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Friday, March 4, 2016
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Research Component of PhD Qualifier Exam By: Paul C. Proffitt
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: *NOTE: Rescheduled from earlier date due to weather-related closing
TOPIC: Nulling of Signals Returned from Static Walls, Objects for Further Research in Motion Object Tracking Beyond Walls
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
This project validates the existing WiVi system used to track objects behind walls by using WiFi 2.4G Hz signals. This allows for an affordable system to provide very expensive capabilities seen in other systems such as government security systems. The project uses the most recent technology. An Ettus X310 radio board is used, which interacts with GNU Radio and an Ettus UHD driver running on the latest Fedora v. 23 Linux operating system. The bulk of this project goes into dealing with static and iterative nulling of reflected signals. Due to the large amount of work that goes into nulling, follow-on work will focus on the tracking of objects behind walls, which involves interpreting the results into angles of tracked objects. The current capabilities discussed in this project are running both stages of nulling and transmission of signals against walls, which is vital in the success of tracking hidden, moving objects.
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. Haiping Xu, Computer and Information Science
*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
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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.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Henry Horenstein: Animalia
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Henry Horenstein: Animalia
February 18 - March 20, 2016
Reception: March 3, 6 to 8 pm,
Artist Talk and Booksigning at 7 pm
New Bedford born photographer presents a series of evocative and mysterious black and white photographs of land and sea creatures.
University Art Gallery
College of Visual and Performing Arts
UMass Dartmouth, Star Store Campus
715 Purchase Street
New Bedford, MA 02740
www.umassd.edu/UniversityArtGallery
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
Open daily 9 am - 6 pm
All events are free and open to public
More info: www.horenstein.com/animalia
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Art Education
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Blended Learning: Finding the Mix
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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CANCELLED:
CORSAIR Jobs Drop-In Session--CANCELLED
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: This session will allow current users of CORSAIR Jobs to ask specific questions about issues they are having with the use of the system or business processes. This is not a training session.
Contact Verena Lisinski (vlisinski) at x8609 with any questions.
- Topical Areas: Workshop, Training, audience: Staff
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Union Women Union Power: From the Shop Floor to the Streets
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality
- Description: Film Screening & Panel Discussion with Film Maker Sandra Jeong-In Lane & Women in the Labor Movement 2016
Liberal Arts 107
- Topical Areas: University Community, Films
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Joint UMass Dartmouth Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Seminar Series*
- Location: LIB-206
- Cost: free
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Topic: Multi-agent Autonomy in the Undersea Domain
Speakers: Dr. Thomas A. Wettergren, Dr. Lonnie Parker, Mr. Kyle DeMedeiros, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI
Location: Library 206
Abstract:
A rapid advancement in autonomy technology has recently led to a dramatic increase in the use of unmanned vehicles to explore difficult environments. When coupled with additional benefits obtained in the field of distributed sensing, this has led the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) to pursue multiple research efforts in autonomy for groups of unmanned vehicles.
The undersea domain presents a challenging environment for autonomous groups due to the relative sparsity of agents in the domain, the variety of tasks required of the agents, the uncertainties of underwater navigation, and the limited abilities of underwater communications. In this talk, we provide an overview of some of these challenges in multi-agent autonomy for undersea operations. We will showcase three recent research efforts being performed at NUWC: one on the use of animal foraging as a multi-agent search paradigm, one on a new approach to swarm intelligence for cooperating agents, and one on sensor-driven adjustments to behaviors for in-situ maximization of group goals. Principal investigators for each of these efforts will be presenting their recent results.
Biographies:
Thomas A. Wettergren received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics, both from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He joined the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI, in 1995, where he has served as a research scientist in the torpedo systems, sonar systems, and undersea combat systems departments. He currently serves as the US Navy Senior Technologist for Operational and Information Science, residing in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer of the Center. He also holds an appointment as an Adjunct Professor and Member of the Graduate Faculty at Pennsylvania State University. His current research interests are in the development of new approaches in the mathematical modeling, planning, and control of multi-agent systems in constrained environments.
Lonnie Parker received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2006. In 2012, he received the Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since joining NUWC, he has worked across departments participating in autonomy-related work for unmanned undersea vehicles, ranging from simulation-¬â€based experiments to in-¬â€water trials. His current work investigates how acoustic communication may be leveraged for achieving multi-agent autonomy, developing experiments to validate current simulation tools and providing insight for in-¬â€water test performance.
Kyle DeMedeiros is a Computer Scientist for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, Rhode Island. He received the Associate's degree in Computer Information Systems from Bristol Community College and both the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He is currently working on behavior-based robotics, optimization techniques, and software development.
Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend. The Seminars are open to the public free of charge.
*This seminar is part of the ECE 599 seminar series and attendance is mandatory!
Refreshments will be served!
*For further information, please contact Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian at 508.910.6919, or via email at r.bala@umassd.edu.
Hosted by: College of Engineering
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Computer and Information Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Mechanical Engineering Special Seminar, 3/4/16
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department
- Description: Mechanical Engineering (MNE) Special Seminar
Friday, March 4th 2016
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Textile Building, Room 101E
SPEAKER:
Mr. Zachary Painter, Assistant Librarian / Library Information Services at UMD
TOPIC:
Introductory Data Management Concepts
WORKFLOWS AND RELATED SOFTWARE:
Project Jupyter/IPython Notebook (these are coming under the same banner now; I've used the latter a little myself) and Taverna & VisTrails (VT being a project our own David Koop worked on at Utah). While I talk about workflow management I will make references to:
-How to discuss things like project/group management (how to discuss checking backups, or who works on what)
-Transfer of knowledge and documentation (what happens if someone were to leave, for example)
-Metadata standards (like Dublin Core)
Version Control Software
Git & Mercurial (I'll do a short comparison of the two as well; Git is the one I have used and am most familiar with). While I talk about Versioning, I will make references to:
-Best practices for file naming conventions (like ISO 8601 Date Format, for example)
-How many copies of your work to keep (Local/Near/Far, or the 3-2-1 rule of storage)
-Issues behind data sharing (privacy/security/funding mandates/publication/etc.).
BIO:
Zac Painter is the Engineering & Data Services Librarian here at UMass Dartmouth. Prior to coming to UMassD in August 2014, Zac worked as an ontologist and scientific data manager at the US Environmental Protection Agency; a position he started while finishing his graduate studies as a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Zac is an Advisory Board member for the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, and the Engineering Division of the Special Libraries Association; he is also a Personal Member of the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL).
For more information please contact Dr. Mehdi Raessi, MNE Seminar Coodinator (mraessi@umassd.edu, 508-999-8496).
- Topical Areas: University Community, Mechanical Engineering
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