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Sunday, May 22, 2016
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  • 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 23, 2016
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Vipul Kumar Sharma
  • Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
  • Cost: free
  • Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
  • Description: TOPIC: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL MQTT-SN IN INTERNET OF THINGS LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: The Internet of Things (IoT) connects physical objects or devices using the Internet and sensors, which enable the objects to collect data and exchange data in real-time. The MQTT-SN, which stands for Message Queue Telemetry Transport for Sensor Networks, is a broker-based lightweight communication protocol designed for IoT in environments where network quality is poor, bandwidth is low, or energy sources are limited. In this project, performance of the MQTT-SN protocol is studied using the queuing network theory. In particular, we model the MQTT-SN protocol using a Jackson's queueing network model, which is then analyzed with traffic equations and the Jackson's theorem. Performance metrics including utilization, queuing time, throughput, queue length, and system response time are addressed. Effects of parameters such as node (gateway, server) service rate, external data arrival rate are also investigated. 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. Lance Fiondella and Dr. Paul Gendron, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering *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
«  5/5 - 5/31  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 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 24, 2016
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 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  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 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
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Sen Yang
  • Location: Textiles Building 101E
  • Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department
  • Description: Mechanical Engineering MS THESIS DEFENSE by Mr. Sen Yang May 24, 2016 10:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Textile Building, Room 101E TOPIC: Fracture and Impact Characterization of Auxetic Kevlar Laminated Composites ABSTRACT: A comprehensive experimental study was performed to investigate fracture and impact properties of novel Auxetic Kevlar preform laminated composites. To make comparison, standard Kevlar woven preform composites with and without polyurethane treatment were also considered in this study. For these three types of laminated Kevlar/epoxy resin composites, short nylon fibers of two different fiber lengths and three different fiber densities were flocked on laminates. Vacuum infusion process (VIP) was employed to fabricate composites. Also, an optimized wet compaction process is implemented to reduce void volume fraction of fabricated composites by an average of 2.5%. The double cantilever beam (DCB) configuration was used to investigate the fracture properties. The Auxetic Kevlar composites showed a significant improvement of 225% in fracture toughness compared to regular woven Kevlar composites. Furthermore, the initiation toughness was increased by 577% with the application of flocking in Auxetic Kevlar. There is a clear distinction in crack growth in these two types of composites. The polyurethane treatment on woven Kevlar composites showed the enhancement in the initiation toughness by 44%. By combining treatment with flocking, further improvement of fracture toughness by 122% was achieved for a particular combination of flock length and density. During impact testing, the Auxetic Kevlar reinforced composites showed a significant reduction in damaged area compared to woven Kevlar composites. On the other hand, the reduction in damaged area influenced the reduction in impact energy absorption for Auxetic Kevlar reinforced composites. The damage area is very high for woven Kevlar composites, resulting the improved impact energy absorption. The relation between polyurethane treatment and flocking on fracture toughness and impact behavior of composites were also investigated in this study. ADVISOR: Dr. Vijaya B. Chalivendra, Department of Mechanical Engineering (vchalivendra@umassd.edu, 508-910-6572) COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Dr. Yong K. Kim, Department of BioEngineering Dr. Wenzhen Huang, Department of Mechanical Engineering Open to the public. All MNE students are encouraged to attend. Thank you, Sue Cunha (scunha@umassd.edu, 508-999-8492)
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • DMPTool
  • Location: OFD Lounge, Library 220
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: SPA TEA Time: DMPTool Zak Painter presenting Contact: Sponsored Programs Administration
  • Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators
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  • 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 - 3:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • TEA Time w/ SPA: DMPTool
  • Location: OFD Lounge, Library 220
  • Contact: > See Description for contact information
  • Description: TEA Time with SPA Topic: DMPTools Presenter: Zac Painter For more information contact Sponsored Projects Administration
  • Topical Areas: Research, Sponsored Projects Administration
9:30 PM - 11:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Karthik Raj Katipally
  • Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
  • Cost: free
  • Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
  • Description: TOPIC: DESIGN AND TEST OF AN OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE RELIABILITY TOOL LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: This master's project is part of a software reliability research project to design and test an open-source software reliability tool. The goal of this project was to design a tool to assess the reliability of software from failure data. The tool enables large software vendors to track the reliability growth of their software and predict reliability after release. The tool implements mathematical software reliability growth models (SRGM). Tools implementing SRGM are available. However, the distinguishing factor of this tool is an open-source web-based tool, which can provide software reliability estimation as a service. This presentation describes a detailed procedure to integrate a new SRGM into the tool, referred to simply as the software reliability tool (SRT) and possesses a modular approach to integrate any new or existing model. The model architecture is loosely coupled with the SRT architecture, simplifying integration to allow a contributor to focus on the mathematical details of their model rather than the design elements of the tool architecture. The tool architecture validates the model and integrates it transparently. Contributors can apply their model to failure data immediately after model validation. This flexible architecture will allow reliability researchers and practitioners to integrate their own models and use the tool under an open-source license agreement. The contributors can also compare models with respect to measures such as robustness of data handling and efficiency. Model validation requires that a contributor follow procedural steps and conventions essential for model integration. The project report also serves as a guide for model contributors and an overview of the necessary details of the tool architecture. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Lance Fiondella Committee Members: Dr. Liudong Xing and Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering *For further information, please contact Dr. Lance Fiondella at 508.999.8596, or via email at lfiondella@umassd.edu.
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Varun Kumar Reddy Garlapati
  • Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
  • Cost: free
  • Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
  • Description: TOPIC: EXPECTATION CONDITIONAL MAXIMIZATION (ECM) ALGORITHMS FOR THE TRUNCATEDLOGISTIC AND TRUNCATED EXTREME VALUE MINIMUM SOFTWARERELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP)-based Software Reliability Growth Models (SRGM) can estimate different quantitative metrics such as the future number of failures and failure intensity. SRGM are complex parametric mathematical functions which are estimated from failure data with methods such as Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) using different computational procedures such as Newton's Method. The Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm enables MLE when the failure data is incomplete and possesses desirable properties such as monotonicity in convergence to the maximum likelihood estimate. This project implemented Expectation Conditional Maximization (ECM) algorithms for the TLOGIS (Truncated Logistic Model) and TEVMIN (Truncated Extreme Value Minimum) SRGM. Initial parameter estimation techniques based on the EM algorithm were also developed. Convergence of the ECM was rapid, requiring 8-10 iterations. Robustness of the models to missing initial data was also considered. Deleting the initial 30 failures negatively impacted model prediction, but the models predicted future failures relatively well when 50 initial failures were removed. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Lance Fiondella Committee Members: Dr. Liudong Xing and Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering *For further information, please contact Dr. Lance Fiondella at 508.999.8596, or via email at lfiondella@umassd.edu.
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thursday, May 26, 2016
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 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  » Download Add to Google Calendar
  • 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
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Download Add to Google Calendar
  • RESEARCH COMPONENT OF PHD QUALIFIER EXAM BY: Jin Wang
  • Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
  • Cost: free
  • Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
  • Description: TOPIC: WHEREISOUTLIER: A CRITICAL EVENT DETECTION PLATFORM FOR REAL-TIME WEARABLE BIOSENSOR LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A ABSTRACT: Recently, biosensors have been widely used for remote monitoring of human body vital sign, such as heart beat, blood pressure etc. Real-time mining these biosensor data is very important, especially for real-time critical events detection. These critical events usually describe some kinds of body anomaly, such as cardiac abnormal. Finding these abnormal body symptoms in advance would be helpful for preventive healthcare. The existing critical event detection methods usually aim at static data stored in memory or disk. Yet, it is impractical to deal with the evolving biosensor data. Moreover, the biosensor data is usually uncertain, including various noises. How to find critical events from the noisy data is challenging. This project built up a real-time critical event detection platform based on Spark for wearable biosensor data. Spark is a known big data analytical platform, yet no critical event detection module found on it. We implemented two typical critical event detection methods on our platform, and adopted some real public datasets to test the performance of our platform in terms of the metrics of CPU usage and memory usage. As the experimental results demonstrated, the proposed methods can efficiently detect critical events in real-time. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Honggang Wang Committee Members: Dr. Liudong Xing, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dr. Donghui Yan, Department of Mathematics *For further information, please contact Dr. Honggang Wang at 508.999.8469, or via email at hwang1@umassd.edu.
  • Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Friday, May 27, 2016
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  • 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
Saturday, May 28, 2016
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  • 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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