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Sunday, June 5, 2022
« 6/1 - 6/29 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). Topical Areas: Faculty Development, Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
Monday, June 6, 2022
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences PhD Proposal Defense Announcement - by Bailey J. Avila Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The School for Marine Science and Technology Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences PhD Proposal Defense Announcement "Vortices and Energetics in the Ocean, from Climate to Caudal" By Bailey J. Avila Committee Members: Dr. Miles Sundermeyer, SMAST, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Dr. Geoffrey Cowles, SMAST, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Dr. Banafsheh Seyed-Aghazadeh, Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Dr. Kristina Kamensky, Naval Undersea Warfare Center - Newport Dr. Marie-Pascale Lelong, North West Research Associates Monday, June 6, 2022 10:00 am SMAST East, Rooms 101/102 836 S. Rodney French Blvd, New Bedford, MA And via Zoom Abstract: This dissertation aims to understand ocean energetics in two parts. The first part addresses energetics at the submesoscale and the importance of vortical mode. Globally, energy is put into the ocean from tides and wind, ultimately making its way down scale to dissipation. Understanding how and where this energy is transferred is critical for ocean global circulation models as they move to resolve mesoscale processes, and is a topic of ongoing study. In Chapter 1 numerical simulations will be used to study energy exchanges between internal waves and vortical mode, specifically identifying processes and the scales at which vortical mode is generated. A linear decomposition of model fields into internal wave and vortical mode components is used to explore energy exchanges both in physical space and spectrally. In physical space fluid parcels are tracked to study the modification of potential vorticity. Spectral analyses are further used to reveal cascades of energy both down- and up-scale due to internal waves and vortical mode, respectively. Results show that vortical mode appears across all scales everywhere internal waves are present, and that nonlinear interactions may be a more important generation mechanism than turbulent dissipation, which was previously thought to dominate in the ocean interior. The second part of this study will address the energetics and efficiency of fish locomotion. Swimming efficiency has been studied for decades with application to marine propulsion and biomimetics. Swimming fish extract and conserve energy by utilizing vortices around upstream bodies or by shedding their own vortices. Definitions of efficiency consider either the hydrodynamics and flow around the body of the fish contributing to thrust, or the mechanics and supply of energy to generate such motions (cost of transport). Chapter 2 will address the first definition concerning hydrodynamics. A parametric study to maximize Froude efficiency will be conducted for steady thunniform swimming using the numerical model, OpenFOAM. Parameters considered will include tail-beat frequency, amplitude, and wavenumber. Similar to what occurs in nature, simulations will optimize both Froude efficiency and cost of transport, with future application to biomimetic fish. Expanding on these findings, Chapter 3 will identify what signatures of pressure, vorticity, or drag around a steady, thunniform swimming fish characterizes efficient swimming. This will enable classification of whether a specific swimming motion is efficient or inefficient. The work in Chapters 2 and 3 will aid development of closed-loop control of biomimetic underwater vehicles. ******************************************************************************** Join Zoom Meeting https://umassd.zoom.us/j/94612306087?pwd=YWkyZ2VxZkl2OHlyUytRcFNkTFFtUT09 Meeting ID: 946 1230 6087 Passcode: 225304 One tap mobile +16468769923,,94612306087#,,,,225304# US (New York) +13017158592,,94612306087#,,,,225304# US (Washington DC) Dial by your location +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 946 1230 6087 Passcode: 225304 Find your local number: https://umassd.zoom.us/u/acpp6pg5pK Join by SIP 94612306087@zoomcrc.com Join by H.323 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) 149.137.68.253 (Mexico) 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) Meeting ID: 946 1230 6087 Passcode: 225304 ******************************************************************************** For additional information, please contact Sue Silva at s1silva@umassd.edu Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series
« 6/1 - 6/29 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). Topical Areas: Faculty Development, Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
« 6/1 - 6/29 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). Topical Areas: Faculty Development, Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM	Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Rafsan Subad Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115, , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department Description: Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Rafsan Subad DATE: June 7, 2022 TIME: 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. LOCATION: Charlton College of Business, Room 115 (CCB-115) TOPIC: Design of Cost-Effective Multimodal Shape and Force Sensing System for Underwater Soft Robotics ABSTRACT: The domain of underwater soft robotics has the potential to revolutionize how we interact with the ocean through robotic control. In order to perform a broad range of conformable object manipulation, developments in multi-modal sensing technologies are needed in the underwater realm of soft robotic end-effector development. However, concurrent tactile technologies have certain limitations over directional force and shape sensing. In particular, they are expensive, difficult to fabricate, and mostly unsuitable for underwater use. In this work, we propose a simple and cost-effective solution for a novel shape sensing algorithm and multi-directional force sensing system based on widely available and inexpensive piezo-resistive flex sensors. Both sensing systems are intended to be utilized in a soft robotic gripper which is fabricated to be employed for underwater applications in our lab. The shape sensing algorithm estimates the curvature of the soft gripper quite accurately based upon two-part compound radius flex-sensor readings embedded in each finger. We also make use of four flex sensors within a silicone-made hemispherical shell structure for the synthesis of a flexible multi-directional force sensing system to get the force readings. Each sensor was placed 90Â° apart and aligned with the curve of the hemispherical shape. If the force is applied on the top of the hemisphere all the flex sensors would bend uniformly and yield nearly identical readings. When force is applied from a different direction, a set of flex sensors would characterize distinctive output patterns to localize the point of contact as well as the direction and magnitude of the force. The deformation of the fabricated soft sensor due to applied force was simulated numerically and compared with the experimental results. The fabricated sensor was experimentally calibrated and tested for characterization including an underwater demonstration. The overall goal of this work is to demonstrate a viable conceptual design solution for waterproofed multi-modal sensing within the soft robotic design framework for a wide variety of underwater robotic applications. ADVISOR: Dr. Kihan Park, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, UMass Dartmouth COMMITTEE MEMBERS: -Dr. Wenzhen Huang, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, UMass Dartmouth -Dr. Caiwei Shen, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, UMass Dartmouth Open to the public. All MNE students are encouraged to attend. For more information, please contact Dr. Kihan Park (kihan.park@umassd.edu). Thank you, Sue Cunha, Administrative Assistant Mechanical Engineering Department UMass Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300 scunha@umassd.edu 508-999-8492 Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Lectures and Seminars
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
« 6/1 - 6/29 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). Topical Areas: Faculty Development, Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Summer Financial Aid FAFSA Help Labs Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Financial Aid Services wants to remind all students to file their FAFSA! Join Financial Aid Services for FAFSA Help Labs in LARTS 202 on Wednesdays from 10am to 11am for help filing your FAFSA and learning more about financial aid. Contact Mark Yanni myanni@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Financial Aid
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM	Community Conversations: Bodily Autonomy (and the Implications of Overturning Roe v Wade) Location: > See description for location Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Brought to you by Leadership Southcoast in collaboration with the Womxn's Alliance, a panel discussion with local experts, including UMassD Law School Professors Margaret Drew and Frances Rudko. Held at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, 684 Purchase St. New Bedford (and streaming live on Facebook) Contact cwgs@umassd.edu with any questions Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, University Marketing, Student Affairs, Women and Gender Studies, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Thursday, June 9, 2022
« 6/1 - 6/29 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). Topical Areas: Faculty Development, Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Charlton College of Business Virtual Information Session Location: Online Contact: Graduate Studies Office Description: A virtual information session on the graduate business programs at UMass Dartmouth. This event will include information on the following programs: - MBA - MS Accounting - MS Finance - MS Healthcare Management - MS Technology Management This is a virtual zoom event designed to answer questions you may have about the various degree and certificate programs. Link: https://apply.umassd.edu/portal/ccb_virtual_info_session Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, Accounting and Finance, _Charlton College of Business, Decision and Information Science, MBA or Graduate, Management and Marketing, Graduate Studies, Graduate Admissions
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Colors of Pride by Chris Diani Location: > See description for location Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Colors of Pride is a series of vibrant photographic portraits of members of New England's LGBTQIA+ community, shot by UMass Dartmouth photography student Chris Diani and presented in Gallery 244 at Star Store Campus. The series aims to celebrate the diversity within the LGBTQIA+ community. It was inspired by the recently introduced "More Color, More Pride" flag that added black and brown stripes to the traditional Pride flag to establish a commitment to diversity and reject white supremacy within the queer community. Co-sponsored by UMass Dartmouth's Center for Women, Gender, & Sexuality, the exhibition's opening reception is planned for AHA! Night on Thursday, June 9th from 5-6 pm. Chris Diani is a filmmaker and photographer based in Providence, Rhode Island. His first feature film, the award-winning gay zombie comedy Creatures from the Pink Lagoon, screened in over 30 cities worldwide and was released on DVD in 2007. A graduate of Seattle Film Institute's Full Immersion Program, he received an Associate of Fine Arts degree from Community College of Rhode Island in 2021 and is currently pursuing a BFA in Photography at UMass Dartmouth. The galleries at Star Store Campus are open Monday through Saturday 9 am to 6 pm, Sundays 9 am to 5.30 pm, free of charge. Closed on Independence Day. Open until 9 pm during AHA! Nights (the second Thursday of every month). UMass Dartmouth Gallery 244, Star Store Campus 715 Purchase St. New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries For more information about the exhibition, please contact Chris Diani at cdiani@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, University Marketing, Student Affairs, Women and Gender Studies, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Friday, June 10, 2022
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Summer Financial Aid FAFSA Help Zoom Labs Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Financial Aid Services wants to remind all students to file their FAFSA! Join Financial Aid Services for FAFSA Help ZOOM Labs on Fridays from 3-4pm for help filing your FAFSA and learning more about financial aid. Zoom link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/91570250746?pwd=d2NyRk9lVVg4V2krdVA2NkRBb1JYQT09 Contact Mark Yanni myanni@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Financial Aid
« 6/1 - 6/29 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). Topical Areas: Faculty Development, Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM	Colors of Pride by Chris Diani Location: > See description for location Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Colors of Pride is a series of vibrant photographic portraits of members of New England's LGBTQIA+ community, shot by UMass Dartmouth photography student Chris Diani and presented in Gallery 244 at Star Store Campus. The series aims to celebrate the diversity within the LGBTQIA+ community. It was inspired by the recently introduced "More Color, More Pride" flag that added black and brown stripes to the traditional Pride flag to establish a commitment to diversity and reject white supremacy within the queer community. Co-sponsored by UMass Dartmouth's Center for Women, Gender, & Sexuality, the exhibition's opening reception is planned for AHA! Night on Thursday, June 9th from 5-6 pm. Chris Diani is a filmmaker and photographer based in Providence, Rhode Island. His first feature film, the award-winning gay zombie comedy Creatures from the Pink Lagoon, screened in over 30 cities worldwide and was released on DVD in 2007. A graduate of Seattle Film Institute's Full Immersion Program, he received an Associate of Fine Arts degree from Community College of Rhode Island in 2021 and is currently pursuing a BFA in Photography at UMass Dartmouth. The galleries at Star Store Campus are open Monday through Saturday 9 am to 6 pm, Sundays 9 am to 5.30 pm, free of charge. Closed on Independence Day. Open until 9 pm during AHA! Nights (the second Thursday of every month). UMass Dartmouth Gallery 244, Star Store Campus 715 Purchase St. New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries For more information about the exhibition, please contact Chris Diani at cdiani@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Women and Gender Studies, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Student Affairs, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Law Alumni
Saturday, June 11, 2022
« 6/1 - 6/29 »	Online Teaching and Learning Strategies Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). Topical Areas: Faculty Development, Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM	Colors of Pride by Chris Diani Location: > See description for location Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Colors of Pride is a series of vibrant photographic portraits of members of New England's LGBTQIA+ community, shot by UMass Dartmouth photography student Chris Diani and presented in Gallery 244 at Star Store Campus. The series aims to celebrate the diversity within the LGBTQIA+ community. It was inspired by the recently introduced "More Color, More Pride" flag that added black and brown stripes to the traditional Pride flag to establish a commitment to diversity and reject white supremacy within the queer community. Co-sponsored by UMass Dartmouth's Center for Women, Gender, & Sexuality, the exhibition's opening reception is planned for AHA! Night on Thursday, June 9th from 5-6 pm. Chris Diani is a filmmaker and photographer based in Providence, Rhode Island. His first feature film, the award-winning gay zombie comedy Creatures from the Pink Lagoon, screened in over 30 cities worldwide and was released on DVD in 2007. A graduate of Seattle Film Institute's Full Immersion Program, he received an Associate of Fine Arts degree from Community College of Rhode Island in 2021 and is currently pursuing a BFA in Photography at UMass Dartmouth. The galleries at Star Store Campus are open Monday through Saturday 9 am to 6 pm, Sundays 9 am to 5.30 pm, free of charge. Closed on Independence Day. Open until 9 pm during AHA! Nights (the second Thursday of every month). UMass Dartmouth Gallery 244, Star Store Campus 715 Purchase St. New Bedford, MA 02740 umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries For more information about the exhibition, please contact Chris Diani at cdiani@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Women and Gender Studies, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Student Affairs, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Law Alumni

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