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SUMMARY:GSE Wonder Week: Learn about Civil + Environmental Engineering Graduate Programs
DESCRIPTION:Learn about Civil + Environmental Engineering Graduate Programs
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/gse-wonder-week-learn-about-civil-environmental-engineering-graduate-programs/
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SUMMARY:GSE Wonder Week: Learn about Chemical Engineering Graduate Programs
DESCRIPTION:Learn about Chemical Engineering Graduate Programs
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/gse-wonder-week-learn-about-chemical-engineering-graduate-programs/
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SUMMARY:Figuring it out: Student Engagement towards Conceptual Understanding and Disciplinary Practice
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents: Milo Korestky\nMcDonnell Family Bridge Professor\nCo-Director\, Institute for Learning on Research and Instruction (IRLI)\nDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering\nDepartment of Education\nTufts University \nAbstract: \nThere has been considerable emphasis recently in transitioning chemical engineering classroom instruction from transmission-based lectures to active learning. Active learning has been defined broadly as “anything that you have your students do in class that gets them to actively engage with the material you’re trying to teach.”  This talk focuses on student engagement – that is\, how students take up the challenging and complex work that we ask them to do as they form into professional engineers. I explore fundamental questions about student engagement in the active learning classroom: Engagement in what? Are there different kinds of engagement? I contrast two forms of engagement. The first looks at engagement for conceptual understanding using the Concept Warehouse\, a tool developed around concept-based active learning. The second addresses engagement in disciplinary practices. When engaged in disciplinary practices\, students use the concepts and discourses of engineering to “get somewhere” on an engineering task (develop a product\, gain a better understanding). Neither way is inherently more correct or better\, rather they are representations of learning that might provide useful ways to think about design choices within a certain context. \nBiography: \nMilo Koretsky is the McDonnell Family Bridge Professor and co-Director of the Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction (IRLI) at Tufts University. He holds a joint appointment in Chemical and Biological Engineering and in Education. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley\, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related to engineering education. His group works on integrating technology into effective educational practices that promote the use of higher-level cognitive and social skills in engineering problem-solving and in promoting change towards motivating faculty to use evidence-based instructional practices. A particular focus is on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex\, authentic problems and projects they face in professional practice. Dr. Koretsky has received recognition through university and international awards and is a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education and a Fellow of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/figuring-it-out-student-engagement-towards-conceptual-understanding-and-disciplinary-practice/
LOCATION:236 Richards\, 360 Huntington Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, United States
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SUMMARY:BioE Seminar Series Presents: John Kasianowicz
DESCRIPTION:Department of Bioengineering Seminar Series  \nJohn Kasianowicz\, Ph.D  \n“Sequencing DNA\, Sizing Polymers\, Identifying Proteins (& More) with Nanometer-Scale Pores”  \nWednesday\, October 19th\, 2022\n12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST\n105 Shillman Hall \nABSTRACT: \nBiological nanometer-scale protein pores are the basis of nerve and muscle activity.  With the goal of providing low-cost measurements for health care applications\, we have been adapting several types of nanopores for the detection\, characterization\, and identification of molecules.  For example\, when a single molecule enters a pore\, its physical and chemical properties control both the degree by which it reduces the ionic current that otherwise flows freely and its dwell time there.  Thus far\, our work led to two novel DNA sequencing methods (and a critical assessment of a third technique)1-5\, the ability to discriminate between individual polymers based on their size6\,7\, the means to quantitate protein concentration8\, and a technique for identifying subtly different species of metallo-nanoparticles9.  In addition\, we recently demonstrated that a nanopore can also be used to identify proteins10-13.  This new method could markedly improve healthcare diagnostics and allow more blood analyses to be performed at point-of-care facilities.  We are also investigating the possible use of nanopores as the read head in molecular-based memory storage devices and the role of ion channels in the competition between bacteria.  This ongoing work is a collaborative effort with groups at Columbia University (Jingyue Ju)\, CY Cergy Paris Université (Abdelghani Oukhaled)\, Freiburg University (Jan Behrends)\, and the DoD (Sina Bavari\, Rekha Panchal\, Captain Rick Gussio\, and Colonel Kelly Halverson). \nBIO:   \nDr. Kasianowicz is the Leader of the Nanobiotechnology Project in the Physical Measurement Laboratory at NIST. He earned a Ph.D. in Physiology & Biophysics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook\, a M.A. in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook\, and a B.A. in Physics (with Distinction) from Boston University. He was a National Academy of Sciences/ National Research Council Research Associate in the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory at NIST prior to joining the staff and becoming a Leader of the Biomolecular Materials Group. Currently\, John directs the research efforts of staff scientists\, post-doctoral fellows\, and graduate/undergraduate students.  \nJohn pioneered research in five areas: 1) single molecule characterization\, quantification\, and identification; 2) nanopore-based DNA sequencing (he published work in 3 of the 4 methods proposed for this application); 3) elucidating the mechanisms of anthrax toxin action;\, 4) single molecule thermodynamics and kinetics; and 5) development of new methods for membrane protein structure determination. His seminal work in these fields opened other areas of investigation (e.g.\, nanopore-based single molecule force spectroscopy)\, new conferences dedicated to these subjects\, and NIH- and DARPA-based funding initiatives. A range of companies (e.g.\, IBM\, Oxford Nanopore\, Illumina\, Genia Technology (Roche)\, Stratos\, Electronic BioSciences\, and Quantum Biosystems) have been pursuing John’s applied research to develop practical devices for the electronic detection and characterization of individual biological molecules. Several that are using his nanopore-based DNA sequencing technologies are currently valued at $1.8B. His current major foci are the development of nanoscale electronic systems to measure the fundamental properties of single molecules. The work could be applied to storing and retrieving information in molecules\, and simultaneously quantifying many biomarkers (proteins\, DNA\, RNA\, etc.) in single cells\, tissue\, and blood. The latter work would have a marked impact on understanding basic cellular mechanisms and aid the development of quantitative personalized medicine.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/bioe-seminar-series-presents-john-kasianowicz/
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SUMMARY:IER Seminar Series: Dr. Monroe Kennedy III
DESCRIPTION:*This event is virtual only* \nZoom: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/98344781352 \nTitle: DenseTact: Calibrated Optical Tactile Sensing for the Next Generation of Robotic Manipulation \nAbstract: \nRobotic dexterity stands to be the key challenge to making collaborative robots ubiquitous in the home and industry environments\, particularly those that require adaptive systems. The last few decades have produced many solutions in this space that include mechanical transducers (pressure sensors) that while effective usually suffer limitations of the resolution\, cross-talk\, and limited multi-modal sensing at every point. There are passive\, soft sensors that through high friction and form-closure envelope items to be manipulated for stable grasps\, and while often effective at securing a grasp\, such sensors generally do not provide the dexterity needed to re-grasp\, perform finger gaiting or truly quantify the stability of a grasp beyond basic immobilization observed through action. Finally\, optical tactile sensors have presented many new avenues for research\, with leading designs being GelSight and GelSlim for surface reconstruction and force estimation. While optical tactile sensors stand to be robotics best answer so far to sensing sensitivity that approaches anthropomorphic performance\, there is still a noticeable gap in robotics research when it comes to performing manipulation tasks\, with end-to-end solutions struggling to extend to new complex manipulation tasks without significant (and often unscalable) training. \nIn this talk\, I will present DenseTact an optical tactile sensor that provides calibrated surface reconstruction and forces for a single fingertip. This calibrated\, anthropomorphically inspired fingertip design will allow for modularization of the grasping process and open new avenues of research in robotic manipulation towards collaborative robotic applications. \nBio: \nMonroe Kennedy III is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering and courtesy of Computer Science at Stanford University. Prof. Kennedy is the recipient of the NSF Faculty Early Career Award. He leads the Assistive Robotics and Manipulation laboratory (arm.stanford.edu)\, which develops collaborative robotic assistants by focusing on combining modeling and control techniques together with machine learning tools. Together\, these techniques will improve robotic performance for tasks that are highly dynamic\, require dexterity\, have considerable complexity\, and require human-robot collaboration. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Masters in Robotics at the University of Pennsylvania and was a member of the GRASP Lab.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ier-seminar-series-dr-monroe-kennedy-iii/
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