School of Engineering
and
Applied Science

Engineering
Open House

Saturday
Feb. 20, 2010

9:00AM - 3:00PM

No Pre-Registration is Required
Please Sign in at Thornton Hall When you Arrive

Welcome!

• General Curriculum and Admissions Information
• Scheduled Events
• Special Presentation
• Map, Directions, Parking
• Tours
• Other Information
• Additional Program Activities
• Engineering Alumni Table (near the Office of Career Services)

No Pre-Registration is Required, Please Sign in at Thornton Hall When you Arrive.

Open House 2010
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Virginia
Thornton Hall, McCormick Road
P.O. Box 400743
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4743
seas-openhouse@virginia.edu ( best way to contact! )

Departments and Centers (Select a link below to see further information)

Exhibits

Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering is the rational application of engineering principles to biology and medicine. Those practicing in this inherently multi-disciplinary field strive to better the health of humankind through research, design and technology development. Current areas of research interes in Biomedical Engineering include improving and discovering new ultrasound and MRI methods for imaging selected tissues and organs within the body, developing new drug delivery technologies for treating cardiovascular disease, correcting bone defects by growing stem-cell based tissue replacements, studying how cells and tissues sense and respond to their physical surroundings, and using computational models to better understand complex intracellular signaling systems and the formation of new blood vessels in both normal and pathological conditions.

Exhibits:

Wilsdorf 201G	The BME Major: An Integrated Curriculum
Wilsdorf 201G	Spotlight on BME Student Opportunities: BME Internship Program and Career Planning
Wilsdorf 201G	Spotlight on Undergraduate Research: BME Student Projects from the 4th Year Capstone Design Course and the 2nd Year Design and Discovery Course
Wilsdorf 201G	A Video Overview of Biomedical Engineering Research at U.Va.
Wilsdorf 201G	Student-led walking tours to MR5, the BME Building. As part of this tour, there will be a Q&A session with the Tour Guides and BME Undergrad Program Director, Dr. Will Guilford. Tours begin at 9:30, 10:30, and 12:30 and last approximately 1.45 hours.

Chemical Engineering
Chemical engineers combine chemistry, biology, and other natural sciences with engineering to efficiently and safely create products for our modern world. They help give us fuels, food, synthetic materials, medicines, biotechnology products, electronic materials, paper, and many other consumer products. They also have important roles in cleaning up the environment and in pollution prevention.

Exhibits:

CHE 029	Particle Engineering Frontiers - the Nano-World Around Us
CHE Lobby	Renewable Fuels - Biodiesel from Soybeans
CHE 125	Designer Molecules and Materials - Simulating Chemistry on the Computer
CHE 317	Solid Oxide Fuel Cells - Tomorrows Energy from Today's Fuels
Wilsdorf 301	Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil engineers build the physical foundation of society, protect the environment and develop the infrastructure of our communities. Their work spans the planning, design, construction and maintenance of projects including dams, bridges, transportation systems, materials, water resources, aerospace structure, ships, tanks, towers, hydraulic systems, and hazardous waste management programs. They work as environmental, geotechnical, hydraulic, structural or transportation engineers in design, construction or research areas. An important part of civil engineering is applied mechanics, which focuses on the fundamentals essential in many areas of engineering, including mechanical and thermal modeling and behavior of solids and fluids in a variety of configurations.

Exhibits:

THN D-221	Enhanced Podcast on Sustainable Transportation - An example class project
THN D-112	Wireless Cars - Smart travel and the future of transportation
THN D-123	Algae-based Fuels - Capturing CO2 and making power using pond scum
THN D-221	Computer-Aided Materials by Design: Micromechanics at Its Finest
THN D-221	Inflation of Rubber Balloons - Nonlinear mechanics in action
THN D-221	CSI Virginia! - Creative Structural Identification

Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia provides outstanding educational programs in computer science and computer engineering at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Department offers undergraduate degree programs in both the School of Engineering and Applied Science and in the College of Arts and Sciences. A principal part of our activity involves basic and applied scientific research, and research fundamental to the engineering process. Topics include the theory and foundations of computing, software and computer system design, human-computer interactions, prototyping, development and evaluation of cutting-edge computing and communications systems. Our research is essential to our doctoral programs. It ensures that faculty knowledge is up-to-date. Our research is also integral to our educational activities at all levels. Many of our undergraduate students become involved in research. Our undergraduates are among the mostly successful in the nation in competitions for undergraduate research awards. Through our activities, we contribute to the success of our students and to the strengthening of scientific and engineering research potential and the workforce in science and engineering: in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the Nation, and for the global community.

One-On-One Meetings with Computer Science Faculty: Olsson 228/236

9:00 -10:00	Bill Wulf and Anita Jones
10:00 - 11:00	Sang Son and John Knight
11:00 - 12:00	Worthy Martin and Jim Cohoon

Demonstrations of Computing Systems Research Projects

Olsson 236	Amortized Supersampling: Pitchaya Sitthi-Amorn
	Fall Detection with Body Sensor Networks: Qiang Li
	Vinelab: Real-time Visualization of Environmental Data: Tim Hnat
	HIVE - Hyperlinked and Interactive RFID-Responsive Environment: Kirthi Chawla and Liuyu (Eric) Zhang
Olsson 227	Tracking White Blood Cells using Graphics Processors: Michael Boyer
	Real-Time Ultrasound Enhancement using Graphics Processors: Lukasz Szafaryn

Presentations and Interactions with Graduate and Undergraduate Students

U.Va. Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

The Computer Science Degree Programs

The Computer Engineering Degree Program

Remote Medical Monitoring with Body Sensors: Andrew Jurik

Crosspoint: A Web-based Collaboration System: Joel Coffman

Improved Software Dynamic Translation with Program Metadata: Dan Williams

Thwarting Non-control-data Attacks: Wei Hu

Robust and Efficient Software Security: Sudeep Ghosh

Life and Schedule Organizer: Chris Alexander

Semantic Regression Testing: Elizabeth Soechting

Probabilistic Detection of Covert Channels Embedded within RFID-Enabled Supply Chains: Kirti Chawla

Alarmnet: A Sensor Network for Continuous Care Retirement Communities: Anthony Wood

Luster: An Environmental Science Sensor Network for Measuring Light: Yafeng Wu

HotSpot: Temperature-Aware Microprocessor Design: John Burr

General Purpose Computation on Graphics Processors: Performance Analysis of K-Means Algorithm using NVIDIA's CUDA Programming Model: Sang-Ha Lee

Federation: Dynamically trading Throughput for Single-Thread Performance: David Tarjan

Visualizing Multiparameter Images: Sean Arietta, Daniel Lepage, Colleen O'Hagan

A Photometric Approach to Estimating Normals and Tangents: Michael Holroyd

GridDL: Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Downloading: Wolfgang Richter

Marple: a demand-driven path-sensitive buffer overflow detector: Wei Le

A Monitoring System for Application Virtualization: Raghavendra Rajkumar

Reliability Adaptive Computer Architecture: Taniya Siddiqua

Optimization Through Reduction: David Noble

Reducing Code and Data Structure Memory Consumption of Virtual Execution Environments: Apala Guha

Clairvoyant: a comprehensive source-level debugger for wireless sensor networks: Jing Yan

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical engineers find new ways of using electricity and electronic devices to improve technology and turn ideas into reality. They use their knowledge of science and mathematics to design and build microelectronic circuits, robots, communication systems and computers. In addition, they use their knowledge of physics and materials to develop new technologies for faster and more capable electronic devices, which find application in computers, radio astronomy, lasers, aircraft and medicine, among other fields.

Some venues are subject to change. On the day of the event, the ECE main office at Thornton Hall will have posters directing visitors to the demos. Please view photos and video from last year's ECE Open House demonstrations.

Exhibits:

MSE 210	Light Interference Experiment and Solar Cells
THN C308	VLSI Design and Large Scale Integrated Circuit Design
THN E106	Wireless Body-Area Sensor Networks for Medical Applications
THN Cleanroom	Tour of the Cleanroom
THN C310/311	Understanding Molecular Electronics
THN C309	Magnetic Suspension by Feedback Control
THN C312	Wireless EKG Patch
THN C310/311	Concepts from Analog and Digital Controls
THN C316	Spectrum Surfing: looking at wireless signals
THN 304	ecoMOD: affordable sustainable, modular housing
THN 304	Learning Barge: a floating environmental classroom on the Elizabeth River

NB: Some Venues are Subject to Change. On the day of the event, the EE main office at Thornton Hall will have posters directing visitors to the demos.

Materials Science and Engineering
Materials scientists and engineers develop new materials, new processing technology and new understanding of the connections between materials' structures and properties. Materials (including metals, ceramics, semiconductors and polymers) represent the key to improving current technologies as well as the key to enabling new technologies never before imagined. See MSE flyer here.

Exhibits:

MSE 125	Materials Science as a field, career opportunities in MSE
MSE 125	Materials Science Minor and MSE Options in Engineering Science
MSE 125	The Science and Engineering of Electrochemistry and Materials Failure
MSE 125	Atomic Computer Simulation of Materials
Wilsdorf Hall B021	Every Atom in it's Place: Self Assembling Quantum Dots by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
MSE 116	Nanoscale Imaging with Scanning Electron Microscopy
Wilsdorf Hall 115	See Atoms with Scanning Atomic Microscope
MSE 108/110	Atomic Scale Imaging with Transmission Electron Microscopy
Wilsdorf 3rd Floor	Computational Materials by Mr. Kiril Simov

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is a combined department. Mechanical engineering is one of the largest, broadest, and oldest engineering disciplines. Mechanical engineers use the principles of energy, materials, and mechanics to design and manufacture machines and devices of all types. They create the processes and systems that drive technology and industry. The key characteristics of the profession are its breadth, flexibility, and individuality. The career paths of mechanical engineers are largely determined by individual choices, a decided advantage in a changing world. Aerospace engineers create machines, from airplanes that weigh over a half a million pounds to spacecraft that travel over 17,000 miles an hour. Aerospace engineers develop new technologies for use in aviation, defense systems, and space exploration, often specializing in areas such as structural design, guidance, navigation and control, instrumentation and communication, or production methods.

Exhibits:

N. Entrance MEC	Hy-V (Chris Goyne and Students)
N. Entrance MEC	Mini Baja Vehicle
MEC 204	Mechanical Engineering Labs (Eric Maslen)
MEC 215	Hoo's Flying student airplane design competition
MEC 218	Advanced Mechatronics Students
MEC 214	Center for Applied Biomechanics (Silvia Blemker, Richard Kent)
MAE 103	Aerospace Lab (AIAA and SGT students). This lab has wind tunnels.

Permanent Exhibits:

MEC 341	Frederick J. Morse Historic Photo Collection
MEC 339	Aviation Art Collection
3rd Fl, S. Foyer	Russian Aircraft Models Collection
MEC 305	Retired Mechanical & Aerospace Faculty Photo Collection
MEC 205	NASA Space Art Collection
MEC 215	UVA Family Original Artworks Collection
Presentations
MEC 205	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UVA: Hossein Haj-Hariri, Professor and Chair of MAE (10:30 - 11:00 a.m)
MEC 341	Robert J. Ribando, Heat and Mass Transfer Studio (11:00 - 11:30 a.m.)
MEC 341	Paul Allaire, The Virginia Heart Pump Project (11:30 a.m.)
MEC 341	Larry G Richards, Engineering Greats (12:00 noon )

Science, Technology, and Society
This department provides the ethical, sociological, historical, and communication components of professional engineering education in the SEAS. STS courses encourage students to think about their role as engineers and scientists in society, and to speak and write effectively. Faculty in STS, who are trained in a variety of disciplines from the humanities and social sciences, conduct research on the intellectual, social, and cultural contexts of technology and technological change.

Exhibits:

Thornton Hall Lobby

Information and Display Table

Systems and Information Engineering
Systems engineering focuses on the big picture of system integration and analysis. Systems engineers seek solutions to large-scale, complex problems that require the integration of technological, organizational, human and economic factors. They are skillful in the use of analytical and computational techniques, problem solving methodologies and eclectic solution design.

Exhibits:

009	Afghanistan Sustainable Infrastructure Plan with Sensitivity to Assumptions of Future Conditions
009	Mental Health Crisis Intervention Evaluation
011	The Next Generation in Satellite Design: Rapidly Reconfigurable Satellite Networks
002	A Google Maps Traffic Simulation for Law Enforcement
005	Evaluating the Mission Effectiveness of Dynamic User Preferences in Video Streaming Applications
005	US-Brazil Cognitive Systems Engineering Exchange Program
1st floor hallway	Systems Engineering INCOSE Question and Answer Session

General Curriculum and Admissions Information

For visitors with interests in general aspects of the Engineering School undergraduate curriculum, applying for admission, or the Rodman Scholars program, Ryan Hargraves, U.Va. Admissions office and Engineering School Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs Ed Berger will make presentations, and be available for questions, in Room MEC 205, at 11:00 a.m. and at noon.

Persons interested in curriculum details for School undergraduate major programs may inquire of faculty in individual departments present for the Open House.

Scheduled Events

Special Presentation

Prof. Kathryn Thornton, former astronaut and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs
"Sights and Sounds of Space Flight"
Room MEC 205, 1:00 PM

Map, Directions, Parking

Building names and codes Map no. Name Code name 46 Thornton Hall THN 9 Chemical Engineering CHE 24 Materials Science and Engineering MSE 27 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering MEC 38 Olsson Hall OLS 48 Wilsdorf Hall   8 Central Grounds Parking Garage		For the Engineering School complex: THN-A is on the north side; THN-E is on the east side (with usual entrance midway north-south); THN-C joins THN-E, southward; THN-D is on the west side (with usual entrance midway north-south); THN-B joins THN-D, northward.

Directions and Parking
The University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville, Virginia, approximately 120 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. Two major highways, Interstate 64 and US 29, intersect close to the University Grounds. Ample hourly parking is available in the Visitors' Parking Garage on Emmet Street, about a block south of the intersection with University Avenue. The parking garage does have parking spaces designated for persons with disabilities.

From I-64, take exit 118B onto the 29/250 Bypass; then take the second exit (250 East Business), making a right at the top of the ramp and then another right, roughly a mile later, onto Emmet Street. From US 29, follow the signs to Business 29, which becomes Emmet Street. The Visitors' Parking Garage will be on your left.

To reach US 29 from the Northeast, take I-495 around Washington to I-66 West. From I-66 West, take the exit marked "US 29 South - Gainesville." Travel on US 29S into Charlottesville where it will turn into Emmet Street. Emmet Street will lead you to the University. The Visitors' Parking Garage will be on your left. If you reach the Jefferson Park Avenue (JPA) traffic light, you have gone too far. See the U.Va. Webmap (Offsite).

To download a PDF file containing directions to the University (PDF)!

You can also use Google Maps (Offsite) with the following address to get directions to the Visitor's Parking Garage: 400 Emmet St. South, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

Note: Please do not park in the Education School lots across from Thornton Hall (46 on the map above). All three lots by Ruffner are off limits.

Tours

For the Open House, the Engineering Student Council offers student-led interactive tours of the School main complex and Exhibits. Tour groups form at a table in THN-A Lobby. Often this form of tour provides a better way to learn about School matters.

Walking Tour to MR5, the Biomedical Engineering Building
Tour #1 (9:30 - 10:45 AM)
Tour #2 (10:30 - 11:45 PM)
Tour #3 (12:30 - 1:45 PM)
Meet in Wilsdorf 210G, at least 5 minutes before tour is scheduled to begin. Visit BME's state-of-the-art labs and teaching space. Guided by graduate and undergraduate students.

Other Information

Near the Registration Table, other information tables will be set up: information on special curriculum programs, student organizations, other matters.

Center for Diversity in Engineering

In connection with this Open House, the Center for Diversity in Engineering organizes special programs - information sessions, tours, etc. These activities are open to all interested persons. Individuals or groups interested in participating in these activities are encouraged to contact:

Center for Diversity in Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Thornton Hall, University of Virginia
P. O. Box 400255
Charlottesville VA 22904-4255
Telephone: 434-924-0604
e-mail: cv5d@virginia.edu

Society of Women Engineers High School Visitation: SWE Schedule (PDF)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers: Juntos Podemos Schedule of Events (PDF)

Engineering Alumni Table

What's it like to be an engineer? Several of our alumni will be available to meet with interested students and visitors. Visit the Engineering Alumni Table to talk to an engineer about engineering careers and opportunities.