ECBE Seminars

Becker Career Center staff members will give a talk on career advising to help senior students accomplish their goals. Advice will be given on managing their careers in a dynamic, diverse and global environment. They also assist students with the graduate school search and application process.

Microwave Radiometry for Earth and Space Observations

Tales from CES and Beyond

Doppler Twinkling artifacts

Optics and Microfluidics Instrumentation for Biomedical Applications

Lazy Aggregation for Communication-Efficient Collaborative Machine Learning

ECE Poster Session (To Be Confirmed)

Full Abstract:

The wide deployment of phasor measurement units (PMU) that has occurred in recent years has enabled the use of synchrophasors for the continuous monitoring of the electromechanical modal properties of the system using algorithms known as mode meters. Indeed, the damping of the system modes are indicators of the system stability. This presentation first examines the expression for the Cramer-Rao Bound on the frequency and damping of a particular mode to gain insight into how the accuracy of a mode meter is affected by various power system properties. Next, strategies for creating a mode meter that is robust to power system disturbances are discussed. Finally, some practical considerations are given to the deployment of mode meters in both the bulk power system, as well as in microgrids such as the one here at Union.

Graduate School in EE/CpE/BME: Is it for U?
Thursday, Oct. 3 @ 1PM
Lunch at 12:30
Karp 105

Professors Buma and Khetan will give a short overview of all things grad school, including:

• program/degree types
• typical application timelines
• other tips and advice

Come with your questions, as there will be ample time allotted for Q&A!

Interested in Innovation, Product Development & Project Management?

Join us for a seminar with the Tufts Gordon School who will discuss Masters opportunities for ECBE students.

Location: ISEC Corridor opposite ECBE Labs.

Pizza, drinks and cookies will be provided and students have the opportunity to just mingle and find out what the different clubs and societies offer. The clubs & societies represented include:

• IEEE
• BMES
• WRUC
• Robot Club
• Aero Club
• Ham Radio
• Discovery Lab
• National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
• Order of the Engineer
• Tau Beta Pi Honor Society
• Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society
• Engineers for a Sustainable World

Eleven seniors in the Electrical and Computer Engineering programs will present the progress they have made on their senior projects over the Fall term (ECE-498). This is a great way of finding out about the different research areas in the ECBE department. See the list of projects below.

*** Junior ECE students *** are strongly advised to attend as you’ll be choosing projects in Spring term. You may get some inspiration from what our seniors are doing.

Date: Thursday, November 7, Wold Atrium, 12:50-1:50
Light refreshments will be served

Location -- VART 204

Title: It’s a bit of a stretch: selective, flexible mechanical sensors towards VR, healthcare, and robotics applications

Abstract:

In this talk, I will discuss work related to mechanically “programming” soft sensors to respond to a particular mechanical deformation. Advances in 3D-printing, soft polymer fabrication, and
other rapid fabrication processes have made the vision of conformal and stretchable mechanical sensors for wearable devices and soft robotics possible. One limitation of these sensors is their
low selectivity between different modes of mechanical deformation, such as strain, torsion, and bending. I will present recent work in enhancing the selectivity of stretchable sensors by using non-planar sensor morphology to bias the sensor towards a particular deformation mode. I will discuss projects including designing a sensor with electrically - tunable sensitivity and the fabrication
origami-patterned, deformation-selective flexible sensors.

Bio:

Kris Dorsey is an assistant professor of engineering in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. She was a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and
University of California, San Diego. Dr. Dorsey graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and earned her Bachelors of Science in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from Olin College.
She founded The MicroSMITHie Lab at Smith College to investigate micro- and miniature-scale sensor design and to prepare undergraduates for graduate study in engineering. Her current
research interests include strain-stable, hyperelastic components, novel morphology soft sensors, and sensors for soft robots and wearable devices. Dr. Dorsey has co-authored several publications on hyperelastic strain sensors, novel soft lithography processes, and the stability of gas chemical sensors. In 2019, she received the NSF
CAREER award.

Eleven seniors in the Electrical and Computer Engineering programs will present the progress they have made on their senior projects over the Fall term (ECE-498). This is a great way of finding out about the different research areas in the ECBE department. See the list of projects below.

*** Junior ECE students *** are strongly advised to attend as you’ll be choosing projects in Spring term. You may get some inspiration from what our seniors are doing.

Date: Thursday, November 14, Wold Atrium, 12:50-1:50
Light refreshments will be served