Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. PhD Defense: Nanjun Chen (August 30, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65924 65924-16670252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 9:00am
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

TITLE: Understanding of Ion-Solid Interaction and Defect Evolution in Zinc-Blende Structured Materials

CHAIR: Prof. Fei Gao

ABSTRACT: Zinc-blende structured materials have received considerable attentions due to their excellent performance in many fields. The major benefit has attributed to high power space energy systems and nuclear reactors. Their applications can expose to high energy radiation, including neutrons, ions and cosmic rays. Under these conditions, defects are generated in materials in amounts significantly exceeding their equilibrium concentrations. The accumulation of defects can lead to undesired consequences, which may alter the performance of the materials. Therefore, the fundamental understanding of ion-solid interaction and defect evolution is a key factor to the success of both nuclear and electronic materials. This thesis focuses on the study of zinc-blende materials, including GaAs, GaN, InAs, and SiC for their possible applications in both nuclear and space fields.
SiC has its unique capability in the applications of nuclear fuel, cladding and fusion structure materials. In tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) fuel particles, SiC coating is considered as a major barrier for the release of fission products (FPs). However, the release of some metallic FPs (i.e. Ag, Pd, Ru, and I) from fully intact fuel particles raises serious concern on the safety of high temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs). This thesis first addresses atomistic process of FP diffusion in SiC. Ab initio calculations are used to determine the defects configurations, migration energy barriers and pathways of FPs in SiC. Based on the ab initio results, the interatomic potentials of FPs in SiC are developed and evaluated to serve as a link between the density functional theory (DFT) and next coarser level. Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been employed to investigate FP accommodation in SiC, interactions with point defects and grain boundaries, and their diffusion kinetics. These findings lead to a conclusion that the grain boundary diffusion of FPs is faster than bulk diffusion with a strong segregation at the GBs. Analysis of the radiation enhanced diffusion obtained by experiments and diffusion by modeling work for Ru and I has suggested that the interstitial migration is likely to be a major mechanism under irradiation condition. Moreover, the diffusivities can vary by grain boundary types, whereas high energetic grain boundaries can provide the fastest paths for FPs to diffuse. An elevation of 1.5 eV in GB energy can result in 2-3 orders of magnitude difference in Ag diffusion coefficient.
We have further explored the defect production, clustering, and its evolution in GaAs, GaN, InAs, and SiC, and determined non-ionizing energy loss (NIEL) that indicates a rate of degradation in electronic devices in space applications. Nonlinear defect production is observed with an increasing of primary knock-on (PKA) energy in GaAs and InAs. This effect, which corresponds to the direct-impact amorphization, is observed for PKA energy over 2 keV. Gallium nitride is however different and presents a pseudometallic behavior (PMB) resulting in a majority of surviving defects to be single interstitials or vacancies. SiC also has a limited number and size of defect clusters due to the formation of multiple subcascades with low energy density. With the damage density evaluated from MD simulations, a model to determine NIEL has been developed, which can be used to qualify the radiation degradation in space application. The NIELs for proton, alpha, and Xe particles are then predicted, and provide a pathway to evaluate the capabilities for the space applications of these materials. The comparisons of defect creation, density, and effective NIEL suggest that GaN may be the best candidate as a radiation hard material for space applications at high-energy regime. For low incident particle energies at which the NIEL ratio of InAs-to-GaN is less than 1, the performance of InAs may be superior to that of GaN.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:04:55 -0400 2019-08-30T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer of Nanjun Chen defense
PhD Defense: Andrew McKelvey (September 4, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66300 66300-16725816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Short-pulse Driven Transport Measurements in Dense Plasmas

Chair: Prof. Karl Krushelnick

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:43:56 -0400 2019-09-04T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-04T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion AndrewMcKelvey PhD defense flyer
Bicycling Safety in the Future of Mobility (September 5, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66378 66378-16734107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:03:58 -0400 2019-09-06T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-06T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
NERS Colloquium: Todd R. Allen, PhD (September 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66302 66302-16725821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Please join us for the NERS Colloquium Welcome given by Professor Todd Allen, Glenn F and Gladys H Knoll Department Chair of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, College of Engineering.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:42:58 -0400 2019-09-06T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Todd Allen
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
PhD Defense: Kenneth Engeling (September 11, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66855 66855-16779052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Micro-Plasma in Porous Media and Dielectric Barrier Discharges with Advanced Agricultural Applications

Chair: Prof. John Foster

Abstract: A range of chemical processing applications feature the passage of process gas through porous media. Such media such as foams with interconnected pores or packed beds of aggregate media are desirable for chemical reactions since the reaction surface area to volume ratio is typically quite high. Applications of such reactors include the removal of volatile organic compounds from flues, plasma treatment of aggregate organic media such as seeds, and low temperature, efficient combustion. Conventional applications featuring packed bed media contain catalytic particles often at high temperature. The chemical reactivity of such porous media can be greatly enhanced non-thermally through the production of plasma in the pores. The plasma electrons drive non- equilibrium chemical reactions allowing for a high degree of reaction selectivity. Such plasmas are also the source of reactive radicals. The production and subsequent propagation of plasma within the pores of such media is not well understood. The goal of this thesis work is to understand the plasma production process in porous media and the subsequent propagation of the plasma through such media. This work also involves understanding the induced chemical reactivity induced by the propagating plasma. The ultimate goal is to obtain insight into how the plasma imparts reactivity to the flow through gas and how these effects can be controlled. This insight will serve as the basis for optimization of existing packed media plasma reactors and the development of new, novel sources for a range of applications including chemical processing. An application area of plasma packed bed reactors is also explored—the treatment of seeds. Here the propagation of plasma through packed beds of seeds and the subsequent germination and growth is studied. Such treatments have the potential to revolutionize agriculture by improving yields, increasing crop growing seasons and enhancing seed vigor. Such work supports food security particularly in light of pressures from overpopulation and climate change.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:48:18 -0400 2019-09-11T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-11T15:30:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer of Kenneth Engeling defense
Asymmetric interaction on dynamics in network connectivity among agents (September 12, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66681 66681-16770196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:12:00 -0400 2019-09-13T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-13T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
NERS Colloquium: Nicholas Brown, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (September 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66905 66905-16785543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract: The U.S. Department of Energy has been developing nuclear fuel and cladding candidates with potentially enhanced accident tolerance since the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011. These candidate materials must maintain or improve reactor performance and safety characteristics during normal operation and design basis accidents, while enhancing performance in beyond design basis accidents. This talk presents recent fuel safety research related to reactivity-initiated accidents with advanced cladding materials

Bio: Dr. Nicholas Brown is an Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Brown’s research group focuses on pragmatic interdisciplinary solutions to nuclear science and engineering challenges. He was previously a professor at Penn State University, an R&D staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and a scientific staff member at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, along with about 100 conference publications and national laboratory reports. Dr. Brown earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:26:43 -0400 2019-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer of 9-13-19 NERS Colloquium: Nicholas Brown, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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

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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
Earthfest! (September 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65059 65059-16509320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Earthfest is designed to engage, entertain, and educate University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff on all aspects of sustainability. Come browse dozens of booths with information on how to get involved in sustainability on campus and beyond. Enjoy free healthy food, live entertainment, and sustainability-related games with prizes!

The event is organized around the four themes of our Campus Sustainability Goals: Climate Action, Waste Prevention, Healthy Environments and Community Awareness. U-M student organizations, U-M departments, and community groups focused on sustainability promote their work on campus and in the greater university community. The format changes slightly each year but you can always count on free food, entertainment, activities—and you might even learn some things about sustainability at U-M that you didn't know!

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Fair / Festival Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:07:32 -0400 2019-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T14:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Graham Sustainability Institute Fair / Festival Earthfest Sign
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
The Fifth Annual Glenn F. Knoll Lecture: Adam Bernstein, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (September 20, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67355 67355-16839922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

TITLE: Detection and Measurement of Highly Penetrating Radiation

ABSTRACT: Glenn Knoll’s seminal textbook on Radiation Detection and Measurement covers the topic with great depth, breadth and clarity, with an obvious and sensible focus on ionizing radiations. In this lecture I discuss a type of radiation that does not readily induce ionization, but is nonetheless a continued source of fascination and study by physicists, and more recently, nuclear engineers. Neutrinos have remarkable properties of penetration, passing through the entire Earth with a vanishingly small probability of interaction. In sufficiently large numbers, such as are emitted by reactors, the sun, the Earth itself, and supernovae, the aggregated probability of interaction becomes appreciable. When a neutrino does interact, it generates the familiar ionizing radiations whose detection is reviewed in Professor Knoll’s textbook. In this lecture, I will introduce the basic properties of the neutrino, share some of the triumphs and tribulations of the experimentalists who have sought to measure them, and discuss relatively recent efforts at my own Laboratory, and world-wide, to harness these unusual, seductively evanescent particles for the practical purpose of monitoring the operations of nuclear reactors.

BIO: Dr. Adam Bernstein is a staff physicist at LLNL and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He also leads the Rare Event Detection group in the Nuclear & Chemical Sciences division at LLNL. Since receiving his PhD in physics from Columbia University in 1995, he has worked on the development of advanced low noise, low cost, high-efficiency and high-resolution radiation detectors for use in fundamental and applied physics. He has pioneered and helped bring to maturity what has become a wide international effort to develop antineutrino detectors as a tool for monitoring nuclear reactors.

In the area of applied physics, Bernstein’s main interests are in the development of improved radiation detection techniques that facilitate global nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. His fundamental physics interests are primarily in the study of rare neutral particles, in particular the measurement of neutrino oscillations using reactor sources, and the search for direct interactions of dark matter in Earthly detectors.


This annual lecture series was made possible by a generous endowment from Gladys Knoll to commemorate the over 50-year UM career in education and research of the late Professor Emeritus, Chair and Interim Dean, Glenn F. Knoll. These lectures in nuclear measurements, the field pioneered by Professor Knoll, will be an inspiration to future generations of students.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:07:52 -0400 2019-09-20T16:30:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:30:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Flyer of 5th annual Glenn Knoll lecture - NERS
Construction Seminar (September 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66404 66404-16734196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:54:42 -0400 2019-09-25T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-25T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Toward Reliable Design of Facility Location: Addressing the Threat of Probabilistic Disruptions (September 26, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67554 67554-16892239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:25:23 -0400 2019-09-27T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
E-Hour Speaker Series (September 27, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67534 67534-16890102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Friday's speaker is Bret Kugelmass, an American technology entrepreneur who’s turned his focus to climate and energy advocacy. One of the early pioneers in commercializing drones (Airphrame – acq. 2017) for environmental surveys and emergency response he’s experienced first-hand market growth within complex technical, regulatory, and public opinion framework. Motivated by the climate crises he moved to DC to set up a research initiative (Energy Impact Center) focused on exploring nuclear power and its role in deep decarbonization.

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Presentation Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:25:29 -0400 2019-09-27T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T13:20:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation BRET KUGELMASS HEADSHOT
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
NERS Colloquium: Bret Kugelmass, Energy Impact Center (September 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67583 67583-16898649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

TITLE: Reversing Climate Change

ABSTRACT: Solving climate change requires far more than the total elimination of annual greenhouse gas emissions. The complete decarbonization of electricity, agriculture, transportation, building heat, and industrial sectors may reduce the rate at which we accumulate heat, but will have no impact on the previous emissions that already, and will continue to, cause the majority of radiative forcing. Drawing inspiration from mathematics and physics, Bret Kugelmass derives a pathway towards global scale removal of greenhouse gas on a timeline fast enough to spare the most vulnerable communities. He presents a counterfactual to calls for policy “solutions” of sacrifice, efficiency, and taxes which often ignore energy demands and political realities of the developing world. He will argue that in deploying nuclear energy at scale, we can power the transition to a global carbon negative economy in a way that aligns short-term individual economic motivations with long-term environmental preservation.

BIO:Bret Kugelmass is a former technology entrepreneur who has dedicated his focus to climate and energy challenges. One of the early pioneers in commercializing unmanned aerospace technology he founded and remained CEO of Airphrame Inc. for five years up until its acquisition. Prior to this, he received his masters in robotics from Stanford University and his earlier work includes designing lunar rover control systems for NASA and a concept electric car for Panasonic. In 2017, he launched a Washington, DC based research institute, the Energy Impact Center, focused on exploring the challenges and opportunities of nuclear power's role in deep decarbonization. Their work includes techno-economic analysis of energy technologies, hosting clean-tech prize competitions, and publishing audio interviews with hundreds of experts under the “Titans of Nuclear” brand.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:53:27 -0400 2019-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer of 9-27-19 NERS Colloquium: Bret Kugelmass, Energy Impact Center
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
Sustainable Systems Forum: Women in Energy (October 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67825 67825-16958333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

A panel of alumnae share insights from their careers in the energy space. Participants include: Allison Clements (BS, '98), Energy Foundation, Program Director, Clean Energy Markets; Kerry Duggan (MS '06), RIDGE-LANE merchant bank urban development; Kate Elliott (MS/MBA '08), Tesla, Regional Manager of Charging; Trisha Miller (BA '98), Bill Gates Energy Breakthrough Fund, Senior Director of Advocacy & Government Relations; and Shoshannah Lenski (MS '11), DTE Energy, Director of Productivity & Work Standards.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:09:50 -0400 2019-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion
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
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
E-Hour Speaker Series - Rivian (October 4, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67833 67833-16958329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

As the Strategy Director at Rivian Automotive (a company which develops vehicles, products and services related to sustainable transportation), three-time U-M Alum, Patrick Hunt seeks to highlight authentic experiences by humbling your ego when at the helm of a startup.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:31:42 -0400 2019-10-04T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-04T13:20:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Patrick Hunt Headshot
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
NERS Colloquium: Jeremy T. Busby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (October 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67858 67858-16960499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Dr. Busby is the Division Director for the Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His contributions range from light water reactors to sodium reactors and space reactor systems as well as research in support of the ITER project. Dr. Busby is the recipient of the 2019 NERS Alumni Merit Award.


His research is focused on materials performance and development of materials for nuclear reactor applications. While at ORNL, he has participated in materials research efforts for space reactors, fusion machines, advanced fast reactors, and light water reactors. Ultimately, his research will enable the development of operating criteria for structural materials in a variety of adverse environments that will allow for design and operation of safe, reliable, and cost-effective nuclear systems.

Dr. Busby was the lead for the Materials Aging and Degradation Pathway for the DOE – Office of Nuclear Energy Light Water Reactor Sustainability Research and Development program from 2009 to 2015. This program was charged with supporting both the nuclear industry and regulatory bodies in a careful evaluation of the potential for power plant life extension beyond the 60-year performance period. Dr. Busby was responsible for research spanning reactor core internals, pressure vessel materials, piping, cabling and concrete. A particular highlight was his leadership in the development of a detailed expert panel analysis of gaps and research needs for operating power plants, called the “Expanded Materials Degradation Assessment”. This was published in 2013 as a Nuclear Regulatory Commission document and included input from four expert panels comprised of 40+ world experts from academia, laboratories, regulators, and industry. It is still utilized today as a roadmap for research priority planning. He also led the Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies Materials Cross-cut effort in addition to participation in several nuclear industry-sponsored research tasks.

As PI for the DOE Office of Science ITER Program, he led an investigation into the feasibility of utilizing an innovative cast austenitic stainless steel (SS) for the first wall structure of the international ITER project. The ORNL team utilized advanced computational thermodynamics modeling to successfully devise a cast SS within the internationally approved chemical composition limits for the ITER stainless steel with a tensile strength comparable to wrought stainless steel (>50% improvement in strength over the cast stainless steel previously developed by industry), without compromising other properties. In 2010, Dr. Busby received the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering following this effort for “excellence in research leading to the development of high performance cast stainless steels, a critical part of the U.S. Contributions to ITER project, and for his mentoring of students both as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and at ORNL.”

In 2011, he was awarded a Secretary of Energy Achievement Awards for contributions to DOE’s response to Fukushima. The American Nuclear Society presented Dr. Busby with the Landis Young Member Achievement award in 2006 and, in 2007 he received the ORNL Early Career Award for Engineering Accomplishment for his leadership in the cast stainless steel effort.

He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan and has developed and taught his own graduate level course in materials degradation and performance for fission and fusion reactors. He also is heavily involved in the leadership of many professional society activities.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:08:42 -0400 2019-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Conference / Symposium flyer of NERS colloquium: Jeremy Busby
SLE Retreat (October 5, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64029 64029-16067443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 5, 2019 10:00am
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Spend a night at Edwin S. George Reserve with the Sustainable Living Experience. Indoor and camping lodging available. Enjoy the bog, campfires, cooking, trails and more! The retreat will depart from Oxford at 10am on Saturday and return by 2pm on Sunday.

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Other Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:16:55 -0400 2019-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 Oxford Housing Sustainable Living Experience Other
SLE Retreat (October 6, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64029 64029-16292402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 6, 2019 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Sustainable Living Experience

Spend a night at Edwin S. George Reserve with the Sustainable Living Experience. Indoor and camping lodging available. Enjoy the bog, campfires, cooking, trails and more! The retreat will depart from Oxford at 10am on Saturday and return by 2pm on Sunday.

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Other Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:16:55 -0400 2019-10-06T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 Sustainable Living Experience Other
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
Construction Seminar (October 9, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66408 66408-16734208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:49:10 -0400 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Smart cities
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
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
PhD Defense: Daniel Nunez (October 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68698 68698-17138820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: High-Resolution Experiments of Momentum and Buoyancy-Driven Flows for the Validation and Advancement of Computational Fluid Dynamics Codes

Abstract: Over the past decade, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an important simulation tool to properly predict 3D effects in nuclear power plant systems and reduce the uncertainty in design safety margins. Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) formulations are commonly used to predict fluid flows due to their robustness and their relatively low computational cost in comparison to higher fidelity models such as Large Eddy Simulation (LES). However, because of the various approximations at the basis of RANS turbulent models, validation for the specific applications need to be carried out to assess the models’ capabilities to predict a given phenomenon of interest.
The primary goal of this thesis is to develop a high-resolution high-fidelity experimental database for the development and improvement of CFD codes, and to gain physical insight into complex phenomena relevant to nuclear power applications. Two applications of interest are addressed: a) mixing and interaction of multiple jets in a uniform environment, and b) propagation of stratified fronts in presence of positive and negative density gradients. When assessing the performance of CFD models, it is important to determine whether, for the specific phenomenon of interest, the CFD predictions would lead to a conservative or non-conservative result. For example, in the case of a PWR Main Steam Line Break (MSLB) accident, an over-estimation of thermal stratification would lead to non-conservative results, since the resulting core reactivity insertion will be under-estimated.
High-resolution data collected from two experimental facilities designed and built to address jets interactions and propagation of stratified fronts will be discussed, together with CFD validation results. Shortcomings of the current RANS models and efforts to understand the reasons for the inaccuracy of the simulations will be summarized as well. The data presented consists of experiments and CFD simulations under constant and variable density conditions, and are accompanied with the uncertainties due to geometries, algorithms, reproducibility and repeatability of the measurements.

Chair(s): Prof. Annalisa Manera

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:25:50 -0400 2019-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer for David Nunez defense
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
Sustainable Systems Forum (October 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68204 68204-17026815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Center for Sustainable Systems

A panel of alumnae share insights from their careers in the energy space. Participants include: 

Allison Clements, Energy Foundation, Program Director-Clean Energy Markets

Kerry Duggan, RIDGE-LANE LP, Partner in Sustainability Practice; Office of Vice President Joe Biden, Former Deputy Director for Policy

Kate Elliott, Tesla, Regional Manager of Charging

Shoshannah Lenski, DTE Energy, Director of Productivity & Work Standards

Trisha Miller, Gates Ventures, Senior Director of Advocacy & Government Relations

Moderated by Shelie Miller, U-M Program in the Environment (PitE), Director

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:41:00 -0400 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Center for Sustainable Systems Lecture / Discussion Women in Energy panel of alumnae
NERS Colloquium: Chan Bock Lee, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (October 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68681 68681-17136737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Energy in the Earth, and the Role of Nuclear Power

Abstract: Life can be described as the existence who can utilize the energy. Among life, human may be best in energy utilization and actually use too much energy. This talk will review what is the energy, how the energy is used in earth and ecology through diverse transformation, and history of human energy use including fossil fuels, renewables and nuclear energy. As there is nothing free, the effect of the immense energy use by human upon the ecology and the climate in earth will be reviewed. As nuclear energy is a source of all the energy in the universe, the role of nuclear energy will be discussed reviewing characteristics of nuclear energy, and the way to enhance the public acceptance for nuclear power plant and radiation, to emphasize that the nuclear energy, and in particular, electricity from nuclear power plant is essential to energy use of human in the future.

Bio: Dr. Chan Bock Lee received his BS and MS in Nuclear Engineering from Seoul National University in South Korea and his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from MIT. He has been working at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) since 1989. At KAERI, he has worked in fuel design, fabrication, irradiation testing and performance evaluation for diverse fuels such as UO2 fuel for commercial PWR, metallic fuel for SFR and research reactor, and TRISO fuel for VHTR. He served
as Division Director of Fuel Development at KAERI from 2011 to 2017 and Chair of Nuclear Fuel and Materials Division in Korea Nuclear Society from 2014 to 2016. This year he published “Energy Common Sense”, a book upon which will be the basis of this talk.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:23:49 -0400 2019-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer of 10-25-19 NERS Colloquium: Chan Bock Lee, PhD
Renewable Energy in Michigan: Technologies, Public Policies, and Trends (October 28, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64672 64672-16426864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Earth’s sun and wind are increasingly replacing fossil fuels as sources of energy. A big question is how much of our electric supply can be replaced by renewables. John Sarver, instructor, will discuss solar and wind power technologies, public policies and trends, focusing especially on issues peculiar to Michigan.
You will learn how solar and wind energy resources together with natural gas are expected to totally replace coal in the near future. Mr. Sarver, was a program director in the Michigan Energy Office for 35 years, where he worked on energy efficiency and renewable energy programs and policies. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Monday, 1:00–3:00 pm on October 28.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:00:56 -0400 2019-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
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
NERS Colloquium: Sarah Mills, UM Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy (November 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68940 68940-17197042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract: In this talk, Sarah will highlight findings from her recent research examining the disparate community responses to wind energy projects to extrapolate lessons that might apply to the nuclear industry. She'll talk about the importance of procedural justice in the planning process and the dangers of project proponents over-promising and under-delivering. She'll also discuss her research finding that there are some communities where wind energy is likely to be opposed, even when developers do everything right. And she'll discuss how public policy - including tax policy and siting authority - can alter a community's willingness to accept a wind project.

Bio: Sarah Mills is a Senior Project Manager at the Graham Sustainability Institute and at the Ford School's Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP). Her Ford School research focuses on how renewable energy development impacts rural communities (positively and negatively) and how state and local policies facilitate or hinder renewable energy deployment. At Graham, she leads a grant from the Michigan Office of Climate and Energy to help communities across the state incorporate energy in their land use planning, zoning, and other policymaking. Sarah has a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan, an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from Cambridge University, and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:07:25 -0400 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer of 11-01-19 NERS Colloquium: Sarah Mills, UM Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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
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
NERS Colloquium: Professor Ning Li, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (November 8, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68944 68944-17197046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Ning Li, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Senior Advisor
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation

Abstract: Nuclear energy industry has been in stagnation and decline for over 30 years in US and many parts of the world. It is an energy source in crisis, and we are responsible.
The R&D, the reactor engineering and designs have been operating on the outdated and mistaken assumptions that uranium is rare and high conversion reactors are needed. We pursued neutron and conversion efficiency at the risks to the investments, operators, public and environment, and sacrificed capital efficiency and asset safety that are essential for marketplace.
Nuclear fuel is where most of the energy and radioactivity are in reactors. By nature it has extremely high energy density. But we do have design choices in coolant, total power and power density. Recognizing the extreme differences between nuclear and chemical fuels, we can design, fabricate and protect nuclear fuel before it becomes radioactive, and design the reactor so that it is meltdown proof in the best case scenario, or won’t damage the fuel and release large quantities of radioactivity in the worst case scenario.
Learning from other industries in which major innovations have been successfully introduced, and based on our research on fully ceramic micro-encapsulated fuel, we developed a gas cooled micro modular reactor that can meet the safety criteria for all and are economically attractive in entry markets. We can bootstrap into new nuclear in years, not decades, and have the potential to quickly scale up with global impact on mitigating climate change.
This presentation will outline the thought process, the proposed approach, and the progress and outlook of the development and demonstration.

Bio: Dr. Ning Li is a co-founder and senior advisor of Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, a US company dedicated to the development and commercialization of advanced nuclear energy based on innovations on fuel and micro modular reactor. He was a Distinguished Professor and the Dean of College of Energy, Xiamen University, a member of the Expert Committee for the State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (working with Westinghouse to build the world’s first AP1000s and develop new designs), a senior advisor and Director for Asia Development of TerraPower, a research affiliate of MIT, and the Industrial Fellow for Civilian Nuclear Programs at LANL. Dr. Li has extensive R&D experiences in nuclear energy and fuel cycle technologies, and was a planner, leader and participant in a number of US DOE civilian nuclear energy programs, including Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems, Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative and Accelerator-driven Waste Transmutation. His R&D interests and efforts extend to advanced materials, fabrication, power conversion, long-life core or travelling-wave reactors, and power generation technologies and systems in general, including renewables, storage, efficiency and integrated systems.

Dr. Li maintains strong academic and international collaborations, and publishes widely with over 220 technical papers and reports. Dr. Li is a co-founder and the President of the New Energy Industry Alliance since 2013, a recipient of the 2006 Asian American Engineer of the Year Award and 2010 Scientific Chinese Person of the Year Award.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:58:23 -0500 2019-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Conference / Symposium image of flyer for NERS Colloquium: Professor Ning Li, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation
Documentary Screening: Paris to Pittsburgh (November 12, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68228 68228-17028945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Set against the national debate over the United States' energy future - and the explosive decision to exit the Paris Climate Agreement - Paris to Pittsburgh captures what's at stake for communities around the country and the inspiring ways Americans are responding.

Join the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and the City of Ann Arbor for a free screening of National Geographic's
Paris to Pittsburgh.

Following the screening, join Missy Stults, Sustainability and Innovations Manager, City of Ann Arbor, Sara Hughes, Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability and Douglas Kelbaugh, Professor of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning for a brief discussion about the film and what other cities are doing to implement climate action plans.

Hughes forthcoming book,
Repowering Cities: Governing Climate Change Mitigation in
New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto
(Release date: 11/15)

Kelbaugh's book,
THE URBAN FIX: Resilient Cities in the War against Climate Change,
Heat Islands and Overpopulation

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Film Screening Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:41:44 -0400 2019-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Film Screening Paris to Pitt
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
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
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
PhD Defense: Cameron Miller (November 15, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69389 69389-17316495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Improved Active Interrogation Methods for Nuclear Nonproliferation Applications

Chair: Prof. Sara Pozzi

Abstract: Highly enriched uranium is arguably the most difficult material to detect in the realm of nuclear security and safeguards, but is of great concern for its possible role in developing nuclear weapons. Uranium-235 emits very few neutrons, and the low energy photons it emits are easily shielded, making passive detection of highly enriched uranium very difficult. Actively interrogating the material with neutron or photon sources can provide a much more prominent detection signal. These sources of radiation can be used to either induce detectable emissions in the material, or radiograph the material to distinguish it from possible shielding. Active interrogation presents detection challenges in signal quality and operational feasibility, especially because currently-available sources mostly emit photons that can be easily shielded and are below photonuclear energy thresholds. My research will focus on addressing these challenges by demonstrating advantages of photon interrogation based on recent enabling technologies, both from the perspective of the interrogating source and the detection system.

Inverse Compton scattering quasi-monoenergetic photon sources using a laser-driven plasma accelerator are a developing technology that has strong potential to advance photon interrogation methods. These sources use the laser wakefield phenomenon to accelerate electrons to very high energy. Photons from a secondary laser beam interact with these electrons through inverse Compton scattering, producing a photon source highly focused in energy and space. The energy of these photons can be tuned to penetrate shielding and induce photonuclear reactions. The work presented here is based on quasi-monoenergetic photon sources at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Through Monte Carlo simulations, I have demonstrated the capability to image heavily shielded nuclear material, validated by experiment. These studies showed increased accuracy for hidden nuclear material detection over traditional bremsstrahlung sources.

A 9-MeV linac has been installed at UM, which outputs a high intensity of photons capable of inducing photonuclear reactions. This high photon intensity makes neutron detection and identification challenging, but we are developing methods to detect prompt neutrons in-pulse with organic scintillators. These methods incorporate high throughput data acquisition, active background reduction, and collaboratively developed neural-network based pulse discrimination and recovery. Initial experiments interrogating lead and tungsten surrogates for highly enriched uranium have identified elevated neutron counts for the cases with target present over active background.

Compared to a quasi-monoenergetic photon source, the bremsstrahlung source produces many low-energy photons that only contribute to surrounding dose rates. To demonstrate this dosimetric advantage, and verify shielding for the operation of various accelerators, a method for measuring dose rates was required. An organic scintillator based strategy was developed to provide a replicable and dual-particle dose rate detection method. This method has been used to simultaneously measure neutron and gamma dose rates from isotopic sources; these results show reasonable agreement with traditional instruments. Future experiments will demonstrate the method with active interrogation sources.

The results of my research will enable the use of organic scintillators and novel photon sources for use in an active interrogation scenario to prevent the spread of nuclear material.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:48:33 -0500 2019-11-15T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T14:30:00-05:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer for PhD Defense of Cameron Miller
NERS Colloquium: Piyush Sabharwall, PhD, Idaho National Laboratory (November 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68945 68945-17197048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

ABSTRACT: The development of more-efficient, reliable, and cost-effective nuclear technologies has been accomplished by testing and evaluating the performance of fissile and non-fissile materials in neutron-rich environments, such as Advanced Test Reactor (ATR), High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), etc. In addition, irradiation tests have been done to support the verification and validation of systems and components of nuclear reactors for licensing purposes. Currently, there are very few fast-neutron sources for civilian research. Recently, access to fast-neutron technologies has been fulfilled by using foreign nuclear research reactors, but many research institutions and industries do not have access to this technology and resource, which can limit development of advanced nuclear energy technologies. Furthermore, this limits the expansion of practical knowledge and feasibility in the area of nuclear physics, chemistry, material science, and instrumentation and measurement. Therefore, efforts have begun to develop the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), a bridge to advance nuclear future. The objective of which is to perform irradiation tests on fuels, materials, and components to understand and evaluate their performance. The access to VTR will significantly increase the knowledge base in terms of irradiation of materials, reactor fuels and components. The inclusion of these experiment vehicles will enable the VTR to perform multiple tests that can support various mission areas while enhancing technical readiness levels for its anticipated life of 50 to 100 years.

BIO: Dr. Piyush Sabharwall is a staff research scientist working in Nuclear System Design and Analysis Division at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). He has expertise in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermal design, thermodynamics, and nuclear safety analyses. Over the last few years, he has been researching high temperature heat exchanger design and optimization, system integration and power conversion systems, energy storage, and safety and reliability for Advanced Reactor Concepts. He has exhibited leadership qualities by leading several external partnerships both at regional/international levels, engagements with industry, national laboratories and academia. He has co-authored two books, contributed chapters to technical books on advanced reactors and thermal systems and process heat transfer and published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He holds an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University and serves on the ASME Heat Transfer Division's K-9 and K-13 committees. Dr. Sabharwall received the ASME New Faces of Engineering Award in 2011, the ANS Young Member Excellence National Award in 2013, and the ANS Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award in 2019.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Nov 2019 19:49:16 -0500 2019-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Thermal Hydraulic Experiments and Modeling to Support Design, Development, and Deployment of Advanced Nuclear Reactors
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
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
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

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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
NERS Colloquium: Evdokiya Kostadinova, PhD, Baylor University (November 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69537 69537-17357975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

ABSTRACT: Order and stability in the giant world of stars and galaxies is dominated by the force of gravity. In contrast, the tiny world of atomic and subatomic particles is held together by nuclear and quantum forces. As one sizes up from the subatomic to the astronomical scales, a natural question emerges: What fundamental principles govern the world of the “in-between”? In other words, what happens to the laws of nature when the time and spatial scales are neither large nor small? In this talk, I invite you to a journey through the mesoscopic wonderland of dusty plasma, where principles are semi-classical, forces are non-linear, thermodynamics is non-equilibrium, and dimensions are quasi-defined. We will tour this almost impossible world by exploring dusty plasmas in nature and laboratory, both on Earth and in space.

BIO: Dr. Kostadinova obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Physics at Furman University in South Carolina in 2014. She received her Doctoral degree in December 2017 from Baylor University. The focus of her dissertation was employing new mathematical techniques in the study of transport in two-dimensional disordered systems. Her dissertation work was published as a book by Springer in 2018.
Currently, Dr. Kostadinova works as an assistant research professor at Baylor University’s Center for Astrophysics Space Physics and Engineering Research (CASPER). Her primary research interests lie along the intersections of fundamental physics and applied mathematics. Those include the onset of turbulence and instabilities in disordered media, nonlocal interactions in correlated systems, self-organization and stability of dusty plasmas in gravity and microgravity conditions, thermodynamics of non-Hamiltonian systems, and dust particle techniques for plasma diagnostics. Dr. Kostadinova’s works for the Plasmakristall-4 project – the latest dusty plasma laboratory on board the International Space Station. Most recently, her work has focused on developing a spectral approach to the onset of Kolmogorov turbulence in dusty plasma liquids.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:30:13 -0500 2019-11-22T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Evdokiya Kostadinova
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
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
NERS Colloquium: Nonproliferation Policy and the U.S. Fuel Cycle (December 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68947 68947-17197050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract
In July 2019, the White House established the U.S. Nuclear Fuel Working Group to “reinvigorate the entire nuclear fuel supply chain, consistent with United States national security and nonproliferation goals.” But what is the link between a robust and secure civil nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear nonproliferation, and how do U.S. nonproliferation policies impact the domestic nuclear industry? In this colloquium talk, Ty Otto will discuss these issues, including topics such as (1) U.S. nuclear cooperation agreements, which pave the way for U.S. nuclear firms to compete in foreign countries, (2) concepts to “internationalize” the nuclear fuel cycle in support of nonproliferation goals. As an analyst at a U.S. national laboratory, he also shares his perspectives on how DOE Labs harness technical expertise to support nonproliferation policymakers. 

Biography
Ty Otto is an analyst at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he focuses on a variety of nonproliferation issues including IAEA verification, the risks of emerging technologies, ensuring treaty compliance at domestic U.S. locations, and advancing U.S. nuclear nonproliferation policy. Prior to joining PNNL in 2016, he worked as a graduate fellow at DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, supporting the Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control.  He has a master’s in nuclear energy from the University of Cambridge (UK), and a BS in physics from the University of Washington.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:28:37 -0500 2019-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Speaker: Ty Otto, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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
Special Colloquium: Small Modular Reactors: What is New? (December 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70102 70102-17530520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:44:53 -0500 2019-12-16T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar headshot of speaker
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

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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
Nuclear Prize Mixer (January 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70348 70348-17586176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

U-M is hosting a prize competition challenging students to reimagine nuclear waste as a business opportunity. If you want a chance to win $17,000, there is still time to form or join a team! Come to the Nuclear Prize Mixer to meet and recruit teammates. #nuclearprize

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:10:26 -0500 2020-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Social / Informal Gathering Mixer social card with too many icons
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
NERS Colloquium: Nuclear Power for Deep Decarbonization: Insights from Recent Modeling (January 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70137 70137-17540918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract
Avoiding the worst consequences of climate change hinges on the transition to a deeply decarbonized global energy system. The development and deployment of promising, low-carbon energy technologies that could facilitate this transition—including nuclear power—is severely constrained by non-technical factors, including economics, but especially socio-political factors. This talk will present two new, interdisciplinary methods for evaluating some of these constraints. First, recent research on the performance of U.S. advanced fission innovation will be presented: this research has generated a new approach for evaluating technology development programs sponsored by the federal government. Second, insights will be presented from a recent study on the role of public opposition in constraining the deployment of nuclear power for decarbonization. This research is being extended to endogenously integrate societal preferences regarding energy technologies into energy system optimization models. Failure to integrate socio-political constraints leads to mathematically feasible, but socially unacceptable, decarbonization pathways, rendering greenhouse gas mitigation yet more difficult. This new wave of research, grounded in industrial engineering and the decision sciences, seeks to inform the design of emerging energy systems and to improve decision making by technology developers, policy makers, and researchers.

Speaker Bio
Ahmed Abdulla is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His research investigates the deployment of emerging energy systems; specifically, it optimizes the design of these energy systems and seeks to integrate real-world constraints into energy system models. Dr. Abdulla’s work has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation, among others. Results from his research have been published in leading journals, including "Nature Climate Change" and the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences;" they have also been featured in the "Wall Street Journal," "Bloomberg News" and "The Los Angeles Times." Prior to Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Abdulla was Assistant Research Scientist in the Center for Energy Research at the University of California, San Diego. He holds a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:10:18 -0500 2020-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Professor Ahmed Abdulla
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
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
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
ASCE Seminar Series (January 24, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71333 71333-17817106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

AEW provides Southeast Michigan clients with the quality of professional services and a focus on developing and growing long-term relationships. AEW's partners, managers and employees are dedicated to those they serve, the organization, and the achievements they have accomplished over many years.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:56:46 -0500 2020-01-24T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Seminar Series
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (January 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (January 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (January 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (January 28, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-01-28T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T23:00:00-05:00 University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
All things Michigan Bridge (January 28, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71574 71574-17842681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

This presentation will include innovations and policy updates in the areas of bridge design and construction for MDOT bridges, along with updates on complex bridge projects MDOT has completed over the past few years such as accelerated bridge construction projects, non-redundant bridge strengthening, segmental bridge strengthening and rehabilitation, structural moves, carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) bridge elements, and the Gordie Howe International Bridge. This presentation will also include information on how bridge projects are funded, and how bridges are inspected, and maintained upon entering service. We will also have a discussion on the findings of the FIU pedestrian bridge collapse, and related recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

Matthew J. Chynoweth is the Chief Bridge Engineer of the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) as well as Director of the MDOT Bureau of Bridges and Structures. Matthew holds a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Michigan State University and a Master’s in Structural Engineering from Wayne State University. He has 16 years of experience with MDOT and four years of experience in consulting
prior to joining MDOT. He is an Adjunct Faculty at Lawrence Technological University where he teaches structural engineering. Matthew is also an Executive Committee Member of the AASHTO Committee on Bridges and Structures, Chair of Technical Subcommittee T-6, Executive Committee Member of the American Segmental Bridge Institute, Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Bridge Engineering at the University of Buffalo.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:52:50 -0500 2020-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Carbon Mineralization in Fractured Basalt (January 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70027 70027-17497483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The need to meet rising energy demands while mitigating climate change driven by associated CO2 emissions has motivated the development of geologic carbon storage systems. Until recently, most research focused on sedimentary reservoirs that rely primarily on short-term solubility and physical trapping mechanisms, where CO2 can migrate if structural security is compromised. This inherent leakage risk could be eliminated by leveraging the natural reactivity of basalt reservoirs, which are abundant in silicate minerals that dissolve rapidly under acidic conditions and can ultimately trap dissolved CO2 as solid carbonate minerals. However, our fundamental understanding of the conditions under which CO2 mineralization occurs and its viability as a permanent carbon sequestration pathway remain limited. This talk will highlight series of high-pressure core flooding experiments and complementary reactive transport modeling designed to evaluate the effects of temperature, fluid chemistry, and transport regimes on basalt dissolution and carbonate precipitation. Results indicate that basalts can effectively mineralize CO2 at representative subsurface stress conditions, but predominantly within buffered diffusion-limited zones (e.g. dead-end fractures) where reaction fronts developed from competing geochemical gradients. Carbonate precipitation was highly localized on reactive silicate minerals contributing key divalent cations and was significantly enhanced by elevated temperature and alkalinity. In combination, this work reveals how complex interactions between reservoir geochemistry and transport conditions drive the extent and spatial distribution of carbon mineralization reactions in basalt fractures, which will inform selection of storage sites and injection.

Anne Menefee in a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Anne received her B.S.E. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Viginia. Her reserach is focused on improving our knowledge of fluid transport and geochemical controls for enhancing CO2 mineral carbonation in fractured basalt reservoirs.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:44:27 -0500 2020-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
A Meditation on Juliana v. United States (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70163 70163-17540919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment of the Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series. Professor Lisa Heinzerling from Georgetown Law will deliver a lecture entitled, "A Meditation on Juliana v. United States."

This event is free and open to the public.

Lisa Heinzerling is the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Her specialties include administrative law, environmental law, food law, and torts. She has published several books, including a leading casebook on environmental law and a widely cited critique of the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental policy (Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:30:24 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
A Cooperative Driving Framework for Urban Arterials under Mixed Traffic Conditions (January 30, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70039 70039-17499532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

A cooperative driving framework is proposed to optimize the traffic signals and vehicle trajectories in a mixed traffic condition with regular vehicles (RVs), connected vehicles (CVs), and CAVsin an arterial corridor.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:46:50 -0500 2020-01-30T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series (January 31, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71334 71334-17817107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Since 1953, Klein & Hoffman have worked with building owners, campus and facility managers, condominium association boards and architectural firms, putting their client’s best interests at the forefront. Pragmatic and practical, Klein & Hoffman push the envelope while being mindful of budgets, consistently delivering superior results in high-rise buildings, campus environments, condo buildings and famous landmarks, including the Shedd Aquarium, O’Hare International Airport, and Loyola University.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:01:01 -0500 2020-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Seminar Series
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (January 31, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-01-31T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (February 4, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-02-04T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Enhancing the Design and Performance of Highway Bridges using Ultra-High Performance Concrete (February 4, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71935 71935-17903256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is an advanced cement-based, fiber-reinforced composite material that is emerging as a popular solution to many challenges related to highway bridge performance and durability. UHPC-class materials exhibit mechanical and durability properties that far exceed those of both conventional and high-performance concretes. The Structural Concrete Group at FHWA’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) has been conducting research on UHPC-class materials for more than 15 years, and has played a significant role in the growing popularity of this innovative class of materials in the US bridge market.
The objective of this presentation is to introduce the state-of-practice for UHPC in US highway bridge market, and discuss how this material is innovating the way we design and construct highway bridges. The presentation will include: a review of the basic properties of UHPC-class materials; a discussion of the current deployments in the US bridge market; and a discussion of recent research conducted at TFHRC. Research topics to be discussed will include: prefabricated bridge element connections using UHPC; UHPC for bridge repair and rehabilitation; and recent research focused on understanding the fundamental material properties and structural response of UHPC-class materials.

Dr. Zach Haber is a research structural engineer on FHWA’s Bridge Engineering Research Team at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) in McLean, Virginia, USA. Dr. Haber’s research areas include prefabricated bridge systems and applications of innovative materials in bridge engineering. He provides technical assistance and outreach to bridge owners, designers, and consultants interested in developing or deploying innovative bridge engineering solutions.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:08:01 -0500 2020-02-04T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
Lateral circulation and its role in disrupting the classical pattern of intra-tidal stratification in estuaries (February 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70028 70028-17499522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The tidal cycle variability of stratification in an estuary is controlled by the interaction between tidal flows, bathymetry, and the estuary's longitudinal salt gradient. Two-dimensional analysis (in the vertical-longitudinal plane) of a straight, estuarine channel yields the classical theory of periodic stratification from tidal straining, and this mechanism typically works to enhance stratification on ebb tides and break it down through active mixing on flood tides. Ecological implications of mixing relative to tidal phase include whether sediment can reach perimeter habitats high in the tidal prism, whether phytoplankton reach sunlight, and whether hypoxia at depth persists longer than biology can tolerate. This pattern of stratification can be disrupted by density-driven exchange with shallow regions lining the channel: differential advection over channel-shoal bathymetry sets up lateral gradients in velocity, straining the salinity field and driving an input of fresher water at the surface of the channel during flood tides. Here, we present analytical scaling groups to weigh the contributions of longitudinal and lateral tidal straining and explore the conditions which lead to flood-tide stratification through this lateral exchange mechanism. Idealized, fully three-dimensional model results from the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) are used to explore the parameter space described by the scaling groups.

Lissa MacVean is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research is focused on the physics of water in lakes, estuaries, and marine coastal environments.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:47:33 -0500 2020-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
A Data-Driven Optimization Approach For the Dynamic Shuttle Dispatching Problem (February 6, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70040 70040-17499534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The problem of dispatching shuttles to serve trip requests can be mathematically formulated as a dial-a-ride problem (DARP). With on-demand mobility services gaining more popularity in recent years, the real-time application of DARP is attracting ever more interest. However, the fact that size of DARP grows exponentially with number of requests renders the current solution methodologies inadequate for online applications. In order to tackle this issue, we propose a general framework that shifts much of the computational burden of the optimization problems that need to be solved into an offline setting, thereby addressing on-demand requests with fast and high-quality solutions in real time. Furthermore, in order to improve the utilization rate of vehicles, we seek to dispatch our shuttle proactively, and not wait for the demand to be realized first. Using various numerical experiments, we demonstrate the benefits of the proposed method. Furthermore, we present a sensitivity analysis to show the performance of our methodology under different parameter settings.

Amir is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is working under the supervision of Dr. Neda Masoud.

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 01 Feb 2020 15:54:53 -0500 2020-02-06T14:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series (February 7, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71575 71575-17842682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Jeffers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan. Her research focuses on analysis of structures subjected to extreme load events (e.g., fire, blasts, earthquakes), numerical analysis of complex systems, advanced finite element methods, structural dynamics, structural stability. Also interested in various topics within engineering education.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:04:47 -0500 2020-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (February 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
NERS Colloquium: How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation (February 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70140 70140-17540913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Solar energy’s path to widespread adoption provides a successful model that can be applied to other technologies we will need to address climate change.

Solar photovoltaics (PV) has become a substantial global industry—a truly disruptive technology that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s. But,

How did solar become inexpensive? And why did it take so long?
As a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow I had the opportunity to dive deeply into these questions, drawing on new data sets, analyses, and interviewing 75 individuals in 18 countries. The concept of National Innovation Systems provides a theoretical structure for this assessment and helps explain that PV’s success has been the result of distinct contributions mainly by the US, Japan, Germany, Australia, and China—in that sequence. Flows of knowledge from one country to another—often embodied in equipment, and also as tacit knowledge in the heads of internationally mobile individuals—have been central to solar’s progress. One payoff from understanding the reasons for solar’s success is that it can serve as a model for other low-carbon technologies. I focus on direct air carbon capture and small nuclear reactors. However other technologies would have to progress much faster than PV to be helpful for climate change. Possible approaches for accelerating innovation include: dynamic R&D foci, codification of knowledge, public procurement, robust markets, enhancing knowledge mobility, and addressing political economy considerations.

Speaker: Professor Gregory F. Nemet, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gregory Nemet is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the La Follette School of Public Affairs. He teaches courses in policy analysis, energy systems, and international environmental policy. Nemet's research focuses on understanding the process of technological change and the ways in which public policy can affect it. He received his doctorate in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley. His A.B. is in geography and economics from Dartmouth College. He received an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2017 and used it to write a book on how solar PV provides lessons for the development of other low-carbon technologies: “How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation” (Routledge 2019). He was awarded the inaugural World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance by APPAM in 2019. He is currently a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:56:16 -0500 2020-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Professor Gregory F. Nemet
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (February 11, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Rethinking America’s Urban Water Infrastructure: Resource Efficiency, Access, and Public Health (February 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70029 70029-17499523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Water infrastructure renewal is receiving significant attention today as many of our systems are meeting (or exceeding) design life. Cities in countries with well developed economies like the U.S. enjoy economic prosperity in part due to the development of heavily centralized water systems that create high levels of water quality and public health, on average. While centralized water infrastructure has served us well, I argue that we should not be constrained to applying 20th century thinking as we plan for the future. The current revolution in information technologies (IT: software, hardware and devices) has the potential to transform urban water infrastructure by creating more resilient and flexible hybrid systems comprised of an interacting collection of centralized and decentralized physical IT systems. I contend that the development of IT-enabled “smart” hybrid water system solutions has the potential to: improve the efficiency with which we use resources (e.g., water, power,
nutrients); enhance equitable access to water services; change consumer and provider behavior around water; and ensure that we sustain a high level of public health, even as more people live in close proximity to each other. In this talk and through the use of case studies from across different regions around the globe, I will explore these scenarios and the changing ways in which people live. As an example, one case study will include the development of “smart” distributed nutrient recovery systems that have been deployed and are being tested at the University of Michigan.

Nancy Love is the Borchardt and Glysson Collegiate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Nancy research focuses are on assessing and advancing public and environmental health using chemical, biological and analytical approaches applied to water systems using both physical experiments and computational models.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:48:22 -0500 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles on Parking (February 13, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70244 70244-17556160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to improve mobility, safety, and parking accessibility. It is estimated that AVs will be available on the market in the next decade. As car-parks are closed environments, they are among the first locations to expect influenced by AVs. AVs can be stacked in multiple rows like valet parking due to their self-parking capability. To release blocked vehicles, car-park operators relocate certain vehicles in driverless mode to create a clear pathway for cars that need to leave the facility. The problem of finding the optimal car-park layout design is investigated that minimizes relocations to fit a given number of vehicles. Results show that AV parking facilities can decrease the need for parking space by an average of 62%. The operation of AV parking facilities is also investigated, and policies for choosing a parking spot for each vehicle are proposed based on the arrival and departure time information. AVs will not only change the car-park facilities, but also where travelers park. AV users can exit from their vehicles and send their vehicles to park in a strategic location. AVs can park farther from destination in cheaper parking lots or cruise for the whole activity time. Results show that while the same parking price across all the locations would exacerbate the congestion by motivating more AVs to cruise, a toll for zero- occupant AVs would decrease the congestion.

Sina Bahrami is a Postdoctoral fellow at University of Michigan. He received a B.S. and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and a Ph.D. from University of Toronto. Sina’s research is focused on the parking policy in the era of Avs.

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 09 Feb 2020 18:36:39 -0500 2020-02-13T14:30:00-05:00 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series (February 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71576 71576-17842683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

HNTB Spark is part of who they are and what they do. The orange square in HNTB's logo represents the spark of innovation and imagination that they bring to all that they do. HNTB's commitment is to the communities they live and work in. And to their diverse and inclusive culture. A culture that is defined by integrity and technical excellence resulting in delivering quality work for more than a century.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:13:29 -0500 2020-02-14T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (February 14, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (February 18, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Blast and Impact Resistant Protective Design (February 18, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72187 72187-17955061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The design of structures to protect occupants and operations in response to man-made extraordinary events requires attention to critical failure mechanisms and component behavior. Since the intensity and likelihood of these events are not well defined, performance based design approaches include the management of inelastic response and local failure. Design techniques that were developed for the ‘cold war’ are now adapted for Government and commercial construction. Applying these techniques to ‘design excellence’ architecture is a major challenge and the least impactful protective measures that achieve the required performance contribute to a project’s success. In many projects, the protective design engineer helps identify the risks associated with different design options and helps the owners to decide whether to mitigate or accept these risks.

Robert Smilowitz is a Senior Principal at Thornton Tomasetti

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Jan 2020 07:41:14 -0500 2020-02-18T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar oslo, minimalism, architecture
Car-sharing service design: combining mathematical programming with stochastic simulation to tackle high- dimensional discrete simulation-based optimization problems (February 19, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72851 72851-18085923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 9:00am
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

In this talk, we consider the design of car-sharing services for a major car-sharing service providor. The problem is formulated as a high-dimensional discrete simulation-based optimization (DSO) problem. We propose a method that combines disaggregate car-sharing reservation data, analytical mathematical programming (MP) models, and simulation-based optimization algorithms. We present various ways in which the MP formulations can be used to enhance both the computational efficiency of DSO algorithms, as well as their ability to tackle high-dimensional problems. We present numerical results on a Boston case study.

Carolina Osorio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), and in the Operations Research Center (ORC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her work develops operations research techniques to inform the design and operations of urban mobility systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:18:37 -0500 2020-02-19T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T10:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar 2020 Faculty Candidate Seminar
Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Subsurface Modeling (February 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70030 70030-17499524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Daniel Tartakovsky has received his BSc and MSc in Applied Mathematics from Kazan University, Russia in 1991 and PhD in Hydrology from University of Arizona in 1996. He was a Technical Staff Member and Team Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1996-2005) and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California San Diego (2005-2017). Since 2017 he is a Professor in Energy Resources Engineering Department at Stanford University. His research interests include environmental fluid mechanics, uncertainty quantification and risk assessment, data assimilation and machine learning, and multiscale modeling. He has published over 200 articles in these fields, and served on the editorial boards of many related journals.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:42:05 -0500 2020-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar EWRE Seminar
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020 (February 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68682 68682-17136739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor.

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.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:54:45 -0400 2020-02-20T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Conference / Symposium MUSE 2020 logo
Historical Engineering Special Guest Seminar: Great Builders (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72779 72779-18077116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

In the past century the means and methods to design and build infrastructure have evolved at an ever increasing rate. Yet, there are timeless lessons from the builders of the “great projects”; the Eads Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Veteran builder and award winning civil engineering historian Raymond Paul Giroux will share his unique perspective of the great projects and the timeless lessons of the builders of the great projects.
Learning Objectives: After attending the Great Builders lecture, participants will be better able to:
• Understand the challenges of designing and building the Great Projects
• Understand the role of the key individuals who worked on the Great Projects
• Identify lessons from the Great Builders that are still relevant to modern practice
• Identify the essential traits of great builders

Paul Giroux is a Senior Estimating Manger at Kiewiet in Washington. Giroux has 40 years of experience with working on various projects such as high-risk heavy civil engineering projects, technical bridges, ad quality control management.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 12 Feb 2020 07:57:47 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Build air
Adaptive Testing Scenario Library Generation for CAV Evaluation Based on Bayesian Optimization (February 20, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70245 70245-17556161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Testing and evaluation is a critical step in the development and deployment of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), and how to generate testing scenario library is a major challenge. In previous studies, to evaluate maneuver challenge of a scenario, surrogate models (SMs) are often used without explicit knowledge of the CAV under test. However, performance dissimilarities between the SM and the CAV under test usually exist, and it can lead to the generation of suboptimal library. In this work, an adaptive testing scenario library generation method is proposed to solve this problem based on Bayesian optimization. A customized testing scenario library for a specific CAV model will be generated as the result of the adaptive process. Compared with a pre-determined library, a CAV can be tested and evaluated in a more efficient manner with the customized library. To validate the proposed method, a cut-in and a highway exit case are studied for safety and functionality evaluation respectively. For both two cases, the proposed method can further accelerate the evaluation process by a few orders of magnitudes.

Shuo Feng is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:50:59 -0500 2020-02-20T14:30:00-05:00 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
ASCE Seminar Series (February 20, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72593 72593-18024696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 6:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:14:30 -0500 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
FE Exam Overview and Student Forum (February 20, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72852 72852-18085924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Chi Epsilon presents Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam Overview and Student Forum. This event will give you insight to the exam, available preparation materials, and you will have an opportunity to discuss the exam with graduate students who recently passed the exam.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:30:54 -0500 2020-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T20:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Lecture / Discussion I took this photo in a private school in Italy (Bologna) and I found beautiful these two girls studying together.
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020 (February 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68682 68682-17136740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor.

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.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:54:45 -0400 2020-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Conference / Symposium MUSE 2020 logo
Michigan Impact Investing Symposium (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72712 72712-18061841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Impact Investing Symposium

The Michigan Impact Investing Symposium (MIIS) is a conference that allows participants to explore investments that provide financial as well as social returns under the guidance of some distinguished members of the impact investing community. Our theme for MIIS 2020 is "Re-Imagining Capitalism for a Sustainable Future" to inspire our speakers, panelists, and attendees to expand their current knowledge about finance and impact in a way that creates durable institutional change.

The Symposium will feature speakers from Marathon Capital, Goldman Sachs, Impact Engine, Bedrock, Orrick, Total Impact Capital, Rocky Mountain Institute, Equitable Facilities Fund, Pfizer, Blue Marbel Capital, Stray Dog Capital, and BC Global Partners. Throughout the day, there will be opportunities to network with speakers and enjoy catered lunch and snacks.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:45:57 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Impact Investing Symposium Conference / Symposium MIIS Logo
ASCE Seminar Series (February 21, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72594 72594-18024697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Kiewit’s ethical, forward-thinking workforce continues to build upon the company’s reputation of safe, high-quality engineering. Consistently ranked among the top five of the Engineering News-Record Top 400 Contractors, the company is a leader in a variety of market sectors throughout North America. As an employee-owned company, Kiewit’s assets are managed by the people who know their work best. As their own stakeholders, Kiewit is invested in every project they take on. Kiewit continuously strive to build high-quality work at the lowest cost.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:19:13 -0500 2020-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (February 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020 (February 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68682 68682-17136741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE)

The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor.

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.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:54:45 -0400 2020-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment Initiative (MUSE) Conference / Symposium MUSE 2020 logo
The Role of Emerging Structural Materials, Technology, and Innovative Testing in Advancing Infrastructure Design and Resiliency (February 24, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73065 73065-18138323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 2:00pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Feb 2020 07:53:11 -0500 2020-02-24T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T15:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Steel bridge on Alaska Highway
2020 Borchardt Conference (February 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72196 72196-17955069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Every three years the Michigan-based Borchardt Conference brings together a diverse group of engineers, scientists, public health specialists and students to present and discuss the latest issues and advances in water and wastewater technology. The This premier triennial event emphasizes applied research and real life experience in environmental engineering and water utility operations. The Borchardt Conference is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, MI-AWWA, MWEA and EGLE. CECs and PDHs will be awarded for this conference.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:39:52 -0500 2020-02-25T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Borchart Conference
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (February 25, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-02-25T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Civil engineering Nth Nth-of -a-Kind advanced nuclear reactors (February 25, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72780 72780-18077117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Nuclear energy provides approximately 20% of the nation’s electricity and is the only green heat source capable of delivering base load power at this time. Plants in the existing nuclear fleet are being retired because they cannot complete financially with natural gas and there is no carbon tax at present. The overnight capital cost for new build nuclear plants in the United States is about $12,500 per kWe , which has to be reduced by about a factor of five to be competitive with the price point of natural gas. Civil construction accounts for between 45% and 50% of the cost of a new build nuclear plant and so drastic reductions in these costs are needed for commercial customers to consider nuclear energy as a source of power generation. The presentation will explore the cost drivers for new build plants, identify differences between building and nuclear construction, describe how poor design decisions lead to dramatic increases in cost, introduce civil civil-engineering strategies for mitigating the effects of external hazards.

Andrew Wittaker is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Buffalo. His research focuses on structural and earthquake engineering, bridge engineering, blast engineering, and performance-based engineering.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:03:30 -0500 2020-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T17:30:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Structural Seminar Series
2020 Borchardt Conference (February 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72196 72196-18085925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Every three years the Michigan-based Borchardt Conference brings together a diverse group of engineers, scientists, public health specialists and students to present and discuss the latest issues and advances in water and wastewater technology. The This premier triennial event emphasizes applied research and real life experience in environmental engineering and water utility operations. The Borchardt Conference is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, MI-AWWA, MWEA and EGLE. CECs and PDHs will be awarded for this conference.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:39:52 -0500 2020-02-26T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Borchart Conference
On the Empty Miles of Ride-Sourcing Services: Theory, Observation, and Countermeasures (February 27, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70246 70246-17556162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The proliferation of smartphones in recent years has catalyzed rapid growth of app-based ride-sourcing services such as Uber, Lyft and Didi Chuxing. A big issue that arises with service expansion is the empty miles produced by ride- sourcing vehicles. To overcome the physical and temporal frictions that separate drivers from customers and effectively reposition themselves towards desired destinations, ride sourcing vehicles generate a significant amount of vacant trips. These empty miles traveled result in an inefficient use of the available fleet and increase traffic demand, posing substantially impacts on system operations. This talk expounds the operational physics underlying the empty miles in ride-sourcing services, and interprets the cause of two critical matching failures that can arise due to some common mechanisms practiced by ride-sourcing platforms. Given the prevalence of the failures in real-world operations, we discuss countermeasures to avoid inefficiencies upon the empty miles, and sustain the system performances. Massive empirical data are employed to evidence the presence of matters in reality as well as the effectiveness of control strategies discussed.

Zhengtian Xu is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research interests mainly focus on developing novel models, tools, and conducting data-driven quantitative analyses to understand, promote, and regulate emerging mobility services and infrastructures.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 26 Feb 2020 07:34:13 -0500 2020-02-27T14:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (February 28, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-02-28T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (March 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-18241317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 2, 2020 11:00am
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Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2020-03-02T23:00:00-05:00 University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (March 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-03-03T15:00:00-05:00 2020-03-03T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (March 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-18241318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 11:00am
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Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-03-04T11:00:00-05:00 2020-03-04T23:00:00-05:00 University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (March 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-18241319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 5, 2020 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-03-05T23:00:00-05:00 University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (March 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-17946468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-03-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-03-06T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (March 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-18241320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 7, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-03-07T09:00:00-05:00 2020-03-07T23:00:00-05:00 University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (March 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-18241321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 8, 2020 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-03-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-08T23:00:00-04:00 University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Summer 2020 Energy UROP now open for applications (March 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72144 72144-18241322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

The University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI), in partnership with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), offers U-M undergraduates a 10-week summer fellowship to work under the supervision of a U-M faculty member in any field on research projects related to energy. The program runs from May 26 - July 31, 2020 and provides a $4,000 stipend. For further details and application instructions, go to myumi.ch/JDwgq.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:58:51 -0500 2020-03-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T17:00:00-04:00 University of Michigan Energy Institute Careers / Jobs Electric vehicles are one of the many energy-related topics you can research
Teach-in on auto efficiency and CO2 emissions (March 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73345 73345-18206117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

John DeCicco of the U-M Energy Institute will host a panel of experts for a teach-in on "Automobile Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities for Addressing a Major Part of CO2 Emissions." This event will bring you up-to-date on the status of automobile efficiency and CO2 emissions, examining market trends and policy challenges. It will highlight opportunities for improvement and discuss what is needed to speed progress on this crucial climate action front. Join us on Monday, March 9, 2020, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, in Room 1690 at the School of Public Health (SPH I).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:22:29 -0500 2020-03-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T14:00:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower University of Michigan Energy Institute Lecture / Discussion Car exhausts cook the planet!
Earth Day Teach-In: Public Perceptions of Renewable Energy in Michigan: How to Constructively Advocate at the Local Level (March 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73721 73721-18304819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

As demand for renewable energy grows, wind energy and solar energy developers are looking for communities to host these projects. In this session, Dr. Sarah Mills will talk about what we know about public perceptions of renewable energy in the communities where wind and solar projects are proposed. She'll draw mostly on her research understanding community reactions to wind energy projects in Michigan, extrapolate what that means for solar energy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:10:10 -0400 2020-03-09T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T14:00:00-04:00 Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion Renewable wind energy
Financing the Sustainability Enterprise (March 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73394 73394-18214938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sustainability (environmental, social & governance values) is not 'a thing' but 'the way we do things'. It is about mainstreaming sustainability. To communicate this we will be talking about integration of sustainability metrics and values at three levels of implementation:
1. Within the fence of an organization: How are sustainable principles implemented at the unit level?
2. Outside the fence of the organization: How are sustainability principles implemented across supply chains?
3. Conditioning capital investment in sustainability: What is sustainable capital, how is capital deployment impacted by sustainability metrics?

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:26:06 -0500 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Peter Adriaens Teach-In
Achieving One Water and the Circular Economy (March 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73395 73395-18214939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The One Water concept is the integrated planning and management of finite water resources to meet the long term needs of both society and our ecosystems. As a society we need to not only improve the management of our water resources, we should also explore how valuable resources can be recovered from our water. This teach-in will explore the connections between our drinking water, wastewater, and natural water systems in order to better manage our water resources and recover valuable products. In recent years researchers have focused on recovering valuable products such as fertilizers from our waste streams in order to develop more sustainable products and conserve finite resources. We will explore this topic and many more in this teach-in. Specifically, this program will dive in to interesting topics such as:
--Current resource recovery opportunities such as nutrient recycling
--New and emerging resource recovery and water reuse technologies
--Tangible steps that you can take within your household to improve your impact on the water cycle

You can expect to learn about the engineered water cycle, how you can reduce your food/water waste, nutrient recycling, and new technologies and approaches to recover valuable resources from our water and wastewater!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:09:39 -0500 2020-03-10T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Nancy Love Teach-In
Earth Day Teach-In: Public Perceptions of Renewable Energy in Michigan: How to Constructively Advocate at the Local Level (March 10, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73721 73721-18304818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

As demand for renewable energy grows, wind energy and solar energy developers are looking for communities to host these projects. In this session, Dr. Sarah Mills will talk about what we know about public perceptions of renewable energy in the communities where wind and solar projects are proposed. She'll draw mostly on her research understanding community reactions to wind energy projects in Michigan, extrapolate what that means for solar energy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:10:10 -0400 2020-03-10T10:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion Renewable wind energy
Nuclear Energy Futures Seminar Series (March 10, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72628 72628-18033403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Embedded Intelligent Systems, Infrastructures and Approaches

The focus of the third seminar in the UM-INL Nuclear Energy Futures Series is on Embedded Intelligent Systems, Infrastructures and Approaches. The technical scope of this thrust area targets reducing plant maintenance costs, reducing reactor design and operation margins, and intelligent autonomous frameworks that include inherent cyber security.

Dr. Garcia will start with an overview of the concept of secure embedded intelligence and how this will transform monitoring and control systems of nuclear power plants and enable autonomous operation. Prof. Kochunas will then present on an alternative approach to supporting autonomous operation through consideration of the inherent physics and design of the reactor. Dr. Agarwal will conclude the seminar by discussing some of the research his team focuses in trying to connect state-of-the-art reactor diagnostics and prognostics to risk informed decision-making processes.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Mar 2020 09:00:44 -0500 2020-03-10T14:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Climate Change Mitigation Strategies: CO2 Utilization & Sequestration Through Engineering Solutions (March 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73396 73396-18214940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Combating climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing today’s society, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering has recognized the need to mitigate emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) as one of this century’s grand engineering challenges. Such action is needed to prevent potentially catastrophic shifts in regional temperatures, precipitation patterns, and sea level rise. This teach-in will introduce several emerging opportunities to (1) sequester human-derived CO2 emissions and (2) directly utilize CO2 to create value-added products. Topics will include geologic sequestration of CO2, use of CO2 to produce geothermal energy and store surplus renewable energy in subsurface reservoirs, and direct utilization of CO2 in durable concrete infrastructure products. The presentation will include several hands-on activities to explore these processes and discuss how we can leverage such engineering solutions to slow climate change.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:30:28 -0500 2020-03-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T09:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Brian Ellis Teach-In
Picking collaboration over fighting: Climate Change & the Natural and the Built Environment (March 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73397 73397-18214941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

The built environment is responsible for over half of all man-made CO2 emissions. In this teach-in, we will explore the impacts of the built environment on climate change, and the impacts of climate change on the built environment. We will learn how various policy, design, and technologies may be deployed to mitigate these impacts. The teach-in will include a combination of presentations and panel interaction with participants. Speakers include Missy Stults, Sustainability and Innovations Manager, City of Ann Arbor; Matt Grocoff, Principal of THRIVE Collaborative; Devki Desai, project engineer in HOK’s structural engineering group in New York City; and Victor Li, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, U-M.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:11:24 -0400 2020-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Victor Li Teach-In
Cancelled: Earth Day at 50, Engineering for the Next 50 (March 12, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73367 73367-18208331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Engineering is the application of science to the optimum conversion
of the resources of nature to the uses of humankind. So what does
that mean for engineers trying to build clean energy systems? This
talk will outline the challenges required to build cleaner energy
systems and what that means for engineers from Earth Day +50 and the
following 50 years.

Speaker: Todd Allen, Chair and Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:17:50 -0400 2020-03-12T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Earth Day
Cancelled: Fastest Path to Zero Carbon Emissions: Building an Exemplar for Deploying Clean Energy (March 13, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73187 73187-18155747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 9:30am
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Deploying clean energy is a complex multi-disciplinary task and, to be most successful, requires approaches that combine the best technology, acceptable costs, public policy approaches, and social decisions.

The teach-in will:
-Describe the current state of community acceptance of the deployment of renewable energy in Michigan
-Describe the national state of the deployment of a new generation of advanced nuclear energy
-Engage in facilitated conversations about the use of technology for the public good

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:18:04 -0400 2020-03-13T09:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T11:30:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Workshop / Seminar Michigan from Space
UMMA Pop Up: Karissa Bone (March 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73786 73786-18315758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Writing in her own genre, Karissa Bone introduces music with the bop-factor of Pop, the soul of R&B, and the unexpected element of pinpointed introspective lyrics. Hailing from Saginaw, MI, her style is influenced by Motown, Classic Rock, and everything in life that goes sideways. Her airy, yet powerful voice melts together with her soul-twisting lyrics to make every song a memorable journey. Whether she’s with a full band, string section, at a grand piano, or playing solo with her electric guitar, Bone’s live shows are full of energy and belonging. With short comedic breaks, she seamlessly covers topics from heartbreak to nostalgia, to the modern age of technology. Her artistry truly shows through– when she sings, you stop and listen. 

In 2019, while studying at the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Bone paid her dues in Ann Arbor, where she's performed at the famed Blind Pig, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, and the Canterbury House. She currently studies songwriting at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. 

You can find her on Instagram @itskarissabone 

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:16 -0400 2020-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Transportation Seminar Series (March 19, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70248 70248-17556164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

We build Lagrangian continuum models that utilize vehicle trajectory data obtained via V2X connectivity. These models are able to capture three important features of traffic flow: (i) the propagation of congestions in time, (ii) the propagation of congestions in space, (iii) the string instability/stability, that is, the amplification/decay of traffic waves while having only three tunable parameters. These models also enable us to study the large-scale impact of connected automated vehicles on traffic flow control.

Gabor Orosz is an Associate Professor for the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Gabor's research interests include Nonlinear dynamics and control, time-delay systems, networks and complex systems, dynamics and control of connected vehicles, ground robots and autonomous vehicles, neural networks, gene-regulatory networks.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:47:56 -0400 2020-03-19T14:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Transportation Seminar
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Pricing and Worth (March 26, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70249 70249-17556165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Lack of a dense network of charging infrastructure is a major barrier to the growth of the plug-in electric vehicle market. Electric vehicle drivers value public charging availability since, among other benefits, it reduces range anxiety. This talk introduces drivers’ willingness to pay functions for public charging infrastructure availability, conditional on electric vehicle type and range, annual travel mileage, energy prices, vehicle efficiency, and household income. At the same time, public charging deployment creates investment opportunities for station operators and electric utilities. Hence, in the last part of this talk, operating costs for fast charging stations are estimated, leveraging utility rates data across the United States. Cost mitigation technologies, such as solar panels and energy storage, are also identified.

Eleftheria Kontou is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Enviornmental Engineering Department at University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. Her research interests include transportation planning, electrification and emerging vehicle technologies operations, as well as transportation and energy sectors interdependencies.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:52:18 -0400 2020-03-26T14:30:00-04:00 2020-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Transportation Seminar
A unified fuel consumption model (March 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73742 73742-18311323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

On Thursday, March 26 at 3:00 pm, Patrick Phlips of Ford Motor Company will present recent research by himself and a Ford team on how a power-based model can be used to characterize fuel consumption over a wide range of powertrain technologies and vehicle operating conditions.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:11:00 -0400 2020-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Lecture / Discussion Patrick Phlips of Ford Motor Company
UPDATED: ConEco Webinar: Migratory Fish, Dams, and Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs in Tropical River Systems (March 27, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72956 72956-18096988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series.

This event and the remaining Seminars in the SEAS Conservation Ecology Seminar Series will be moved to webinars accessible through BlueJeans.

Please join us Fridays 3-4pm in BlueJeans Meeting ID 798 256 173
This site has some instructions on using BlueJeans and a link to download the app: https://its.umich.edu/communication/videoconferencing/blue-jeans
Audience members will join with microphone and videos muted. Questions will be moderated through the chat function.

Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:55:52 -0400 2020-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
Transportation Seminar Series (April 9, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70252 70252-17556167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBD

Cara Wang is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research mainly focuses on the analysis of the interactions between land use, transport (both passenger and freight), energy and environment, and the spatial dependence of travel behavior.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:16:42 -0400 2020-04-09T14:30:00-04:00 2020-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Transportation Seminar
Nuclear Energy Grand Challenge Pitch Competition (April 10, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72087 72087-17937815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Nuclear power is an essential tool in the fight against climate change—producing massive amounts of energy without any greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, deploying nuclear power at scale worldwide represents the most efficient path to deep decarbonization. Despite this potential, the nuclear power industry is hindered by social, political, and economic challenges in many parts of the world. The Nuclear Energy Grand Challenge represents a series of prize competitions organized by the Energy Impact Center to spur a new approach to nuclear power deployment on a time frame that can make a difference.

The first prize competition, Reimagining Nuclear Waste, is taking place over the Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 semesters in partnership with the University of Michigan. It was designed to advance the clean energy economy by engaging collegiate innovators and entrepreneurs to tackle one of the most unique challenges facing the nuclear energy industry—the perception of nuclear waste.

The nuclear industry has historically responded to calls against its “waste” by offering solutions around concentrating, storing indefinitely, and separating it from humans, which only further—albeit counterintuitively—deepens the public’s distrust, misunderstanding, and wariness of the energy source at large. This prize competition represents the first of several efforts to flip the script on the byproducts of nuclear energy generation, by identifying new commercial opportunities to transform nuclear “waste” from a liability into an asset.

Interdisciplinary student teams were challenged to create technical business plan proposals to productize nuclear waste and incentivize the creation of new markets/uses that re-imagine how spent nuclear fuel can be utilized. At this public event, the teams will present their proposals to a panel of judges.

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Presentation Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:45:06 -0400 2020-04-10T13:30:00-04:00 2020-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Presentation Pitch Competition
Transportation Seminar Series (April 16, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70253 70253-17556174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

TBD

Corey Harper in a Post Doctoral Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:15:54 -0400 2020-04-16T14:30:00-04:00 2020-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Livestream / Virtual Transportation Seminar
UROP Summer Virtual Symposium (July 27, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74936 74936-19102715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 27, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Summer Symposium is a showcase of the research conducted by our Summer Fellows. This year we are holding our symposium virtually.

This event will span from Monday, July 27th - Thursday, July 30th.
Each day of Symposium will be comprised of three sessions.
The first two hours of symposium will showcase students from seven of our fellowships:
- Biomedical and Life Sciences Summer Fellows
- Center for Human Growth and Development
- Engineering Summer Fellows
- Intel Semiconductor Research Corporation Summer Fellowship
- Mcubed Scholars
- University of Michigan Energy Institute
- Women and Gender Summer Fellowship Program

The final hour and a half session (4:00pm - 5:30pm) of each Symposium day will showcase our Community College Summer Fellowship Program researchers.

We hope you will join us!
http://myumi.ch/88e2r

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:50:06 -0400 2020-07-27T14:00:00-04:00 2020-07-27T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium UROP Virtual Symposium
UROP Summer Virtual Symposium (July 28, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74936 74936-19102716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Summer Symposium is a showcase of the research conducted by our Summer Fellows. This year we are holding our symposium virtually.

This event will span from Monday, July 27th - Thursday, July 30th.
Each day of Symposium will be comprised of three sessions.
The first two hours of symposium will showcase students from seven of our fellowships:
- Biomedical and Life Sciences Summer Fellows
- Center for Human Growth and Development
- Engineering Summer Fellows
- Intel Semiconductor Research Corporation Summer Fellowship
- Mcubed Scholars
- University of Michigan Energy Institute
- Women and Gender Summer Fellowship Program

The final hour and a half session (4:00pm - 5:30pm) of each Symposium day will showcase our Community College Summer Fellowship Program researchers.

We hope you will join us!
http://myumi.ch/88e2r

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:50:06 -0400 2020-07-28T14:00:00-04:00 2020-07-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium UROP Virtual Symposium
UROP Summer Virtual Symposium (July 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74936 74936-19102717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Summer Symposium is a showcase of the research conducted by our Summer Fellows. This year we are holding our symposium virtually.

This event will span from Monday, July 27th - Thursday, July 30th.
Each day of Symposium will be comprised of three sessions.
The first two hours of symposium will showcase students from seven of our fellowships:
- Biomedical and Life Sciences Summer Fellows
- Center for Human Growth and Development
- Engineering Summer Fellows
- Intel Semiconductor Research Corporation Summer Fellowship
- Mcubed Scholars
- University of Michigan Energy Institute
- Women and Gender Summer Fellowship Program

The final hour and a half session (4:00pm - 5:30pm) of each Symposium day will showcase our Community College Summer Fellowship Program researchers.

We hope you will join us!
http://myumi.ch/88e2r

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:50:06 -0400 2020-07-29T14:00:00-04:00 2020-07-29T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium UROP Virtual Symposium
Alum Connections: Christine McDonald (July 30, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75191 75191-19322496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 30, 2020 12:30pm
Location:
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Connect with Christine McDonald, Commercial Development Director at BP

Christine brings over ten years of experience leading and impacting various business units at BP. She has a unique story to tell; as an economics and french graduate, she joined BP as a trade development intern. Since then, she’s held a multitude of roles including those in product control, operations, planning, performance management, ethics and compliance, and now commercial development. Christine will be leading a conversation on career opportunities at BP and provide sound advice about diversifying your professional experience over the course of your career.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
A liberal arts and/or sciences student
Looking for insights and tips on work and careers in the energy sector
Interested in pursuing a job or career in finance, project management, ethics and compliance, and want to know what technical skills are needed

What you’ll gain by attending:
Discover the variety of internship and full time opportunities available at BP
Learn how to make crucial job decisions that can impact your career trajectory and that are both challenging and rewarding
Get a credible understanding of how your LSA experience is a lifelong investment in personal and professional growth

RSVP now to reserve your spot. By signing up, you will receive an email with details on how to join this virtual workshop the morning of the session.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact Carla Huhn at Carlavoy@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

Please be advised that this virtual event will be recorded and may be published later at future date through LSA Opportunity Hub’s media channels. If you'd prefer not to be recorded, please make sure to mute your video at the start of the event. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us at lsa-opphub@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:31:46 -0400 2020-07-30T12:30:00-04:00 2020-07-30T13:30:00-04:00 LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Christine McDonald Photo
UROP Summer Virtual Symposium (July 30, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74936 74936-19102718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 30, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Summer Symposium is a showcase of the research conducted by our Summer Fellows. This year we are holding our symposium virtually.

This event will span from Monday, July 27th - Thursday, July 30th.
Each day of Symposium will be comprised of three sessions.
The first two hours of symposium will showcase students from seven of our fellowships:
- Biomedical and Life Sciences Summer Fellows
- Center for Human Growth and Development
- Engineering Summer Fellows
- Intel Semiconductor Research Corporation Summer Fellowship
- Mcubed Scholars
- University of Michigan Energy Institute
- Women and Gender Summer Fellowship Program

The final hour and a half session (4:00pm - 5:30pm) of each Symposium day will showcase our Community College Summer Fellowship Program researchers.

We hope you will join us!
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Conference / Symposium Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:50:06 -0400 2020-07-30T14:00:00-04:00 2020-07-30T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium UROP Virtual Symposium