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Sunday, May 15, 2016
« 5/5 - 5/31 »	Call for Nominations: Provost's Award Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: The Provost's Teaching & Learning with Technology award was established in 2007 to recognize excellence in teaching and learning with technology. The 2016 award recipient will receive $2000, an award plaque, and their name will be displayed on the Provost’s Award plaque in CITS Instructional Development. See link for further information about award eligibility and directions for submitting nominations. Deadline: 5:00pm EDT, Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/provosts-award/ Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
Monday, May 16, 2016
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Law School Commencement Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: For more detailed information about Commencement for Master's & Doctoral Degree Recipients, please see the commencement website. Link: http://www1.umassd.edu/commencement/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar
« 5/5 - 5/31 »	Call for Nominations: Provost's Award Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: The Provost's Teaching & Learning with Technology award was established in 2007 to recognize excellence in teaching and learning with technology. The 2016 award recipient will receive $2000, an award plaque, and their name will be displayed on the Provost’s Award plaque in CITS Instructional Development. See link for further information about award eligibility and directions for submitting nominations. Deadline: 5:00pm EDT, Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/provosts-award/ Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
« 5/5 - 5/31 »	Call for Nominations: Provost's Award Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: The Provost's Teaching & Learning with Technology award was established in 2007 to recognize excellence in teaching and learning with technology. The 2016 award recipient will receive $2000, an award plaque, and their name will be displayed on the Provost’s Award plaque in CITS Instructional Development. See link for further information about award eligibility and directions for submitting nominations. Deadline: 5:00pm EDT, Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/provosts-award/ Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
« 5/5 - 5/31 »	Call for Nominations: Provost's Award Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: The Provost's Teaching & Learning with Technology award was established in 2007 to recognize excellence in teaching and learning with technology. The 2016 award recipient will receive $2000, an award plaque, and their name will be displayed on the Provost’s Award plaque in CITS Instructional Development. See link for further information about award eligibility and directions for submitting nominations. Deadline: 5:00pm EDT, Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/provosts-award/ Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	CORSAIR Jobs for Staff Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: This session will provide training in the use of the new CORSAIR Jobs system. This will be especially helpful for individuals who will be hiring students for the summer and the fall, but also for anyone who is new to using the system and would like training. Please contact Verena Lisinski (vlisinski) x8609 with any questions. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
Thursday, May 19, 2016
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM	MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS DEFENSE BY: Guilin Zhao Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: SYSTEM RELIABILITY CONSIDERTING PROBABILISTTIC FAILURE ISOLATION AND RANDOM PROPAGATION TIME LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: Many real-world systems exhibit functional dependence behavior that can cause competitions in the time domain between probabilistic failure isolation and failure propagation effects. Existing works addressing such competing effects have assumed that any failure propagation originating from a system component instantaneously takes effect, which is often not true in practical scenarios. In this thesis, we propose a combinatorial method for addressing random propagation time in the reliability analysis of complex systems subject to competing probabilistic failure isolation and failure propagation effects. The suggested methodology, based on event trees and applied probability, is applicable to arbitrary types of time-to-failure distributions for system components. A case study of reliability analysis of an example smart home sensor system is provided to demonstrate the proposed methodology. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing Committee Members: Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Haiping Xu, Department of Computer and Information Science *For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing at 508.999.8883, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	CORSAIR Jobs for Staff Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: This session will provide training in the use of the new CORSAIR Jobs system. This will be especially helpful for individuals who will be hiring students for the summer and the fall, but also for anyone who is new to using the system and would like training. Please contact Verena Lisinski (vlisinski) x8609 with any questions. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
« 5/5 - 5/31 »	Call for Nominations: Provost's Award Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: The Provost's Teaching & Learning with Technology award was established in 2007 to recognize excellence in teaching and learning with technology. The 2016 award recipient will receive $2000, an award plaque, and their name will be displayed on the Provost’s Award plaque in CITS Instructional Development. See link for further information about award eligibility and directions for submitting nominations. Deadline: 5:00pm EDT, Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/provosts-award/ Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	New Employee Orientation Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Human Resources Description: New Employee Orientation Topical Areas: audience: Staff, audience: Faculty, topic: Human Resources
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS DEFENSE BY: Lavanya Mandava Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: TOPIC: IMPERFECT COVERAGE ANALYSIS FOR CLOUD-RAID SYSTEMS LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: Cloud storage is a data storage model where a network of heterogeneous servers is accessible through the Internet for storing, managing and processing data. Cloud users expect to be able to access their data from anywhere at any time without interruption or failure. To achieve high data availability and reliability, Cloud-RAIDs (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) based on various data redundancy techniques are one of the effective solutions. Existing works on reliability modeling of the cloud-RAID systems have assumed perfect fault detection and recovery mechanisms, which is often not true in practice. In this thesis, we relax this assumption by presenting combinatorial approaches based on binary decision diagrams for reliability analysis of cloud-RAID 5 and cloud-RAID 6 systems subject to imperfect fault coverage. Both element level coverage and fault level coverage are addressed. Numerical example results are provided to illustrate effects of the two types of imperfect fault coverage on reliability performance of cloud storage systems. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing Committee Members: Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Haiping Xu, Department of Computer and Information Science *For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing at 508.999.8883, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Friday, May 20, 2016
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM	Commencement Ball Location: > See description for location Cost: $30 Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: UMass Dartmouth Graduate Student Senate invites you to the inaugural Commencement Ball 2016 on May 20th at 6pm at The Century House Each ticket is a $30 donation to the UMass Dartmouth Graduate Student Scholarship. Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of the 2016 graduates. All former and current UMass Dartmouth graduate students are welcome to attend and join us for an evening of dinner, dancing, and laughter. Tickets are available here http://bit.ly/1T9lYO8 Link: http://bit.ly/1T9lYO8 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, University Community
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Joshua D. Avery Location: Textiles Building 101E Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department Description: Mechanical Engineering MS THESIS DEFENSE by Mr. Joshua D. Avery DATE: May 20, 2016 TIME: 1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. LOCATION: Textile Building, Room 101E TOPIC: Controlling Blood Glucose Concentration of Diabetic Patients Using Fuzzy Logic Control: A Virtual Study and Comparison ABSTRACT: There has been much advancement in the field of medicine over the course of human history, but especially in the last century. Many medicinal theories have come and gone with more accurate and up to date research. Today testing and validation of research is often done with computers and mathematical modeling. One of the common fields in medicine which uses such computer simulation is insulin replacement therapy for diabetic patients. A diabetic patient lacks the capability of naturally producing insulin the human body needs to regulate blood sugar. The pancreas is responsible for producing insulin to counteract the constant fluctuations in blood sugar. Many factors such as eating, exercising and even sleeping will cause blood sugar levels to rise and fall. Without regular doses of insulin to regulate blood sugar, diabetic patients can experience health complications. Many methods of insulin replacement for diabetic patients have been used throughout the history of treating diabetes. The most innovative and current method of insulin replacement today stems from the invention of the artificial pancreas. This thesis focuses on the design of a controller for the artificial pancreas with the goal of maximizing its effectiveness. A mathematical metabolic model of the human body, which is validated by the FDA to be used in non-human virtual trials, is used. With this model, the user is able to define a wide variety of parameters and most importantly design a controller to make the closed loop system work as effectively as possible. There are many methods that have been used to design a controller. For this thesis, the focus will be evaluating the use of Fuzzy Logic at the heart of the controller for the artificial pancreas. It is shown that with the combination of the mathematical model and the Fuzzy Logic controller, improved performance was achieved. Various implementations of Fuzzy Logic control are detailed and compared to other methods developed by other researchers. The results show Fuzzy Logic has the potential to be a very effective method to use for the control of an artificial pancreas. ADVISOR: Dr. Tesfay Meressi (tmeressi@umassd.edu, 508-999-8542) COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Dr. Raymond Laoulache and Dr. Wenzhen Huang Open to the public. All MNE students are encouraged to attend. For more information, please contact Sue Cunha (scunha@umassd.edu, 508-999-8492). Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
« 5/5 - 5/31 »	Call for Nominations: Provost's Award Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: The Provost's Teaching & Learning with Technology award was established in 2007 to recognize excellence in teaching and learning with technology. The 2016 award recipient will receive $2000, an award plaque, and their name will be displayed on the Provost’s Award plaque in CITS Instructional Development. See link for further information about award eligibility and directions for submitting nominations. Deadline: 5:00pm EDT, Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/provosts-award/ Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Alcohol-Facilitated Sexual Assault & Overcoming the Consent Defense Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Cost: $10.00 Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: This conference will explore the common issues and challenges related to the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault cases where alcohol is present. This will include identifying corroborating evidence, interviewing victims, basic toxicology, the affect of societal attitudes about alcohol on determinants of victim credibility, and trial strategies for effective investigation and prosecution of AFSA cases. Sponsored by the Bristol County District Attorney's Office. Open to Police Departments, Prosecutors, SANE Nurses, and Victim Advocates. Please park in Lot 13. A continental breakfast will be provided. Topical Areas: General Public, Conferences & Events
Saturday, May 21, 2016
« 5/5 - 5/31 »	Call for Nominations: Provost's Award Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: The Provost's Teaching & Learning with Technology award was established in 2007 to recognize excellence in teaching and learning with technology. The 2016 award recipient will receive $2000, an award plaque, and their name will be displayed on the Provost’s Award plaque in CITS Instructional Development. See link for further information about award eligibility and directions for submitting nominations. Deadline: 5:00pm EDT, Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.edu/provosts-award/ Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development

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