Event: ECpE Open Lab Night
Date: November 1, 2011
Time: 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Location: ECpE Building Addition Atrium
Details: Come and see research labs in the department–from the robotics and bioengineering labs to sensors and power systems!
Author: Kenzie Brennan
ECpE Department Seminar
Seminar: Dynamic Hyperspaces for Enhanced Applicability of Structural Control
Speaker: Simon Laflamme, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University
Date: October 31, 2011
Time: 1:10 p.m.
Location: 3043 ECpE Building Addition
Abstract: An effective mitigation strategy for structural systems subjected to natural (e.g., wind and earthquake loads) and manmade (e.g., blast) hazards is to include structural control mechanisms. Despite the advancements of this technology, broad implementation of structural control mechanisms for effective structural hazard mitigation is rare. In the seminar, fundamental control issues impeding the applicability of structural control will be discussed. Those include large parametric uncertainties, limited sensing, unavailability of input-output data sets, and immediate performance requirements. To address the problem, a new type of controllers is proposed. It consists of control representations with adaptive hyperspaces, for which the inputs are selected sequentially and online. Large-scale simulations on an existing structure located in Boston, Mass., show the substantial performance of control representations with dynamic hyperspaces over those with static hyperspaces.
Speaker bio: Simon Laflamme recently joined the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering as an assistant professor. He received a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Engineering both from McGill, and an M.Eng. in high-performance structures as well as a Ph.D. in Structures and Materials from MIT. His research interests include intelligent and adaptive systems, structural control, structural health monitoring, and nonlinear time series.
Friday Activities at Noon (FAN) Club Event
Event: Friday Activities at Noon (FAN) Event – Sparking Excitement with Electricity – Critical Tinkers Live
Date: October 28, 2011
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: ECpE Building Addition Atrium
Details: All undergraduate and graduate students are invited to attend this FAN event to learn about and see the exciting and challenging projects Critical Tinkers is developing. The Critical Tinkers team members will be demonstrating LED Video Display Board, a wheelchair controllable via webcam, and a switching power box used to monitor power usage. Stop by, check it out, and get a coupon for two free slices of pizza!
CSE/IASG/IEEE/Digital Women Halloween Bash
Event: CSE/IASG/IEEE/Digital Women Halloween Bash
Date: October 26, 2011
Time: 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Location: Howe Hall Atrium
Details: Come celebrate Halloween with the Computer Science and Software Engineering Club (CSE), the Information Assurance Student Group (IASG), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Student Chapter, and the Digital Women Student Group. There will be costume contests, cookies, candy, punch, and more.
IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture
Seminar: Revisiting and Testing Stationarity
Speaker: Patrick Flandrin, CNRS Senior Researcher, Physics Department, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Date: October 26, 2011
Time: 1:10 p.m.
Location: 3043 ECpE Building Addition
Abstract: Albeit ubiquitous as an assumption or as a pre-requisite in many signal processing tasks, the concept of stationarity is often implicitly understood in a loose sense. The purpose of this lecture is to revisit it from an operational perspective that explicitly takes into account the observation scale. A general, time-frequency-based, framework is described for testing such a relative stationarity via the introduction of stationarized surrogate data. Two variations are discussed, based on either dissimilarity measures between local and global spectra, or machine learning approaches. Different extensions, including wavelet-based tests for images and transient detection, are considered.
Speaker bio: Patrick Flandrin (F) received the engineer degree from ICPI Lyon, France, in 1978, and the Doct.-Ing. and Docteur d’Etat degrees from INP Grenoble, France, in 1982 and 1987, respectively. He joined CNRS in 1982, where he is currently a Research Director. Since 1991, he has been with the Signals, Systems, and Physics Group, Physics Department, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.
Prof. Flandrin has been a major contributor to the theory of (bilinear) Time-Frequency representations and non-stationary signal analysis. He played a major role in the developments of the wavelet theory and the analysis of fractional Brownian motion. Recently, he opened a new research direction studying the Empirical Mode Decomposition and revisiting stationarity with significant contributions on stationarity tests.
Prof. Flandrin is author of the book titled, Time-Frequency/Time-Scale Analysis and has authored more than 250 journal and conference proceeding research articles.
Prof. Flandrin received several research awards including Philip Morris Prize in Mathematics (1991); SPIE Wavelet Pioneer Award (2001); “Prix Michel Monpetit” from the French Academy of Sciences (2001); and Silver Medal from CNRS (2010).
Prof. Flandrin has served as a guest co-editor of the Special Issue “Wavelets and Signal Processing” of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1993); Technical Program Chairman, IEEE-International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis (1994); and Program Chairman, French GRETSI Symposium on Signal and Image Processing, every two years since 2001. He has been Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1990-93, 2008-present); and Associate Editor, EURASIP Signal Processing (1994-05). Prof. Flandrin is currently on the Editorial Board of Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, Signal Image and Video Processing, and Advances in Adaptive Data Analysis. He has also been Member, IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (1993-04). Prof. Flandrin spent one semester in Cambridge, UK, as an invited long-term resident of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (1998). Finally, Prof. Flandrin is a Fellow of the IEEE (2002) and of EURASIP (2009).
Lockheed Martin Company Information Meeting
Event: Lockheed Martin Company Information Meeting
Date: October 25, 2011
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: 1312 Gilman Hall
Details: Come learn more about Lockheed Martin and opportunities within the company. This event is hosted by the National Society of Black Engineers (NBSE). Food and drink will be provided.
Lockheed Martin Company Information Meeting
Event: Lockheed Martin Company Information Meeting
Date: October 25, 2011
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: 3560 Memorial Union (Pioneer Room)
Details: Recruiters will be present to answer questions and provide information about career opportunities within Lockheed Martin. All pre-selected candidates who will be interviewing with Lockheed Martin are urged to attend this informative session. For more information on Lockheed Martin, visit their Web site. For additional information on company information sessions or to RSVP, visit the ISU CMS site.
Engineering Student Council Middle School Day
Event: Engineering Student Council (ESC) Middle School Day
Date: October 25, 2011
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union; Howe Hall Atrium; Outside Howe Hall
Details: The Engineering Student Council is hosting an engineering outreach event for two hundred sixth graders from various middle schools in the area. Students will listen to a presentation by ECpE Senior Lecturer Mani Mina, and participate in hands-on activities with Iowa State engineering clubs to learn about science, engineering, technology, and math. Any engineering club is welcome to sign up to be a part of this event. If you or your organization is interested, please e-mail isu.esc.vpo@iastate.edu.
Tutorial on Stream Processing Using IBM InfoSphere Streams
Event: Tutorial on Stream Processing using IBM InfoSphere Streams
Date: October 20, 2011
Time: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: 2222 Coover Hall
Details: Anyone interested in learning about data stream processing is invited to attend this tutorial jointly hosted by the Iowa State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and IBM. Contact Associate Professor Srikanta Tirthapura at snt@iastate.edu or 515 294-3546 with any questions.
CoE Book and Bake Sale
Event: College of Engineering Book and Bake Sale
Date: October 19, 2011
Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: 114 Marston Hall
Details: A wide range of fiction and non-fiction books will be for sale, as well as magazines. Cookies, bars, pies, and other fresh baked goods will be available for purchase. All proceeds go to the United Way of Story County.