Monday, March 30, 2009

Sport Opportunities

Interested in Intramurals with IIE and SBE
IIE and SBE are combined playing intramural sports this semester. They are playing dodgeball, softball, soccer, and basketball this semester. If any IE Grad students are interested in playing, contact Alex Ramirez (arramire@purdue.edu). Requirements are clothing with NO pockets, no jewelry, and bring PUID.

PESC Golf Tourney
Purdue Engineering Student Councils's first annual Golf Tourney is Saturday, April 11th. It is a FREE golf tournament for all Purdue students. The tournament will be a scramble with teams of four with a noon shotgun start. Players will be provided with golf carts and free food. Clubs can be rented from the club house for $20. Over $500 worth of prizes will be given out! Register soon at www.purdue.edu/pesc. Registration is limited to the first 36 teams!

Update

Intel Tech Talk
A series of six presentations for Purdue faculty and staff who use information technology in teaching, research or administration, will feature discussions by representatives of Intel Corp. on the firm’s latest innovations in information technology and expectations for the future.

The event, sponsored by the School of Industrial Engineering, will run from 8 a.m. through 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31, on the third floor of Stewart Center. Complimentary breakfast and lunch will be served.

Registration is limited to the first 75 people. To register online for the free event, follow the instructions at www.conf.purdue.edu/techtalk. Those with questions about the event may contact Stefano Gutierrez of Intel Corp. at stefano.j.gutierrez@intel.com, or (312) 608-1516.

Plant Trip with IIE to Voestalpine Elmsteel
Thursday, April 2nd at 1 p.m. Plant is located off US 52 S in Lafayette. If you plan on going, please email Sarah Kania(skania@purdue.edu) so she knows how many drivers to have. Watch for an email from Sarah about more details on how long it will last and what time they will be meeting at Grissom. This is a great opportunity to network!

Head Candidate Seminar - Graduate Students Must Attend
The first candidate is Professor Bopaya Bidanda from the University of Pittsburgh. The seminar will be in Potter 234 (Fu Room) at 4:30 pm on Thursday, April 2.
Here is a link to Professor Bidanda's website at Pitt.

Pictures MGL Tour - click here if you cannot see the pictures


Pictures Bowling with Undergraduate IEs - click here if you cannot see the pictures

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Intel Corp. Experts to Speak at Purdue

“Intel Tech Talk,” a series of six presentations for Purdue faculty and staff who use information technology in teaching, research or administration, will feature discussions by representatives of Intel Corp. on the firm’s latest innovations in information technology and expectations for the future.

The event, sponsored by the School of Industrial Engineering, will run from 8 a.m. through 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31, on the third floor of Stewart Center. Complimentary breakfast and lunch will be served.

Registration is limited to the first 75 people. To register online for the free event, follow the instructions at www.conf.purdue.edu/techtalk.

Those with questions about the event may contact Stefano Gutierrez of Intel Corp. at stefano.j.gutierrez@intel.com, or (312) 608-1516.

8-9:00 a.m.
Kickoff breakfast, welcome, and introductions: Rick Echevarria, vice president, Sales and Marketing Group, and general manager, Worldwide, Intel® Enterprise Solution Sales. Room 314.

9-10:15 a.m.
Breakout sessions in Rooms 318 and 320:
“Sustainable IT in a Predictive Enterprise,” Robert Deutsche, principal architect, Predictive Enterprise.
“HPC Nehalem (Intel i7): The New Brain for HPC,” Wesley Shimanek, strategic marketing manager, Technical Computing for Intel Digital Enterprise Group.

10:30-11:45 a.m.
Breakout sessions in Rooms 318 and 320:
“Collaboration and Visual Analytics Research and Development at Intel,” Cynthia Pickering, senior principal engineer for IT Strategy Architecture and Innovation.
“High-Performance Cluster Applications: Scalable Software Solutions,” Henry Gabb, principal engineer, Intel Software and Services Group.

Noon-1:15 p.m.
Intel Partner Luncheon, sponsored by Dell, Hewlett Packard and Matrix Integration. Luis Rodriguez, technology specialist, Enterprise Solution Sales for Intel, will speak.

1:30-2:45 p.m.
Breakout sessions in Rooms 318 and 320:
“Capability Maturity Framework,” Robert Deutsche, principal architect, Predictive Enterprise.
“Intel i7 Overview and Roadmap,” Luis Rodriguez, technology specialist, Enterprise Solution Sales.

Again, registration is limited to 75 attendees. To register, follow the instructions at www.conf.purdue.edu/techtalk. The registration deadline is March 27.

Monday, March 23, 2009

FREE BOWLING with Undergraduate IEs

Thursday, March 26th
9 pm (8:45 pm if you need a ride from campus)
Market Square Lanes (See directions below)
The cost of bowling and appetizers will be covered by the GSO.
Please contact Ashley (ajbenedi@purdue) or Chris (csaldana@purdue.edu) if you need a ride.

Directions from Grissom Hall
1. Turn left at N Grant St 499 ft
2. Sharp right at Northwestern Ave/US-231 0.1 mi
3. Turn left at US-231/Wiggins St
Continue to follow US-231 0.5 mi
4. When you cross the bridge, the street name changes to Union St
Continue on Union St 1.1 mi
5. Turn left at N 18th St 0.1 mi
6. Turn right at Elmwood Ave 0.3 mi
7. Turn left at the first stoplight into Lafayette Square Mall
8. Market Square Lanes is a stand alone building to the right of the KFC.

MGL Tour

Tuesday, March 24th
4:30 pm
Meet outside MGL 1307

Michael Golden Laboratories (MGL) hosts the manufacturing facilities in the School of Industrial Engineering. An overview is provided of the support capability with regard to conventional (turning, milling, grinding, etc) and non-conventional processing (electrical discharge machining, prototyping, etc). Metrology capabilities at the macro/micro/nano length scales will also be reviewed.

A brief review of the research in Prof Chandrasekar's lab will also be provided, which includes a broad collection of topics ranging from fundamental studies of interfacial contact in manufacturing processes to applied research directed at dramatically improving the speed of machining operations. Finally, an overview of a technology start-up company (M4 Sciences - http://www.m4sciences.com), that was founded by an IE PhD student (James Mann) will be provided.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Travel Grant Recipients

Congratulations to BC Kwon and Pat Brunese!!! They are the recipients of the first Travel Grants provided by the IE GSO.

Bum Chul (BC) Kwon

ReadingMate: An Infrared-Camera-Based Content Stabilization Technique to Help Joggers Read While Running on a Treadmill
Computer Human Interaction 2009 on April 4 – 9, 2009 in Boston, MA
Abstract of Presentation: Though reading could be a useful activity while a jogger runs on a treadmill, reading while running can be quite tiresome. In order to alleviate this difficulty, we developed a content stabilization technique, called “ReadingMate,” using head-tracking to track the location of the jogger’s head/eyes and relocate the position of the contents on the screen, so that the contents appear to be stabilized. We conducted a small experiment with ten participants, and eight out of ten reported positive experiences in using ReadingMate. Thus, ReadingMate could be a potential solution for joggers who would like to read while running, and possible future works are also discussed.

Pat Brunese
An Investigation of the Effect of Non-Identical Replacements on Optimal Maintenance Policies IIE Annual Conference – Industrial Engineering Research Conference on May 30 –June 3, 2009 in Miami, FL
Abstract of Presentation: We consider a system subject to failure, whereupon the system can either be repaired or replaced. A repair action will bring the state of the system to somewhere between good-as-new and bad-as-old, termed general or imperfect repair. The age of the system after repair is modeled according to the so-called virtual age, first proposed by Kijima (1989). The replacement action is assumed to reset system age to zero. In addition, the replacement systems are assumed to have different reliability functions. We formulate and present results for a semi-Markov decision process with state space comprised of the virtual age and number of failures.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Events for March 2 - 6

Travel Grant Applications are due by 5 pm today.

MGL lab tour has been postponed until March 24th due to faculty candidate seminar tomorrow.

Faculty Candidate Seminar on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 4:30 pm in Grissom 180
Guanghui (George) Lan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Robust and accelerated stochastic approximation approaches for stochastic optimization

NSF Director Arden L. Bement, Jr. speaks at Purdue, March 4 at 3:30 pm in East Faculty Lounge (PMU)
“In the Barash Tradition: Imagining the Shape of Things to Come”
Director of the National Science Foundation and former Purdue distinguished professor Arden L. Bement, Jr. will be the featured speaker for the inaugural Moshe M. Barash Distinguished Lectureship for Manufacturing Engineering, which is named for the late Purdue professor emeritus.
A reception will follow immediately in the Lafayette Room, PMU.

Faculty Candidate Seminar on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 4:30 pm in Grissom 180
Lu (Andrew) Liu, Johns Hopkins University

Shirt Design Competition for COE Graduate Programs - Must be turned in by 5 pm Friday, March 6th

Students needed for breakfast with the last faculty candidate on March 11th... please contact Ashley (ajbenedi@purdue.edu) if you are interested.

Don't forget to vote on the date of the plant trip - on the right side.