Calendar of Events
« November 2009 »
Early Response
ICALEO Conference, Orlando, FL: 28th International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics
Teaching with Variety: Helping Students "Get It"
Deadline Extended: IPE Photo and Video Contest 2009
IOE 899 Seminar: Jack Hu
Jack Hu (University of Michigan)
"Modeling Product Variety Induced Manufacturing Complexity for Assembly System Design"
International Buddy Program: Pizza & Game Night
The International Buddy Program will host International students and their UM Buddies at the Michigan Union Billiards Room for pizza, pool, foosball, and other games. The event runs from 6:00-8:00pm on Wednesday, November 4. We look forward to seeing you there!
Deadline: Global Intercultural Field Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU): 2010 Field Experience Applications due Nov 5th
Student Applications for 2010 field experience due THURS Nov 5, 2009 before 5 pm.
The Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) at the University of Michigan creates new opportunities for short-term (3 or 4 week) intercultural study of a global nature at field sites, both domestic and abroad. The program enables 12 to 15 undergraduates (GIEU Student Scholars), led by faculty members (GIEU Teaching Fellows), to learn in rich cultural environments while gaining a greater understanding of global situations and processes. GIEU is now part of the new U-M Center for Global and Intercultural Study.
GIEU is a year-long commitment. The GIEU Course (UC 275) begins in Winter 2010 and extends into Fall 2010. The field experiences (3 or 4 week internships) take place May 3 to August 16.
Student Benefits:
- Receive paid internship, academic credit, and potential funding through financial aid
- Join dynamic multicultural teams making a difference in intercultural understanding through collaboration, partnerships, service, and networks
- Work closely with U-M faculty
- Develop intercultural leadership skills
- Explore how life is affected by national, political, social, and economic issues you study
- Re-imagine career possibilities
- Share your learning through new experiences on campus
Parents Weekend
CoE Parents and Family Weekend Reception will be held at the FXB Atrium from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Parents and families are welcome to join the College of Engineering at our annual reception. The event begins with the reception and information fair which offers you an opportunity to learn more about the student services and supports available to Michigan Engineers.
Following welcoming remarks from College administrators, you will have an opportunity to attend the Innovator Speaker Series or visit a College facility.
For additional information, please contact Jennifer Wegner, in the Office of Student Affairs.
Presidential Societies Weekend
Global Operations Conference: Redefining Operations - Strategies for a Volatile Economy
Click on link below for schedule, speaker information and registration form.
Dedication - Laboratory/Classroom for ENG 100
Entrepreneurship Hour: Art Fry, Inventor of Post-it® Notes: "Post-it Notes Were Not An Accident"
The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship and MPowered present Art Fry, Inventor of Post-it® Notes: "Post-it Notes Were Not An Accident".
PRESENTER: Art Fry, Inventor of the "Post-it" Sticky note. Dr. Spencer Silver in 3M Central Research Labs, created small, sticky spheres. Art Fry, in a Product Development Lab for tape products, attended a seminar where he heard of the sticky microspheres. In 1974 he first thought to use them in bookmarks to mark his music in the church choir. Once made, the bookmarks found even wider use as sticky notes. Fry was able to spearhead the development of Post-it Notes® because of 3M's officially sanctioned policy that permitted bootlegging.
Test sales in 1974 had small success because customers walked by the store shelves without trying them. A year later, 3M issued free samples to residents in Boise, Idaho. Over 90% who tried them said they would buy them and they did! By 1980, Post-it Notes® were sold in the United States and Canada, and launched into Europe in 1981.
As the business grew, a series of products were added to the Post-it® line, with Super Sticky Notes added in 2003 for better adhesion to non-smooth surfaces. The products are easy to use, but technically complex. Patent protection expired in the 1990's and other companies now produce sticky notes, but most of the world's sticky notes are produced in 3M's technology/capital intensive plant in Cynthiana, Kentucky.
Free and open to the public.
Info Session: Overseas Internships for Undergraduates
Information Session:
Date: Friday, November 6, 2009
Time: 2:00pm
Location: R1220
The Center for International Business Education offers internships in French-speaking countries, German-speaking countries, and Eurasia (Turkey, Singapore, Malaysia). As an intern, you’ll enjoy maximum contact with native speakers and opportunities to practice and build on your language and business skills. Naturally, once you are overseas, you’ll have the flexibility to travel on weekends to soak up the ambience of your host country and surrounding areas.
The summer positions in France and French-speaking countries (France, Belgium, Switzerland, and French-speaking Canada and Africa) give students the opportunity to put their French language skills into practice in an authentic work environment. Good spoken French is required for these internships.
Contact Rachael Criso at rcriso@umich.edu for more information
The University of Michigan Summer Internship Program in Germany is an exciting opportunity for students to complete internships in Germany during their summer break. Internship placements are available in a variety of fields and are customized to match students’ career goals. Most internships are paid and scholarships are available to participants that receive unpaid internships.
Contact Janet Van Valkenburg at jvv@umich.edu for more information.
The Eurasian internships in Singapore, Malaysia, and Turkey offer exciting opportunities where local language skills are helpful, but not required. We are currently developing additional internship opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa.
Contact Rachael Criso at rcriso@umich.edu for more information
For general information on CIBE internships, visit: http://www.umich.edu/~cibe/students/summerintern.html
AE 285 November 6, 2009: Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle Overview
Advances in Massively-Parallel Neutronics for Reactor Simulation
SMART's Sustainable Urban Mobility & Accessibility Summit
This November, SMART's Sustainable Urban Mobility & Accessibility Summit is back by popular demand at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Moving Minds: The Next Transportation Infrastructure will bring researchers together with business leaders, entrepreneurs, practitioners and policy makers from around the world.
This year's summit will give special attention to: "Moving Minds" -- understanding the cultural, psychological, and aspirational underpinnings of our relationship to transportation (for both users and leaders), and responding with innovative systems, policies, and business models that address these dimensions sustainability, equitably, and compellingly, including:
- New policy frameworks and research directions for the next (integrated) transportation infrastructure,
- New business and employment opportunities related to the emerging global New Mobility industry,
- "Resilience" - designing and operating integrated transportation/communication systems with capacities for transformational learning, adaptation and creative renewal when confronted by crisis, surprise, stress and trauma,
- Innovative Capacity Building - developing and sharing the knowledge and skills to address the growing global challenges and opportunities of New Mobility / sustainable transportation in urban regions.
The summit aims to build on the invaluable wisdom and experience of its participants, and on SMART's ongoing work to understand and accelerate development and implementation of sustainable, systems-based solutions to mobility and accessibility in global urban regions.
Engineering the Impossible Distinguished Lecture Series: Computing and Communication Technologies in Civil and Building Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering cordially invites you to attend Engineering the Impossible Distinguished Lecture Series presented by Dr. Kincho H. Law, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
Lecture Title - Computing and Communication Technologies in Civil and Building Engineering
ABSTRACT: Civil and building engineering professions have had a long and successful history in adopting computing technologies, from computer-aided design, engineering analyses and simulations to project management. Current utilization of computing technology, however, remains limited to domain specific, standalone applications. As computer hardware and software, mobile computing and communication technologies continue to grow, there are many new opportunities and approaches to explore the use of these advanced technologies for engineering simulations, software integration and lifecycle project management. This presentation will discuss some of the recent technology developments and how they may be deployed in civil and building engineering industry.
To register for this event please contact Sherry Brueger at sbrueger@umich.edu
Reception to follow
How to Give an Academic Talk
This workshop will cover all aspects of preparing and delivering academic presentations, from PowerPoint best practices to timing and vocal techniques. It will be especially useful for students planning conference presentations or job talks.
Info Session: Engineering Internships Abroad
Considering work or interning abroad this summer? This panel will provide you with information about different internship placement organizations and how to apply for opportunities abroad. Representatives from IAESTE, AIESEC and CDS International will be presenting. Speak with past participants, learn about upcoming opportunities and find out how to apply!
5:30-7:00 pm on November 10th
1500 EECS
IOE Faculty Meeting
IOE 899 Seminar: Jenna Marquard
Jenna Marquard (University of Massachusetts
"Efficiency, Thoroughness, and the Patient Identification Process"
Defense: Ji Won Mok - November 12, 2009: PhD Dissertation Defense: "Design Optimization for Active Twist Rotor Blades"
Examples demonstrate the effectiveness of this process. Optimization studies were performed on the NASA/Army/MIT ATR blade case. Even though that design was built and shown significant impact in vibration reduction, the proposed optimization process showed that the design could be improved significantly. The second example, based on a model scale of the AH-64D Apache blade, emphasized the capability of this framework to explore the nonlinear design space of complex planform. Especially for this case, detailed design is carried out to make the actual blade manufacturable. The proposed optimization framework is shown to be an effective tool to design high authority active twist blades to reduce vibration in future helicopter rotor blades.
PUBLICATION§ Journals- 3 Special Issues about "National Research Laboratory Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology" in the Journal of The Korean Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (Jiwon Mok, Eui-sup Shin and Jungil Lee, 2001)- S.J. Kim, J.S. Hwang, J. Mok, "Sensor/actuator optimal design for active vibration control of shell structure", Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 11, No. 11, 848-856 (2000)§ Conference Proceedings- Cesnik C.E.S., J. Mok, Parikh A.S., Morillo J., "Design optimization of active twist rotor blades", Proc. 30th European Rotorcraft Forum, Marseilles, France, September 2004- C. Cesnik, J. Mok and A. Parikh, S. Shin, "Optimum Design Framework for Integrally Twisted Helicopter Blades", 45th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Palm Springs, California, Apr. 19-22, 2004- Kim, S.J., Hwang, J.S. J. Mok and Ko, H.M., "Active Vibration Control of Composite Shell Structure using Modal Sensor/Actuator System", SPIE's 8th International Symposium on Smart Structural and Materials, Newport Beach, California, U.S.A, March, 2001 - Seung Jo Kim, Joon Seok Hwang and Jiwon Mok, "Sensor/Actuator Optimal Design for Active Vibration Control of Shell Structure", SPIE's 7th International Symposium on Smart Structural and Materials, Newport Beach, California, U.S.A, March 7, 2000 - Published 2 papers in the Conferences of The Korean Society of Composite Material (Joon Seok Hwang, Jiwon Mok and Seung Jo Kim, 2000)
Deadline: Spring/Summer semester abroad in Japan (NUPACE)
Engineering Graduate Symposium
The Engineering Graduate Symposium is a college-wide event focusing on doctoral and master's programs and graduate student research. This program is open to all College of Engineering current undergraduate and graduate students as well as prospective graduate engineering students from other institutions.
Entrepreneurship Hour - David Green: Humanizing Capitalism to Make Medical Products and Services Affordable to Low Income People
The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Office of Student Affairs presents David Green, MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and social entrepreneur, "Humanizing Capitalism to Make Medical Products and Services Affordable to Low Income People".
PRESENTER: David Green is a UM grad who has worked with many organizations to make medical technology and health care services sustainable, affordable and accessible to all. David is a MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and is recognized by Schwab Foundation as a leading social entrepreneur.
David helped establish Aurolab (India), to produce affordable intraocular lenses (now has 8% of the global market share) and helped develop high-volume, quality eye care programs that are affordable to the poor and self-sustaining from user fees (Aravind Eye Hospital in India) which performs 300,000 surgeries per year - 70 percent of the care is provided free of charge or below - cost, yet the hospital is able to generate substantial surplus revenue. Within this paradigm of 'humanizing capitalism; he now works to create social investing instruments to support sustainable social enterprises (in eye care and solar energy); and is developing affordable hearing devices with a novel fitting system.
Free and open to the public.
AE 285 November 13, 2009: Engineering Practice at VI-Grade
Welcome Day - November 13, 2009: Graduate Student Welcome Day in Aerospace Engineering
This annual event is open to all current and prospective graduate engineering students. The focus of this college-wide event is current graduate student research and admission to doctoral and master's programs. More than 150 of our graduate students will present posters and oral presentations on their current research projects. The day-long program features the following opportunities for students:
- Engineering department visits
- Graduate student oral and poster presentations
- Admissions and funding workshops
- Networking with graduate students
- Featured talks
- Ann Arbor tours/social events
http://www.engin.umich.edu/academics/gradprograms/gradsymposium/
Current State-of-the-Art in Two-Phase Flow Modeling for Nuclear Applications
Tech Day
Faculty and Staff Arts and Crafts Show
COE Faculty and Staff Arts & Crafts Show 2009
All College of Engineering Faculty and Staff are encouraged to participate in the upcoming, bi-annual Arts & Crafts Show. This is a non-juried show to encourage maximum participation. The intention of this exhibit is to showcase the artistic talents within the College of Engineering Community and to highlight the correlations between the thought processes and problem solving skills that are shared between the two disciplines of art and engineering. And, it's a great way to meet folks within the College of Engineering community, too! There are two upcoming deadlines for participation.- September 1 - deadline for artists who would like their artwork to be considered for the 2009 poster.
- October 1 - final deadline for artists to submit their work for the show.
Creative Problem Solving with H. Scott Fogler
Draft PT Casebooks Due
CSE Distinguished Lecturer - Henrik Christensen
Info Session: Internships in Germany, Spain & Argentina: Summer Internship Programs 2010 - What to expect & how to aply
Tuesday, Nov 17, 4-5pm
Modern Languages Building, 3rd floor, room 3308
Find out more about CDS Summer Internship Programs in Germany, Spain and Argentina 2010. Internships are 2-3 months; mostly paid in Germany, unpaid in Spain and Argentina. German or Spanish language skills required.
More information about the individual programs can be found at:
Germany: http://www.cdsintl.org/internshipsabroad/uofmichigan.php
Spain: http://www.cdsintl.org/internshipsabroad/spain.php
Argentina: http://www.cdsintl.org/internshipsabroad/argentina.php
American Express Company Day
IOE 899 Seminar: Tamas Terlaky
Diag Day: Global Entrepreneurship Week
Diag Day will be the pinnacle of Global Entrepreneurship Week when student organizations from all parts of campus will come together on the Central Campus Diag in an event similar to Festifall. These organizations will be discussing how they embrace and advance the entrepreneurial mindset in their own unique way in both Michigan and beyond. The goal of this event is to highlight the fact that the entrepreneurial mindset is prevalent everywhere and in a variety of ways as highlighted by the wide variety of organizations involved.
Diag Day will also feature a Passport Program which encourages students to visit various tables and converse with the club and venture members to receive prizes.
Defense: Chris Churchill, November 19 2009: Experimental Techniques for Characterizing the Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Shakedown Response of SMA Wires and Tubes
"Experimental Techniques for Characterizing the Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Shakedown Response of SMA Wires and Tubes"
by: Christopher B. ChurchillChair: John A. Shaw
Shape Memory Alloys are a unique and valuable group of active materials. NiTi, the most popular SMA, has a power density orders of magnitude greater than any other known material, making it valuable in the medical and transportation industries where weight and space are at a premium. In the nearly half-century since its discovery, the adoption of NiTi has been slowed primarily by the engineering difficulties associated with its use: strong thermal coupling, material level instabilities, and rapid shakedown of material properties during cycling. Material properties change drastically with minute changes in alloy composition, so it is common to require a variety of experiments to fully characterize a new SMA material, all of which must be performed and interpreted with specialized techniques.
This thesis collects many of these techniques into a series of characterization experiments, documenting several new phenomena in the process. First, three different alloys of NiTi wire are characterized through differential scanning calorimetry, isothermal tension, and constant load thermal cycling experiments. Sources of potential error are identified and experimental techniques to reduce these errors are introduced to obtain accurate load, temperature, displacement, and electrical resistivity (ER) measurements. New techniques are presented for ER measurement and temperature control of SMA wires and temperature measurement of SMA tubes. It is shown that the shakedown of material properties with thermal cycling is not only dependent on the applied load and number of cycles, but has a large association with the direction of phase transformation.Several of these techniques are then applied to a systematic characterization of NiTi tubes in tension, compression, and bending. Particular attention is given to the nucleation and propagation of transformation fronts in tensile specimens. The fronts take the form of either a ring of small “branched” inclusions, or of a helical inclusion which at high loading rates wraps around the entire tube. A rate study shows that the shorter ringed front is energetically preferred near isothermal conditions, but at higher rates, where thermomechanical coupling favors a long transformation front, the helical front is preferred. Compression experiments show dramatic asymmetry in the uniaxial response, with compression characterized by a lower transformation strain, higher transformation stress, and 1 uniform transformations (no fronts).
A very simple SMA actuator model is introduced. After identifying the relevant nondimensional parameters, an analytical solution to the governing equations is developed, the first of its kind. The power of the analytical solution is exercised in a series of design studies examining spring sizing, power requirements, response time, and energy efficiency.
Journal Publications JA Shaw and CB Churchill. “A Reduced-order Thermomechanical Model & Analytical Solution for Uniaxial SMA Wire Actuators,” Smart Materials and Structures, 18(6):1-21, 2009. CB Churchill, JA Shaw and MA Iadicola. “Tips and Tricks for Characterizing Shape Memory Alloy Wire: Part 3 – Localization and Propagation Phenomena,” Experimental Techniques, 33(5):1-9, Nov-Dec 2009. CB Churchill, JA Shaw and MA Iadicola. “Tips and Tricks for Characterizing Shape Memory Alloy Wire: Part 2 – Fundamental Isothermal Responses,” Experimental Techniques, 33(1):51-62, Jan-Feb 2009. JA Shaw, CB Churchill, and MA Iadicola. “Tips and Tricks for Characterizing Shape Memory Alloy Wire: Part 1 – Differential Scanning Calorimetry & Basic Phenomena,” Experimental Techniques, 32(5):55-62, Sep-Oct 2008. Conference Proceedings CB Churchill and JA Shaw. “Thermo-electro-mechanical Shakedown Response of Conditioned Shape Memory Alloy Wires,” Proceedings of the ASME 2009 Conference on Smart Materials, 2009. CB Churchill and JA Shaw. “Shakedown Response of Conditioned Shape Memory Alloy Wires,” Proceedings of the SPID 15th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, 2008.
AOSS/MIPSE Lecture by AOSS Professor Mark Moldwin: Universal Magnetic Structures
Universal Magnetic Structures by AOSS Professor Mark Moldwin
Refreshments will be served before seminar.
Abstract: The understanding of the large-scale structure of matter in the universe can be organized principally by two force fields - gravitational and magnetic fields. Gravity gathers together material into moons, planets, stars, star clusters and galaxies. Magnetic fields principally push plasmas apart creating their own hierarchy of magnetized structures. The universe is full of distinctive magnetic forms that recur on widely different scales and in lab, heliophysics and astrophysical contexts. To organize this presentation of magnetically-defined structures, I put them in three groups and draw from the field of heliophysics: current sheets (e.g., the heliospheric current sheet); flux tubes (e.g., sun spots); and cells in which I include cavities (e.g., magnetospheres). The emphasis of this talk is on flux tubes, one of the fundamental examples of the magnetic organization of matter. The talk will address why plasmas organize around a small set of universal structures and provide examples on how thinking about discrete structures can add to our understanding of the solarterrestrial relationship.
About the Speaker: Mark Moldwin is a Professor of Space Sciences in the University of Michigan's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences in the College of Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty of UM in July of 2009, Dr. Moldwin was a Professor of Space Physics at UCLA (2000-2009), Professor Physics and Space Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne (1994-2000) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Space and Atmospheric Sciences and Non-proliferation and International Security groups at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Moldwin joined the LANL in 1992 after receiving his Ph.D. in Astronomy/Space Physics from Boston University. He was awarded a B.A. in Physics with Honors from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 1987. Dr. Moldwin's primary research interests are magnetospheric and heliospheric plasma physics, and pre-college space science education and outreach.
Serious Games Expo
Serious Games Expo, a showcase of simulation and game-type activities being used for teaching and skill mastery in education, medicine, business and industry. A flight simulator is one example of a serious game---a type of activity designed to foster deep, multidisciplinary, sensory learning.
Thought leaders from the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor community will display their serious game products such as prediction market software Crowd Clarity, Facebook marketplace Bodega Shop, and educational games Bibliobouts and Place Out of Time. Crowd Clarity uses the wisdom of crowds to help companies decide when to launch a new product. Bodega Shop allows Facebook users to shop for and trade gifts. Bibliobouts supports literacy for incoming college students. Place Out of Time assigns participants a historical figure to play as they argue in a trial related to a contemporary issue. These are just a few of the products that will be on display.
"You can do complex, multidisciplinary, multifaceted things in a game environment," said Ken Ludwig, expo organizer and a lecturer in the U-M Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering. "Underlying serious games is how people actually learn. They learn through all their senses and nonlinearly. When you learn stuff this way, you learn it totally."
A map is available at: www.engin.umich.edu/facilities/maps/chrysler.html
SPONSORS: The Center for Entrepreneurship, the Medical Innovation Center, the School of Information and the U-M Library's Computer + Video Game Archive.
Society of Global Engineers presents: Spotlight on China and Hong Kong
Authentic Chinese food!
Student speakers from China and Hong Kong and returned study/work abroad students will share information about the culture and academic and professional environment in these countries. Study and Work abroad opportunities will be discussed.
TONIGHT! Thursday, November 19, 6:00pm
DOW 1014
Cleantech 2009: Innovations & Opportunities for Building Business
Join us for this half day public symposium to feature keynote speakers: Bruce M. Kahn, Ph.D., Director and Senior Investment Analyst, Deutsche Bank Asset Management and Megan McCluer, Program Manager, Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program, U.S. Department of Energy.
The symposium will also host a panel discussion focused on current investment spaces in wind, solar, and energy storage. Panelists will discuss technology, financing, policies, and other specific aspects of development related to these specific markets within Cleantech.
Following this will be a panel on 'Developments in Today's Cleantech Industry within the State of Michigan'. The symposium will wrap-up with a networking luncheon followed by a post lunch discussion on positioning Cleantech within the State of Michigan.
Cleantech 2009 is co-presented by the Erb Institute for Global and Sustainable Enterprise and the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, at the University of Michigan.
This conference is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required.
Entrepreneurship Hour - Nick Yang: Recognizing and Capturing Entrepreneurial Opportunities, My Experiences Building a Company from Zero to IPO in 2 Years and 2 Months
The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, the Office of Corporate Relations, the Chinese Entrepreneur Network and MPowered present Nick Yang, Founder and Vice Chairman, KongZhong Corporation, CEO of Wukong, and CEO and founder of Monkey King, "Recognizing and Capturing Entrepreneurial Opportunities, My Experiences Building a Company from Zero to IPO in 2 Years and 2 Months".
PRESENTER: Nick Yang is currently the CEO and founder of Monkey King Search Company in Beijing China. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a BSEE degree in 1997 and from Stanford University with MSEE degree in 1999. After graduation, he co-founded ChinaRen.com, with Stanford classmates, Yunfan Zhou and Joe Chen. By mid-2000, ChinaRen.com had became the fourth largest website in China and was sold to Sohu.com. He became the CTO of Sohu and stayed in Sohu for one and half years. In May 2002, he co-founded KongZhong Inc. with Yunfan Zhou, focusing on wireless value added services In July, 2009, he quit the position as president of KongZhong and founded Monkey King Search Company focusing on mobile search.
Free and open to the public.
AE 285 November 20, 2009: Private Space Flight
The Difference between Nuclear Power Plant Construction in the Boom of the 1970's and the "Nuclear Renaissance" of Today
PT Casebooks Due
Defense: Nicholas J. Bisek, November 23 2009: Numerical Study of Plasma-Assisted Aerodynamic Control for Hypersonic Vehicles
"Numerical Study of Plasma-Assisted Aerodynamic Control for Hypersonic Vehicles"
by: Nichlas J. Bisek
Chair: Iain D. Boyd
Plasma actuators and various forms of volumetric energy deposition have
received a good deal of research attention recently as a means of
hypersonic flight control. Unfortunately, ground-based and flight
experiments are extremely expensive and potentially dangerous, thus
creating a need for computational tools capable of quickly and
accurately modeling these devices and their effects on the flow-field.
This thesis addresses these limitations by developing and incorporating
several new features into an existing parallelized three-dimensional
flow solver to accurately account for chemical reactions and
electromagnetic effects.
With
this accurate electrical conductivity module, the coupled MHD-fluid
solver is used to investigate the effectiveness of a MHD-parachute, a
device that uses a magnet positioned near the bow of the vehicle to
reduce the amount of heat transferred to the vehicle.
A phenomenological heating model is
developed and coupled to the fluid solver to investigate whether a
practical level of pitch moment control can be achieved from volumetric
energy deposition for a realistic hypersonic vehicle.
The results
imply that the shape of the deposition does not have a noticeable
effect on the flow structure, whereas the amount of energy deposited
greatly influences the flow-field. The results suggest that these
systems are adequate replacements for traditional mechanical flaps.
While
the phenomenological heating model sufficiently characterizes the
downstream flow properties, the approximation is nonphysical. To
improve the physics and near-device results, a three-dimensional
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) solver is developed and coupled to the fluid
solver. This solver accurately computes the current density, electric,
and magnetic fields, and accounts for their effects on the flow-field.
A
particularly important parameter in the MHD solver is the electrical
conductivity. Although several semi-empirical models exist in the
literature, none provide generality across different flight regimes or
gas compositions. Boltzmann?s equation provides the necessary
generality, but directly coupling a Boltzmann solver to a fluid solver
is computationally prohibitive, even in the most modern CFD tool
suites. A surrogate model of solutions to Boltzmann?s equation is
developed and coupled to the fluid solver to provide the accuracy and
generality of the Boltzmann solver without the computational expense.
Bisek, N. J., Boyd, I.D., and Poggie, J., "Numerical Study of
Plasma-Assisted Aerodynamic Control for Hypersonic Vehicles," Journal
of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 46, No. 3, May-June 2009, pp. 568-576.
Bisek,
N. J., Boyd, I.D., and Poggie, J., "Three Dimensional Simulations of
Hypersonic MHD-Flow Control," presented at the 40th AIAA Plasmadynamics
and Lasers Conference, AIAA Paper 2009-3731, June 2009.
Bisek,
N. J., Boyd, I.D., and Poggie, J., "Numerical Study of Electromagnetic
Aerodynamic Control of Hypersonic Vehicles," presented at the 47th AIAA
Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2009-1000, January 2009.
Bisek, N. J., Boyd, I.D., and Poggie, J., "Numerical Study of Plasma-Assisted Aerodynamic Control for Hypersonic Vehicles,"
presented at the 39th AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, AIAA Paper 2008-4226, June 2008.
Bisek,
N. J., Boyd, I.D., and Poggie, J., "Numerical Study of Energy
Deposition Requirements for Aerodynamic Control of Hypersonic
Vehicles," presented at the 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA
Paper 2008-1109, January 2008.
Lecture/Reception for Professor Al Hero - R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering
This endowed chair was established by a gift in 1993 to support a distinguished faculty member in the College of Engineering.
Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of Professor Hero, a distinguished member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty.
LECTURE TITLE: Statistical Signal Processing As An Enabling Technology
ABSTRACT: The field of signal and image processing is at the intersection of mathematics, science and engineering. It continues to impact core technologies on which our society depend including modern telecommunications, transportation, and medical technology. Statistical signal processing deals with the extraction of information from noisy or degraded measurements. Prof. Hero will illustrate the enabling role of statistical signal processing in several areas of science and technology.
BIO: Alfred O. Hero III received the B.S. (summa cum laude) from Boston University (1980) and the Ph.D from Princeton University (1984), both in Electrical Engineering. He joined the faculty at U-M in 1984. In addition to his primary appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he also has appointments, by courtesy, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Statistics. In 2008 he was awarded the the Digiteo Chaire d'Excellence, sponsored by Digiteo Research Park in Paris, located at the Ecole Superieure d'Electricite, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. He has held numerous visiting positions at leading academic and industrial institutions.
Alfred Hero has served extensively in the professional community. In recent years, he sat on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2004-2006), and the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2002, 2004). He was President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2006-2007) and during his term he served on the TAB Periodicals Committee (2006). He was a member of the IEEE TAB Society Review Committee (2009) and is Director-elect of IEEE for Division IX (2009).
Alfred Hero is an IEEE Fellow, a member of Tau Beta Pi, the American Statistical Association ASA), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the US National Commission Commission C) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He has been plenary and keynote speaker at several major conferences and received an IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (1998), an IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1998), an IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000) and a 2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturership.
Prof. Hero's recent research interests include detection, classification, pattern analysis, and adaptive sampling for spatio-temporal data. Of particular interest are applications to network security, multi-modal sensing and tracking, biomedical imaging, and genomic signal processing. He has published more than 350 journal and conference papers, and is author of the book, Foundations and Applications of Sensor Management.
Reception will follow in Masco Rooms
Thanksgiving Recess
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Holiday - Offices Closed
Thanksgiving Recess: Offices Closed
Id al-Adha
Thanksgiving Recess: Offices Closed
Classes resume 8:00 a.m.
Paul Kanyuk - Technical Director, Pixar Studios: Rivers of Rodents, Lots of Bots, and Cavalcades of Canines: Crowd Simulation at Pixar Animation Studios
Abstract: This talk will start with a general presentation of Pixar Animation Studios and our film making process, followed by discussions of our crowd simulation pipeline and the challenges faced on Ratatouille, WALL•E, and Up. On Ratatouille, an animation centric crowd pipeline was born, merging the strengths of our proprietary rigging tools and the commercially available software, Massive. WALL•E demanded fast physics for large crowds, for which the technology "Brain Springs" was created. For Up, the focus was flexible navigation and terrain following for a pack of vicious dogs. Learn how these crowds came to life and how technological improvements helped bring audiences all those Rats, Robots, and Rottweilers!
Biography: Paul Kanyuk is a technical director at Pixar Animation Studios, with credits on the films Cars, Ratatouille, WALL•E, and Up. His specialty is crowd simulation, and he's responsible for the procedural animation of numerous crowd spectacles, including the hordes of rats in Ratatouille, the deluge of falling passengers in WALL•E, and the vicious pack of dogs in Up. He also teaches courses in RenderMan and crowd simulation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Kanyuk has a BS Eng. in digital media design from the University of Pennsylvania.
Open to the public.
