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Friday, April 17, 2015
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention.
Visit the Online Teaching Guide to learn more about getting started with teaching online.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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2015 BFA Senior Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: April 9-29, 2015
2015 BFA Senior Exhibition at New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 1-3 PM
Location: New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!
608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
508.961.3072, www.newbedfordart.org
Admission: Adults $5, Students/Seniors $3, Members & Children under 16 free. Free for exhibiting artists and their guests.
Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12-5 PM, Thursday 12-9 PM
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
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Startup Weekend UMass Dartmouth
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Cost: 20-25 (Use student discount code in description)
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: UMass Dartmouth has decided to bring Startup Weekend to campus! Startup Weekend is a non-profit, community-building event that brings together entrepreneurs of different backgrounds, including software developers, marketers, designers, and other enthusiasts. Startup Weekends are a weekend-long of hands-on experiences where entrepreneurs can find out if their startup ideas are viable. Students will gather to pitch ideas, form teams and start companies in just 54 hours! The participants that attend have 60 seconds to make a pitch (optional), the pitches are whittled down to the top ideas, and then form teams around the ideas to come out with several developed companies or projects. It takes a great amount people to build a startup company in just 54 hours! The weekend culminates with demonstrations in front of an audience of judges and potential investors.
Step outside of your comfort zone. With a whole weekend dedicated to letting your creative juices flow, Startup Weekends are perfect opportunities to work on a new platform, learn a new programming language, or just try something different. As a student it is important to build a network. This isn't just a happy-hour. Startup Weekend attracts your community's best makers and do-ers. By spending a weekend working to build scalable companies that solve real-world problems, you will build long-lasting relationships and possibly walk away with a job or even an investor.
If you have any questions please email: umassdartmouth@startupweekend.org
** If you are a student please use discount code: SWUMD2015 to pay a fee of $20 if you are the first 25 students to register and $25 for the remainder!** ID's will be checked at the door of the event
- Link: http://www.up.co/communities/usa/semass/startup-weekend/5915
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Economics
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The business of being a professional artist: Macy Chadwick / artist's book publisher
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Macy Chadwick will present her work with artist's books and limited edition prints. She will discuss her interests in memory, personal communication and visual language systems.
Location: Star Store Room 349
Contact: Prof. Marc St.Pierre mstpierre@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Lectures and Seminars
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Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation Defense by: Robert Craig Randall
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: Velocity Control of Piezoelectric Transducers with Class D Switching Power Amplifiers
Location; College of Engineering Conference Room, Textile's Building - Room 101E
ABSTRACT:
Velocity feedback control of underwater piezoelectric projectors in an array can mitigate the adverse effects of acoustic array interactions, improving beam patterns over a wide frequency band. This dissertation focuses on motional current monitoring as a method of velocity control based on earlier work, and is also applicable to velocity, acceleration, or displacement feedback in sensor arrays. The feedback stability and control loop outputs for motional current velocity control are constrained by the piezoelectric projector's electromechanical coupling coefficient, mechanical quality factor, and the accuracy of the estimate of the transducer's blocked electrical capacitance, which may vary due to environmental conditions. The steady state array equations dictating the array outputs for a single frequency continuous transmission is presented for velocity control systems, as are the conditions necessary for negative radiation impedance. It is shown that velocity control systems, regardless of the sensor types used, increases the risk for inducing negative radiation impedance which in some conditions can cause catastrophic amplifier failure. This risk increases with increased inter element acoustic coupling and higher feedback loop gain.
Velocity control of a piezoelectric load with a class D amplifier presents feedback stability challenges due to acquiring feedback after a high Q LC filter, which introduces a large gain and phase shift into the feedback loop. Post LC filter feedback is commonly used with Class D amplifiers when driving a voice coil load, but is rarely if ever used when driving an underwater piezoelectric load. Two different methods for stabilizing the feedback loop with a piezoelectric load are investigated, each with their own tradeoffs. A lossy damping network of a similar kind used in voice coil designs may be used, at the expense of resistive damping losses. Another approach is adding an inner feedback loop to synthetically dampen the filter resonance with current feedback, which requires multi-loop analysis to verify the stability of the inner and global feedback loop and the resulting outputs.
A prototype 8-layer amplifier board was designed, fabricated, and successfully tested with a 100V bus. An equivalent electrical circuit of a transducer was built to approximate the load that a candidate transducer for velocity control would present to the amplifier. The control loop parameters were then tuned to the measured parameters of the equivalent circuit to achieve motional current control. Measured feedback loop response, stability, and output levels all matched predicted levels within good tolerance.
Note: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. David A. Brown
Committee Members:
Dr. Yifei Li, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Dr. Steven Nardone, Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Dr. Boris Aronov, Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Dr. Xiang Yan, Acoustic Research Engineer
*For further information, please contact Dr. David Brown via email at dbrown@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
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2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 3-5 pm
The culmination of two to three years of intensive research and preparation of UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual art. Thesis work from Artisanry, Design, and Fine Arts at UMass Dartmouth on view from Apr 11 to May 17, 2015.
Exhibiting artists: Jessica Benzaquen, Mary Black, Andrea Abarca Coutts, Nick Heyl, Sarah Jenea Jones, George Manuel Karos, Amanda Kralovic, Xi Nan , Russell K. Prigodich, Alanna Schull, Anser Shaukat, Denise Sokolsky, Yishu Wang , Katie Wild, Ge Yang
University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, College of Visual and Performing Arts, UMass Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
Gallery exhibitions are open daily from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month).
- Link: umassd.edu/universityartgallery
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)
Exhibition Dates: April 16 - May 1
Opening Reception: Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM with the Gallery Talk at 5 PM
Printmaking workshop: Thursday, April 23, 5-7 PM
Artists: Jessie Willcox Smith, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Eliza Draper Gardiner, Anna Brewster Richards, Blanche Ames, Theodosia Chase, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Emma Swan, Angela O'Leary, Allen Sisters, Mabel May Woodward, Grace Albee, Helen Watson Phelps, Alice Barbara Stephens, Ellen Dale Hale, Lena Newscastle and Mabel Dewit Eldred.
The University of Massachusetts Art History Department presents an exhibition entitled, Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890 - 1940). This show, which is part of the Senior Art History Capstone class at UMass Dartmouth, will feature paintings, illustrations, book cover designs and photographs created by professional late nineteenth and early twentieth century women artists from Philadelphia to Maine. The exhibition is open between April 15 and May 1, 2015 at the CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747. All are invited to the reception and gallery talk on Thursday, Apr 16, 4 - 6 PM.
The exhibition poses the question, "Why don't we know about these successful and prolific women artists of the Modernist period?" These women were accomplished artists, leaders within the art world and participated in many art related endeavors. They were involved in the establishment of art societies throughout North East, attended and taught students at prestigious art schools, studied aboard in Europe, and led successful and profitable business careers. For example, Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated every cover of Good Housekeeping from 1917 to April 1933, representing more than 292 illustrations; similar to Norman Rockwell's contribution to the Saturday Evening Post; yet recognition of Smith's professional accomplishments are often overlooked within traditional canon of art history. This is just one story of many that will be explored in the exhibition.
The exhibition is a project of the Art History Senior Seminar class, composed of sixteen art history upperclassmen. Through this course students applied their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. Students expanded their skill-sets within the fields of art history, art, design and museum studies, through their exhibition research, writing, interpretation, exhibition and graphic design, collection care, and visitor relations. Students also learned to work collaboratively, writing and editing the catalog, developing the exhibition design, installing the exhibition and developing public programming.
We would like to thank those individuals who generously loaned works from their private collections and to those institutions including Providence Art Club, Bert Gallery, Providence Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Smith College, UMass Amherst and New Bedford Public Library who agreed to contribution to the exhibition, "Women Artists: The Untold Story (1890-1940)"
Please visit also our Sister Exhibition at Gallery X, titled "Providence to Provincetown: Contemporary Women" (April 15 - May 3, 2015, Opening Reception: April 18, 7-10 PM. For additional information, visit www.galleryx.org.
Contacts: Anna Dempsey (adempsey@umassd.edu) or Allison J. Cywin (acywin@umassd.edu)
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Visual Arts, Exhibits
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International Film Series
- Location: CVPA Auditorium
, CVPA-153
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: International Film Series:
I Am Yours, (Norway, 2014)
In Norwegian,Swedish and Urdu with English subtitles.
Prof. Charles White, English Department. Ext. 8274
- Topical Areas: General Public
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BMEBT Seminar Presentation by Dr. David Koop, CIS
- Location: Textiles Building 102
- Contact: BMEBT Seminar Series
- Description: TOPIC: Using Visualization and Provenance for Data Exploration
ABSTRACT: The mountains of data being gathered and generated each day have brought about many opportunities to discover and test new ideas. Algorithms help users summarize and filter this data, but insight often requires users to explore intermediate results and modify computations during their analyses. Visualization techniques provide intuitive and interactive methods for examining data, helping to speed the time to insight. At the same time, keeping track of all of the computations and explorations places a burden on users. Automated methods that transparently capture provenance---the record of how each result was achieved---allow users greater freedom to investigate data without worrying about manually recording their progress. In this talk, I will present efficient methods to explore and visualize data, and discuss how provenance can be utilized to integrate knowledge from past investigations.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Bioengineering, College of Engineering
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