Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. RNA Innovation Seminar (October 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86162 86162-21631753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

"Fluorescent nucleoside analogues with new properties"

HYBRID EVENT
in-person: Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__vvE2dtHQi-R3h05JUHBzQ

ABSTRACT
Fluorescent nucleoside analogues (FNAs) are powerful probes for studying the structure and dynamics of nucleic acids, which are vital to understanding RNA function, DNA damage repair, nucleic acid–protein interactions, regulatory mechanisms for gene expression, and other aspects of nucleic acid function. Existing FNAs are prone to quenching by base pairing and stacking, are clustered at the blue–green end of the visible spectrum, and have limited brightness as compared with conventional fluorophores. Studies of nucleic acid function would benefit greatly from overcoming these limitations. We have designed, synthesized, and studied a series of fluorescent pyrimidine analogues, aiming to address these limitations and develop a detailed understanding of the relationships between chemical structure and fluorescent responses to local environment in nucleic acids. Included in this series is a tricyclic cytidine analogue DEAtC that is nearly non-fluorescent as a nucleoside, but responds to matched base pairing and stacking with a fluorescence turn-on. A chlorinated tricyclic cytidine 8-Cl-tCO reports on local environment by changes in the vibrational fine structure of its emission spectra. To address the problem of limited brightness, we have design and synthesized a new NFA that we call ABN, which has a conjugated push–pull system similar to those found in bright fluorophores such as rhodamines. ABN is the brightest known FNA when present in duplex nucleic acids, and it is readily detected in single-molecule fluorescence measurements using both 1-photon and 2-photon excitation. Collectively, these FNAs offer new capabilities for biophysical studies on nucleic acids. Comparisons of their structure and properties help to reveal mechanisms for fluorescence changes in response to local environment in nucleic acids.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:29:04 -0400 2021-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 1027 E. Huron Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Byron Purse, San Diego State University
Virtual TechLab at Mcity Info Session (October 5, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86113 86113-21631585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

This is your opportunity to ask TechLab staff and instructors anything and everything! During this info session, we’ll go deeper into program specifics and leave with a better understanding of how TechLab at Mcity can help you with your career goals. RSVP at bit.ly/TechLabInfo2022

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Other Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:06:00 -0400 2021-10-05T16:30:00-04:00 2021-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Entrepreneurship Other TechLab at Mcity
2021 EER Prospective Student Open House (October 8, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85934 85934-21630496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 9:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

IN-PERSON OR VIRTUAL OPTION

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

THE OPEN HOUSE AGENDA FEATURES:
An overview about the program
Discussions with faculty
Meet the EER Grad Coordinator & Financial Administrator
Discussions with current EER graduate students
A tour of the beautiful University of Michigan campus

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:43:37 -0400 2021-10-08T09:30:00-04:00 2021-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar EER Logo
How to Read Journal Articles (October 12, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87962 87962-21648026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council

Ever feel stuck while reading scholarly articles? Have a seemingly endless pile of articles to read but don't know how to start? Join the librarian for the ME department, Joanna Thielen, for a workshop on how to read scholarly articles effectively and efficiently.

In this workshop, you'll learn how to:
- Develop a personalized method for reading scholarly articles
- Set up the ideal reading environment for you
- Organize your articles with citation management software (EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, etc.)
- Get personalized assistance from your ME librarian

Please RSVP in the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegPLnNGlM3udrcqjn4v49vD-UMh4dda1sFvKlFKmqtBe2npA/viewform?usp=sf_link

All CoE students, grad and undergrad, are encouraged to attend
Food will be provided
We look forward to having you in this workshop!

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:18:46 -0400 2021-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-12T19:30:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Mechanical Engineering Graduate Council Workshop / Seminar MEGC Workshops
RNA Innovation Seminar: Tim Stasevich, Ph.D., Colorado State University (October 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86166 86166-21631758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

KEYWORDS: translational regulation, gene expression, fluorescence microscopy, intrabodies, single-molecule imaging

ABSTRACT: My lab is creating technology to image mRNA translation in real time and with single-molecule precision in living cells. In this talk, I will introduce our technology and describe how it can be used to amplify fluorescence from newly synthesized proteins as they are being translated from single mRNAs. I will show how we quantify these signals to determine the size, shape, subcellular localization, and mobilities of mRNA translation sites, as well as their protein synthesis dynamics. I will then highlight a few recent applications of our technology, focusing mainly on a new biosensor we have developed to quantify how individual regulatory factors impact single mRNA translation dynamics. Using this biosensor, we provide evidence that human Argonaute2 (Ago2) shuts down translation by down regulating translation initiation on the minutes timescale and helping usher translationally silent mRNAs into P-bodies on the hours timescale. I will conclude by discussing new fluorescent intrabodies my lab is engineering to light up nascent and mature proteins in multiple colors. As these intrabodies can be encoded on plasmids, they can easily be adapted by other labs to image gene activity in diverse living systems.
Timothy J. Stasevich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Colorado State University (CSU). His lab uses a combination of advanced fluorescence microscopy, genetic engineering, and computational modeling to study the dynamics of gene regulation in living mammalian cells. His lab helped pioneer the imaging of real-time single-mRNA translation dynamics in living cells1. Dr. Stasevich received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Michigan, Dearborn, and his Ph. D. in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park. He transitioned into experimental biophysics as a post-doctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. James G. McNally at the National Cancer Institute. During this time, he developed technology based on fluorescence microscopy to help establish gold-standard measurements of live-cell protein dynamics. Dr. Stasevich next moved to Osaka University, where he worked with Dr. Hiroshi Kimura as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Foreign Postdoctoral Research Fellow. While there, he helped create technology to image endogenous proteins and their post-translation modifications in vivo. This allowed him to image the live-cell dynamics of epigenetic histone modifications during gene activation for the first time2. Before joining the faculty at CSU, Dr. Stasevich spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus, where he applied superresolution fluorescence microscopy to improve the spatiotemporal resolution of endogenous protein imaging in live cells.
1. Morisaki, T. et al. Real-time quantification of single RNA translation dynamics in living cells. Science 352, 1425–1429 (2016).
2. Stasevich, T. J. et al. Regulation of RNA polymerase II activation by histone acetylation in single living cells. Nature 516, 272–275 (2014).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:17:54 -0400 2021-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Tim Stasevich, Colorado State University
Understanding the Productive Beginnings of Engineering Judgement (October 20, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87988 87988-21648635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 10:30am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In 200- and 300-level engineering science courses, students are traditionally asked to use mathematical models to solve well-defined textbook homework problems. While these problems are important for practicing mathematical problem-solving, they lack the complexity of ill-defined, sociotechnical engineering projects in the real world. In my current research I seek to bridge this gap between the engineering classroom and engineering workplace by understanding how students engage in the productive beginnings of professional practices and how instructors can support these productive beginnings.   This seminar will focus on one particular practice, engineering judgment, which is the use of mathematical models in design and analysis. I will begin by discussing my background and own personal motivation for this interpretivist research. I will then present my work in progress on the development of a new theoretical framework of the productive beginnings of engineering judgment. This research has been conducted symbiotically with a new innovative type of assignment in which students model a real-world system by making and justifying their own assumptions. I will conclude by outlining my future work on students’ development of macroethical reasoning and formative assessment strategies instructors can use to engage students in the productive beginnings of professional practices.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:32:51 -0400 2021-10-20T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-20T11:45:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Professor Aaron Johnson
Cycling Safety: From Crash Data Analysis to a Naturalistic Cycling Study (October 27, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88208 88208-21651370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The safety issues of cycling have become an increasing concern. This presentation, led by Drs. Shan Bao and Fred Feng, describes two unique studies related to cycling safety, from crash data analysis to a recent naturalistic cycling study in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Crash Report Sampling System data was used in this study to identify significant factors that impact cyclists’ crash injury levels. In the naturalistic cycling study, a fleet of four electric bikes was instrumented with cameras and GPS and was given to study participants as a substitute for their own bicycle. A total of over 5,000 miles of riding data from 77 subjects were collected over two years. The dataset could be used for studying the interactions between motorists and cyclists on real-world roadways.

More about this research: https://myumi.ch/jxl0N

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About the speakers:
Dr. Bao is an Associate Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department, University of Michigan-Dearborn, with a joint appointment as Associate Research Scientist in the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute’s Human Factors Group. She is also an affiliated faculty member with UM Civil and Environmental Engineering department, MIDAS and UM Robotics Institute. Dr. Bao received her Ph.D. in mechanical and industrial engineering from the University of Iowa in 2009. Her research interests focus on human factors issues related to connected and automated vehicle technologies, ADAS system evaluation, and big data analysis. She has served as the PI or co-PI of 54 research projects. She has published 72 technical publications, including 40 refereed journals articles. Shan is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and has served as the chair of the Surface Transportation Technical Group of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is a also member of the TRB Vehicle User Characteristics committee and the TRB Human Factors in Road Vehicle Automation subcommittee.

Dr. Fred Feng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is also an affiliate faculty of Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). Dr. Feng's research focuses on advancing the safety of environmentally sustainable, healthy, and equitable modes of transportation, such as cycling, walking, and public transit, through the development of data-driven insights, strategies & tactics, and technologies. To this end, we use a variety of quantitative methodologies including behavioral data analysis, statistical learning, computational human performance modeling, and human factors. Dr. Feng earned his B.E. (2006) and M.S. (2009) at Tsinghua University in China, and his PhD (2015) in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before joining UM-Dearborn, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Dr. Feng serves on the Scientific Committee of the International Cycling Safety Conference and on the Board of directors of Washtenaw Bicycling and Walking Coalition.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:51:04 -0400 2021-10-27T14:30:00-04:00 2021-10-27T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Presentation Decorative Image for the CCAT Research Review with Drs. Shan Bao and Fred Feng. It features the presentation title 'Cycling Safety: From Crash Data Analysis to a Naturalistic Cycling Study' and an image of a person riding in a bicycle lane.
STEM Incubators: Centering Black Families' Rightful Presence in STEM (November 3, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88372 88372-21653523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 10:30am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Black families act as STEM incubators. Despite stereotypical representations that are often rooted in deficit framing, Black families provide their children access to STEM opportunities, resources, capital, ways of thinking, behaving, and sense-making Scholars have identified that Black parents influence the college-going and completion process through practices such as sharing information, developing expectations around school completion, positioning students as examples to younger siblings/family members, and by sharing advice on how to persist when faced with challenging situations.  Building on this work, I will present some of my research on Black family life and the lineage Black contributions to STEM in order to provide evidence of the ways that Black families incubate STEM learning and aspirations. I have found that families – with emphasis on parents – leverage capital and establish family cultures values and practices that support STEM exploration and confidence. This talk will highlight some of my recent contributions along with implications for research on informal/family learning spaces

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:27:20 -0400 2021-11-03T10:30:00-04:00 2021-11-03T11:45:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion DeLean Tolbert Smith
Serco Corporate Info Session, Hosted by TBP (November 3, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87793 87793-21645955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Serco Inc. is the Americas division of Serco Group, plc, one of the world’s leading service companies. Serco serves Federal, state, and local governments, along with the Canadian government and commercial customers. We help our customers deliver vital services more efficiently, while increasing the satisfaction of their end customers.

Want to be apart of one of the Top 100 Internship Programs in the nation and work for a company that support your early career endeavors? Come learn about early career opportunities at Serco at their company information session on November 3rd from 6:00PM-7:00PM. Throughout this session you will hear about the day-to-day life as an engineer at Serco from a professional within the company and learn about the competitive atmosphere of its internship program. Come network and learn about how you can join their talent community for future career opportunities!

Please register at tbpmi.ga/sercoinfof21 !


Majors: AERO, Civil, CE, CS, Data Science, EE, IOE, ME, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Degrees: Bachelor's
Positions: Intern, Full Time
Unwilling to provide sponsorship
Collecting resumes?: Yes - through registration

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:02:59 -0400 2021-11-03T18:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tau Beta Pi Careers / Jobs Serco
Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series (November 4, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88961 88961-21659313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 11:00am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series

"Enhancing Process Control in Metal 3D Printing" presented by Manyalibo J. Matthews, Ph.D., Materials Science Division Leader, Physical & Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.
Room 3150 DOW

This seminar will also be streamed live via Zoom. See link to the right.
Password to enter Zoom: 413824

Abstract
In this talk, I will review recent developments in understanding and controlling light-matter interaction and material response associated with laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. As part of the critical assessment of the physics of the process, validated hydrodynamic finite element model simulations have proven to be extremely valuable and can be used to inform rapid solidification microstructural models. I will also discuss new approaches to process optimization that have emerged from our modeling efforts which can improve material properties and part performance. Prepared by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Nov 2021 11:38:13 -0400 2021-11-04T11:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T12:00:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Mechanical Engineering Lecture / Discussion "Enhancing Process Control in Metal 3D Printing" presented by Manyalibo J. Matthews, Ph.D., Materials Science Division Leader, Physical & Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. Room 3150 DOW This seminar will also be streamed live via Zoom. See link to the right. Password to enter Zoom: 413824
Michael Korybalski Distinguished Lecture (November 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88934 88934-21659129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

13th Annual Michael Korybalski Distinguished Lecture Featuring Vijay Kumar

Join us Friday, November 5th from 4-5pm for this year's lecture entitled, "Swarms of Small, Flying Robots."

The lecture will take place in the Chesebrough Auditorium in the Chrysler Center on North Campus.

Abstract:
The last decade has seen rapid advances in computation, sensing, and communication, leading to new opportunities for aerial robotics. Dr. Kumar will describe our recent work on developing small, autonomous flying robots in complex, GPS-denied environments, with applications to precision agriculture, first response, and mining. Nature provides many examples of collective behaviors where swarms exhibit capabilities well beyond those individuals. He will discuss the challenges in creating flying robot swarms, and his research on perception-action-communication feedback loops to enable collective behaviors.

Vijay Kumar Bio:
Vijay Kumar is the Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering with appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Computer and Information Science, and Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1987. He has been on the Faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania since 1987.

In addition to holding many administrative positions at Penn, Kumar has served as the assistant director of robotics and cyber-physical systems at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2012 – 2013). His lab has spun off many startups in robotics - he is the founder of Exyn Technologies and serves on the boards of Treeswift, IQ Motion Control, WeRobotics, and O2Micro. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Dr. Kumar has won best paper awards at DARS 2002, ICRA 2004, ICRA 2011, RSS 2011, RSS 2013, ICRA 2014, BICT 2015, and MARSS 2016 and has advised doctoral students who have won Best Student Paper Awards at ICRA 2008, RSS 2009, and DARS 2010. He is the recipient of the 2012 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award, the 2012 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award, a 2012 World Technology Network (wtn.net) award, a 2013 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award, a 2014 Engelberger Robotics Award, the 2017 IEEE Robotics, and Automation Society George Saridis Leadership Award, the 2017 ASME Robert E. Abbott Award, the 2018 IEEE Robotics, and Automation Pioneer Award, and the 2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Field Award. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013, the American Philosophical Society in 2018, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:08:32 -0400 2021-11-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T17:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Mechanical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Michael Korybalski Distinguished Lecture - Entitled "Swarms of small, flying robots" by Vijay Kumar. Taking place Nov. 5th at 4pm in the Chesebrough Auditorium.
RNA Innovation Seminar (November 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86167 86167-21631759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

"Harnessing diverse compact CRISPR-Cas3 for long-range genome engineering"
Zhonggang Hou, Ph.D.
Research Investigator
Biological Chemistry

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"Microscopic Examination of Spatial Transcriptome through Seq-Scope"
Jun Hee Lee, PhD
Associate Professor
Molecular & Integrative Physiology

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:33:17 -0400 2021-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Zhonggang Hou, Biological Chemistry & Jun Hee Lee, Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series (November 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88961 88961-21659312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series

"Enhancing Process Control in Metal 3D Printing" presented by Manyalibo J. Matthews, Ph.D., Materials Science Division Leader, Physical & Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.
Room 3150 DOW

This seminar will also be streamed live via Zoom. See link to the right.
Password to enter Zoom: 413824

Abstract
In this talk, I will review recent developments in understanding and controlling light-matter interaction and material response associated with laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. As part of the critical assessment of the physics of the process, validated hydrodynamic finite element model simulations have proven to be extremely valuable and can be used to inform rapid solidification microstructural models. I will also discuss new approaches to process optimization that have emerged from our modeling efforts which can improve material properties and part performance. Prepared by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Nov 2021 11:38:13 -0400 2021-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Mechanical Engineering Lecture / Discussion "Enhancing Process Control in Metal 3D Printing" presented by Manyalibo J. Matthews, Ph.D., Materials Science Division Leader, Physical & Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. Room 3150 DOW This seminar will also be streamed live via Zoom. See link to the right. Password to enter Zoom: 413824
Integrative Systems + Design Open House (November 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88203 88203-21651464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

YOU'RE INVITED
Integrative Systems + Design
Informational Open House

Wednesday, November 10, 2021
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Virtually in Zoom
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. In-person for U-M Only Students

1075 Beal Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI
SI-North 2nd Floor Commons Area

Come learn about our exciting interdisciplinary engineering graduate programs.
Courses are available both on-campus and online!

Integrative Systems + Design (ISD) is dedicated to educating dynamic global leaders who can think transformatively to create innovative solutions for society’s challenges and the future.

Our six graduate programs include dual degrees, SUGS, masters, and doctoral* degrees in:
Automotive Engineering
Energy Systems Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering*
Systems Engineering and Design
Global Automotive & Manufacturing Engineering
Design Science*

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yqO9GUdjQIDooe9JqJipdIfQ919NhWwL3n092sroLmk/edit

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Reception / Open House Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:33:29 -0400 2021-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 Integrative Systems + Design Reception / Open House Open House Invite
Michigan Institute of Data Science Annual Symposium (November 15, 2021 3:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88887 88887-21658823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 3:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM: H.V. Jagadish, Opening Remarks
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Dr. Rebecca Fiebrink, Keynote Address: “How machine learning can support human creators"

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:42:22 -0400 2021-11-15T15:45:00-05:00 2021-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar MIDAS Symposium 2021
Michigan Institute of Data Science Annual Symposium (November 16, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88888 88888-21658824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Workshops

Sign up to attend one of the four mini-workshops as part of the 2021 U-M Data Science and AI Symposium. Bring your own laptop!

Nov. 16th | 9:00am - 11:00am @ Michigan League

1. Introduction to data visualization on the web with D3.js. Led by Prof. Fred Feng (Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering)

2. Using text as data: Introduction to machine learning for natural language processing. Led by Drs. Jule Krueger (Institute for Social Research) and Meghan Dailey (Advanced Research Computing)

3. Diversity and equity in data science - a community forum. Led by Drs. Lia Corrales (Astronomy), Tayo Fabusuyi (U-M Transportation Research Institute), H. V. Jagadish (MIDAS Director), and Rada Mihalcea (U-M AI Lab Director). Presenters will highlight technical designs to detect and adjust for data and algorithmic biases, and programs that promote diversity in data science and AI research community. Attendees will be encouraged to share their work and discuss ways to collaborate.

4. Developing best practices for reproducible data science. Led by Drs. Jing Liu (MIDAS Managing Director), Johann Gagnon-Bartsch (Statistics), Tom Valley (Internal Medicine) and Sharon Glotzer's Lab. The presenters will offer tutorials on building reproducible workflows, data and code review and sharing. They will also answer questions for those who are interested in entering the MIDAS 2021 Reproducibility Challenge.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:48:50 -0400 2021-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T11:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar MIDAS Symposium 2021
Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Safety (November 30, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89138 89138-21660642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

A significant, persisting challenge in transportation is traffic safety which, despite a decrease in vehicle miles traveled (VMT), led to 38,680 deaths and over 2.8 million injuries in the United States last year. Traffic crashes also result in an estimated economic loss of over $230 billion annually. Integrated vehicle passive and active safety systems and connectivity are required to mitigate crashes or avoid collisions.

For the final Distinguished Lecture Series of 2021, the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) is pleased to welcome Dr. Azim Eskandarian to review some timely research areas on vehicle control systems, signal processing, and communication-enabled connectivity to address the pervasive vehicle safety problem. Dr. Eskandarian will also discuss a holistic approach to vehicular safety and its advanced research challenges, including connectivity, ranging from partial to full autonomy and collision avoidance implications. Attendees will see a critical perspective on personal mobility and the future of driving that ensures safety and congestion mitigation while minimizing energy consumption.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Nov 2021 09:40:57 -0500 2021-11-30T14:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Azim Eskandiarian. It features the presentation title 'Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Safety', Professor Eskandarian's headshot, and an animated image of a smart intersection.
Exploring students’ expectations towards and experiences with a new engineering interdisciplinary curriculum (December 1, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89044 89044-21660326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

The University College London (UCL) Centre for Engineering Education is a joint venture between Faculty of Engineering Sciences and the Institute of Education (IoE). Through research and active engagement, it aims to encourage the study of engineering and allied subjects and drive curriculum innovations to help create the next generation of engineering graduates needed to address complex global challenges. The Centre for Engineering Education is heavily involved in the running and dissemination of UCL Engineering's Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP) – one of the four case studies described in the MIT report “Reimagining and rethinking engineering education” – a pedagogical framework by which undergraduate students study using innovative and interdisciplinary approaches. In this session, I will focus on CEE’s research with IEP students and recent graduates to understand their experiences in the programme. Findings suggest gender differences in the awareness of the societal impact of engineering, and that communication skills are essential to engineering practice. Finally, I will highlight contributions for future longitudinal research on engineering student learning and career pathways in the UK.

Register here: tinyurl.com/eerseminar-direito

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:23:40 -0500 2021-12-01T10:30:00-05:00 2021-12-01T11:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Inês Direito
Engineering Education Research Information Session: EER Certificate and Master's Degree (December 3, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89355 89355-21662211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Are you an engineering PhD student who wants to study approaches for improving learning in the engineering classroom and beyond? Are you interested in diversifying STEM education and the engineering workforce? Do you have ideas for developing engineers who think like entrepreneurs, design creative solutions to the nations’ grand challenges, and make a difference in the world? Pursuing an Engineering Education Research (EER) Certificate or Master's Degree may be a way for you to achieve those goals.

Join us for an information session about the EER Certificate and Master's Degree:
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. | Friday, December 3, 2021
Zoom link provided upon registration


You can read more information about the program is at this site: https://eer.engin.umich.edu/academics/rackham-certificate/

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:55:30 -0500 2021-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Engineering Education Research (EER)
Jennifer Nehil (Molson Coors) and Ralph Mertz (Anheuser-Busch InBev) - Flavor Chemistry, Brewing, Performance Metrics, Global Strategy (December 6, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89703 89703-21665063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 6, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bio-Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Coding Organization

On Monday, December 06, 2021 @ 6:00PM-7:00PM ET, come virtually listen to Jennifer Nehil (UM MS Chemistry; former R&D Technician and Chemist at BASF; current Brewing Material and Flavor Chemist at Molson Coors) discuss the brewing process, innovation and new product selection, and flavor chemistry, and Ralph Mertz (UM BS Mechanical Engineering; former Chrysler Engineer and Anheuser-Busch IT, Operations & Engineering Manager, and Financial Planning Leader; current Anheuser-Busch Global Vertical Operations Finance and Strategy Senior Director) discuss standard company performance metrics, corporate investments and collaborations, asset management, and a global strategy case study. The event will conclude with an open Q&A.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, or AB InBev, is a publicly-traded multinational drinks conglomerate headquartered in Belgium. It’s the world’s largest beer brewer by both volume and revenue, operating more than 600 beer brands in 150 countries. AB InBev was formed in 2008 through the acquisition of Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch by Belgian conglomerate InBev—which is itself a merger of Stella Artois-maker Interbrew and Brazil’s AmBev. In 2015, AB InBev acquired its biggest rival in North America, SABMiller, for $107 billion. The deal required the sale of a number of SABMiller brands, including Miller and Coors, to satisfy antitrust regulators. In recent years, acknowledging the consumer trend away from mass-produced lagers, AB InBev has rapidly acquired U.S. and international craft brewers including Goose Island, Blue Point, and Camden Town Brewery. Some of its popular brands include Budweiser, Michelo, Corona, Bush, and Natural Light. Learn more at https://www.anheuser-busch.com/about.html .

Molson Coors is a publicly-traded multinational drinks conglomerate with twin headquarters in Golden, Colorado, and Montreal, Canada, though officially considered a U.S. firm. In sales, it holds the number one position in Canada, the number two rank in the United Kingdom, and the number three slot in the U.S. Coors Light, the firm's biggest-seller, is the fourth best-selling beer in the United States; Molson Canadian is the best seller in English-speaking Canada; and Carling ranks as the best-selling lager in the United Kingdom. Other key brands include Blue Moon, Dos Equiz, and La Colombe. In 2005, it was formed through a merger of two companies with deep roots — Molson Inc., established in 1786, the oldest brewery in North America; and Adolph Coors, established in 1873 — both of which were still under control of their respective founding families. Following the merger, the Coors and Molson families jointly controlled Molson Coors, each holding one-third of the voting power. Learn more at https://www.molsoncoors.com/about .

This event is co-hosted by two student organizations: business-focused Bio-Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Coding Organization ("BECO") and engineering-focused Food Industry Student Association ("FISA"). Please navigate to BECO's and FISA's respective homepages linked on this post to learn more and join their email lists.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Dec 2021 02:20:46 -0500 2021-12-06T18:00:00-05:00 2021-12-06T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Bio-Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Coding Organization Workshop / Seminar Brewed Beverages
My Path To Michigan Speaker Series (January 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90463 90463-21671091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

UM alumnus, Andre Douglas was selected by NASA to join the 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class. He will share his story in his "My Path to Michigan" lecture for the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering department.

He reports for duty in January 2022. The Virginia native earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a master’s degree in naval architecture and marine engineering from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and a doctorate in systems engineering from the George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Douglas served in the U.S. Coast Guard as a naval architect, salvage engineer, damage control assistant, and officer of the deck. Upon selection, Douglas was a senior professional staff member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL) working on maritime robotics, planetary defense, and space exploration missions. Douglas holds a professional engineering license in the state of Virginia and is a champion of youth mentoring and development through FIRST robotics competitions and Junior Achievement mentoring programs.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Jan 2022 09:25:52 -0500 2022-01-07T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-07T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion Astronaut Candidate Andre Douglas
A Truly Subject-Specific, Shared Model of the Human Tricuspid Valve (January 13, 2022 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90763 90763-21673517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 13, 2022 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Abstract: Computer simulations have become critical elements of the medical device design and regulatory approval process. Naturally, the predictability and therefore value of such simulations depends highly on their accuracy. Especially for the design of heart valve replacements and repair technologies computer simulations have become a critical tool. While much progress has been made in modeling the aortic valve and the mitral valve, much less effort has been spent on modeling the tricuspid valve. The reasons are multi-fold, but include the general neglect of the valve as well as the high complexity of the valve in comparison to the three other valves. In our most recent work, we are beginning to fulfill this gap. Specifically, our objective is to develop, validate, and then publicly provide a truly subject-specific, shared model of the human tricuspid valve. To this end, we combine multi imaging-modality based measurements in beating human hearts that have been prepared in an organ preservation system, with in-vitro measurements of heart valve geometric, structural, and mechanical properties. Once built, we conduct finite element simulations with this valve and validate dynamic simulations throughout the cardiac cycle against in-situ measurements. Finally, we show case our model by first mimicking a diseased valve, which we then repair using a surgical and an interventional approach.

Bio: Dr. Rausch is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin where he directs the soft tissue biomechanics laboratory. His laboratory's objective is to use complimentary imaging modalities, mechanical testing, and numerical methods to understand and predict soft tissue disease. The specific problems he studies include pressure ulcers, right heart heart failure, tricuspid valve regurgitation, and thrombotic disease. Check out his work on www.manuelrausch.com and follow him on Twitter under @ManuelKRausch1.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:14:23 -0500 2022-01-13T15:30:00-05:00 2022-01-13T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Workshop / Seminar BME Seminar
Navigating at the Intersection of Two Pandemics: Exploring Black Engineering Graduate Students’ Simultaneous Experiences of COVID-19 and Racism-20 (January 19, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90470 90470-21671098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In this seminar, the presenter will share findings from an in-progress work and facilitate a conversation anchored in the experiences of Black graduate students in engineering (BGSE) at the intersections of two pandemics. This engaging conversation will support our awareness of how the experiences of BGSE as a marginalized group in engineering have been compounded by the simultaneous realities of COVID-19 and Racism-20 (systemic racism). Specifically, the duality of BGSE as Black people in America and Black graduate students in U.S. engineering programs creates a unique set of experiences about which little is known. This seminar will amplify the experiences of BGSE in this moment and their explicit needs with the goal of increasing institutional awareness, and thus accountability, for best supporting their persistence and success.

Brooke C. Coley, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in Engineering at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She is also Principal Investigator of the Shifting Perceptions, Attitudes and Cultures in Engineering (SPACE) Lab, which aspires to elevate the experiences of marginalized populations, dismantle systemic injustices, and transform the way inclusion is cultivated in engineering through the implementation of novel technologies and methodologies in engineering education. Her active NSF-supported research focuses on three specific areas: the role of identity-related professional organizations in engineering student success, factors impacting trajectory decisions of engineering students from underrepresented groups at community colleges and creating pathways to engineering education research. Dr. Coley recently received the 2021 Diversity and Inclusion Award from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering for her commitment to creating and fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. She holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Jan 2022 09:24:14 -0500 2022-01-19T10:30:00-05:00 2022-01-19T11:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Professor Brooke C. Coley
Engineering for social good? Understanding and challenging barriers to socially-informed engineering practice (February 9, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90977 90977-21675119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Engineering training has long been characterized by the primacy of technical considerations. In recent years, there have been increasing calls for engineers to better account for social and contextual dimensions of their work, in addition to the technical, in order to adequately address the complex challenges of our modern society. However, the field has been slow to change. In this seminar, I will present findings from a study that explores how a narrowly technical focus of engineering work may be perpetuated through day-to-day engineering training and practice. Findings from this study also highlight how emphasized forms of engineering practice (mis)align with engineers’ personal values and interests and I will discuss the potential implications of this (mis)alignment for how engineers view the field and their place within it. In addition, I will discuss several current collaborative research efforts that relate to this work: one focused on characterizing curricular messaging in two engineering departments and the implications of this messaging for students’ sense of fit and career intentions in their fields and another focused on understanding the adoption and impacts of a toolkit aimed at providing students with the skills to identify and address socially engaged aspects of engineering work.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:52:29 -0500 2022-02-09T10:30:00-05:00 2022-02-09T11:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Erika Mosyjowski
The Outlook for Automation of Road Transportation Systems (February 17, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91924 91924-21684245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Although media stories have for the past decade been hailing the imminent availability of vehicles that will completely take over the driving task from humans, reality will be far more prosaic. The coming decades will see increasingly wide availability of driving assistance systems that operate under continuous supervision of human drivers to enhance safety and driving comfort and convenience. The automated driving systems that perform the complete dynamic driving task are likely to be limited to specific commercial fleet applications, under tightly constrained geographic and operational conditions, and with remote human assistance, for the foreseeable future. This lecture will explain the reasoning behind these predictions based on the presenter’s nearly fifty years of experience working on automated driving technology and planning issues.
The challenges to deployment of automation systems that can replace human drivers will be explained from multiple perspectives, based on the presenter’s experience developing automated driving systems, evaluating their transportation system impacts, and assisting regulators in assessing their safety. These challenges will be discussed in terms of:
- The high safety baseline set by human driving in today’s safety statistics;
- The technological challenges in environment perception, prediction of actions of other road users, cyber-security and software safety verification and validation;
- The economic challenges posed by high costs of developing the technology, extending it to new locations and operating conditions, and equipping and maintaining the vehicles;
- The human factors and public perception challenges of accurately informing the public about the capabilities and limitations of the automation technology;
- The combined technological and institutional challenges of producing a robust safety case to prove adequate safety of an automated driving system;
- The natural inertia inherent in capital-intensive industries such as motor vehicles and civil infrastructure, in contrast to Silicon Valley information technology.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Feb 2022 12:14:51 -0500 2022-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 2022-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Lecture / Discussion Steven E. Shladover, Sc.D.
ECRC Industrial and Operations Engineering Career Chats (February 18, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91894 91894-21683704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Does looking for a full-time job or internship overwhelm or mystify you? Are you uncertain of where or when to start your search? Are you actively searching now and just have a few questions? You can ASK US ANYTHING! Sign up for a 15-minute virtual chat with an ECRC Career Advisor or Career Peer Advisor to get your questions answered, learn about the resources available to you or for a quick resume review. We look forward to meeting you!

Must be a declared IOE major.

Sign-up begins on 2/7 at 8:00 AM within Career Fair Plus: https://app.careerfairplus.com/ume_mi/fair/4206

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:56:39 -0500 2022-02-18T09:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs
SCSAP Monthly Seminar Series (February 21, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92429 92429-21691399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 21, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Single Cell Spatial Analysis Program (SCSAP)

Join us on Monday to hear about IsoPlexis’ product suite capabilities and how functional phenotyping is addressing urgent challenges central to unlocking the next stage of personalized cancer immunotherapies and vaccines related to immunological mechanisms in infectious disease. With single-cell proteomics barcoding and detection of a full range of cytokines (30+) per single-cell across thousands of single-cells, the IsoLight platform is showing the unique value of resolving the heterogeneity of a variety of immune cell types, elucidating key pre-clinical translational biomarkers to accelerate research and discovery.
JOIN US AT THE END OF THE TECH TALK TO LEARN ABOUT AN EXCITING GRANT PROGRAM SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
SINGLE CELL SPATIAL ANALYSIS PROGRAM
Discussion topics include:
• Reveal the functional mechanism of immune activation in a novel agonist combination with adoptive cell therapy
• Uncover the role of TILs within Ipi/Nivo checkpoint combination and reveal the biological drivers of patient response
• Identify the unique polyfunctional monocyte cell types that drive tumor suppression
• Understand the functional differences of tumor antigen potency in bispecifics
• Identify functional immune mechanism CD8 T cell response for infectious diseases
• And other single-cell functional proteomics cases

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:53:04 -0500 2022-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Single Cell Spatial Analysis Program (SCSAP) Workshop / Seminar Isoplexis
Integrative Systems + Design (ISD) Virtual Open House (February 22, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92650 92650-21694144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

YOU'RE INVITED
Integrative Systems + Design
Informational Open House

Wednesday, March 9, 2022
10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Virtually in Zoom

Come learn about our exciting interdisciplinary engineering graduate programs.
Courses are available both on-campus and online!

Integrative Systems + Design (ISD) is dedicated to educating dynamic global leaders who can think transformatively to create innovative solutions for society’s challenges and the future.

Our six graduate programs include dual degrees, SUGS, masters, and doctoral* degrees in:
Automotive Engineering
Energy Systems Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering*
Systems Engineering and Design
Global Automotive & Manufacturing Engineering
Design Science*

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIoceitqjgoEtKnX2AOwUYAO-SVY5QixDnt

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Reception / Open House Mon, 28 Feb 2022 07:05:32 -0500 2022-02-22T07:00:00-05:00 2022-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Integrative Systems + Design Reception / Open House Open House Banner
Making Soft Robotics Less Hard: Towards a Unified Modeling, Design, and Control Framework (March 21, 2022 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93171 93171-21701382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

ABSTRACT:
Soft robots are able to safely interact with delicate objects, absorb impacts without damage, and adapt to the shape of their environment, making them ideal for applications that require safe robot-human interaction. However, despite their potential advantages, their use in real-world applications has been limited due to the difficulty involved in modeling and controlling soft robotic systems. In this talk, I’ll describe two modeling approaches aimed at overcoming the limitations of previous methods. The first is a physics-based approach for fluid-driven actuators that offers predictions in terms of tunable geometrical parameters, making it a valuable tool in the design of soft fluid-driven robotic systems. The second is a data-driven approach that leverages Koopman operator theory to construct models that are linear, which enables the utilization of linear control techniques for nonlinear dynamical systems like soft robots. Using this Koopman-based approach, a pneumatically actuated soft arm was able to autonomously perform manipulation tasks such as trajectory following and pick-and-place with a variable payload without undergoing any task-specific training. In the future, these approaches could offer a paradigm for designing and controlling all soft robotic systems, leading to their more widespread adoption in real-world applications.

BIO:
Daniel Bruder received a B.S. degree in engineering sciences from Harvard University in 2013, and a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 2020. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Microrobotics Lab supervised by Prof. Robert Wood. He is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Research. His research interests include the design, modeling, and control of robotic systems, especially soft robots.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 09 Mar 2022 08:24:43 -0500 2022-03-21T12:30:00-04:00 2022-03-21T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Robotics Workshop / Seminar soft robot arm
GradSWE-INVENSITY Info Session (March 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93049 93049-21699852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

If you have a passion for technology, you may be interested in learning more about INVENSITY. INVENSITY is an engineering consultancy that strives for excellence. Their team of engineers work with clients to define clear solution paths for the complex engineering challenges they come up against. To gain more insights into their company culture, feel free to check out this video.

RSVP is required.
Contact: Onyinye Nwankwo at nwankwog@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:19:06 -0500 2022-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graduate Society of Women Engineers Workshop / Seminar
On Being an Editor in EER (Engineering Education Research) (March 23, 2022 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92421 92421-21691390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

On being an editor in EER
Maartje Van den Bogaard

Maartje has been a long time reviewer for the European Journal of Engineering Education and has served as a deputy editor for that journal since early 2018. During that time EJEE has revised its aims and scope to make sure we continue to connect with an audience of scholars and practitioners in a multidisciplinary field of discipline-based education research. Maartje is also an editor for Educational Planning and for Springer Nature Social Sciences. Maartje has a background in the social sciences and has been active in engineering education for 15 years. In this talk she will share her experiences as an editor in a multidisciplinary field and discuss her views on what makes a quality paper.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:58:10 -0500 2022-03-23T12:30:00-04:00 2022-03-23T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Maartje Van den Bogaard
Integrative Systems + Design SUGS Info Session (March 30, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93854 93854-21709041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Integrative Systems + Design (ISD) is holding a virtual SUGS Info Session on 3/30/22 at 3:00 PM EST, which will cover our SUGS option with our Graduate Programs. Our Graduate Coordinators will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about the program.

We offer 5 Graduate Programs that allow for the SUGS option:
Automotive Engineering
Energy Systems Engineering
Global Automotive + Manufacturing Engineering
Manufacturing
Systems Engineering + Design

Our SUGS can be done fully online so you don't have to choose between your dream job or getting a master's.

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtceCppzgtHNKbBmR7SDKKj2aF8c9LezLr

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Other Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:08:45 -0400 2022-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 2022-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Integrative Systems + Design Other ISD Logo
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Amplifying students’ voices in the classroom (April 6, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93246 93246-21701938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 10:30am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In this seminar, I plan to discuss culturally relevant pedagogy and its importance in our engineering education practices. I also plan to focus on the importance of incorporating the voices of our students, especially those from traditionally marginalized backgrounds in our teaching practices. My goal is to help participants improve their learning environments and teaching practices by acknowledging and supporting the cultural knowledge and assets that students possess. Just as our learning environments are complex, so are the individuals that comprise them. Everyone has visible as well as “invisible” cultural identities and culturally relevant pedagogy attends to those differences. Learning happens when we can connect the new knowledge we are receiving to our previous experiences, so being able to make those connections despite our backgrounds is really important. Similarly, a key aspect of learning is to feel safe. When we feel safe and recognize that our ideas are valued, and who we are is important and relevant to the learning community, we have the motivation to engage with the collective construction of knowledge. Best practices around CRP and some research results will also be shared.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:01:58 -0500 2022-04-06T10:30:00-04:00 2022-04-06T11:45:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Dr. Homero Murzi
DEI and Amplifying Women in STEM (April 6, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93104 93104-21700724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Sanger Leadership Center

The Sanger Leadership Center at Michigan Ross is proud to introduce a new program: Women in Leadership, sponsored by General Motors (GM). Women remain underrepresented in top leadership positions around the world. We seek to provide space to increase agency, amplify women’s voices, and work with women and allies to overcome barriers. Join us in April to be inspired by a leader championing women and diversity.

Women represent 30% of GM's top management positions, making GM a global leader in advocating for women’s equity in the workplace. Telva McGruder, GM chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, joins Cheri Alexander, executive coach, and professor of management and organizations at the Ross Business School, to talk about how GM is accelerating gender equity for women and the importance of unique perspectives that drive a global brand. McGruder will describe how GM is amplifying women in STEM and uplifting inclusive and diverse teams to create a more just and equitable society. Join us for an engaging talk from leaders who are making a difference for women.

Register today!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Mar 2022 09:04:21 -0500 2022-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T18:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Sanger Leadership Center Lecture / Discussion Telva McGruder
2022 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure (April 12, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93055 93055-21700218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The 5th annual CCAT Global Symposium returns this year on April 12th and 13th! The conference will be hosted at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor, MI with both in-person and virtual registration options available to attendees. The two-day, two-track event will continue discussions on cybersecurity, infrastructure, shared mobility, and more.

The 2022 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure is sponsored by Michigan Engineering, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, and WSP. Women in Autonomy serves as our conference partner.

For complete details and hotel room blocks, please visit the Symposium page on the CCAT website: https://ccat.umtri.umich.edu/symposium/

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:14:47 -0500 2022-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Decorative Image for the 2022 CCAT Global Symposium. It features a 3-D animated city with several forms of transportation and text that reads '2022 Global Symposium' with the CCAT logo in the bottom right.
2022 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure (April 13, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93055 93055-21700219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The 5th annual CCAT Global Symposium returns this year on April 12th and 13th! The conference will be hosted at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor, MI with both in-person and virtual registration options available to attendees. The two-day, two-track event will continue discussions on cybersecurity, infrastructure, shared mobility, and more.

The 2022 CCAT Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure is sponsored by Michigan Engineering, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, and WSP. Women in Autonomy serves as our conference partner.

For complete details and hotel room blocks, please visit the Symposium page on the CCAT website: https://ccat.umtri.umich.edu/symposium/

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:14:47 -0500 2022-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Conference / Symposium Decorative Image for the 2022 CCAT Global Symposium. It features a 3-D animated city with several forms of transportation and text that reads '2022 Global Symposium' with the CCAT logo in the bottom right.
2022 Captain R. & Florence Peachman Lecture (April 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61855 61855-21727750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

4 PM 1050 Ford Robotics Bldg with Reception to follow in lobby

Karen A. Flack is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She received a bachelor’s degree from Rice University, a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Mechanical Engineering. Professor Flack teaches courses in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and design. Her research focuses on turbulent boundary layer physics with a concentration on rough wall boundary layers and frictional drag prediction. Recent work also includes performance characteristics of tidal turbines in unsteady flow conditions. She is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Experiments in Fluids and Flow Turbulence and Combustion. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has received the following: an ASME award for best paper in the Journal of Fluids Engineering, a Pi Tau Sigma teaching award, the Naval Academy Research award and United States government meritorious service medals.

Significant progress has been made towards the understanding of rough-wall boundary layers and the subsequent drag penalty. Continued progress is promising since a larger range of parameter space can now be investigated experimentally and numerically. Recent advances in rapid prototyping techniques enables the generation of systematic variations of roughness scales and computationally efficient simulations with creative surface mapping techniques allows for experiments and computations to investigate similar complex roughness. While a universal drag prediction correlation is still elusive and may not be possible, predictive correlations for classes of surface roughness pertinent to engineering applications seem achievable. Three surface parameters based solely on surface statistics are showing promise in predictive correlations for a range of studies. These include a measure of surface elevation a slope parameter and the skewness of the surface elevation probability density function. Other candidate parameters that may be useful in a predictive correlation or a surface filter are the streamwise and spanwise correlation lengths. The challenges to represent this wide range of surface conditions and potential scales to characterize engineering roughness including biofouling in predictive correlations will be discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:14:09 -0400 2022-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion Karen A. Flack Headshot
Toward Object Manipulation Without Explicit Models (May 12, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95027 95027-21788282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 12, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

The prevalent approach to object manipulation is based on the availability of explicit 3D object models. By estimating the pose of such object models in a scene, a robot can readily reason about how to pick up an object, place it in a stable position, or avoid collisions. Unfortunately, assuming the availability of object models constrains the settings in which a robot can operate, and noise in estimating a model’s pose can result in brittle manipulation performance. In this talk, I will discuss our work on learning to manipulate unknown objects directly from visual (depth) data. Without any explicit 3D object models, these approaches can segment unknown object instances, pickup objects in cluttered scenes, and re-arrange them into desired configurations. I will also present recent work on combining pre-trained language and vision models to efficiently teach a robot to perform a variety of manipulation tasks. I’ll conclude with a discussion of the role simulation can play in the future of robotics.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 May 2022 08:16:50 -0400 2022-05-12T15:00:00-04:00 2022-05-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Robotics Workshop / Seminar A robot manipulation objects on a table
FFT-Accelerated and Tucker-Enhanced Parameter Extractors for Voxelized Structures (July 20, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95835 95835-21791046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

Today, designers are extensively using parameter extractors during the designs of their chips, packages, integrated circuits, micro-electro-mechanical systems, and wireless charging units. While developing their designs via voxel-based virtual fabrication environments, which recently became popular to model unit process steps of the semiconductors and micro-electro-mechanical systems, designers are in need of parameter extractors that can be operated on interconnects/circuits/structures discretized by voxels (i.e., cubes). Furthermore, today’s 3D printing technology is voxel-based. To efficiently and accurately perform the analysis of 3-D printed boards, coils, and components, voxel-based analysis and design tools, particularly parameter extractors, are called for. In this seminar, I will talk about a series of integral equation-based parameter extractors for computing the capacitances, inductances, and impedances of interconnects and circuits discretized by voxels. These extractors were developed by exploiting the structured grid on which voxels reside and accelerated by fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) and specially developed preconditioners. Their memory and computational time requirements were drastically reduced by tensor decompositions, particularly Tucker decompositions. For voxelized structures, these extractors called VoxCap, VoxHenry/SuperVoxHenry, and VoxImp were proven to be much faster, more accurate, and more memory-efficient than their traditional fast and famous counterparts, FastCap, FastHenry, and FastImp, respectively. For the same level of accuracy in the analyses of voxelized structures, VoxCap, SuperVoxHenry, and VoxImp required 47x, 13x, and 55x less memory and 12x, 876x, and 16x less computational time compared to FastCap, FastHenry, and FastImp, respectively. On a desktop computer, VoxCap, SuperVoxHenry, and VoxImp successfully extracted the parameters of the structures requiring the solutions of linear system of equations with more than 100, 47, and 53 millions of unknowns, respectively. After introducing the Vox series, I will briefly talk about the DeepHenry, a deep learning-based extractor for inductance extraction of voxelized interconnects. I will share our results showing that deep learning-based DeepHenry is indeed 1157x faster than physics-based VoxHenry, while providing self/mutual inductances and self resistances of the interconnects with less than 4% error.

Bio: Abdulkadir C. Yucel is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technology University (NTU), Singapore, where he is currently developing physics-based and deep learning-based computational frameworks for the forward and inverse electromagnetic characterization. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. He pursued his postdoctoral studies in various institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA. Dr. Yucel was the recipient of Fulbright Fellowship in 2006, EECS Departmental Fellowship of University of Michigan in 2007, and Honorable Mention Award at IEEE Int. Symp. AP-S in 2009. He is the author/co-author of 110 journal papers and conference papers/abstracts. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine and the International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, as a reviewer for various technical journals, and as a reviewer and organizing committee member of several IEEE conferences

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:50:45 -0400 2022-07-20T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T15:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Abdulkadir Yucel
Certifiable Autonomous Systems Through Online Verification — CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series (July 21, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95889 95889-21791378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Engineers and computer scientists are currently developing autonomous systems whose entire set of behaviors in future, untested situations is unknown. For instance, how can a designer foresee all situations that an autonomous vehicle will face? Keeping in mind that many autonomous systems are safety-critical or operation-critical, it is irresponsible to deploy such systems without testing all possible situations---this, however, seems impossible since even the most important possible situations are often unmanageably many. This presentation proposes a paradigm shift that will make it possible to guarantee safety in unforeseeable situations (under mild model assumptions): Instead of verifying the correctness of a system before deployment, we propose online verification, a new verification paradigm where a system continuously checks the correctness of its next action by itself in its current environment (and only in it) in a just-in-time manner. The usefulness of this method will be demonstrated primarily for autonomous driving and robotics.

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About the speaker: Matthias Althoff received a diploma in Mechatronics and Information Technology from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2005. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing./Univ. Tokio Martin Buss in 2010. From 2010 - 2012 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, with a joint appointment in electrical engineering and the Robotics Institute. He joined the Computer Science Department at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, in 2012 as Assistant Professor for Automation Systems. Since 2013 Matthias Althoff is a Professor in Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich.

His research interests include the design and analysis of cyber-physical systems, formal verification of continuous and hybrid systems, reachability analysis, planning algorithms, and robust and fault-tolerant control. The main applications of his research are automated vehicles, robotics, and power systems.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:30:53 -0400 2022-07-21T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image for the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Matthias Althoff. It features the presentation title 'Certifiable Autonomous Systems Through Online Verification', Professor Althoff's headshot, and an image of an Autonomous Vehicle.
The Analog Designers Toolbox (ADT): Towards A New Paradigm for Analog IC Design (August 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96350 96350-21792295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

The integrated circuit (IC) technology has witnessed an exponential advancement in the last decades and has changed every aspect in our life. On the other hand, the analog IC design flow did not experience any major change since the introduction of Berkeley SPICE in the 1970s, posing significant challenges to the design of complex systems in nanometer technologies and to the transfer of analog design expertise and knowledge. The Analog Designer’s Toolbox (ADT) is a new analog design productivity and automation tool that addresses this problem and defines a new paradigm in analog IC design. ADT provides a turnkey solution that enables everyone to reap the benefits of the gm/ID design methodology powered by precomputed lookup tables (LUTs). At the device level, ADT gives an easy interface to automatically size devices given their performance metrics and plot arbitrary design charts involving complex expressions. The designer can explore devices from different technologies at different corners and temperatures, and extract simulator-accurate design points while taking second-order effects into consideration. At the block level, ADT gives the designer the power of interactive design space exploration, agile constraints management, design trade-offs visualization, live tuning, and blazing speed optimization. Moreover, with a single click, ADT can build the testbenches in the background and report the results from your favorite simulator. The aim of ADT is to boost productivity, restore designer’s intuition, and make the design process systematic, optimized, and fun!

Bio: Dr. Hesham Omran received the B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. degrees from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2007 and 2010, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, in 2015, all in Electrical Engineering. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Design Engineer with Si-Ware Systems (SWS), Cairo, Egypt, where he worked on the circuit and system design of the first miniaturized FT-IR MEMS spectrometer (NeoSpectra), and a Research and Teaching Assistant with the Integrated Circuits Lab (ICL), Ain Shams University. From 2011 to 2016 he was a Researcher with the Sensors Lab, KAUST. He held internships with Bosch Research and Technology Center, CA, USA, and with Mentor Graphics, Cairo, Egypt. In 2016, he rejoined the ICL, Ain Shams University, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He created the Mastering Microelectronics YouTube channel with 7k+ subscribers. He co-founded Master Micro in 2020 to develop the Analog Designer’s Toolbox (ADT), a novel EDA tool that defines a new paradigm for analog IC design. Dr. Hesham has received several awards including the Egyptian State Encouragement Award for Engineering in 2019. He has published 40+ papers in international journals and conferences. His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, and especially in analog and mixed-signal CAD tools and design automation.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:21:00 -0400 2022-08-10T12:00:00-04:00 2022-08-10T13:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Lecture / Discussion Hesham Omran, Ain Shams University
Feedback Control of Highly Dynamic 3D Bipedal Locomotion (August 10, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96529 96529-21792624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Chair: Jessy Grizzle

Abstract:
Bipedal robots have the potential to free humans from tedious or dangerous tasks. Compared to robots in other forms, a bipedal robot has similar morphology to humans and thus can work in almost all spaces where humans work and requires little to none facility modifications. However, while many other robots are deployed in real life and are beginning to have an impact, bipedal robots are hardly seen outside of labs due to stability issues. Bipeds are inherently unstable due to their morphology. A bipedal system is nonlinear, high dimensional, hybrid, and underactuated, which poses great challenges to controller design. This thesis will therefore focus on developing control methods for biped locomotion.

First, we discuss a controller for a Cassie Robot designed with gait-library methods. The full 20 DoF dynamic model of Cassie and optimization are used to design seven gaits for walking in place, forward, and backward, while meeting key physical constraints. Moreover, we show how to practically implement these gaits on the robot.

Next, we focus on studying the dynamics of bipedal robots. We established connections between various approximate pendulum models that are commonly used for heuristic controller design and those that are more common in the feedback control literature where formal stability guarantees are the norm. We clarify commonalities and differences in the two perspectives for using low-dimensional models. In the process of doing so, we argue that models based on angular momentum about the contact point provide more accurate representations of robot state than models based on linear velocity. Specifically, we show that an approximate (pendulum or zero dynamics) model parameterized by angular momentum provides better predictions for a physical robot (e.g., legs with mass) than does a related approximate model parameterized in terms of linear velocity. We call the pendulum model parameterized by angular momentum ALIP.

Finally, we discuss general mechanisms in bipedal balance, explain why foot placement is the most effective method, and select it as our major method to stabilize a bipedal gait. We focus on regulating angular momentum about the contact point with the ALIP model. We implement a one-step-ahead angular-momentum-based walking controller on Cassie, a 3D robot, and demonstrate high agility and robustness in experiments. We also design a running controller with the same methodology and demonstrated the results in simulation and experiments.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:07:45 -0400 2022-08-10T13:00:00-04:00 2022-08-10T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Robotics Lecture / Discussion Cassie robot walking on wave field
What are PRONOUNS - Welcome picnic for international grad students in engineering (September 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97217 97217-21794152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 12:00pm
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Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Join us on North Campus to learn PRONOUNS, play activities, win prizes, make new friends and enjoy a free lunch!

Are you ready for the new semester? We prepared a welcome picnic for you. Each participant will receive some swag and a free lunch! By attending this event, you will know more about Pronouns and meet new people. Please come to join us and share the event with your friends.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Aug 2022 14:27:40 -0400 2022-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T13:30:00-04:00 Engineering Education Research Workshop / Seminar Pronoun Event
IOE Career Workshop Series: How to Rock It In An Interview (September 21, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97507 97507-21794660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

How to Rock It In An Interview

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:31:57 -0400 2022-09-21T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
My Journey in electrifying the world’s most popular truck (September 23, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98392 98392-21796600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Linda Zhang is the 2022 ECE Alumni Merit Award Recipient.

Linda Zhang, chief program engineer for the F-150 Lightning, Ford’s first electric truck, will talk about her experience leading the team behind this game-changing vehicle, including the challenges and successes of shifting America’s perception of what an EV can be.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:02:30 -0400 2022-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Chrysler Center