Events for Month of November 2009 3 November, 2009 Event: Forecast for the Next Decade of the Medical Device Industry
Location: Northeast Utilities Auditorium, Berlin, CT
Details: BEACON Meet & Greet reception
followed by an industry panel of experts who will present
the “Forecast for the Next Decade of the Medical Device Industry.”
This is the final event in the Pfizer Sponsored Seminar Series for 2009.
It will be held at the Northeast Utilities Headquarters, Berlin, CT.
Topics covered by the panel will include:
• Retention and growth of medical device companies in the U.S.
• Strategies for medical device companies to compete globally
• How the future depends on entrepreneurs and what they need to succeed
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3 November, 2009 Event: Xinqiao Jia, University of Delaware
Location: UTEb 150
Details: CHEG Seminar Series
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3 November, 2009 Event: BMES 3rd General Meeting
Location: Biology & Physics Building, Room 131
Details: BMES 3rd General Meeting Abstract:
We will be discussing the details of the Human Body Exhibit Trip. Members need to bring in their $5.00 ticket & travel fee as soon as possible.
We will also begin dividing up the companies list and lay out times for calling companies.
We will also discuss possible events for next semester and upcoming seminars.
As usual the class will be followed up with our Q&A mentoring session.
Upcoming Social Events:
Human Body Exhibit at Foxwoods – USG Funded
-Sunday November 15th
-$5.00 for Tickets and Travel
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6 November, 2009 Event: Environmental Engineering Colloquium
Location: CAST, Room 212
Details: Environmental Engineering Graduate Students will be presenting their research.
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10 November, 2009 Event: Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Committee Social Event
Location: Murphy & Scarletti's Farmington, CT
Details: Join us for a social evening and some
Discussion on future opportunities for the BME Graduate Student Committee
And BME program at UCONN.
As you know, the BME Graduate Student Committee was formed in an effort to
connect the BME Graduate students academically, professionally and
socially. In the upcoming weeks, we will be meeting for two social events
in Farmington and Storrs. Details on these two social events are provided
below.
Farmington, CT
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 10 at 6pm
Location: Murphy & Scarletti's
270 Farmington Ave
Farmington, CT 06032
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11 November, 2009 Event: Richard D. Sission, Jr., Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location: IMS 20
Details: MSE Seminar Series, Heat Treating & Surface Engineering
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13 November, 2009 Event: Civil & Environmental Engineering Department Colloquium
Location: CAST, 212
Details: Terry Sobecki of USACE Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory will be speaking with us.
Title-TBA
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13 November, 2009 Event: BPB Rm 130: ME Fall 2009 Seminar Series: "From X43 to X51: A Bird’s Eye View of Challenges for Advanced Hypersonic Propulsion," Prof. Chih-Jen (Jackie) Sung, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut
Location: BPB 130
Details: Abstract:
Advanced airbreathing propulsion holds promise for making space travel routine and paving the way for cross-country commercial flights in 30 min. Although we have had an over half-century of interest in hypersonic flight, hypersonics has continued to intrigue with its possibilities, but also with the persistence of some of its very real challenges. When the X-43A Hyper-X finally did have two highly successful flights in 2004 – the first to Mach 6.91 and the second to Mach 9.68, both demonstrating scramjet ignition and subsequent combustion, encouragement at the results has led to the X-51A Scramjet Engine Demonstration Program. The first flight of the X-51A scramjet demonstrator is now on track for December 2009. The talk will begin with introducing the development/design/testing of the X41 and X51 aircrafts, followed by the highlights of fundamental combustion research in supersonic model combustors, with topics including flameholding mechanism, combustion performance, fuel injection, effects of thermally/catalytically cracked kerosene, and injection and heat transfer of aviation kerosene at supercritical conditions. Furthermore, new research directions for the development of advanced hypersonic propulsion systems with particular attention to rationale for hypersonic flight testing and considerations in the design of flight experiments will be briefly addressed and discussed.
Biography
Dr. Chih-Jen (Jackie) Sung is School of Engineering Professor in Sustainable Energy in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Connecticut. He served as a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Case Western Reserve University from 1999 to 2009. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University in 1986, M.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1988, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1991 and 1994, respectively. Dr. Sung’s research and teaching interests have included structure of chemically reacting flow, catalytic combustion, micro-propulsion, laser diagnostics, supersonic combustion, unsteady and high-pressure flame phenomena, soot and NOx formation, flame extinction and ignition, and development of detailed and reduced chemical kinetic models for aliphatic fuels combustion. His research is funded by various federal and industrial sponsors. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He received the 1998 Best Paper Award from the 12th Microgravity Science and Space Processing Symposium at the 36th AIAA Aerospace Science Meeting, the National Science Foundation early CAREER development award in 2002, the 2004 and 2006 Northern Ohio AIAA Best Paper Awards, and the Distinguished Paper Award in Colloquium Laminar Flames from the 31st International Symposium on Combustion in 2007. He has also received awards for teaching including the Graduate Teaching Award of the Case School of Engineering and the Case Western Reserve University Srinivasa P. Gutti Memorial Engineering Teaching Award. He is author or co-author of over 95 archival publications in combustion and propulsion.
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13 November, 2009 Event: Colloquium/“A Machine-Learning Approach to Analog/RF Circuit Testing”
Location: ITEB 335
Details: Speaker:
Prof. Yiorgos Makris, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Yale University
Abstract:
The objective of this talk is to demonstrate the utility of machine learning in developing a cost-effective test solution for analog/RF circuits. I will first introduce the problem of testing analog/RF chips for manufacturing defects and the current industrial practice, which involves explicit specification measurements obtained through expensive instrumentation. I will then describe an ontogenic neural classifier that learns to separate nominal from faulty chip distributions in a low-dimensional space of inexpensive measurements. The key novelty of this classifier is that its topology is not fixed; rather, it adapts dynamically, in order to match the inherent complexity of the separation problem. Thus, it establishes separation hypersurfaces that reciprocate very well even in the presence of complex chip distributions. I will also discuss the construction of guard-bands, which provide a level-of-confidence indication and support a two-tier test method that allows exploration of the trade-off between test quality and test cost. In this method, the majority of chips are accurately classified through inexpensive measurements, while the small fraction of chips for which the decision of the classifier has a low level of confidence is re-tested through traditional specification testing. The ability of the proposed method to drastically reduce the cost of analog/RF testing without compromising its quality will be demonstrated using two example circuits, a simple switched-capacitor filter and an industrial UHF receiver front-end. In addition, the application of the neural classifier to the problem of analog specification test compaction and its potential for developing a stand-alone Built-in Self-Test (BIST) method for analog/RF circuits will be discussed.
Short Biography:
Yiorgos Makris received the Diploma of Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He then joined Yale University where he has been instrumental in revitalizing the Computer Engineering program. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and leads the Testable and Reliable Architectures (TRELA) Laboratory. His main research interests are in the application of machine learning and statistical analysis methods towards increasing testability, reliability, and security of analog/RF devices. He is also interested in test and reliability methods for asynchronous circuits, as well as error detection and correction methods for modern microprocessors. His research has been supported by NSF, DARPA, SRC, IBM, LSI, Intel, and TI.
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16 November, 2009 Event: NSBE - 5th Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive
Location: Undergraduate Office - E2, room 304
Details: NSBE is hosting its 5th annual Thanksgiving Food drive on Campus. Donations of nonperishable foods or $20 monetary donations for a turkey can be dropped off to Undergraduate office in E-2, Room 304. The ending date for our food drive is Friday, November 20th.
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17 November, 2009 Event: Ronal Besser, Stevens Institute of Technology
Location: UTEB 150
Details: CHEG Seminar Series
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17 November, 2009 Event: Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Committee Social Event
Location: True Blue Tavern at the Nathan Hale Inn in Storrs, CT
Details: Join us for a social evening and some
Discussion on future opportunities for the BME Graduate Student Committee
And BME program at UCONN.
As you know, the BME Graduate Student Committee was formed in an effort to
connect the BME Graduate students academically, professionally and
socially. In the upcoming weeks, we will be meeting for two social events
in Farmington and Storrs. Details on these two social events are provided
below.
Storrs, CT
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 17 at 6pm
Location: Nathan Hale Inn (True Blue Tavern)
855 Bolton Road
Storrs, CT 06268
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17 November, 2009 Event: Information Sesssion: BME 5 Year BS + MS Degree Program
Location: Castleman Rm 212
Details: Students interested in the applying for the 5 Year BME BS + MS Degree Program are invited to attend this very important information session to discuss changes to the application procedure and program requirements.
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17 November, 2009 Event: Structures & Applied Mechanics Seminar Series - Seismic Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Bridges Considering Vertical Ground Motion Seminar Presentation By Dr. Sung Jig Kim
Location: Castleman 306
Details: Seismic Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Bridges Considering Vertical Ground Motion Seminar Presentation By Dr. Sung Jig Kim
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18 November, 2009 Event: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland
Location: IMS 20
Details: MSE Seminar Series,Multifunctional Thin Film Materials
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19 November, 2009 Event: Engineering Critical Infrastructure for Disaster Preparedness - Joe Englot, PE HNTB Corporation
Location: Student Union, 304C
Details: The seminar discusses the nature of damage from terror attacks and natural hazards. The latest multi-hazard threats for critical infrastructure will be discussed using examples along with the possible mitigations.
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19 November, 2009 Event: Real-Time Simulation for Smart Grids by Peng Zhang, Ph.D., British Columbia Transmission Corporation
Location: Information Technologies Engineering Room 119
Details: Sustainable Energy Seminar - See event flyer for more information
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19 November, 2009 Event: The Computer Science Business of Biomedical Informatics, David S. Channin, M.D.
Location: Information Technologies Engineering Building, Room 336
Details: Biomedical informatics is at the heart of every aspect of the health care system. This presentation will provide an overview of clinical, research, education, administrative and management applications of technology to improve outcomes, accuracy and efficiency.
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19 November, 2009 Event: Neuroscience: An Important Field for Biomedical Engineering, by Dr. Douglas Oliver
Location: ITE C-80
Details: BMES Seminar
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20 November, 2009 Event: Environmental Engineering Colloquium
Location: CAST, Room 212
Details: Environmental Engineering Program Gratuate Students will be presenting their research.
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20 November, 2009 Event: Colloquium/Title: Awareness Coverage Control over Large Scale Domains
Location: ITEB 336
Details: Speaker: Prof. Islam Hussein, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Abstract:
In this talk, I will present an overview of past and present research on awareness coverage control (ACC) over large scale domains. ACC has applications in search and rescue/retrieval, persistent surveillance, underwater exploration, multiple satellite imaging systems, and space-augmented situational awareness. ACC aims at using a small number of vehicles, equipped with limited sensory capabilities, to achieve continual coverage over large-scale domains. I will first review some earlier results on ACC set in a deterministic framework. I will introduce a precise definition for the notion of awareness. Given an unknown (and potentially very large) number of objects of interest distributed over a large-scale domain, a sensor vehicle's state of awareness can be used in a decentralized feedback control scheme (under intermittent communication structures) to guide the vehicle's motion such that the entire system is able to detect all objects of interest. If time permits, I will describe recent results to solve the same problem but from a probabilistic point of view.
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