A quiet moment on Warren Mall from the roof of the Powell Labs north building.
Left to Right: Engineering Building 1 (EBU1) which is mostly electrical engineering, Bioengineering and Computer Science & Engineering.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Calit2 Summer Research for Undergrads
If you're an undergrad at the Jacobs School interested in the possibility of getting paid to do research at UCSD this summer, then listen up! There is something called the Calit2 Summer Undergraduate Research Scholarship program. (There were 2 info sessions this week...but even if you missed them, there is still time.) Read more here...and the contact info for the program is below:
Participation in the weekly seminars, presentations, and tours as scheduled all count towards the 40-hour work week. The scholarship amount of $3000 will be paid in two installments of $1500 each.
Participation in the weekly seminars, presentations, and tours as scheduled all count towards the 40-hour work week. The scholarship amount of $3000 will be paid in two installments of $1500 each.
For more information on the 2010 program, please contact Samantha Romanin, the program coordinator, at 858.822.1499 or ugradprogram@calit2.net. Publish Post
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Student-Made Robot Car Loopin' Around Campus
Here is a video showing the prototype for IEEE UCSD's Natcar team 2 going around a circular track at SWE Envision.
Check out the photo gallery here.
Learn more about the ViaCar project here...which, if you're keeping track, used to be called NatCar.
more info:
ViaCar is an undergraduate design competition sponsored by ViaSat and hosted by UC San Diego. Teams of undergraduate students design, build, and race an autonomous car which must follow a track marked by white tape on dark-colored carpet. Under the tape, there is a wire carrying a 100mA rms 75kHz sinusoidal signal. The fastest cars travel at average speeds of up to 10ft/s. IEEE UCSD provides funding for several teams to compete.
The goal of the ViaCar project is to build an autonomous 1/10 scale RC car car that can race around track marked by a wire carrying a sinusoidal current. Two potential approaches are optics and magnetics. Since the course is marked by white tape, an optical approach might use a camera and image processing to try to “see” the track and determine the car’s position and orientation relative to the track. The electromagnetic approach relies on Faraday’s law of induction, which states that the induced electromotive force or EMF in any closed circuit is equal to the time rate of change of the magnetic flux through the circuit. If you place a coil near the track, a sinusoidally-varying EMF will be induced in the coil, the magnitude of which will depend on the coil’s orientation and distance from the wire. One can then feed this signal into a controller which will actuate the car's steering mechanism to steer the car back on track.
The competition is held annually in May in the form of a race. The competition website has more details. The team with the lowest total time, including penalities, wins!
Check out the photo gallery here.
Learn more about the ViaCar project here...which, if you're keeping track, used to be called NatCar.
more info:
ViaCar is an undergraduate design competition sponsored by ViaSat and hosted by UC San Diego. Teams of undergraduate students design, build, and race an autonomous car which must follow a track marked by white tape on dark-colored carpet. Under the tape, there is a wire carrying a 100mA rms 75kHz sinusoidal signal. The fastest cars travel at average speeds of up to 10ft/s. IEEE UCSD provides funding for several teams to compete.
The goal of the ViaCar project is to build an autonomous 1/10 scale RC car car that can race around track marked by a wire carrying a sinusoidal current. Two potential approaches are optics and magnetics. Since the course is marked by white tape, an optical approach might use a camera and image processing to try to “see” the track and determine the car’s position and orientation relative to the track. The electromagnetic approach relies on Faraday’s law of induction, which states that the induced electromotive force or EMF in any closed circuit is equal to the time rate of change of the magnetic flux through the circuit. If you place a coil near the track, a sinusoidally-varying EMF will be induced in the coil, the magnitude of which will depend on the coil’s orientation and distance from the wire. One can then feed this signal into a controller which will actuate the car's steering mechanism to steer the car back on track.
The competition is held annually in May in the form of a race. The competition website has more details. The team with the lowest total time, including penalities, wins!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Wind Turbine on Shaketable...now in Union Tribune
Scott LaFee from the San Diego Union Tribune wrote a story in the Sunday Feb 7 paper about the shake tests happening over this week and next out at the UCSD Englekirk Structural Engineering Center. They are testing wind turbines...and how wind turbines will fare during a series of earthquakes. More info on the tests is here, in a previous blog post.
LaFee's story, which includes a nice photo of structural engineering professor Ahmed Algamal is here: Wind turbine getting seismic shakedown Structure’s performance in temblors to be tested
Here is a web cam of the shake table.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Engineer's Week is Coming
Engineer's Week 2010...aka E-Week is coming to the Jacobs School. TESC has an E-Week site where you can get all the info. They also have tons of info on Facebook.
Be sure to check out the embedded videos from Last year's E-Week...available at the site above or embedded below:
E-Games
ENSPIRE
DECaF (Jacobs School student-run career fair)
Thursday, February 4, 2010
UC San Diego Library--Calling for Input
What kind of library does UC San Diego want and need in the years ahead?
Post your advice at http://blog.ucsd.edu/libstratplan/ and have your say. The blog is also linked off the libraries’ homepage. The blog is available through February 10, 2010. In addition, there will be traveling whiteboards throughout the lobbies of the libraries for you to have your say over the next three weeks.
Blog available through February 21, 2010
Post your advice at http://blog.ucsd.edu/libstratplan/ and have your say. The blog is also linked off the libraries’ homepage. The blog is available through February 10, 2010. In addition, there will be traveling whiteboards throughout the lobbies of the libraries for you to have your say over the next three weeks.
Blog available through February 21, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
One Gigantic Jacobs School of Engineering Poster Session
If you've never been to a Research Expo at the Jacobs School, you don't know what you are missing.
There are more than 200 posters, each with a grad student standing there ready to explain the research and it's implications. It's like a real life engineering encyclopedia...where all the entries are cutting edge.
There are also faculty talks, and a keynote by National Academy of Engineering (NAE) member Lawrence Papay entitled "Renewables and America's Energy Future". And speaking of America's energy future, reading Carbon Nation this morning, I stumbled across IEEE Spectrum's "energy wise" blog.
Last year's Research Expo grad student winners are here.
Registration info for folks who want to check out all the talented Jacobs School students is here.
This year, Research Expo is on April 15, 2010, and it starts at 12:30 PM (in the afternoon...not in the morning like it has in past years.)
If you are a grad student at the Jacobs School, make sure to submit your poster. The student poster submission site is here.
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