Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Real-Time Sensor Anomaly Detection and Recovery in Connected Automated Vehicle Sensors (January 24, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58482 58482-14508636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 24, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Reception / Open House Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:53:20 -0500 2019-01-25T12:30:00-05:00 2019-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Reception / Open House Lab Open House
Towards Energy Justice: Exploring the Production and Persistence of Residential Urban Energy Disparities (January 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59674 59674-14777924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

U.S. government action at the intersection of energy and equity is typically driven by either geopolitical or economic crises that affect energy prices, rather than by a comprehensive, long-term approach to addressing disparities in energy access and affordability. With one in three U.S. households facing challenges in paying energy bills, understanding residential energy disparities is key to achieving energy justice. This presentation introduces the energy justice framework and explores the production and persistence of disparities in urban residential energy dynamics,
focused primarily on energy efficiency. The results of cases studies in Kansas City and Detroit demonstrate how spatial, racial, and socioeconomic disparities manifest in urban areas, and how community-based approaches to increasing can help overcome barriers to energy justice.

Tony G. Reames is an assistant professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability, Director of the Urban Energy Justice Lab, and a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health JPB Environmental Health Fellow. He has a BS in Civil Engineering, a Masters in Engineering Management (MEM), and a PhD in Public Administration. He is also a licensed Professional Engineer.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:03:44 -0500 2019-01-25T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-25T16:30:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
ELPP Lecture Series: Opportunity and Action in Federal Environmental Policy (January 28, 2019 11:50am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60186 60186-14846879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 11:50am
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

The Trump administration has drastically changed how federal environmental policy is shaped and implemented. Beyond this obvious headline, there are much bigger trends that will influence the environment and economy in the years ahead. Mr. Parker will discuss where the real action and opportunity will be in this space in the coming years.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Doug Parker is a recognized leader in environmental risk and compliance who advises clients on environmental policy, public sector strategies, enforcement actions and crisis management.

At E&W Strategies, he serves clients by providing strategic direction in the areas of corporate and individual risk, crisis mitigation and environmental compliance. He brings a unique perspective to his role as the former Director of EPA's Criminal Investigation Division where he oversaw matters ranging from the investigation into the Deepwater Horizon disaster to the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal.

Mr. Parker counsels clients on navigating environmental, health and safety compliance challenges across multiple industries, including the automotive, energy, chemical, utility and manufacturing sectors. He also provides guidance to law firms, consulting firms, and financial entities that are managing compliance matters or are engaged in due diligence with environmental risk implications. Additionally, Mr. Parker serves as a subject matter expert for those seeking to understand and navigate the environmental and natural resource policy space or who may be advocating at the federal level on critical policy and enforcement issues.

Mr. Parker speaks regularly to industry groups on strategies for navigating environmental risk and has shared his insights on CNN, National Public Radio, as well as in The New York Times and numerous other media outlets.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:36:56 -0500 2019-01-28T11:50:00-05:00 2019-01-28T12:50:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
Mindsets and Strategies for Managing a Future Career in Industry (January 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60259 60259-14855602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The workshop will address ways for students to broaden the university training experience for a more optimized career trajectory and global impact.

Lunch will be provided!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:39:36 -0500 2019-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Unbiased nonlinear transport model estimation using linearly projected data in the big data era (January 31, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58483 58483-14508637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 31, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:07:15 -0500 2019-01-31T15:00:00-05:00 2019-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
"Can engineering controls shape the drinking water microbiome and reduce the risk of opportunistic infections" (February 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59676 59676-14777925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Professor Raskin works on a variety of biological water and wastewater treatment processes in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:15:47 -0500 2019-02-01T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-01T16:30:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
State of the Union 2019 Debrief (February 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60189 60189-14917072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

Join us for lunch and discussion focused on the 2019 State of the Union, and reflections on this year in science policy. RSVP so we can order enough food: https://goo.gl/forms/wwJeexu2J4nsoRls1

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Meeting Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:50:30 -0500 2019-02-06T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Meeting SOTU 2019 flyer
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 6, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Testing Scenario Library Generation for CAV Evaluation based on Reinforcement Learning Techniques (February 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58485 58485-14508639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:03:06 -0500 2019-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Future Scenario Modeling to Evaluate the Environmental Impacts of New Technology (February 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59677 59677-14777940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Estimating environmental impacts of a system at an early design stage provides insights into the overall impact of a new technology and offers the greatest opportunities for improvement. Unfortunately, products at an early stage of development lack sufficient data to perform a traditional life cycle assessment (LCA).
There has been significant research on the diffusion of innovations to understand
potential market penetration of a new technology, adopter characteristics, and displacement effects. Diffusion of innovation concepts are useful when constructing scenarios for consequential LCA and understanding how different policy or design
choices may affect overall technology adoption and market penetration.
This seminar will present methods to construct future scenarios within the context of consequential LCA to identify preferable options for new technology design or policy development. A number of case studies will be explored, discussing research projects that involve assessment of transportation fuels, carbon capture and storage, and penetration of refrigerated food supply chains in developing countries.

Professor Miller's research uses life cycle assessment and scenario modeling to identify environmental problems before they occur. Historically, our society has taken a reactionary approach to the environment. By proactively understanding the environmental issues of emerging technologies, we can identify a greater number of options and more creative solutions to avoid or reduce negative consequences. Miller's research group works on a variety of energy-related topics, including the energy-water nexus, bioenergy, refrigeration in the food system, and autonomous vehicles.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:07:29 -0500 2019-02-08T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-08T16:30:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 10, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 10, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-10T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-10T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58201 58201-14441908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Structural racism & residential segregation" by Joe T. Darden, Professor, Dept of Geography, Michigan State University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:44:09 -0500 2019-02-13T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
EER Seminar Series led by Dr. Erin Cech (February 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60022 60022-14812584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

TIME: 3:00 – 4:00 PM
(with EER social from 4:00-4:30 pm)
DATE: FEBRUARY 13, 2019
LOCATION: 1180 DUDERSTADT
NORTH CAMPUS

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:56:08 -0500 2019-02-13T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Cech Photo
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 13, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
On the supply function of ride-hailing systems (February 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60815 60815-14970670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:02:15 -0500 2019-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Startup Career Fair (February 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60363 60363-14866463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: MPowered Entrepreneurship

Interested in getting a job or internship at a startup? Come to Startup Career Fair to meet some of today's most exciting startups! All majors and years are welcome and encouraged to attend. There will be a variety of internship and full-time opportunities available.

Sign up here! https://tinyurl.com/yddgpnu9

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:13:47 -0500 2019-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center MPowered Entrepreneurship Careers / Jobs Flyer
Instantaneous Airborne Bacteriophage MS2 and Porcine Reproductive & Respiratory Syndrome virus (PRRSv) Inactivation by Non-thermal Plasma (February 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60813 60813-14970668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Tian Xia works in Prof. Herek Clack’s lab and graduated last August as a PhD in Environmental Engineering from UM-CEE. His research is focused on the applications of novel non-thermal plasma technology to disinfect indoor airborne pathogens relating to agricultural activities. He is also interested in research of electrostatic precipitators, mercury removal technologies from coal-fired power plants and their potential impacts on climate change.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:06:15 -0500 2019-02-15T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:30:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 17, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 17, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Wind-resilient and sustainable architectural engineering (February 18, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61162 61162-15043039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:57:47 -0500 2019-02-18T12:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar lightning struck on desert
EER - Work-in-Progress: "Open" Research Study Advising (February 19, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60780 60780-14963961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 11:30am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Round table open discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 09:21:45 -0500 2019-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion EER Logo
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 20, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-20T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Third Annual MUSE Conference (February 21, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58934 58934-14580465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The annual MUSE Conference will be held February 21-22, 2019.

The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences.

Keynote speakers include Perrin Selcer (History), Barry Rabe (Public Policy), and Melissa Stults (Sustainability and Innovations Manager, City of Ann Arbor). The concluding panel will also feature a roundtable with Dean Jonathan Overpeck (SEAS), Dean DuBois Bowman (Public Health), and Jennifer Haverkamp, Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute.

For more information, including the link to register for the conference and RSVP for the public reception, please visit http://muse-initiative.umich.edu/conference/

Please send all inquiries to MUSE-inquiries@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:35:02 -0500 2019-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 2019-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Smart city logistics: Trends in sustainable deliveries (February 21, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60818 60818-14970673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:15:34 -0500 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Third Annual MUSE Conference (February 22, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58934 58934-14580466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 9:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The annual MUSE Conference will be held February 21-22, 2019.

The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences.

Keynote speakers include Perrin Selcer (History), Barry Rabe (Public Policy), and Melissa Stults (Sustainability and Innovations Manager, City of Ann Arbor). The concluding panel will also feature a roundtable with Dean Jonathan Overpeck (SEAS), Dean DuBois Bowman (Public Health), and Jennifer Haverkamp, Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute.

For more information, including the link to register for the conference and RSVP for the public reception, please visit http://muse-initiative.umich.edu/conference/

Please send all inquiries to MUSE-inquiries@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:35:02 -0500 2019-02-22T09:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T17:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Freshwater cyanotoxins: Emerging exposure pathways & Impacts on human and ecosystem health (February 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59680 59680-14777941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This seminar will start with the spatial distribution of cyanobacterial blooms in the US lakes and examining whether it is a potential risk factor of non-alcoholic liver diseases. The second part will introduce the health outcomes resulting from acute microcystin ingestion, focusing on liver health using a mouse model. In terms of microcystin exposures, direct exposure to water and consumption of seafood are well-documented.

Jiyoung Lee is a Professor in the College of Public Health at Ohio State University. Lee's research focuses on microbial contamination in environments that leads to human exposure and its linkage to health outcome.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:59:38 -0500 2019-02-22T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T16:30:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Third Annual MUSE Conference (February 22, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58934 58934-14580467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The annual MUSE Conference will be held February 21-22, 2019.

The purpose of the conference is to foster connections and new collaborations across the broad suite of sustainability and environment-related research at the University of Michigan. We welcome participation from those advancing knowledge through work in the humanities and the social, physical, natural, and engineering sciences.

Keynote speakers include Perrin Selcer (History), Barry Rabe (Public Policy), and Melissa Stults (Sustainability and Innovations Manager, City of Ann Arbor). The concluding panel will also feature a roundtable with Dean Jonathan Overpeck (SEAS), Dean DuBois Bowman (Public Health), and Jennifer Haverkamp, Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute.

For more information, including the link to register for the conference and RSVP for the public reception, please visit http://muse-initiative.umich.edu/conference/

Please send all inquiries to MUSE-inquiries@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:35:02 -0500 2019-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (February 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-02-24T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-24T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Book Talk and Signing - Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future... And What We Can Do About It (February 25, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61074 61074-15027213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center (M-LEEaD) presents a book talk by Dr. Leo Trasande who will be speaking about his recent publication Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future... and What We Can Do About It in conversation with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, author of the 2018 book What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:32:02 -0500 2019-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 2019-02-25T18:30:00-05:00 Public Health II Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Book Talk Flyer
Forum on Climate Change & Health -- What the Science Says & What We Can Do (February 26, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59580 59580-14754546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

The program includes: a keynote discussion (3:30-5:00 pm) in Forum Hall followed by a reception concluding the event (5:00-6:00 pm). The keynote panel will be live-streamed and recorded for later viewing.
Register (free) here: https://goo.gl/forms/3uK2Qj8SztrhzK4o2
Keynote Panel Live Stream: https://youtu.be/s9zCthg0G8M
This event is organized by the UM Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD), NIEHS grant P30ES017885 and is co-sponsored by the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), and UM SPH Department of Environmental Health Sciences.
More information is available here:http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_Climate_Change_and_Health_2019.php

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:29:18 -0500 2019-02-26T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Midlife Science Workshop / Seminar Climate Change & Health
EER Guided Discussion: Motivating Academics in Higher Education E3 MACH Workshop (February 28, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60917 60917-14988673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 8:30am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

A member of the EER community will overview research on a particular topic, after which participants will engage in discussion about this topic with other attendees.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Feb 2019 10:47:57 -0500 2019-02-28T08:30:00-05:00 2019-02-28T10:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion EER Logo
A decentralized game theoretical approach for vehicle platooning under economic concern (February 28, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60819 60819-14970674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Feb 2019 07:57:16 -0500 2019-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Opportunities for greywater reuse at different scales (March 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59681 59681-14777945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Water and wastewater treatment are key to protect humans in cities by providing safe water and urban hygiene and to protect the aquatic environment from pollutants. Over the past century, urban water management allowed for healthy and pleasant living conditions in ever-growing cities in many parts of the world. This presentation will discuss the potential for local reuse of treated greywater and drivers for implementation. What are the scientific and technological challenges? How can appropriate local water reuse be implemented in a way that it does not jeopardize today’s achievements in urban water management and urban hygiene? Basic sciences for gravity driven membrane (GDM) filtration and technology development for reuse of hand washing water in informal settlements or resource recovery at the building scale will be discussed.

Dr. Eberhard Morgenroth is a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. His research interests include wastewater treatment, membrane bioreactors for water reuse, control of biofilms, biofilm reactors, biological drinking water treatment, decentralized wastewater treatment, and energy recovery from wastewater and organic residuals.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:17:38 -0500 2019-03-01T15:30:00-05:00 2019-03-01T16:30:00-05:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-03T17:30:00-05:00 2019-03-03T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 6, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-06T17:30:00-05:00 2019-03-06T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 10, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-10T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-10T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Nano Seminar Series (March 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61893 61893-15230393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

ABSTRACT: The millimeter-wave frequency spectrum is in increasing demand for wireless applications including communication and radar. Nitrogen-polar GaN devices at UCSB have now shown transformative performance with record-breaking power density of 8 W/mm and excellent efficiency in the W-band (75-110 GHz) frequency range. This talk will discuss some of UCSB's work on deep recess N-polar GaN MISHEMTs which has enabled this performance. The focus will be on this researcher's contribution to UCSB's N-polar GaN device program which has been to develop new methods to characterize and model these devices in a way which provides quick and insightful feedback for designing improved devices. This is achieved by providing unambiguous evaluations of large-signal performance by load pull at extremely high frequency, and using accurately extracted equivalent circuit models to identify which specific aspects of the device can be adjusted to realize improvements in performance. These methods led to improvement in the efficiency at 94 GHz from 17% to 28%, while the power density was increased to 8 W/mm. New characterization and modeling techniques are underway to understand and improve the linearity of the device, because distortion in amplifiers is of increasing importance for complex digital modulation schemes employed in modern communication systems.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:42:44 -0500 2019-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Lecture / Discussion Matt Screenshot
EER Seminar - Engineering Students' Time-Oriented Motivation and Its Relation to Goals and Persistence (March 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61715 61715-15176759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

MARCH 13, 2019
TIME: 3:00 – 4:00 PM
(with EER social from 4:00-4:30 pm)
LOCATION: 1180 DUDERSTADT

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 08:37:18 -0500 2019-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Benson
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 13, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-13T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Effects of charging infrastructure and non-electric taxi competition on electric taxi adoption incentives in NYC (March 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61447 61447-15106032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

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

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

Details TBA.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:11:51 -0500 2019-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 17, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-17T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58203 58203-15335278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Racial liberalism & environmental racism in Flint, Michigan" by Malini Ranganathan, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:09:05 -0400 2019-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58203 58203-14441913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Racial liberalism & environmental racism in Flint, Michigan" by Malini Ranganathan, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:09:05 -0400 2019-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 20, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Discover Series: Bird's-Eye Views of America (March 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61721 61721-15176768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Between 1850 and 1900 panoramic depictions of towns and cities were very popular in America. Director of the Clements Library Kevin Graffagnino will discuss the significance of these unique nineteenth-century depictions of communities throughout the United States. U-M School of Information student Corey Schmidt will describe his project to catalog and digitize these bird’s-eye views and also to create an online interactive map. Participants will also have an opportunity to view several original bird’s-eye views from the Clements Library collection.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:31:22 -0500 2019-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Ann Arbor 1880
Ford Mobility Routing Solutions (March 21, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61450 61450-15106036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA.

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Mar 2019 07:58:00 -0400 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
Novel Electrode Materials for Water Treatment (March 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59683 59683-14777949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This talk will discuss ongoing research efforts aimed at advancing EAOPs, which
includes the synthesis of selective electrodes for the minimization of byproduct
formation and development of inexpensive, high surface area, porous electrodes
for enhanced electrochemical activity. A combination of electrochemical
reactivity experiments, electrochemical characterization, and density functional
theory modeling was used to develop a mechanistic understanding of the interactions of contaminants with these novel electrode materials. Results from
this work are being used to develop more efficient and compact treatment
technologies, including ‘self cleaning’ membranes and multi-functional point-of-use
water treatment devices.

Brian Chaplin is a professor the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Chemical Engineering Department.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 12 Mar 2019 08:02:15 -0400 2019-03-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-22T16:30:00-04:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 27, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-27T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Increasing GPS localization accuracy with reinforcement learning (March 28, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62282 62282-15344246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Details TBA

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:58:25 -0400 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Geotechnical Seminar
A 21 st Century Water Governance Model to Harness Digital Era in Support of the Water Sector’s Paradigm Shift (March 29, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59687 59687-14777952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Newsha K. Ajami, is the director of Urban Water Policy with Stanford University’s
Water in the West program. A leading expert in sustainable water resource
management, water policy, innovation, and financing, and the water-energy-food
nexus, her research throughout the years has been interdisciplinary and impact
driven.
Dr. Ajami is a gubernatorial appointee to the Bay Area Regional Water Quality
Control Board. She has published many highly cited peer-reviewed articles,
coauthored two books, and contributed opinion pieces to the New York Times
and the Sacramento Bee. Dr. Ajami received her Ph.D. in civil and environmental
engineering from the UC, Irvine, an M.S. in hydrology and water resources from
the University of Arizona.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:00:07 -0400 2019-03-29T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (March 31, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-03-31T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
RELATE "Storytelling for STEM" (April 1, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62258 62258-15337495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

This info session held by Michigan's RELATE program will be an opportunity for students to learn more about how to effectively communicate their research by understanding their audience and having a central message.

Jimmy Johns will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:07:51 -0400 2019-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-01T19:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Lecture / Discussion stem
EER & NCID Seminar (April 3, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62285 62285-15344264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In this discussion, mentoring scholars collectively discuss the state of STEM mentoring and their perspectives on the future of this work. Their discussion will include current and future research and practices in effective mentoring, and needs that pertain to different disciplines and developmental stages.

Speakers:
Dr. Joi Mondisa
Assistant Professor
Industrial & Operations Engineering
University of Michigan

Dr. Becky Wai-Ling Packard
Professor
Psychology and Education, Mt. Holyoke
NCID Faculty Fellow, University of Michigan

Dr. Beronda Montgomery
Foundation Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Michigan State University

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:17:23 -0400 2019-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Speakers
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (April 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
The Unlikely Friendship of Math and Science (April 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62432 62432-15364114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Abstract: On the one hand, there's science: the clear-eyed, hard-nosed, the pragmatic empiricist. On the other hand, there's math: the poet, the dreamer, the hunter of wild abstractions. How do these two intellectual traditions regard one another? And why is it that the most useless-sounding math - from knot theory to meta-logic to non-Euclidean geometry - often turns out to be the most useful? Prerequisites: basic human curiosity; tolerance for bad drawings; the willingness to participate in a silly debate. In short: all are welcome!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:15:46 -0400 2019-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-03T18:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Ben Orlin Public Lecture
Optimizing Traffic Signal Control with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in the Traffic Stream (April 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59689 59689-14777953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:02:51 -0400 2019-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Agents of Change for Resilient Infrastructure (April 4, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61712 61712-15176756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York City and subsequent programs to improve the City’s infrastructure are described in this lecture. Special attention is focused on the restoration of the L Line Tunnel, which was flooded by Hurricane Sandy. Professor O’Rourke will describe how a team from Cornell and Columbia Universities was assembled at the request of Governor Andrew Cuomo to help reengineer a $1/2 billion project to rehabilitate the subway tunnel, and still keep the subway in service. The new approach integrates several advanced technologies, including distributed fiber optics and LiDAR, and makes a breakthrough in infrastructure restoration resulting from interdisciplinary work between civil and electrical engineers. The agents of change that lead to improved policies and approaches are explored, including the technical, institutional, and social challenges of introducing new technologies and engaging community support.

Thomas O' Rourke is a professor of the Engineering Department at Cornell University.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:42:43 -0400 2019-04-04T16:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar 2019 Frank E. Richart, Jr. Distinguished Lecture
Epsilon Eta Spring Interest Meeting (April 4, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62528 62528-15397105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Epsilon Eta

Epsilon Eta is Umich's only Pre-Profesional Environmental Co-Ed Fraternity. We seek to develop a more robust network of students, researchers, employers, and agencies to more effectively deal with the realities of our world’s changing climate and loss of biodiversity. By fostering a conscious awareness of the intrinsic relationship between people and their environment through academics, the community, and service, we seek to bridge the gap from the undergraduate atmosphere to professional environmental fields for students at Michigan.
Although we are inclusive of all majors, we require an interest in the environmental field. By pledging Epsilon Eta, you will become a member of an eclectic group of driven, intelligent, and innovative peers, as well as gain access to professional, social, and volunteering resources.
This meeting will give you a chance to get a better sense of our organization and a chance to ask questions. We will also explain what our Fall Rush process consists of.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Tue, 26 Mar 2019 22:01:16 -0400 2019-04-04T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T20:30:00-04:00 Dana Building Epsilon Eta Rally / Mass Meeting logo
Resolving the water balance of large lake systems (April 5, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62564 62564-15405802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Over the past decade, Dr. Gronewold has led research focused on understanding major components of the hydrologic cycle, with an emphasis on the Laurentian Great Lakes.  His research has led to improvements in regional land surface models, the introduction and continued maintenance of novel evaporation monitoring platforms, and recommendations for implementing a binational blend of continental precipitation products.  Dr. Gronewold's presentation will convey new statistical modeling approaches to reconcile discrepancies between alternate data sources for the regional water balance, and will outline plans for propagating lessons learned from the Laurentian Great Lakes to other large lake systems around the world.

Drew Gronewold is an associate professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Professor Gronewold’s research interests lie in hydrological modeling, with a focus on propagating uncertainty and variability into model-based water resources management decisions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Apr 2019 07:58:21 -0400 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T16:30:00-04:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (April 7, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 7, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-04-07T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Using machine learning and internet of things to address the urban water cycle trilemma (April 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62566 62566-15405804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

City’s water systems are experiencing the pressure of growing populations, shrinking budgets, climate change, and aging infrastructure. These factors present
utilities with the urban water cycle trilemma: investing capital to maintain or expand infrastructure, doing business as usual to maintain its level of service, and doing all this affordably.
This talk will show how utilities are using machine learning and internet of things to solve the urban water cycle trilemma by disrupting the status quo. Data intensive solutions are being used to adapt water infrastructure in real time to provide citizens with higher levels of service while reducing energy and chemical consumption in treatment plants, reducing storm related flooding and overflows, and increasing drinking water quality.

Luis is the CTO and President of EmNet. Luis founded EmNet to study and develop solutions to optimize the operation of complex wastewater collection systems. EmNet’s Real Time Decision Support System technology helps utilities maximize the use of existing and future infrastructure to reduce combined sewer overflows volumes and frequencies.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:12:42 -0400 2019-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Water
Life-Cycle, Risk, Resilience and Sustainability of Infrastructure (April 10, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62829 62829-15477381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Apr 2019 13:31:19 -0400 2019-04-10T12:30:00-04:00 2019-04-10T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Blackfriars Bridge
EER Seminar Series (April 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62434 62434-15364115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

“Engineering science” courses are technical courses at the sophomore or junior level that are non-lab and non-design courses. While these courses make up a significant portion of students’ engineering education, they have received less research focus than design courses. In this talk we will present the beginnings of a framework capturing two overarching research questions: What should students learn in engineering science courses? And How should students learn in engineering science courses? We will then present two current research studies that each address these two questions. In the first we will describe the development of a coding scheme to characterize the degree to which instructors facilitate student sense-making in class and demonstrate how it is applied to question-initiated dialogue in two courses. In the second we will examine how students in one engineering science course solved and evaluated their answers for open-ended mathematical modeling problems.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:21:21 -0400 2019-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Aaron Jess
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (April 10, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-04-10T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-10T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Modeling and simulation research on human interactions with advanced vehicle technologies (April 11, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62567 62567-15405805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Apr 2019 08:07:06 -0400 2019-04-12T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-12T11:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Sunset aligning with the streets of Manhattan.
EWRE Seminar (April 12, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59690 59690-14777956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A perspective on nonstationary climate and water risk, its predictability, simulation and on the use of financial instruments to manage such risks. The talk will focus on 3 examples. The first draws from our work on risks associated with the mining industry and highlights the significant spatial and temporal correlation or concentration of risk across global assets that may be owned by the same company. Implications for supply chains, commodity markets and risk premiums are briefly discussed.The second example focuses on livestock mortality in Mongolia at a national scale that is determined by a combination of climatic factors. In this example, I will introduce a stochastic simulator that can allow a characterization of the aggregate risk accounting for the spatial correlation of tail risk. An application to index insurance for the Government of Mongolia provides the context. The third example pertains to the securitization of financial risk for an energy utility in Uruguay, where both the utility and the government face significant financial risk in the event of a drought disrupting hydropower production. A strategy for the simulation of the system, and of a combination of financial instruments to select the optimal risk hedging strategy through an allocation to the different financial instruments is provided.

Dr. Upmanu Lall is the Director of the Columbia Water Center and the Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering, and the Chair of the Dept. of Earth & Environmental Engineering at Columbia University. He has broad interests in hydrology, climate dynamics, water resource systems analysis, risk management and sustainability. He is motivated by challenging questions at the intersection of these fields, especially where they have relevance to societal outcomes or to the advancement of science towards innovative application.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Apr 2019 07:57:58 -0400 2019-04-12T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-12T16:30:00-04:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Steel Bridge North Central Regional Competition (April 13, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56335 56335-13880810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:00am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: University of Michigan Steel Bridge Team

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

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Other Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:12:15 -0400 2019-04-13T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-13T23:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory University of Michigan Steel Bridge Team Other GG Brown Laboratory
CEE 5K Run/Walk (April 13, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62631 62631-15414527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Starting point: 1 Nichols Drive (by the M29 parking lot, just east of E. Medical Center Drive)
Students, staff, and faculty (friends and family too!) are invited to join the third CEE 5k walk/run in the UM Nichlos Arboretum. Participation is free, but please register in the link provided!

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Recreational / Games Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:40:24 -0400 2019-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-13T15:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Civil and Environmental Engineering Recreational / Games CEE 5K
TBP Drop-in Tutoring (April 14, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60828 60828-14970728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Spend some time helping by fellow students with your classes! Classes include intro Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Engineering courses.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:49:37 -0500 2019-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Class / Instruction tbp-mi
Winter 2020 Walk-in Advising! (April 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63011 63011-15534811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Don’t wait until the September 15th deadline, join CGIS & Newnan Advising Center for a walk-in advising event to discuss Winter 2020 CGIS applications.

Before you leave for the summer, come and find out how studying abroad can fit into your degree plan, learn about scholarships and financial aid, and more!

Popcorn & punch will be provided!

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Meeting Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:21:24 -0400 2019-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
Observation in Support of Analysis and Design of RC Structures (April 18, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63053 63053-15543230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:41:47 -0400 2019-04-18T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-18T15:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar
CLaSP Seminar Series - Dr. Katariina Nykyri (April 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61265 61265-15063348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Our guest for this week's CLaSP Seminar Series will be Dr. Katariina Nykyri of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Title: On the Plasma Transport and Energization at the Magnetospheric Boundary Layers

Abstract:
While the solar wind cools as it flows through the heliosphere, it is rapidly heated when interacting with magnetized planets. The first part of this heating occurs at the planetary bow-shocks, followed by additional heating at the magnetospheric boundary layers, until reaching the highest temperatures inside the planetary magnetospheres. In-situ spacecraft observations have clearly demonstrated that the magnetosheath plasma has been strongly heated and significantly rarefied when it penetrates into the magnetosphere, indicating that the heating process is nonadiabatic. Meanwhile, the average temperature ratio between ions and electrons remains the same.. Exploring the detailed plasma acceleration, heating and transport mechanisms with in-situ satellite measurements in space-plasma provides a better understanding of the nature of plasma and may therefore be helpful in development of new energy source (e.g., fusion energy). In this talk we discuss results from multiple space missions (e.g., Cluster, THEMIS, MMS) and numerical simulations and discuss the physical mechanisms that provide plasma transport and energization at the magnetospheric boundary layers: the magnetosheath, the magnetopause, the low and high-latitude boundary layers and cusps. Understanding why magnetosphere is so hot is helpful in understanding plasma heating in solar corona and other astrophysical systems where we don’t have multi-point in-situ measurements of plasmas.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:26:52 -0500 2019-04-18T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion CLaSP logo
Water risks in agriculture supply chains: Material impacts and mitigation strategies from the food and beverage industry (April 19, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62565 62565-15405803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 3:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

In the face of mounting stresses on global water supplies, food and beverage companies are increasingly exposed to financial risks associated with their reliance on water-intensive agricultural commodities. Droughts, floods, eutrophication, and poor manure management not only undermine the security of our food system, but they also pose physical, regulatory, and reputational threats to the financial performance of the food industry. While many of these companies -- and their investors -- have demonstrated growing awareness of water stewardship as a business imperative, others have stagnated, failing to assess their exposure to water risks or set goals to source their commodities more sustainably. I examine how water risks have already had substantial financial impacts on the industry and highlight the efforts of institutional investors to motivate companies to address these risks. Through an analysis of past and forthcoming editions of Feeding Ourselves Thirsty -- a benchmarking of the water risk management efforts of over 40 food and beverage companies -- I review the strategies used by leading companies to enhance the resilience of their agricultural supply chains.

Jacob London is an Associate at Ceres, a Boston-based non-profit organization advocating for sustainable investment, business practices, and public policy. As part of the Water & Agriculture program, his work aims to mobilize food and beverage companies to address water risks in their agricultural supply chains. In this role he conducts research to improve investors' understanding of the financial risks associated with global water stress, and supports shareholder engagements focused on water and agriculture. He is the co-author of the forthcoming edition of Feeding Ourselves Thirsty: How the Food Sector is Managing Global Water Risks, due for release in September 2019.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 16 Apr 2019 07:57:01 -0400 2019-04-19T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T16:30:00-04:00 BBB Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
MUSE Workshop: Discussion: ethics, big data, and our response to climate change (April 25, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60222 60222-14849124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The MUSE workshop is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that brings together sustainability researchers from across the university to discuss ideas and promote interdisciplinary connections and collaborations.
The workshops are informal gatherings with a facilitator who leads an often wide-ranging discussion.
Workshops occur at least biweekly (with special workshops arising for hot topics). Check out the line up of further speakers

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:31:20 -0500 2019-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Workshop / Seminar MUSE workshop
3rd IAVSD Workshop on Dynamics of Road Vehicles (April 27, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60542 60542-14908149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 27, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

The workshop aims to bring together scientists and engineers from academia and industry in the field of connected and automated vehicles to present and exchange their latest ideas and breakthroughs. There will be over 20 speakers invited from around the world who are experts in the field of connected and automated vehicles.

The conference will take place in the Michigan League April 27th - 30th.

More information and Registration can be found at cav2019.engin.umich.edu/

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:43:46 -0500 2019-04-27T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-27T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Mechanical Engineering Conference / Symposium CAV 2019
3rd IAVSD Workshop on Dynamics of Road Vehicles (April 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60542 60542-14908151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

The workshop aims to bring together scientists and engineers from academia and industry in the field of connected and automated vehicles to present and exchange their latest ideas and breakthroughs. There will be over 20 speakers invited from around the world who are experts in the field of connected and automated vehicles.

The conference will take place in the Michigan League April 27th - 30th.

More information and Registration can be found at cav2019.engin.umich.edu/

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:43:46 -0500 2019-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-28T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Mechanical Engineering Conference / Symposium CAV 2019
3rd IAVSD Workshop on Dynamics of Road Vehicles (April 29, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60542 60542-14908152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

The workshop aims to bring together scientists and engineers from academia and industry in the field of connected and automated vehicles to present and exchange their latest ideas and breakthroughs. There will be over 20 speakers invited from around the world who are experts in the field of connected and automated vehicles.

The conference will take place in the Michigan League April 27th - 30th.

More information and Registration can be found at cav2019.engin.umich.edu/

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:43:46 -0500 2019-04-29T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T23:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Mechanical Engineering Conference / Symposium CAV 2019
3rd IAVSD Workshop on Dynamics of Road Vehicles (April 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60542 60542-14908154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

The workshop aims to bring together scientists and engineers from academia and industry in the field of connected and automated vehicles to present and exchange their latest ideas and breakthroughs. There will be over 20 speakers invited from around the world who are experts in the field of connected and automated vehicles.

The conference will take place in the Michigan League April 27th - 30th.

More information and Registration can be found at cav2019.engin.umich.edu/

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:43:46 -0500 2019-04-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T15:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Mechanical Engineering Conference / Symposium CAV 2019
U-M/NAS Town Hall (May 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62945 62945-15520072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: ArtsEngine

The purpose of this town hall will be to discuss the findings and recommendations from the consensus report, The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree, released Spring 2018 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). The even will also facilitate discussions about strategies for the creation, evaluation, and sustainability of courses and programs that integrate across disciplines. The report represents a culmination of a two-year study conducted by a committee of National Academies members including scientists, engineers, health professionals, humanists, artists, and industry leaders. The report argues that integrating the humanities and arts with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine results in positive learning outcomes that will help students successfully enter the workforce, enrich their lives, and help them become active and informed citizens. Importantly, a range of positive educational outcomes resulted from these methods, including improved written and oral communication skills, teamwork skills, ethical decision-making, critical thinking, and the ability to apply knowledge in real-world settings.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:36:17 -0400 2019-05-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T15:30:00-04:00 Michigan League ArtsEngine Lecture / Discussion
Michigan Lighthouse Landmark Legacy (May 29, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58994 58994-14636444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Kellogg Eye Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join us on this audio-visual excursion with William Lucas, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Trumpeter and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, to some of Michigan’s most popular lighthouses set to musical fanfares.

Prof. Lucas’ presentation will literally set the tone for OLLI’s forthcoming day trip on August 6, 2019, to Port Huron, MI, home to the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse, the oldest lighthouse in Michigan, although you don't need to be going on the trip to enjoy this delightful event..

This event does not require OLLI membership and is open to the public.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:49:30 -0400 2019-05-29T19:00:00-04:00 2019-05-29T20:30:00-04:00 Kellogg Eye Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Out of Town
Book club- Becoming by Michelle Obama Part I: Becoming me (Chap 1-8) (June 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63964 63964-16041377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: MUSES

This summer MUSES is having a book club featuring "Becoming" by Michelle Obama. Becoming was the #1 best-selling book in 2018 totaling 3.4 million copies. Come join us as we discuss the journey of the first African American first lady of the United States.

The book club will be divided into 3 parts:

Becoming me (Chap 1-8): June 25th, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D
Becoming us (Chap 9-18): July 30th, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D
Become more (Chap 19-24): Aug 27th, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D

Food will be provided, Please RSVP here for June 25th, so we can have enough food
If you need a book or have any other question, please contact us at umichmuses@gmail.com

Best,
MUSES Committee

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Meeting Tue, 11 Jun 2019 09:09:36 -0400 2019-06-25T18:00:00-04:00 2019-06-25T19:30:00-04:00 MUSES Meeting
Book Club - Becoming by Michelle Obama Part 2: Becoming us (Chap 9-18) (July 30, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64488 64488-16372918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: MUSES

We will continue our book club featuring "Becoming" by Michelle Obama. Becoming was the #1 best-selling book in 2018 totaling 3.4 million copies. Come join us as we discuss the journey of the first African American first lady of the United States.

We already explored Becoming me (Chap 1-8) on June 25th.

Following, we will explore:
Becoming us (Chap 9-18): July 30th, at 6pm, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D
Become more (Chap 19-24): Aug 27th, at 6pm, Duderstadt 1120D Conf Rm D

If you would like to join us on July 30th, at 6 pm. Please, RSVP below so we can have enough food.
https://forms.gle/4HhPTKSnUPqUFdaL8

If you need a book or have any other questions, please contact us at umichmuses@gmail.com

Best,
MUSES Committee

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Meeting Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:42:40 -0400 2019-07-30T18:00:00-04:00 2019-07-30T19:30:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center MUSES Meeting Duderstadt Center
U-M Ideas Lab: Informational Webinar on Predicting Human Performance (July 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64096 64096-16147464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

Attend this webinar to learn more about the 2019 Biosciences Initiative U-M Ideas Lab: Predicting Human Performance.

Experts will:
- present background surrounding the Ideas Lab
- explore the topic in depth
- answer questions live from the audience

Questions may be sent ahead of time to biosciences@umich.edu.
Registration for the webinar: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/e93ed8dbfacf569acde7dc3c8da9331e
On-line attendance- please register yourself and utilize your individual link for the meeting.
In-person attendance- you may register on-line or when you arrive.

About U-M Ideas Lab:
The Biosciences Initiative U-M Ideas Lab is your chance to pursue high-risk, high-reward, creative ideas and solutions to broad biosciences challenges alongside colleagues with diverse areas of expertise. Use this interactive think tank funding opportunity to pursue innovative research while still focusing on your current program and other duties.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:01:40 -0400 2019-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-31T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Biosciences Initiative Workshop / Seminar Ideas Lab Banner
Bicycling Safety in the Future of Mobility (September 5, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66378 66378-16734107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 08:52:43 -0400 2019-09-05T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-05T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
PwC Recruitment Information Session (September 5, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66220 66220-16719603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Recruiting students of all engineering majors pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree for full-time and internship positions. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. PwC will not be collecting resumes at this event.
From developing leaders at every level, to digital training to help you embrace the innovative technology of tomorrow, PwC provides you with support to help you develop your career and build relationships with people from diverse backgrounds and across multiple industries. We help our clients meet the challenges and opportunities of the US marketplace in the areas of assurance, tax, and consulting. At PwC US, you will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued.

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:02:00 -0400 2019-09-05T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-05T18:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Tau Beta Pi Careers / Jobs PwC Logo
ASCE Seminar Series: Sachse Construction (September 6, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66226 66226-16719605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 6, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:03:58 -0400 2019-09-06T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-06T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Words of Wisdom and Breakfast with Crystal Ashby (September 7, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65361 65361-16573561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 7, 2019 9:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: MUSES

Crystal Ashby is a dynamic and innovative executive with a record of successes leading government and external affairs, legal and ethics and compliance organizations. She has held many executive roles during her career, including VP of BP Oil Company. For years she has helped Michigan female students with her wisdom and advice for a successful career and personal life. This is an opportunity you cannot miss.

If you would like, you can find more about Crystal at https://lab.engin.umich.edu/members/crystal-e-ashby/

Breakfast will be served!
Please, RSVP at the link below so we can provide enough food.
https://forms.gle/brHkoUmScrUt7H9h8

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Meeting Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:04:40 -0400 2019-09-07T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-07T11:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building MUSES Meeting
Smart Stormwater Systems Workshop (September 10, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66367 66367-16734097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 8:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 08:26:54 -0400 2019-09-10T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Storm water
Environmental Research Seminar "Health & Household-Related Benefits of Weatherizing Low-Income Homes & Affordable Multifamily Buildings" (September 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65290 65290-16565509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The federal government, states, and utilities administer programs to improve the energy efficiency of low-income homes and affordable multifamily buildings. Investments in measures to save energy, as simple as air sealing and insulation, can also yield a broad range of non-energy benefits. This presentation will present research results that show that weatherization can improve health, home conditions, and social determinants of health. The results are drawn from three separate studies that were conducted nationally, regionally (Midwest and Northeast), and in Knoxville, Tennessee. Three3, Inc. conducts research and educational programming to promote the integration of environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The organization particularly focuses on fostering sustainable futures that: provide equitable benefits to low-income and disadvantaged populations (intra-generational equity); meets ethical obligations to future generations (inter-generational equity); and makes best use of the convergence of human knowledge and technology to meet sustainability goals.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:56:22 -0400 2019-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T13:00:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar 09/10/2019 Bruce Tonn "Health & Household-Related Benefits of Weatherizing Low-Income Homes & Affordable Multifamily Buildings"
Construction Seminar (September 11, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66383 66383-16734184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:30:50 -0400 2019-09-12T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Spotlight! Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition 2019 (September 13, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64379 64379-16338339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Spotlight! Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition is a competitive presentation of operations and manufacturing solutions developed by Tauber Institute student teams from their 14-week team projects. At Spotlight!, students showcase their project results and compete for academic scholarships.

Spotlight! is an excellent opportunity to establish relationships with students and corporate partners, expand your university presence, and see many new ideas in operations and manufacturing.

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Presentation Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:27:21 -0400 2019-09-13T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Presentation Spotlight! 2019
ASCE Seminar Series: Aristeo (September 13, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66227 66227-16719607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:12:00 -0400 2019-09-13T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-13T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
FocusCEE Info Session (September 17, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65414 65414-16595554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 6:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:31:44 -0400 2019-09-17T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T20:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Reception / Open House FocusCEE areas: Community Policy and Planning, Smart Cities, Sustainability
Construction Seminar (September 18, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66402 66402-16734194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:16:10 -0400 2019-09-20T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-20T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Construction Seminar (September 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66404 66404-16734196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:31:16 -0400 2019-09-26T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. Annmarie Eldering (September 26, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66308 66308-16727887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

CLASP is very pleased to welcome Dr. Annmarie Eldering of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Dr. Eldering will give a presentation titled:
"Watching the Earth Breathe from the International Space Station"

Abstract: In May 2019, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) was installed on the International Space Station (ISS). A follow-on to the still-active OCO-2 mission, OCO-3 will bring not only a new vantage point but new techniques and new technologies to NASA's carbon dioxide observations. OCO-3 is a 3-band grating spectrometer that measures sunlight reflected from Earth’s surface, and it can make extremely precise measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide, sensing changes of less than 1ppm (relative to today’s concentrations that are about 400ppm). The space station circles Earth from 52 degrees north to 52 degrees south latitudes — about the latitudes of London and Patagonia. The vast majority of Earth's cities and agricultural lands, responsible for most of our planet's carbon absorption and emissions, fall within this zone. Where OCO-2's polar orbit takes it over each location at exactly the same time of day, the space station's orbit will put OCO-3 over each location at a slightly different time on every orbit. OCO-3 will demonstrate a new technique to measure urban carbon emissions, volcanic eruptions and other local carbon sources from space. This scanning technique, enabled by the instrument's ability to swivel and point rapidly, produces a tightly woven blanket of measurements over an area of about 50 by 50 miles (80 by 80 kilometers) — about the size of the Los Angeles Basin.
Annmarie Eldering, the Project Scientist for OCO-3 will share some of the latest news and data from OCO-3, as well as the goals for the three year measurement campaign from the ISS.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:17:49 -0400 2019-09-26T15:30:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
ASCE Seminar Series: HDR (September 27, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66232 66232-16719610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:15:37 -0400 2019-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
CEE 5K Walk/Run (September 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67549 67549-16892237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Join us for the Fall 2019 CEE 5K Walk/Run on September 28th at the Nichol’s Arboretum!

Who: Walkers, Runners, Family & Friends, and friendly pets welcome!
When: 9:00 a.m. on September 28th
Where: 1 Nichols Drive, Ann Arbor (Northwest Entrance near M29 Parking Lot)

Snacks and Refreshments will be served. Register online or day of. See you there!

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Exercise / Fitness Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:24:06 -0400 2019-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 Nichols Arboretum Civil and Environmental Engineering Exercise / Fitness Running
The Clean Energy Revolution is (Finally) Here, Dan Kammen (October 1, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65484 65484-16898627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Dr. Daniel M. Kammen is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group where he serves as Chair, the Goldman School of Public Policy where he directs the Center for Environmental Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL; http://rael.berkeley.edu), and was director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center from 2007 – 2015.

He was appointed by then Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in April 2010 as the first energy fellow of the Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) initiative. He began service as the Science Envoy for U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry in 2016, but resigned over President Trump’s policies in August, 2017. He has served the State of California and US federal government in expert and advisory capacities, including time at the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Energy, the Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 29 Sep 2019 19:30:24 -0400 2019-10-01T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T20:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion Dan Kammen
Health, Nature & Our Built Environment: Change through Radical Collaborations (October 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67640 67640-16909312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) presents an Environmental Research Seminar featuring John Spengler, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, and Director of the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Spengler has conducted research on personal monitoring, air pollution health effects, indoor air pollution, and a variety of environmental sustainability issues. Several of his investigations have focused on housing design and its effects on ventilation rates, building materials’ selection, energy consumption, and total environmental quality in homes.

Spengler chaired the committee on Harvard Sustainability Principles; and served on Harvard’s Greenhouse Gases Taskforce to develop the University’s carbon reduction goals and strategies, as well as Harvard’s Greenhouse Gases Executive Committee. He serves on the National Academies’ Health and Medicine Division “Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine”. Previously he chaired the National Academies’ NRC “Green Schools: Attributes for Health and Learning” committee and the IOM “Effect of Climate Change on Indoor Air Quality and Public Health” committee; and he has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization on indoor air pollution, personal exposure and air pollution epidemiology. He now serves on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Chemistry of Indoor Environments advisory committee.

In 2003, Spengler received a Heinz Award for the Environment; in 2007, the Air & Waste Management Association Lyman Ripperton Environmental Educator Award; in 2008, the Max von Pettenkofer Award for distinguished contributions in indoor air science from the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate’s Academy of Fellows; and in 2015, the ASHRAE Environmental Health Award.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:47:35 -0400 2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T12:50:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Jack Spengler
OVERCOMING THE SCHEDULING CONUNDRUM (October 2, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66406 66406-16734197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 26 Sep 2019 08:05:01 -0400 2019-10-04T13:45:00-04:00 2019-10-04T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEE
Brown Bag: "Environmental History and Military Metabolism in the War of Independence" (October 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65581 65581-16619782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Dr. David Hsiung will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Faith and Stephen Brown Fellowship. A U-M grad (PhD in History 1991), he is now the Charles and Shirley Knox Professor of History at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. Dr. Hsiung is working on a book tentatively titled “One If By Land: An Environmental History of the Birth of American Independence and Its Consequences.”

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:37:24 -0400 2019-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Seat of war in the environs of Philadelphia (1777)
Mechanics of earthquakes: extreme location, frictional instability, and fluid effects (October 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67679 67679-16915708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Gorguze Family Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Many seismological studies interpret earthquake sources as shear cracks and use concepts of fracture mechanics to shed light on earthquake source processes. This approach is partially justified by extreme localization of shear deformation on mature faults in the earth’s crust, with kilometers of relative plate motion sometimes accommodated by millimeter-wide shear layers filled with micrometer-sized rock particles. The presentation will discuss recent progress in using laboratory-derived shear resistance laws in the presence of pore fluids for numerical elastodynamic simulations of earthquake source processes and the associated insights, including similarities and differences with the traditional fracture mechanics interpretations

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:20:10 -0400 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Gorguze Family Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar earthquakes
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute at the University of Michigan Mass Meeting (October 7, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67673 67673-16915703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Please join the EERI for their first mass meeting of the semester on October 7th from 4:30pm - 5:30pm in 1024 FXB. They will be discussing seismic design competitions, outreach activities, leadership opportunities, and more! Food and refreshments will be provided!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:22:01 -0400 2019-10-07T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEE
Civil and Environmental Engineering Career Fair (October 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66999 66999-16794254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

ASCE, MITSO, and the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department are hosting the Fall 2019 Civil and Environmental Engineering Career Fair.

Tuesday October 8th, 2019
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Duderstadt Basement

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 12 Sep 2019 08:38:17 -0400 2019-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T14:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Civil and Environmental Engineering Careers / Jobs Three businesswomen
Civil and Environmental Engineering Career Fair (October 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67481 67481-16864380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Civil and Environmental Engineering Career Fair

Hosted by: American Society of Civil Engineers U-M Chapter (ASCE) & Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO)
Date: October 8, 2019
Time: 10 am - 2 pm
Location: Duderstadt Center Basement (North Campus)

This career fair is intended for students within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and is open to all interested University of Michigan students. Contact cee-cf-directors@umich.edu for more information.

The list of companies attending the Civil and Environmental Engineering Career Fair is available within Engineering Careers, by Symplicity (within your account select ‘Events’, and then ‘Career Fairs’), and also through the "Career Fair Plus" app!

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:15:29 -0400 2019-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T14:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs Duderstadt Center
“Every Sector is Public Health Sector": Building Capacity to Address Environmental Health Inequities (October 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68017 68017-16983971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Dr. Sampson will discuss three examples of capacity-building to build and translate evidence, including:
1) a youth environmental health academy in Dearborn, MI;
2) a health impact assessment for the Gordie Howe International Bridge at the Detroit-Windsor border;
3) her work with APHA to convene environmental health and justice leaders—all to advance evidence-based policies that address environmental health inequities.

Natalie Sampson is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at UM-Dearborn, where she teaches courses in environmental health, health promotion, and community organizing. Grounded primarily in Southeast Michigan, she studies transportation and land use planning, green stormwater infrastructure, vacant land reuse, and climate change planning efforts, particularly their implications for health. She applies participatory research approaches with diverse partners using a broad methodological toolkit, including photovoice, concept mapping, and health impact assessment. In 2017, Sampson received the American Public Health Association (APHA)’s Rebecca Head Award, which recognizes “an outstanding emerging leader from the environmental field working at the nexus of science, policy, and environmental justice.”

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:08:30 -0400 2019-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T12:50:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Oct 8 Natalie Sampson Seminar
Construction Seminar (October 9, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66408 66408-16734208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 03 Oct 2019 07:55:35 -0400 2019-10-09T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-09T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
The American University of Beirut: Lifting the Quality of Health Across the Middle East and North Africa Region (October 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65891 65891-16668204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies

Thursday, October 10, 2019
10:00 am - 10:45 am

Kahn Auditorium - Biomedical Science Research Building

Seminar is followed by an Open Panel Discussion
10:45 am - 11:30 am

Panelists from American University of Beirut include:
Dr. Mohamed Sayegh - Executive Vice President & Dean of Medicine
Dr. Alan Shihadeh - Dean of Engineering & Architecture
Dr. Iman Nuwayhid - Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences
Drs. Sami Azar & Assad Eid - Directors of the Diabetes Program

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:48:19 -0400 2019-10-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T11:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies Lecture / Discussion A Special Lecture by Dr. Fadlo R. Khuri, President of the American University of Beruit
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64876 64876-16483057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Learn about 140 programs in over 50 countries, ask about U-M faculty-led programs, and figure out which program can help satisfy your major/minor requirements. CGIS has programs ranging from 3 weeks to an academic year! Meet with CGIS advisors, staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office, CGIS
Alumni, and other on-campus offices who can help you select a program that works best for you.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:41:18 -0400 2019-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival PHOTO
Itinerary Planning for Cooperative Truck Platooning (October 10, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68127 68127-17011967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:49:10 -0400 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Smart cities
2019 EER Prospective Student Open House (October 11, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65464 65464-16603590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 8:00am
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

We invite students from all institutions to attend the University of Michigan Engineering Education Research (EER) graduate student open house!

Attendees will be eligible for an application fee waiver.

(Note: Applicants to the EER program must have Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in a traditional engineering discipline.)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:11:11 -0400 2019-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T16:30:00-04:00 School of Education Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar EER Logo
ASCE Seminar Series: Arup (October 11, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66237 66237-16719613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:07:19 -0400 2019-10-17T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
2019 Conference on Transportation, Economics, Energy and the Environment (TE3) (October 18, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63613 63613-16831256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan’s Conference on Transportation, Economics, Energy and the Environment (TE3) brings economists and other academic researchers together with practitioners from industry, government and the public policy community to share knowledge, exchange ideas and strengthen our collective ability to address the transportation sector's energy and environmental challenges. Now in its sixth year, the 2019 TE3 Conference will examine transportation electrification worldwide, highlighting developments in both the United States and China.

Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and a rising source globally. Technology advances and falling costs for energy storage and renewable energy are now poised to create a historic opportunity to transition the sector to electrified mobility. At this year's TE3 event, conference participants will explore this exciting transition through sessions addressing consumer interest in electric vehicles (EVs), vehicle charging, the role of a cleaner electric grid, the economics of EVs and the interactions among different policies. The conference will close with a high-level panel discussion about the tensions that confront EV-related policy development in the world's leading vehicle markets.

TE3 2019 will be held on Friday, October 18 in Rackham Amphiteatre.
Learn more and register at https://energy.umich.edu/te3/.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:49:49 -0400 2019-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) University of Michigan Energy Institute Conference / Symposium TE3 2019: The Electrification of Transportation
ASCE Seminar Series: Jones Carter (October 18, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66240 66240-16719615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:38:15 -0400 2019-10-18T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Prediction Error & Model Evaluation for Space-Time Downscaling: case studies in air pollution during wildfires (October 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68191 68191-17026797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

ABSTRACT:
Public Health Scientists use prediction models to downscale (i.e., interpolate) air pollution exposure where monitoring data is insufficient. This exercise aims to obtain estimates at fine resolutions, so that exposure data may reliably be related to health outcomes. In this setting, substantial research efforts have been dedicated to the development of statistical models capable of integrating heterogenous information to obtain accurate prediction: statistical downscaling models, land use regression, as well as machine learning strategies. However, when presented with the tasks of choosing between models, or averaging models, we find that our understanding of model performance in the absence of independent statistical replications remains insufficient. This lecture is motivated by several studies of air pollution (PM 2.5 and ground-level ozone) during wildfires. We review the basis for cross validation as a strategy for the estimation of the expected prediction error. As these performance measure play a crucial role in model selection and averaging we present a formal characterization of the estimands targeted by different data subsetting strategies, and explore their performance in engineered data settings. A final analysis and a warning about preference inversion is presented in relation to the a 2008 wildfire event in Northern California.

BIO:
Dr. Telesca is Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California Los Angeles. He received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington and spent two years at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center as a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include Bayesian methods in multivariate statistics, functional data analysis, statistical methods in bio- and nano-informatics. Dr. Telesca is a member of the California NanoSystems Institute, the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and principal data scientist at Lucid Circuit Inc.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:51:07 -0400 2019-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T14:30:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Donatello Telesca Environmental Statistics Day Lecture
Construction Seminar (October 23, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66411 66411-16734210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

About the Speaker: Tyler Bergin has had an interesting professional route to get to Project Superintendent managing projects over $100 Million. He has had different roles from Engineer, Project Engineer, Assistant Superintendent with two different companies in two very different markets. This talk will review his unique experiences working in the professional ranks of construction engineering and management.

Company: Turner Construction 2015-Current
Role: Superintendent/ Project Superintendent
Projects: Top Golf Webster ; Houston Community College - Missouri City Campus, University of Houston - Fertitta Center Renovation; Texas Southern University, Library Learning Center; Houston ISD - Bellaire High School Rebuild

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:17:29 -0400 2019-10-23T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
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
Science, Technology, and Public Policy Graduate Certificate Info Session (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67933 67933-16969022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program

Join us for an information session about the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Graduate Certificate!

Wednesday, October 23rd, 4:00pm-5:00pm
5240 Weill Hall
There will be SNACKS!

Do you want to learn how science and technology policy is made? Are you interested in the social and ethical implications of developments like gene editing and autonomous vehicles? Are you concerned about the increased politicization of science and research funding?

In the STPP graduate certificate program, graduate students from across the University analyze the role of science and technology in the policymaking process, gain experience writing for policymakers, and explore the political and policy landscape of areas such as biotechnology, information technology, energy, and others. Graduates of the STPP certificate have gone on to a range of policy-engaged scientific roles in government, NGOs, and academia.

More information about the program is available at: http://stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/graduate-certificate/

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Presentation Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:21:49 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program Presentation Information Session promotional slide
Technology-enabled structural health monitoring and control of large-scale structures (October 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68510 68510-17094812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Vibration-based structural health monitoring (SHM) has tremendous
potential to detect incipient failures of structures, e.g. onset of damage
and unexpected behavior during extreme climatic events, so that
corrective actions can be employed in a timely manner. This talk will present an overview of powerful SHM techniques that enable extracting hidden structural information under a variety of challenging situations towards diagnosis, prognosis and control of large-scale structures.

Ayan Sadhu is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Western University in Canada.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:04:16 -0400 2019-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar structure
U of M Construction Research Symposium (October 25, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68128 68128-17011968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Learn about the ongoing construction research projects. Many PhD students and postdocs will present their research. In addition, a couple of teams from this year's CEE 530 will present their class projects and thus, new Masters' student can see how their projects look like, which will help their preparation for the next year's CEE 530.

Last but not least, students will have a chance to meet our construction industry alliance program partners providing you with a great networking opportunity with professionals. Lunch will be served!

Time: Oct. 25 (Friday) 9:30-11:30AM
Place : Blue Lounge
Lunch will be served from 11:15AM.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:30:35 -0400 2019-10-25T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T11:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar construction
Transferring into Automated Driving Era: Opportunities and Challenges (October 25, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68654 68654-17130521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 10:30am
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This talk provides a summary of important human factors issues associated with Automated Vehicle technology development, and potential solutions.

Shan Bao is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department at University of Michigan-Dearborn.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:20:48 -0400 2019-10-25T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series: ECRC (October 25, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66242 66242-16719617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The Engineering Career Resource Center's mission is to offer comprehensive career development services to College of Engineering students to support a successful transition from campus to career, and to assist employers with developing and maintaining successful recruiting relationships with Michigan Engineering.

ECRC are passionate about providing excellence, innovation, and integrity through their services and relationships.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:41:13 -0400 2019-10-25T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Little MUSES Mixer (October 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68082 68082-17009753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: MUSES

Don't you wish you knew certain things earlier in your education? Don't you wish you knew others like you that are going through or have already gone through similar difficulties in your education? Come join us at Little MUSES Mixer where you will have the opportunity to get to know others like you and share your experiences. In this event, graduate and undergraduate students will have the opportunity to interact and network over great food and activities.

Please, RSVP on the link below so enough food is provided
https://forms.gle/yHZrVfSjn1CJSVMJ7

Best,
MUSES Committee!

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Meeting Mon, 07 Oct 2019 07:45:22 -0400 2019-10-25T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T20:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building MUSES Meeting
Engineering Majors/Minors Fair 2019 (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67826 67826-16958323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Engineering Advising Center

Undecided on an Engineering major? Want to learn about co-curricular opportunities? Considering a minor in Engineering or another school or college? Then this event is for you! Join us at the Majors/Minors Fair on Tuesday, October 29th, from 4 to 6 PM. Come speak with representatives from Engineering departments and programs as well as campus partners including Art & Design, Education, Entrepreneurship, LSA, and Ross. FREE PIZZA will be provided!

RSVP here!: https://forms.gle/p585qQ2LZyBVEXBU6

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Fair / Festival Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:51:34 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Engineering Advising Center Fair / Festival Picture of Civil Engineering table at Majors/Minors Fair 2018
Travel demand estimation: The cornerstone of future urban mobility services (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68655 68655-17130522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

There is an increased interest among both private and public urban
transportation stakeholders to develop and use urban mobility models to inform the design and the operation of their services. This talk presents computationally efficient algorithms for high-dimensional, static and dynamic, demand calibration problems. To tackle these problems, we formulate analytical metamodels with a complexity that scales linearly with network size, making them suitable for large-scale networks. We benchmark the approach versus standard calibration algorithms, and discuss Berlin and Singapore case studies. We will discuss ongoing work on real-time calibration algorithms.

Carolina Osorio is an Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:25:24 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation
Construction Seminar (October 30, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66412 66412-16734212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Chelsea serves as Assistant Director at the University Career Center, providing strategic oversight and management for our career coaching and advising team. In addition, Chelsea coaches and counsels undergraduate and graduate students from a wide spectrum of career interests in individual counseling and advising appointments.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:14:15 -0400 2019-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Safe Shared Mobility Through Game Based Learning (October 31, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68885 68885-17188744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Overview of an experiment to help vulnerable road users understand their safety critical roles in shared mobility scenarios.

Dr. Aditi Misra is an assistant research scientist in UMTRI’s CMISST group.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:30:52 -0400 2019-10-31T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
From Lab to Site: Innovation in Concrete (October 31, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65602 65602-16966892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

From the climate imperatives to make the built environment carbon positive to novel material forming techniques such as 3D printing, concrete is undergoing a transformation along different fronts in the building industry. As computational design and digital fabrication technologies become mainstream in the AEC industries, scaling up to address construction level challenges, concrete holds tremendous promise for the future, not only in shaping our built environment but also in how we build, our ethos and aspirations. Yet, there are many hurdles to overcome. With traditional building processes steeped in protocols and regulations, moving R+D to the building sector requires an awareness of the different players, institutions, and contingencies that shape the contours of concrete innovation.

What approaches contribute to a smooth transfer of innovations to the building sector? Given new modes of manufacturing, what are the new codes and standards that will govern the path toward implementation? What cross-platform systems will need to be in place in order to facilitate automation and construction productivity? What are the new technologies and associated expertise that will emerge to redefine architectural practice and the building industry, especially to navigate and manage the increasingly multi-disciplinary teams?

This symposium, rather than a survey of contemporary concrete architecture, brings researchers and industry experts together from diverse disciplinary fields and areas of production – history & theory, engineering, construction technology, material science, design, and manufacturing – for a timely discussion centered on concrete as a building material with enormous potential for innovation. The symposium aims to foster and identify trajectories for advancing concrete research and align potential collaborative exchanges.

Co-organized by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and the University of Michigan College of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the symposium will launch with an evening keynote lecture on Thursday, October 31, followed by a full day symposium on Friday, November 1. The format consists of paired presentations centered on different topics related to concrete research, with a second keynote lecture at noon. A closing panel discussion aims to chart trajectories and methodologies for research and collaboration. Friday’s event will conclude with an exhibition opening reception downtown at the Liberty Research Annex gallery, highlighting some of the work produced by participants, including a performance by Brandon Clifford and Davide Zampini of Cemex.

The symposium is free and open to the public, and will also be available via live stream.

Keynote Lectures:
Thursday, October 31: Mark Burry, Swinburne University of Technology
Friday, November 1: Sarah Billington, Stanford University

Participants:
Lucia Allais, Princeton University
Brandon Clifford, MIT
Brian Ellis, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mike Fiske, Jacobs Space Exploration Group (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
María González Pendás, Columbia University
Vineet Kamat, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andrew Kudless, CCA
Wanda Lau, Architect Magazine
Victor Li, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jerry Lynch, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jonathan Massey, University of Michigan Taubman College
Wes McGee, University of Michigan Taubman College
Forrest Meggers, Princeton University, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Shadi Nazarin, Penn State University
Tsz Yan Ng, University of Michigan Taubman College
Sarah Nichols, Rice University
Davide Zampini, Cemex
Sasa Zivkovic, Cornell AAP

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:36:05 -0400 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T19:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Concrete is a building material with enormous potential for innovation
From Lab to Site: Innovation in Concrete (November 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65602 65602-16966893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

From the climate imperatives to make the built environment carbon positive to novel material forming techniques such as 3D printing, concrete is undergoing a transformation along different fronts in the building industry. As computational design and digital fabrication technologies become mainstream in the AEC industries, scaling up to address construction level challenges, concrete holds tremendous promise for the future, not only in shaping our built environment but also in how we build, our ethos and aspirations. Yet, there are many hurdles to overcome. With traditional building processes steeped in protocols and regulations, moving R+D to the building sector requires an awareness of the different players, institutions, and contingencies that shape the contours of concrete innovation.

What approaches contribute to a smooth transfer of innovations to the building sector? Given new modes of manufacturing, what are the new codes and standards that will govern the path toward implementation? What cross-platform systems will need to be in place in order to facilitate automation and construction productivity? What are the new technologies and associated expertise that will emerge to redefine architectural practice and the building industry, especially to navigate and manage the increasingly multi-disciplinary teams?

This symposium, rather than a survey of contemporary concrete architecture, brings researchers and industry experts together from diverse disciplinary fields and areas of production – history & theory, engineering, construction technology, material science, design, and manufacturing – for a timely discussion centered on concrete as a building material with enormous potential for innovation. The symposium aims to foster and identify trajectories for advancing concrete research and align potential collaborative exchanges.

Co-organized by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and the University of Michigan College of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the symposium will launch with an evening keynote lecture on Thursday, October 31, followed by a full day symposium on Friday, November 1. The format consists of paired presentations centered on different topics related to concrete research, with a second keynote lecture at noon. A closing panel discussion aims to chart trajectories and methodologies for research and collaboration. Friday’s event will conclude with an exhibition opening reception downtown at the Liberty Research Annex gallery, highlighting some of the work produced by participants, including a performance by Brandon Clifford and Davide Zampini of Cemex.

The symposium is free and open to the public, and will also be available via live stream.

Keynote Lectures:
Thursday, October 31: Mark Burry, Swinburne University of Technology
Friday, November 1: Sarah Billington, Stanford University

Participants:
Lucia Allais, Princeton University
Brandon Clifford, MIT
Brian Ellis, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mike Fiske, Jacobs Space Exploration Group (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
María González Pendás, Columbia University
Vineet Kamat, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andrew Kudless, CCA
Wanda Lau, Architect Magazine
Victor Li, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jerry Lynch, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jonathan Massey, University of Michigan Taubman College
Wes McGee, University of Michigan Taubman College
Forrest Meggers, Princeton University, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Shadi Nazarin, Penn State University
Tsz Yan Ng, University of Michigan Taubman College
Sarah Nichols, Rice University
Davide Zampini, Cemex
Sasa Zivkovic, Cornell AAP

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:36:05 -0400 2019-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Concrete is a building material with enormous potential for innovation
ASCE Seminar Series: GHD (November 1, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66245 66245-16719620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Established in 1928 and privately owned by our people, GHD operates across five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America - and the Pacific region. GHD employs more than 10,000 people in 200+ offices to deliver projects with high standards of safety, quality and ethics across the entire asset value chain. Driven by a client-service led culture, GHD connects the knowledge, skill and experience of their people with innovative practices, technical capabilities and robust systems to create lasting community benefits.

Committed to sustainable development, GHD improves the physical, natural and social environments of the many communities in which they operate. GHD are guided by their workplace health, safety, quality and environmental management systems, which are certified to the relevant international standards (ISO and OHSAS).

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:43:49 -0400 2019-11-01T12:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Sanjay Govindjee: The NSF Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Computation and Simulation Center (SimCenter) at Berkeley: An Overview (November 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68406 68406-17077949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Abstract: In October 2016, the National Science Foundation award the NHERI SimCenter to Berkeley. The SimCenter is the computational satellite to the eight experimental sites of the NHERI constellation. Its primary goal is to advance natural hazards engineering through the use of simulation. The center develops and stands-up open-source software to simulate the effects of seismic, wind, and water loads on structures with a focus on regional assessments of damage at high resolution under uncertainty. The SimCenter’s work includes both research and educational components.

The SimCenter has just completed Year 3 or its original mandate and now offers a wide selection of user friendly front end applications that permit local as well as HPC cloud based execution of simulations. Simulations can be of single detailed structural models subjected to a variety of harzards using state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice loading methodologies. They can also be of a larger regional nature using simpler models and further coupled to forward uncertainty propogation with Monte Carlo methods with or without surrogating. Engineering demands can be further propogated into damage and loss, downtime and recovery, using Hazus methodologies, FEMA P58 methods, or user provided techniques with our hazard-blind framework. All elements of the SimCenter’s software are desgined in a plug-n-play fashion to promote detailed research into natural hazard effects with the ability to see impacts on a larger scale.

In this presentation, I will give an overview of the SimCenter’s recent activities and discuss research needs and how researchers can participate in the SimCenter’s activities, along with a preview of upcoming developments anticipated in Year 4.

Bio: Sanjay Govindjee is the Horace, Dorothy, and Katherine Johnson Professor in Engineering. His main interests are in theoretical and computational mechanics with an emphasis on micro-mechanics of nonlinear phenomena in solid materials.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:14:21 -0400 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar S. Govindjee
From Design to Control: Robotics at the Intersection of Design, Engineering, and Construction (November 6, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68992 68992-17211727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 10:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Despite the opportunities presented by new technologies, the building construction process remains highly resource intensive, with considerable room for improving efficiency. This becomes acutely important in the face of climate change; while new, more sustainable materials are an important step, material optimization strategies are just as important, and these techniques rely almost exclusively on digital fabrication and robotic manufacturing and construction technologies. In this talk I will discuss the challenges and opportunities that face the use of robotics in the design and construction industry. We will discuss a range of existing and emerging design to fabrication workflows, as well as several case studies which demonstrate how the use of industrial robots as a prototyping platform opens the door to new modes of construction.

Wesley McGee is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the FABLab at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:51:46 -0400 2019-11-06T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T11:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar robotic manufacture
Introduction to Lean (November 6, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66413 66413-16734213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

About the Speaker: Brad Booker currently serves as the Regional Lean Manger for Turner’s Great Lakes Region, which covers Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Brad joined Turner as a Field Engineer in 1994, after earning a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Purdue University and completing Officer Basic Course as a Reserve Army Officer. He was a Project Manager in the Special Projects Division until 1998 when he joined the Estimating Department. He was an estimator for 2 years then joined the Northern Illinois University Convocation Center team as the Project Engineer from 2000 - 2002. As that project was completed Brad was activated and served 14 months on active duty as a Captain in the United States Army.

Upon his return in 2004 he worked on a variety of academic and science buildings at several community colleges where he held positions as a Project Engineer, Project Manager, and Senior Project Manager. His last project prior to taking his current position was replacing the video boards at Soldier Field.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:14:48 -0500 2019-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Pablo Zavattieri: Clever Architectures, Interfaces and Competing Mechanisms in Biological Materials (November 6, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68376 68376-17071647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Abstract:Nature uses modest constituents to synthesize composite materials with exceptional mechanical properties for structural and impact resistance purposes. In most cases, these materials achieved outstanding mechanical properties avoiding the typical trade-offs often attained by manmade materials. While these materials require modern microscopy techniques to characterize their complex hierarchical structures, most of our learnings come from the way these materials mitigate catastrophic damage, revealing the most important mechanisms and features of their inner structure that contribute to energy dissipation and toughening. Considering the current progress in material synthesis and manufacturing, these new concepts have converged to the field of architected materials. In this talk, I will describe some interesting mechanics problems that we encountered as we studied some extraordinary species, and how we can translate these lessons learned to architected materials. In particular, I will focus on a few examples related to how the combination of clever architectures, interfaces, material properties and competing mechanisms can promote delocalization to mitigate catastrophic failure, hence, improving toughness and impact resistance without sacrificing other important mechanical properties. Most of this discussion is driven by how we can eventually translate these lessons learned to the development and manufacturing of architected materials.

Bio: Dr. Pablo Zavattieri is a Professor of Civil Engineering and University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University. Zavattieri received his BS/MS degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the Balseiro Institute (Argentina) and PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from Purdue University.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:43:07 -0400 2019-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar P. Zavatteri
Rich Earth Summit: Policy, Regulation, and Moving to Implementation of New Technologies (November 7, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66491 66491-16742670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 8:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A growing national team of experts is building momentum in the emerging field of study and practice of urine separation to rethink the the water-nutrient cycle. The summit's purpose is to look at how regulation can be changed to advance this work, showcase the latest developments, begin new collaborative projects and to share the enthusiasm and vast creative energies of entrepreneurs, engineers, researchers and practitioners.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:02:15 -0400 2019-11-07T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T21:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Crops at sunrise
The Dawn of Mobility Revolution (November 7, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69097 69097-17244688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mobility industry is going through significant transformation with three driving forces: autonomy, connectivity, and electrification (ACE). This talk discusses those disruptive technologies under the framework of S Curve described in the book of Innovator’s Dilemma. In order to predict the future, we should look back and review how internal combustion engine (ICE) disrupted the transportation industry in early 1900s and how society reacted to the new technology back then. Fast forward 100 years, we will take a peek into the future and understand how the three forces and big data will forever change the way we measure, operate, and manage transportation system. The talk concludes with a discussion on the challenges we are facing in this emerging area.

Dr. Bo Wang is a mobility analytics manager working at Global Data Insights & Analytics (GDIA) organization at Ford Motor Company. He is leading a team of data scientists and developers building AI driven mobility analytics products from inception to production.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:18:16 -0500 2019-11-07T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Rich Earth Summit: Policy, Regulation, and Moving to Implementation of New Technologies (November 8, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66491 66491-16742671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 8:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A growing national team of experts is building momentum in the emerging field of study and practice of urine separation to rethink the the water-nutrient cycle. The summit's purpose is to look at how regulation can be changed to advance this work, showcase the latest developments, begin new collaborative projects and to share the enthusiasm and vast creative energies of entrepreneurs, engineers, researchers and practitioners.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:02:15 -0400 2019-11-08T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Crops at sunrise
ASCE Seminar Series: Thornton Tomasetti (November 8, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69200 69200-17267159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This presentation will introduce you to applications of your civil engineering degree beyond the norm. We will touch on all of Thornton Tomasetti’s practices and describe the Protective Design & Security practice in more depth. In Protective Design & Security, we use advanced topics learned in grad school, like structural dynamics and plastic analysis, to protect building occupants against blast and vehicle attacks. We design embassies and consulates all over the world, iconic commercial buildings and protect both new and existing structures. We work with many different entities such as the Departments of State, Department of Defense, private developers and professional sports teams.

Everyone is welcome. Graduate students are especially encouraged to attend. Bring your resume! Lunch will be served.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:44:25 -0500 2019-11-08T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
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.
Construction Seminar (November 13, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66414 66414-16734214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Daeho Kim is a PhD student in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. He earned a MS degree in Construction Engineering and Management from the University of Michigan. His research focuses mainly on how to transform hazardous construction sites into a healthy, safe and sustainable place for construction workers.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:21:59 -0400 2019-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
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
Transportation Seminar (November 14, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69204 69204-17267163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

We propose a model of the ride-sourcing market with congestion externalities in which a monopolist provides both a single and pooling service. We investigate the unregulated setting as well as the first-best and derive relevant policy insights to achieve an efficient outcome in the market.

Originally from Cote d’Ivoire, Daniel received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 2017. He joined LIMOS and Michigan Civil Engineering Department shortly after and is interested in economic modeling and optimization of emerging transportation technologies.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:29:27 -0500 2019-11-14T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Kevin Reed (November 14, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66317 66317-16727895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

CLASP is very pleased to welcome Prof. Kevin Reed of Stony Brook University.

Prof. Reed will give a presentation titled:
"Attributing Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Weather"

Abstract: The next century will see unprecedented changes to the climate system with direct consequences for society. As stated in the National Climate Assessment, “changes in extreme weather events are the primary way that most people experience climate change.” In this sense, the characteristics of extreme weather are key indicators of climate change impacts, at both local and regional scales. Understanding potential changes in the location, intensity and structure of such extremes (e.g., tropical cyclones, severe thunderstorms and flooding) is crucial in planning for future adaptation as these events have large economic and social costs.

The goal of this work is to better understand climate impacts on extreme weather events in various high-resolution configurations of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) run at horizontal grid spacings of approximately 28 km and forced with prescribed sea-surface temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations for past, present, and future climates. This analysis will include the evaluation of conventional (AMIP-style) decadal simulations typical of climate models, short 7-day ensemble hindcasts of recent devastating events (e.g., Hurricane Florence in 2018), and reduced complexity simulations of idealized states of the climate system. Through this hierarchical modeling approach the impact of climate change on the characteristics (frequency, intensity, rainfall, etc.) of extreme weather, including tropical cyclones, can be quantified.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:44:37 -0400 2019-11-14T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
ASCE Seminar Series: Austin Commercial (November 14, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69199 69199-17267158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 5:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:22:26 -0500 2019-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
ASCE Seminar Series: Burns & McDonnell (November 15, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66246 66246-16719621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Burns & McDonnell are a full-service engineering, architecture, construction, environmental and consulting solutions firm, based in Kansas City, Missouri. Their staff of 7,000 includes engineers, architects, construction professionals, planners, estimators, economists, technicians and scientists, representing virtually all design disciplines. Burns & McDonnell plan, design, permit, construct and manage facilities all over the world.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:47:28 -0400 2019-11-15T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Sustainability Movie Night (November 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69289 69289-17299774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Student Government

Come watch "Growing Cities" with the Engineering Student Government Sustainability Committee! This movie details the issues with America's current food systems and the merits of urban farming. We will have dinner catered by Panera and reusable containers for you to take home with you and continue to use instead of disposable plastic waste. (Duderstadt 1180 11/15 7-9pm)

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:08:32 -0500 2019-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T21:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Student Government Film Screening Movie Night Flyer
PFAS in MICHIGAN: the state of Michigan's investigations and response (November 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69370 69370-17310321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Dr. Wasilevich will address the public health response efforts and how the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has, and will continue to, investigate PFAS exposures and outcomes around the state.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:51:27 -0500 2019-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Nov 19 PFAS in Michigan
From land to sea: Microplastics and running the estuarine gauntlet (November 19, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69314 69314-17301843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 3:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A particle tracking model simulating particles that sink, float, or remain neutral is used to understand how microplastic pollution is transported in the Bay and either retained or exported to the coastal ocean.

Dr. Rusty Hollerman is a researcher at the University of California Davis for Watershed Sciences.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:37:36 -0500 2019-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Ocean
How to Negotiate Your First Job Offer Webinar (November 20, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69447 69447-17324763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 12:15pm
Location:
Organized By: MUSES

Everyone should negotiate their first job offer but offer negotiations are hard. Negotiating is hard because most graduates dread the experience. Negotiating is also hard because recruiters are negotiating experts. On the other side of the table, recruiters have years of negotiating expertise. This FREE webinar will illuminate what are the tactics that recruiters use to win offer negotiations, what are tactics a candidate can employ, and how you can make an extra $10,000 from simply being a more effective negotiator. Free webinar by Ralph Inc (https://www.withralph.com/)

This webinar is focused on Masters and PhD students
When: Nov 20th, at 12:15pm
Where: You can access the webinar from your own computer. sign-up on the link below and the webinar link can be sent to you


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGlMglhl3rY-SYsIENEqrWG0Yq_pPoanyog2fWozEO-ayfgg/viewform

for more information and questions, please contact: Fatoumata Fall at fatu@withralph.com

Sponsored by the MUSES

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Meeting Thu, 14 Nov 2019 08:05:37 -0500 2019-11-20T12:15:00-05:00 2019-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 MUSES Meeting Offer negotiation free Webinar
Construction Seminar (November 20, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66416 66416-16734215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:24:51 -0400 2019-11-20T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-20T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
U.S. Energy Transitions in the Trump Administration (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69079 69079-17242640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment in the ELPP Lecture Series. Professor Alexandra Klass from the University of Minnesota Law School will discuss recent developments in U.S. energy law, policy, economics, and technology. Although President Trump and his cabinet Secretaries, particularly at the Interior Department, Energy Department, and Environmental Protection Agency, have announced dramatic policy shifts away from those pursued during the Obama Administration, the new administration’s ability to accomplish its goals is in some instances helped and in other instances hindered by existing federal and state laws as well as private sector technology and economic trends. Topics will include the shift away from the use of coal and toward natural gas and renewable energy in the electricity sector; the use of federal public lands to develop oil, natural gas, coal, wind, and solar energy; developments in technology and law associated with hydraulic facturing ("fracking"); and controversies over new oil and gas pipelines such as the Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines.

This event is free and open to the public.

Professor Alexandra B. Klass teaches and writes in the areas of energy law, environmental law, natural resources law, tort law, and property law. Her recent scholarly work, published in many of the nation’s leading law journals, addresses regulatory challenges to integrating more renewable energy into the nation’s electric grid, transportation electrification, oil and gas transportation infrastructure, and the use of eminent domain for electric transmission lines and pipelines. She is a co-author of Energy Law: Concepts and Insights Series (Foundation Press 2017), Energy Law and Policy (West Academic Publishing 2d ed. 2018), Natural Resources Law: A Place-Based Book of Problems and Cases (Wolters Kluwer, 4th ed., 2018), and The Practice and Policy of Environmental Law (Foundation Press, 4th ed. 2017). Professor Klass was named the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year for 2009-2010, and she served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2010-2012. She was a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2015. She is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and in prior years was the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law and the Solly Robins Distinguished Research Fellow.

Prior to her teaching career, Professor Klass was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis, where she specialized in environmental law, natural resources, and land use matters. During her years in private practice from 1993-2004, she handled cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts involving contaminated property, wetlands, environmental review, mining, environmental rights, zoning, eminent domain, and environmental torts. She clerked for the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin from 1992-1993.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:42:30 -0500 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
New Results of Facility Location involving Competition, Prioritization, or Ambiguous Decision-dependent Uncertainty (November 21, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69548 69548-17360107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Abstract: Facility location models are ubiquitously involved in modern
transportation and logistics problems. We present new results of three
sequential facility-location models that involve (i) competition and
probabilistic customer choice, (ii) location prioritization given uncertain
budget, and (iii) location-dependent uncertain demand with ambiguously known distribution. For (i), we utilize submodularity and outer approximation to derive valid inequalities used as cuts to efficiently solve an exact mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) reformulation of the bilevel Stackelberg game. For (ii) and (iii), we derive multi-stage mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) and MINLP formulations based on moment ambiguity sets of unknown distribution of the stochastic demand. We employ the Stochastic Dual Dynamic integer Programming (SDDiP) for solving the multi-stage MILP/MINLP formulations using scenario-tree representations of the uncertainty. Via numerical studies, we show the computational efficacy of our approach as well as managerial insights of the new facility location models.

Bio: Siqian Shen is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and also serves as an Associate Director in the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:24:10 -0500 2019-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
MiTSO Tour of Oakland County Traffic Operations Center (November 22, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69560 69560-17360120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO)

Have you ever wondered how traffic lights respond in real-time and coordinate to relieve congestion? Have you ever seen highway information boards with travel time estimates and wanted to know where they came from? Or maybe you’ve wondered how emergency responders coordinate to respond to traffic accidents on the highway?

This Friday, 11/22, the Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) will be offering a tour of the Oakland County Traffic Operations Center (TOC). The TOC is responsible for monitoring all county intersections in real-time, adjusting traffic lights and coordinating them as necessary to reduce congestion. Additionally, they coordinate with emergency response and law enforcement in order to respond to and clear accidents that block the roads.

The tour will be at 1pm and transportation will be provided. We will be leaving GG Brown at 11:30am and will return by 5pm. More details will be provided closer to the event.

If you are interested in attending, please fill out the google form (https://forms.gle/qakMZ8u2DBotAnj56) by noon on Wednesday (11/20) if you are interested so that we can organize transportation!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:06:11 -0500 2019-11-22T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) Workshop / Seminar Real-time traffic monitoring at the Oakland TOC
ASCE Seminar Series: ROWE Engineering (November 22, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69203 69203-17267162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBA

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:13:12 -0500 2019-11-22T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-22T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Bioethics Discussion: Cities (November 26, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52722 52722-12974154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our new environment.

Readings to consider:
1. Health and Urban Living
2. Urban Bioethics: Adapting Bioethics to the Urban Context
3. The Experience of Living in Cities
4. From the Urban to the Civic: The Moral Possibilities of the City

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/036-cities/.

When roaming the city, please consider roaming the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:53:17 -0400 2019-11-26T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Cities
Conversation with Dr. Brandi Jones, guest speaker from CoE DEI Lecture Series (December 3, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69785 69785-17423617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 1:30pm
Location:
Organized By: MUSES

Come join us for a conversation with Dr. Brandi Jones, speaker guest from the CoE DEI Lecture Series. This conversation will help underrepresented students navigate engineering PhD programs in ways that will allow them to progress academically. In particular, the session will focus on socialization as an important factor in graduate student success. The session will explore social integration, academic community building, activating social capital, and navigating the culture of engineering.

for more information about Dr. Brandi Jones, use the link below
https://viterbischool.usc.edu/leadership/brandi-jones/

When: Dec 4th, 1:30-2:45
Where: TBD

RSVP on the link below so we know how many people are coming
https://forms.gle/7dQv9FG4Pqb4YYUx7

This conversation will be after her talk from 12- 1pm with titled Equity-Minded Action: Promoting a culture of excellence in strategies and outcomes for Black engineering students at East Pierpoint Commons

for more information, contact: umichmuses@gmail.com

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Meeting Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:27:30 -0500 2019-12-03T13:30:00-05:00 2019-12-03T14:45:00-05:00 MUSES Meeting
Construction Seminar (December 4, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66417 66417-16734216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Andy Brown is a Project Manager for Kimley-Horn in Houston, Texas.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:26:53 -0400 2019-12-04T13:30:00-05:00 2019-12-04T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (December 4, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69735 69735-17392937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

See the actual products and test them out. Then cast your vote! Network, have fun and meet up with friends, old and new!

Parking is street meter or there is public parking available in the Hill Street Structure Parking Garage.

Event is Free and open to the public, with light refreshments.

GREAT LOCATION: Lobby of the Robertson Auditorium, at the Ross School of Business, 1st floor at 701 Tappan, Ann Arbor, MI

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:35:28 -0500 2019-12-04T16:30:00-05:00 2019-12-04T18:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 IPD Trade Show
Energy Rebound Effect of Connected & Automated Vehicles (December 5, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69558 69558-17360118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

How may travel behavior change and induced travel demand to offset the energy-saving benefits from efficiency improvement enabled by vehicle automation?

Ming Xu is an Associate Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability and in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on the broad fields of sustainable engineering and industrial ecology.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 11:49:44 -0500 2019-12-05T14:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series: Silman (December 6, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66247 66247-16719622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Silman has grown to a staff of more than 160 among its three offices in New York, Washington DC, and Boston, of whom over 50 have professional registrations and more than 20 are LEED Accredited Professionals or Green Associates. To provide the highest quality structural engineering services possible, the principals have fostered an approach centered on constant collaboration among owners, architects, and other consultants. Silman's engineers are trained to be effective listeners, creative problem solvers, and knowledgeable about all facets of the construction process. After participating in more than 21,000 projects, Silman has earned recognition as one of the leading firms in the country for its innovative spirit in the design of new architectural works and the sensitive modification of existing structures.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:11:05 -0500 2019-12-06T12:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
MiTSO Speaker Series (December 9, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70044 70044-17499553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO)

MiTSO will be hosting a speaker from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). Mr. Michael Townley is MDOT's Research Project Administration Manager and will be giving an overview of the structure of national and local DOT organizations and how their research is conducted, as well as presenting on the award-winning research projects happening currently at MDOT, including:

-Wireless Data Collection Retrievals of Bridge Inspection/Management Information
-Meeting the Transportation Needs of Michigan’s Aging Population
-Development of Secondary Route Bridge Design Plan Guide Drawings
-Effect of Pile-Driving Induced Vibrations on Nearby Structures

Food will be provided!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:46:04 -0500 2019-12-09T12:30:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:20:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) Workshop / Seminar Flyer with info
MiTSO QLine Tour (December 10, 2019 12:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70046 70046-17499555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:45pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO)

Join MiTSO for a tour of the QLine streetcar in downtown Detroit! Completed in 2017, the QLine is one of Michigan's most recent transit projects and its only light rail line. We will be going for a ride on the streetcar, as well as getting a tour of the operations center. We will also be learning about the planning process and the impact the streetcar is having on city!

Transportation to and from the tour will be provided. We will be leaving from GG Brown around 12:45pm on Tuesday and returning before 5pm. Please sign up by Sunday using the google form if you are interested.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:01:28 -0500 2019-12-10T12:45:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Michigan Transportation Student Organization (MiTSO) Workshop / Seminar Flyer with info
Construction Seminar (December 11, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69559 69559-17360119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:32:00 -0500 2019-12-11T13:30:00-05:00 2019-12-11T14:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Biosciences Initiative Second Annual Community Celebration and Symposium with President Schlissel (December 16, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69140 69140-17252904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

Celebrating progress of the second year and introducing our 2019 Scientific Initiatives and Exploratory awardees.

The Biosciences Initiative is hosting its second annual community celebration, recognizing the progress of the second year and introducing its most recently awarded projects and groups.

Don't miss your opportunity to learn about these exciting proposals and connect with President Schlissel and fellow members of the biosciences community.

The Biosciences Initiative focuses on funding cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, expert faculty hires, and postgraduate education across the biological sciences at U-M.

Reception with free food and beverages will follow. RSVP to attend: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVAaOMh-bXpKiIfeMx5PQFEtjADiogJwEHlGkhVcfiiQGZ9w/viewform?usp=sf_link.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:30:00 -0500 2019-12-16T16:30:00-05:00 2019-12-16T18:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Biosciences Initiative Conference / Symposium bacteria and people graphic
EWRE Seminar Series (January 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70023 70023-17497478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBD

Herek Clack is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. His research focus is on reducing the environmental and health impacts of a variety of airborne aerosols.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:44:09 -0500 2020-01-08T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-08T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
EnginFest (January 9, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70605 70605-17611201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Student Government

Join Engineering Student Government for our first even winter student org fair, EnginFest! Learn more about your favorite engineering student organization and how to join them this semester.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 19 Dec 2019 12:09:41 -0500 2020-01-09T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Student Government Fair / Festival ESG EnginFest Banner
Large-scale Traffic Simulation: Recent Advances Based on the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (January 10, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70036 70036-17499530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 10:30am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This presentation focuses on modelling urban traffic dynamics
with Network Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams (MFD). Recent
developments in MFD simulation propose two general formulations that
can both be applied to multi-reservoir systems. The first is the classical
accumulation-based formulation when traffic dynamics in each reservoir is governed by a conservation equation. The second is the more recently developed trip-based formulation when vehicle trips have individual lengths but share a single time-dependent mean speed in each region. The different model settings in both frameworks (merge, diverge, entry flow functions) are discussed and compared to microscopic simulations. The integration of multiclass extensions (mainly to represent public transport) is also presented with a particular focus on the resulting traffic dynamics at the reservoir boundaries. The question of MFD model calibration is then addressed considering two central questions: (i) the regional triplength estimation and (ii) the scaling of observations to determine the vehicle accumulations and travel productions. Several applications are discussed in the end: validation of the multi-reservoir setting for the city of Lyon, optimization of ride-sharing services, perimeter control for
reducing network-wide emissions.

Ludovic Leclercq is research director at IFSTTAR and professor in traffic flow theory at the University of Lyon, France.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:27:05 -0500 2020-01-10T10:30:00-05:00 2020-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series (January 10, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71139 71139-17783437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Geotechnical engineering provides complete subsurface evaluation for the design and construction of roads, transit, airports, bridges, buildings, pipes, tunnels, and other structures. Somat’s roots are in geotechnical engineering, and we have been investigating and making expert recommendations on foundation conditions and materials for over three decades.

Somat professionals assess the risks posed by site conditions, design earthworks and structure foundations, and make recommendations during the early phases of a project. Somat also monitors site conditions, earthwork, and foundations during construction. Companies have applied our geotechnical expertise to airports, roads, bridges, transit systems, water/wastewater systems, utilities, and built facilities, for both government and private clients.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 07:57:48 -0500 2020-01-10T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-10T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Seminar Series
Free-living amoebae in drinking water networks: a treasure trove of intracellular (novel) bacteria (January 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70025 70025-17497481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Free-living amoebae (FLA) are unicellular eukaryotes, ubiquitous in natural and man-made water environments. There, FLA play important roles in regulating microbial populations, as they feed on bacteria and other small eukaryotes by a mechanism involving ingestion by phagocytosis. It is thought that this predatory pressure favored – on multiple occasion – the adaption of several microorganisms (mainly bacteria) to the intracellular lifestyle, by stimulating the arising of resistance mechanisms against phagocytosis.

Thus, we aim to study FLA and their associations with microorganisms, as it stands out as pertinent model not only for better understanding the establishment of symbioses, but also for decrypting mechanisms employed by several bacterial pathogens thriving within eukaryotic cells.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:23:21 -0500 2020-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series (January 17, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71140 71140-17783438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

As an innovator, collaborator and future maker, Black & Veatch is characterized by curiosity, a trait that helps them find solutions to clients' most complex challenges. Safety, sustainability and responsibility also are ingrained into every Black & Veatch professional, and they’re designed into all projects.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 07:59:43 -0500 2020-01-17T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-17T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Seminar Series
181 Fremont: Resilience and Innovation in Design (January 21, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71573 71573-17842679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The 181 Fremont Tower, located in San Francisco’s downtown Transbay District, is an 802-foot-tall, 56-story high rise. It is the tallest mixed-use building in the city, featuring 435,000 square feet of Class A office space and 67 luxury residences. The architectural vision for the tower includes a tapering, faceted façade that highlights an integrated mega-frame structural system. A visual recess between the commercial and residential levels functions as both a mechanical space and residential amenity level with a double-height, open terrace around the perimeter. To maximize usable floor space in the slender tower, a steel-only lateral force-resisting system was used instead of a more traditional concrete core. The novel damped mega-brace system and uplifting mega- columns enhance the building’s performance under seismic and wind loads while reducing steel tonnage by approximately 25% compared to a more conventional design. The damped braces also eliminate the need for a tuned mass damper in the light structure, freeing up the penthouse level for a luxury condominium. Transfer structures at level 39 and level 2 carry load to the corner mega-columns to create column-free spaces at the residential amenity level and ground-floor lobby. The project achieved both a LEED Platinum rating as well as the world’s first Resilience-based Earthquake Design Initiative (REDi) Gold rating, having been designed for immediate re-occupancy and minimal loss of functionality after a design-level earthquake. Resulting from a collaborative effort between the building owner, design, and construction teams, 181 Fremont Tower features an unprecedented design and a pioneering resilience strategy to protect the building and its occupants long into the future.

Jason Krolicki is a structural engineer and founding Principal at Resurget Engineering PLC. A native to the Detroit area, Jason has nearly 20 years of structural engineering experience and led award
winning projects around the world; including giant observation wheels, mixed-use high-rise structures, university buildings, hospitals, hotels and office buildings. Utilizing his experience and passion for design,
he approaches projects focused on performance and innovation. Jason holds a Civil Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Michigan State University and a Master of Science in earthquake engineering from the
University of Pavia Italy.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:54:11 -0500 2020-01-21T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Welcome MUSES (January 22, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71502 71502-17836313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 11:30am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: MUSES

This semester we will have monthly lunches designed to build our community of women of color in STEM field. We would like to invite you to come and have lunch with us and celebrate the new semester. Relaxation coloring activities will also be available.

When: Wed, Jan 22nd, 11:30am-1pm
Where: Duderstadt 1120 Conference Room D

Please, RSVP here so enough food is provided
https://forms.gle/YHUSoeLUHAy5gvMY9

Mark on your calendar following events (all at the same location)
MUSES personal finance - Wed, Feb 26th, 11:30am-1pm
MUSES personal journal - Wed, Mar 25th, 11:30am-1pm
MUSES commemoration - Wed, Apr 15th, 11:30am-1pm

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Meeting Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:37:10 -0500 2020-01-22T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center MUSES Meeting Statue of a woman thinking
EWRE Seminar Series (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70026 70026-17497482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Aerosol production from wave breaking is one of the most abundant sources of aerosol globally, but emissions from freshwater lakes are poorly understood in comparison to sea spray aerosol(SSA). In addition, harmful algal blooms (HABs) can lead to aerosolization of toxins like microcystins, which has the potential to lead to exposures to local populations. Given their small size and chemical complexity there is a significant analytical challenge when measuring these environmental contaminants. Herein, the chemical and physical properties of lake spray aerosol (LSA) from pristine freshwater and HABS are discussed. We will discuss measurements of particles along the coasts of the Great Lakes, inland, and aloft at cloud heights from flight measurements using a suite of microscopy, spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry measurements. As LSA can be generated and act as CCN, IN or eject toxic materials from harmful algal blooms, an improved understanding of LSA emission and physicochemical properties is needed to determine the impacts on meteorology, climate, and health in the Great Lakes region.

Andrew Ault is the Dow Corning Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Chemistry Department at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:27:46 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
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
Traffic Volume Estimation by Fusing Probe Vehicle Data and Loop Detector Data (January 23, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70038 70038-17499531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Traffic volume information is critical for traffic management and control. Traditionally, traffic volumes are primarily measured by fixed location sensors. However, the high installation and maintenance cost of fixed location sensors often leads to the missing data problem and the low coverage problem. In recent years, researchers have proposed to solve the problems using probe vehicle data. Nevertheless, when only low market penetration probe vehicle data are available, it is difficult to estimate real time traffic volume information if we consider each time slot and each road separately Noticing that traffic volumes in a transportation network are correlated spatially and temporally, we try to capture the correlation by fusing probe vehicle data and partial fixed location sensor data, which are complementary to each other In this work, we propose low rank representation methods to estimate the unknown traffic volumes. The proposed methods take advantage of the correlation of traffic volumes in different locations and different time slots and thereby achieve good estimation accuracy even if the probe vehicle data are sparse. Validation results show that the proposed methods can solve the missing data problem and the low coverage problem at the same time, and they have great potential for real world implementation.

Yan Zhao is currently a PhD candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Yan also works with Professor Henry Liu in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on traffic state estimation and transportation network analysis using trajectory data.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:48:37 -0500 2020-01-23T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar