blood perfusion was recorded with laser Doppler flowmetry. A novel signal analysis and quantification metric was developed for this analysis. I found that tibial nerve stimulation could drive prolonged increases in vaginal blood perfusion, typically after 20-30 minutes of stimulation. This result suggests that clinical neuromodulation may be improving FSD symptoms by increasing genital blood flow.

One question yet to be investigated by neuromodulation studies is whether tibial nerve stimulation could be an on-demand treatment for FSD, such as Viagra is for men, or is more appropriate as a long-term treatment with improvements over time, such as PTNS for bladder dysfunction. In this thesis I address this question by evaluating the sexual motivation and receptivity of female rats both immediately after a single stimulation session as well as after long-term, repeated stimulation sessions. I found that tibial nerve stimulation led to modest increases in sexual motivation in the short term, and larger increases in sexual receptivity in the long-term.

Lastly, this thesis evaluates a pilot clinical study of transcutaneous stimulation of the dorsal genital and posterior tibial nerves in nine women with FSD. The women received stimulation once a week for 12 weeks and their sexual functioning was measured using the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) at baseline, after 6 weeks of stimulation, after 12 weeks of stimulation, and at 18 weeks (6 weeks after the last stimulation session). The average total FSFI score across all subjects significantly increased from baseline to each of the time points in the study. Significant FSFI increases were seen in the sub-domains of lubrication, arousal, and orgasm, each of which is related to genital arousal.

This thesis provides evidence that peripheral neuromodulation can be an effective treatment for FSD. The stimulation is likely driving increases in genital blood flow, with greater effects observed when stimulation is repeatedly applied over time. This treatment has the potential to help millions of women worldwide.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:00:05 -0500 2020-02-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
How Stereotype Threat, Impostor Syndrome, and Growth Mindset Affect Student Learning (February 28, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71360 71360-17819250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: CRLT-Engin

Research shows that when students worry about fulfilling a negative stereotype related to certain social identities, it can hurt their learning (a phenomenon known as stereotype threat). Research also shows that an instructor’s beliefs about their own and their students’ intelligence and ability impact the classroom environment. In this interactive session, participants will reflect on instructor and student social identities and learn about strategies for mitigating stereotype threat, impostor syndrome, and encouraging a growth mindset for students in their classes.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:23:53 -0500 2020-02-28T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T15:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CRLT-Engin Workshop / Seminar Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
The Mechanics of Animal Survival in an Ever-Changing World (March 10, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73477 73477-18243517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 11:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

The two greatest human impacts on the Earth are the transformation of natural habitat into industrial landscape and climate change. Our ability to predict how communities of organisms will respond to such disturbances depends on being able to understand how biotic and abiotic interactions influence the survival of individual animals. This talk presents new tools and approaches to quantitatively characterize behavioral variation in biomechanical performance in the real world. This information informs the design of bio-inspired robotic models that emulate current, extinct, and theoretical forms and are used in robot-animal interaction experiments to probe the fundamental biomechanical principles shaping the evolution of animal movement over millions of years. By examining the biomechanics of motions in complex environments, we are better able to predict animal response to ecosystem disturbance. In addition, we are able to design robots capable of successful operation in real-world environments.

Talia Y. Moore is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute at the University of Michigan. She develops tools to enable the quantitative characterization of behavioral variation in animal movement in real-world environments and applies her findings to the design of bio-inspired robots that are used to test evolutionary hypotheses. Dr. Moore is an Associate Editor for International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics and is a member of IEEE, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, and the Society for the Study of Evolution. She received a PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University in 2016.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Mar 2020 15:32:31 -0500 2020-03-10T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Robotics Workshop / Seminar jerboa
Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon Series (March 11, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73698 73698-18296111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 11:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon Series

"Civil Rights 3.0. -- What the MLK vision means in the 21st Century, and the central role of engineers and scientists in determining where we go from here."

featuring David Tarver

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Please RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/wo1x7sQ1tBF1Nga77

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd Floor)
The University of Michigan, North Campus

David Tarver currently serves as a lecturer in the U-M Center for Entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor. He is also founder and board president of the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative. David is a highly successful technology business executive with an incredible entrepreneurial journey and amazing success in corporate R&D, technology business startup, and social impact entrepreneurship.


Free lunch provided by Jerusalem Gardens
Sponsored by Tau Beta Pi
and the
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:30:09 -0400 2020-03-11T11:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Tau Beta Pi Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
EER Seminar Series (March 11, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73497 73497-18252264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Engineering design is complex, where each phase is dependent on the others and iteration occurs with and across these phases. Further, a successful design outcome hinges on foundational work done during the "front-end” of design processes, which includes problem definition, deep needs and stakeholder assessments using design ethnography, requirements development, and idea generation. Research has shown that experts develop both conscious and subconscious design strategies that impact success, and that novices often lack strategies and the ability to successfully implement them. This seminar will discuss investigations of strategies in front-end design, ways these strategies can be translated to design and education tools, and the role of front-end design in broadening recognition of skills that engineering includes.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Dr. Shanna Daly is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research characterizes front-end design practices across the student to practitioner continuum, uses these findings to develop tools to support design best practices, and studies the impact of front-end design tools on design success. She focuses on divergent and convergent thinking processes, including concept generation and development and problem space exploration, how to foster creativity in engineering work, and processes to understand social and cultural elements of the contexts in which engineering work occurs and integrate them into decision making. Her studies often involve both professional and educational contexts and collaborations across disciplines with scholars in engineering, education, industrial design, and psychology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Mar 2020 13:00:21 -0500 2020-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
*CANCELED* Annual Biomechanics Dinner (March 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73760 73760-18313503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED


Speaker:
James A. Ashton-Miller, Ph.D.,
Albert Schultz Collegiate Research Professor and Distinguished Research Scientist Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Internal Medicine, and the School of Kinesiology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Bio:
Dr. Ashton-Miller directs the Biomechanics Research Laboratory (https://brl.engin.umich.edu/) at the University of Michigan. He and his students use theoretical and experimental approaches to understand the biomechanics of unintentional injuries across the life span so they and their sequelae can be better prevented. His laboratory is ranked #1 in a Google search using the terms ‘biomechanics’, ‘research’ and ‘laboratory’. Current research includes sports-related anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in the knee, fall-related injuries, and maternal birth-related pelvic floor injuries and their sequelae, and wearable sensors. Dr. Ashton-Miller’s research is funded by the NIH, several Fortune 500 companies as well as the National Basketball Association. He has authored over 275 scientific articles, half a dozen patents with as many more in process and graduated over 30 doctoral students.

Dr. Ashton-Miller is a past-President of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB), a fellow of ASME, AIMBE, ASB and GSA, and winner of the 2009 ASB Giovanni Borelli award and the 2015 ASME H.R. Lissner Medal for contributions in biomechanics and bioengineering, and the 2016 Kappa Delta Award from the Orthopedic Research Society and American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons for his ACL research. Dr. Ashton-Miller served as Associate Vice President of Research for U-M between 2012 and 2019. He is an associate chair for translation for the U-M Department of Biomedical Engineering, and a founder of two start-up companies related to injury prevention. He received his B.Sc (Hons) from Newcastle University, U.K., his MSME from M.I.T., and Ph.D. from the University of Oslo, Norway.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:04:06 -0400 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Reception / Open House "Canceled" text
Defense Dissertation: Variational and Time-Distributed Methods for Real-time Model Predictive Control (March 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73664 73664-18278623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dominic Liao-McPherson

Committee:
Prof. Ilya Kolmanovsky (Chair)
Prof. Jing Sun (Cognate)
Prof. Alex Gorodetsky
Dr. Ken Butts (External, Toyota)

Time/location:
March 19th 2020, 10:00 AM
GM Conference Room, Lurie Engineering Center (4th floor)

Autonomous systems are beginning to impact many aspects of society, e.g., drones are becoming commonplace and self-driving cars are being developed on an industrial scale. These systems need to make complex decisions onboard; mathematical optimization is a powerful paradigm for approaching these problems. In particular, Model Predictive Control (MPC), a powerful optimization-based methodology for controlling constrained systems, is an important enabler for autonomy. However, solving optimization problems reliably, in real-time, using limited onboard computing resources, is a difficult undertaking.

This dissertation addresses the development, implementation, and validation of several numerical methods for solving optimal control problems (OCPs) in real-time. First, I present FBstab, a novel quadratic programming algorithm with strong robustness properties that is easy to warmstart and can exploit the structure of optimal control problems. Second, I introduce Time-distributed Optimization (TDO), a unifying framework for studying the system theoretic consequences of computation limits, which I use to show that, in some situations, it is possible to recover the stability and robustness properties of optimal MPC despite limited resources. Finally, I illustrate the applicability of these methods in the real-world through a diesel engine control example.

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Presentation Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:53:33 -0500 2020-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Aerospace Engineering Presentation Dominic Liao-McPherson
Ph.D. Defense: Tyler Gerhardson (March 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73025 73025-18129601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: Will be held via BlueJeans.

Link: https://umich.bluejeans.com/924142541

Brain pathologies including stroke and cancer are a major cause of death and disability. Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) accounts for roughly 12% of all strokes in the US with approximately 200,000 new cases per year. ICH is characterized by the rupture of vessels resulting in bleeding and clotting inside the brain. The presence of the clot causes immediate damage to surrounding brain tissue via mass effect with delayed toxic effects developing in the days following the hemorrhage. This leads ICH patients to high mortality with a 40% chance of death within 30 days of diagnosis and motivates the need to quickly evacuate the clot from the brain. Craniotomy surgery and other minimally invasive methods using thrombolytic drugs are common procedures to remove the clot but are limited by factors such as morbidity and high susceptibility to rebleeding, which ultimately result in poor clinical outcomes.

Histotripsy is a non-thermal ultrasound ablation technique that uses short duration, high amplitude rarefactional pulses (>26 MPa) delivered via an extracorporeal transducer to generate targeted cavitation using the intrinsic gas nuclei existing in the target tissue. The rapid and energetic bubble expansion and collapse of cavitation create high stress and strain in tissue at the focus that fractionate it into an acellular homogenate. This dissertation presents the role of histotripsy as a novel ultrasound technology with potential to address the need for an effective transcranial therapy for ICH and other brain pathologies.

The first part of this work investigates the effects of ultrasound frequency and focal spacing on transcranial clot liquefaction using histotripsy. Histotripsy pulses were delivered using two 256-element hemispherical transducers of different frequency (250 and 500 kHz) with 30-cm aperture diameters. Liquefied clot was drained via catheter and syringe in the range of 6-59 mL in 0.9-42.4 min. The fastest rate was 16.6 mL/min. The best parameter combination was λ spacing at 500 kHz, which produced large liquefaction through 3 skullcaps (~30 mL) with fast rates (~2 mL/min). The temperature-rise through the 3 skullcaps remained below 4°C.

The second part addresses initial safety concerns for histotripsy ICH treatment through investigation in a porcine ICH model. 1.75-mL clots were formed in the frontal lobe of the brain. The centers of the clots were liquefied with histotripsy 48 h after formation, and the content was either evacuated or left within the brain. A control group was left untreated. Histotripsy was able to liquefy the core of clots without direct damage to the perihematomal brain tissue. An average volume of 0.9 ± 0.5 mL (~50%) was drained after histotripsy treatment. All groups showed mild ischemia and gliosis in the perihematomal region; however, there were no deaths or signs of neurological dysfunction in any groups.

The third part presents the development of a novel catheter hydrophone method for transcranial phase aberration correction and drainage of the clot liquefied with histotripsy. A prototype hydrophone was fabricated to fit within a ventriculostomy catheter. Improvements in focal pressure of up to 60% were achieved at the geometric focus and 27%-62% across a range of electronic steering locations. The sagittal and axial -6-dB beam widths decreased from 4.6 to 2.2 mm in the sagittal direction and 8 to 4.4 mm in the axial direction, compared to 1.5 and 3 mm in the absence of aberration. The cores of clots liquefied with histotripsy were readily drained via the catheter.

The fourth part focuses on the development of a preclinical system for translation to human cadaver ICH models. A 360-element, 700 kHz hemispherical array with a 30 cm aperture was designed and integrated with an optical tracker surgical navigation system. Calibrated simulations of the transducer suggest a therapeutic range between 48 – 105 mL through the human skull with the ability to apply therapy pulses at pulse-repetition-frequencies up to 200 Hz. The navigation system allows real-time targeting and placement of the catheter hydrophone via a pre-operative CT or MRI.

The fifth and final part of this work extends transcranial histotripsy therapy beyond ICH to the treatment of glioblastoma. This section presents results from an initial investigation into cancer immunomodulation using histotripsy in a mouse glioblastoma model. The results suggest histotripsy has some immunomodulatory capacity as evidenced by a 2-fold reduction in myeloid derived suppressor cells and large increases in interferon-γ concentrations (3500 pg/mL) within the brain tumors of mice treated with histotripsy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 13:26:52 -0400 2020-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo