Monday, November 9th·

Noon - 1 PM

The Commons : 331

Job Description: 

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The Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program encourages undergraduate students to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers by providing research experiences at the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories. Selected students participate as interns appointed at one of 17 participating DOE laboratories/facilities. They perform research, under the guidance of laboratory staff scientists or engineers, on projects supporting the DOE mission.

The SULI program is sponsored and managed by the DOE Office of Science’s, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) in collaboration with the DOE laboratories/facilities.

Applications for the SULI program are solicited annually for three separate internship terms. Internship appointments are 10 weeks in duration for the Summer Term (May through August) or 16 weeks in duration for the Fall (August through December) and Spring (January through May) Terms. Each DOE laboratory/facility offers different research opportunities; not all DOE laboratories/facilities offer internships during the Fall and Spring Terms.

Visit http://science.energy.gov/wdts/suli/ for more details and to apply.

Deadline: January 8, 2016

Meet Paul,
He is an Animation and Interactive Media major who is currently creating his own video game.

His game, Deliverance brings together many technologies to capture aspects of real life in an immersive world. The project captured live performances of musicians and original choreographed dancers which Paul then translated to his fabricated game characters by filming the performances from multiple angles. The video was then used to manually animate three-dimensional characters created according to drawing concepts in a computer program.

The UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Presents

DirectX 11 Software Tessellation

John Kloetzli, Firaxis Games

12noon-1pm, Friday, November 13, 2015 ITE 102

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become increasingly important in general purpose high performance computing, both because of the enormous computing power of these highly parallel processors as well as the evolution of general purpose software APIs that provide a domain-independent software environment. Graphics applications are also being redesigned to take advantage of this general GPU access, both for design of new algorithms as well as optimization and specialization of existing ones. This talk will explore how having access to the general purpose compute API in DirectX 11 allows us to design a tessellation algorithm for a specific use case that has superior performance and quality to the fixed-function tessellation hardware.

John Kloetzli is a graphics programmer at Firaxis Games. He is an alumnus of UMBC, having received a BS in 2006 majoring in Computer Science with a minor in both Mathematics and Philosophy, and a MS in Computer Science in 2008. He has worked at Firaxis since 2006 and is part of the team that produces the popular Civilization game series.

Hosts: Professors Fow-Sen Choa (Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. ) and Alan T. Sherman (Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. )

The UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Presents

Wearable Sensors for Individuals
with Mobility Impairments

Nilanjan Banerjee
Associate Professor, CSEE Dept., UMBC

1-2pm Friday, 6 November 2015, ITE 325

More than 500,000 individuals in the US are hospitalized every year due to spinal cord injuries. The severity of the injury dictates the degree of mobility that an individual has. All mobility impaired individuals rely on assistive devices to perform their daily life activities. Present assistive devices, however, are cumbersome, expensive, and limited. To this end, in this talk I will present two minimally intrusive systems — InviZ and Tongue-n-Cheek that can be used for environmental control in individuals with limited mobility. InviZ is based on textile capacitive sensors built into clothing and is used for gesture recognition; Tongue-n-Cheek is a micro-radar based system for tongue gesture recognition. This is joint work with Ryan Robucci and Chintan Patel and students in the ECLIPSE cluster at UMBC (eclipse.umbc.edu)

Nilanjan Banerjee is an associate professor in the CSEE Dept. at UMBC. He is a 2011 NSF Career Awardee and received a Microsoft Research Software Engineering Innovations Award. His research interests are in embedded systems, mobile systems, and sensor design.

Hosts: Professors Fow-Sen Choa (Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. ) and Alan T. Sherman (Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. )

According to LifeJourney,

“The NSA Day of Cyber is designed to raise the “national IQ” for STEM and CyberScience education paths. NSA is sponsoring the program to introduce and inspire the more than 40 million students in schools and colleges to pursue STEM careers to build the skills that will open up their future and connect them to this in-demand digital workforce.

The NSA Day of Cyber is a web-based, self-paced, interactive experience that enables students to test drive their future in Cybersecurity by experiencing a day in the life of six NSA cybersecurity leaders. This online experience is free to students, teachers, schools and organizations in the United States.”

UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski offered the morning’s keynote about Maryland’s prominent and successful role in educating the well-rounded cyber workforce. Following a brief promotional video, the official unveiling of the NSA Day of Cyber included remarks by Rob Joyce, Chief of Tailored Access Operations, NSA; Rodney Peterson, Director of NICE, NIST; Dr. Mark R. Nelson, Executive Director, Computer Science Teacher Association, and  Dr. Nicholas Eugene, Director of STEM Programs, Coppin State University.  An additional announcement event will take place on November 4 at the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) conference in San Diego.

Once the site launches in November, the NSA Day of Cyber experience will be promoted to Career Services and various UMBC academic programs/student groups with an interest in cybersecurity.  A recent CSEE Ph.D. alumnus is a featured ‘mentor’ for one of the six experiences presented in the NSA Day of Cyber, too!

For more information on the NSA Day of Cyber, contact Dr. Rick Forno or register at LifeJourney’s NSA Day of Cyber site.