Events – Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Mar 06 2020

We’re Celebrating Pi Day!

Posted on March 6, 2020March 16, 2020 by Carol Johnk

3.141 592 653 589 793 238 462 643 383 279 502 884 197 169 399 375 105 820 974 944 592 307 816 406 286….

We’re celebrating PI DAY on March 12th!
1:00 to 3:00 PM
Seamans Center Student Commons
FREE APPLE PIE BITES!
(while supplies last!)

Pi Day is actually celebrated on March 14, typically around 3:14 am or pm.
But since that is the beginning of Spring Break – we are celebrating early!

We will have FREE apple pie bites in the Seamans Center Student Commons! But only while supplies last! And, if you’ve been here in previous years, you’ll know they go fast! So, stop by and grab a bite – got a Pi Day shirt – wear it!! We’d love to take your picture!

Beginning geometry students might remember finding the area of a circle – pi x radius squared…. But, what is Pi (π) and why does it rate its very own day?

Pi is one of the most famous and mysterious of numbers. Defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it’s diameter, Pi seems simple. However, it is an irrational number. An irrational number cannot be expressed exactly as a fraction and the decimal representation therefore never ends, nor does it ever settle into a permanent repeating pattern. Scientists have calculated billions of digits of Pi, starting with 3.14159265358979323…. with no end in sight. It could be calculated to infinity and there would be absolutely no way to know which number would come next.

Pi is not only irrational, it is also transcendental! A transcendental number is a number that is not a root of any algebraic equation having integral coefficients, as π or e. All transcendental numbers are irrational, but not all irrational numbers are transcendental. . .

Pi is used all around us every day – Christian Constanda, the University of Tulsa’s C.S. Oliphant professor of mathematical sciences, says, “Look at a football: when you compute the volume, then Pi gets involved in the formula.” Constanda also said, “If you drive through a puddle, creating a wave with the car, that involves Pi. If you see a tornado, that definitely involves Pi.”

Want to see what 100,00 digits of Pi look like? Go here.

Think you’d like to see how many digits of pi you can learn? Check out this song and sing along!

Some Pi Day Fun Facts:

In the Star Trek^© television episode, Wolf in the Fold, Spock defeats an evil enemy in the Enterprise’s computer system. How? He ordered it to “compute to the last digit the value of pi.” Which we know can not be computed!
The number 360 occupies the 360^th position in the digits of Pi.
Divide the length of a river – with all the bends and curves – by the length of the river would be “as the crow flies,” the average ration will be approximately Pi. Watch this youtube video for an explanation!
In 2008 a crop circle with Pi embedded in it appeared near Barbury Castle in Wiltshire, England.

Free Apple Pie Bites! It would be irrational to miss free pie bites! So, be here, or be square!
Seamans Center Student Commons
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Resources:

Adrian, Y. E. O.. The pleasures of pi,e and other interesting numbers. 2006. Singapore : World Scientific. Engineering Library QA95 .A2 2006

Posamentier, Alfred S. 2004. [Pi] : a biography of the world’s most mysterious number. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books. Engineering Library QA484 .P67 2004

Maths has never looked so appealing! Oct. 3, 2013. dailymail.com

The Pi Song. Originally sung by Hard ‘N Phirm. Sept. 17, 2006. youtube.com

Mead, Wendy. March 13, 2015. Fascinating Facts About Pi Day & Birthday Boy Albert Einstein. A&E Television Network, LLC. Bio.

Rouse, Margaret. Definition : Transcendental Number. TechTarget. WhatIs.com

West, Marc. July 1, 2008. Pi appears in a crop circle. +plus magazine .

Walton, Rod. March 14, 2014. Pi common in everyday life, not just dessert. Tulsa World .

Swanson, Ana. March 14, 2015. 10 stunning images show the beauty hidden in pi. The Washington Post .

Martin Krzywinski Science Art. 1999-2018. Martin Krzywinski.

Other Resources:

Stewart, Ian. 2013. Visions of infinity : the great mathematical problems. New York, NY : Basic Books. Engineering Library QA93 .S75 2013

Stewart, Ian. 2015. Professor Stewart’s incredible numbers. New York : NY : Basic Books. Engineering Library QA241 .S8123 2015

Happy Pi Day (3.14) Domino Spiral. March 13, 2011. youtube.com

Oct 29 2019

Capture Your Research! Image Competition

Posted on October 29, 2019November 4, 2019 by Carol Johnk

NEXUS, the College of Engineering, Hancher, and the Lichtenberger Engineering Library have joined together to sponsor the inaugural
“Capture your Research! Image Competition!“

Engineering students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit one image which captures the essence of their research. Entries will be judged on originality/creativity, aesthetics – appeal of the image, relationship between the image and the research, and clarity of the written description.

The inspiration for Capture your Research! Image Competition came from a similar project at the University of Alberta. You can see example of images submitted to the University of Alberta competition here.

Our competition will have prize categories for undergraduate, graduate, faculty/staff (including the research labs/centers), and people’s choice.

There will be 4 prize categories from which winners will be selected. There will be a 1^st and 2^nd place awarded in each category.

Undergraduate Student
Graduate Student
Faculty/Staff/Researchers
Peoples Choice

1^st Place in each category will receive a Powerbeats Pro (wireless earbuds).
2^nd Place in each category will receive an Ember Temperature Control Smart Mug.

Submission form can be found here. The deadline to submit your photo is Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 at 5:00 pm (central time).

High Resolution Image with a 2:3 aspect ratio suitable for printing as a 20″ x 30″ poster
Best: 6000 pixels x 9000 pixels
Minimum: 2500 pixels x 3750 pixels
The competition website has a link to photo requirements.
100-500 word description of photograph

Here is the information which is requested on the Online Submission Form. Please note that your submission can be changed, withdrawn or adjusted up until the February 28^th deadline by either using the online form or by emailing Kari Kozak.

Image Title
Date of Creation
Location of Creation
Researcher Name
HawkID
University Email Address
Research Area
College of Engineering Department or Center
Judging Division
Keywords for image
Creative Commons License Agreement to Terms

Timeline

October – Open for Submissions
Dec. 5, 2019; 3:00 pm: Q&A session
Jan. 30, 2020; 5:00 pm: Q&A session
Feb. 20, 2020; 5:00 pm: Q&A session
Feb 28^th – Submissions deadline
Early March – Judging
Late March – People’s Choice (online voting)
April 2nd – Award Ceremony

The Top 25 images will be on display for a period of time in the Hancher Auditorium Lobby, and the images will be digitally preserved in the Libraries’ Iowa Research Online.

Be sure to mark the dates on your calendar! We look forward to seeing all your artistic research submissions!!

Feb 12 2019

Engineering Library Escape Room! We Need Your Help!

Posted on February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 by Carol Johnk

Looking for inventors, puzzle-lovers, adventure-seekers, escape room aficionados!

We plan to build a couple of College of Engineering escape rooms this semester and we would like to get YOU (engineering students, faculty, staff members) involved! We plan to have the rooms ready by Saturday, March 30^th.

We have two types of tasks for engineering students (faculty, staff) members to help create the Engineering Escape Room using their ingenuity and cleverness: 1) to design a puzzle and 2) to put the escape room together.

Puzzle Submission Form Build Team Sign-up Form

Seeking individuals or groups to submit ideas of puzzles, cipher codes, hidden messages, or other games and puzzles to put into the rooms. If your puzzle is selected, it will be put together with 5-10 other puzzles to create the full escape room.

Parameters:

Clues must be solvable in under 10 minutes by the average student. (The whole room should take about 45 minutes to solve.)
Cost to build the puzzle components must be under $10 for each puzzle. (We want 5-10 puzzles with varying difficulty to be in each room.)
- We already have some tools you can use like a black-light with black-light pen, red lens viewer to find hidden messages in books or art, a variety of locks with both letter and numeric codes on them.
- You can also use any tools and resources already in the library, as long as it can be turned back to their original state after the event.
- The puzzle must be reusable. This means it can be reset-up so the next group coming in can still play the game.
- Nothing can be placed behind the outlets or near the lights.
You can submit more than one puzzle. Submit as many as you like!
Submit puzzles that fit with one of the listed themes. The Escape Room organizers will decide which theme will ultimately end up in the space depending on how many puzzles are submitted. If we’re lucky, we may have more than one Escape Room!
- Theme Ideas:
  - You are locked in a game that uses a variety of board games.
  - A gremlin has stolen a key to unlock the door to escape so you will need to find the gremlin to get out.
  - You are locked in a movie theater.
Design your puzzle and submit it using the following form by 8 a.m. Wednesday, February 13th!
- Puzzle Submission Form
There are lots of escape room ideas online. Here are a few places to get you started thinking like an escape room puzzle-creator.

1. Seeking individuals or groups who want to put the rooms together: compiling designs, creating a plan, building.
- This group will actually pull together the designs and create an the escape room(s).
- We will have teams of 2-4 individuals to make a room. If there are specific people you’d like to have on your team, indicate that on the form (below).
- We can make up to 3 rooms in the library depending on how many ideas we received and how many volunteers we have.
- Each volunteer will work on just one of the rooms so you can still do the puzzles and games in the other rooms.
- Build Team Sign-up

Puzzle Submission Form Build Team Sign-up Form

Feb 07 2019

Spring Learn & Create Workshops!

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Carol Johnk

Exciting New Create & Learn Workshops!!

Tuesdays, 2:30 pm

Engineering Library Creative Space (2001C SC)

We are happy to collaborate with the Engineering Technology Center, NEXUS and the Department of Music to present some exciting workshops!

The workshops will be held on Tuesdays from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. See our website for class information and links to register! They are FREE, but registration is limited – so be sure to register today!!

February 12th: Valentine’s Day Pop-up Cards – Deanne Wortman

Want to impress your friends and family with fun and unique greeting cards? Learn about paper folding to create a pop-up cards with lights and sounds.
Sign-Up Here

February 19th:Standards: Guides and Regulations for Building and Testing – Kari Kozak

Introduction to standards and specifications. Learn how to access a wide variety of standards including ASTM, ISO, ADA, NFPA (Fluid), and the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations. Featuring a new database, TechStreet, to gain electronic access to these standards and more. Taught by Kari Kozak, Head, Lichtenberger Engineering Library.
Sign-Up Here

February 26th: Soldering Basics – Jeremy Roszell

Soldering is one of the most fundamental skills needed to dabble in the world of electronics. The two go together like peas and carrots. And, although it is possible to learn about, and build, electronics without needing to pick up a soldering iron, you’ll soon discover that a whole new world is opened with this one simple skill.
Sign-Up Here

March 5th: Patents – Kari Kozak

Basic introduction to what a patent is and how to complete patents searches. Patents provide inventor exclusive rights to products they produce and also give great detailed information on certain products and methods. Taught by Kari Kozak, Head, Lichtenberger Engineering Library.
Sign-Up Here

March 12th: Effective Poster Design – Sarah Livesay

The Research Open House will be held on April 11^th, and this workshop will help you make your poster presentation more effective. Learn to think about the prospective audience, poster content, and design considerations in a poster layout.
Sign-Up Here

April 2nd: Arduino Piano (Plug and Play) – Jeremy Roszell & Jean-Francois Charles

Learn to create a mini piano! Learn all the steps to make your own mini piano using an Arduino and circuit board. This lightweight keyboard allows you to play an octave worth of notes using capacitive touch, no strings or hammers required! This class will walk through the basic programming and ways to personalize the keyboard. Taught by Jeremy Roszell, Engineering Electronics Shop & Jean-Francois Charles, School of Music.
Sign-Up Here

April 9th: Creating Citations Quickly & Easily with Endnote – Marina Zhang

Introduction to an online citation management system that is free for everyone at the University of Iowa. It helps you to manage all your references for a paper (or many papers) as well as create the incite citations and bibliographies in a wide variety of formatting styles. Taught by Marina Zhang, Engineering & Informatics Librarian, Lichtenberger Engineering Library.
The web version of Endnote Basic will be taught: not the full client version.
Sign-Up Here

April 16th: Using OpenRefine for cleaning up spreadsheet data – Brian Westra

OpenRefine is a free tool for reviewing and cleaning up spreadsheet or tabular data. Save yourself a lot of time by using OpenRefine to identify and fix problems in your tabular data. Automated functions easily and quickly handle common problems, such as splitting cells that contain multiple data values, detecting duplicates and typos, standardizing date formats, and trimming extra spaces from cells. OpenRefine also keeps track of all your steps, so you can easily reuse them or undo them if necessary.
Feel Free to bring your own laptops and download the software before the class: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Installation-Instructions
Sign-Up Here

April 23rd: 3D Scanning: Tips & Tricks – Kari Kozak

Want to make a 3D scan? Need some help figuring out how to get started? This class will take you through the basics of the three scanners that the Engineering Library has available for check and learn to make a 3D scan of yourself!
Sign-Up Here

Jan 18 2019

Creative Kick-Start Winners Announced!

Posted on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 by Carol Johnk

CONGRATULATIONS KICK-START WINNERS!!!

We are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Creative Kick-Start Program!

Kick-Start, a program which was developed by the Engineering Library and the Engineering Technology Centers, awards $500 to 10 projects which are submitted by engineering students. Undergrad and graduate students are eligible to submit proposals for prototyping a new project or finishing a current project. The funds for the Creative Kick-Start program have generously been provided by the Engineering Technology Centers.

Twenty-seven students are involved in the 10 winning entries. Each project has to have a sponsor and this year there are 10 faculty/staff who are sponsoring projects.

Meet the winners!

Olivia Laux, Kaylin Slinskey, Lucinda Williamson, Jared McClung and Bryan Williams are working on an Air Chair. Their goal is to design a product which will reduce damage to wheelchairs during commercial air travel. The Asonus Tech (Alerting Device) is being developed by Adam Hoffman and Philip Abangan. Their small, wearable device will alert the user – via vibration – of important noises in the surrounding environment. Sounds would include doorbells, fire alarms, etc. Body Betty, an interactive toy designed to educate children about anatomy using a doll and a fun app, is the goal of Caroline Chelsvig and Emily Leibold.

The Car Turbo Jet Engine will be designed by Greg Beaver and Walker Jarvie – and will take a turbocharger from a car and turn it into a jet engine. A wearable self-defense device called the Kineta uses voltage to shock the perpetrator. It is being developed by Ashley Mathews.

Theodore Simmons and Miguel Camarena want to design A Lyapunov-Based Control System for Path-Following WIPs. Their design will be a novel control algorithm and electromechanical system for path-following wheeled inverted pendulum (WIP) robots.

James Cory, Jayme Waite, Dakota Striet, Cecily Calcopietro, and Isaak Moore will create the Optoshoulder – equipment and methods for proper, prone bilateral execution of prone Y’s, prone I’s, and prone T’s exercise for shoulder injury patients. The Patient Table is being designed by Elizabeth LeMar to create a table that can be placed on a hospital bed, allowing patients to have access to a table that moves with their bodies, making activities much easier.

Emma Tokuyama and Daniel Kelly will be working to create a Rocket Bike – a regular bicycle converted into an electric bicycle. The end result will be a fast, cheap, and environmentally friendly way for students to get around. The Root Canal Pal will be a device designed to stimulate large nerve fibers in the facial area. It will mask the brain’s perception of pain and work in tandem with existing local anesthetic administration. Ethan Slater, Colin Zwifel, Annie Cahill, Shao Yan Zhang, and Nina VanDerZanden will be working on this project.

Congratulations to these winners! We’re looking forward to watching these projects develop!

For more information about the Creative Kick-Start Program click here.

The application Review Committee members are Kari Kozak (Head, Lichtenberger Engineering Library), Jeff Nock (Entrepreneur in Residence/Lecturer, John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center), Spencer Stumpf (Inventions Manager, UI Research Foundation), and Danny Tang (Chief Technology Officer, College of Engineering).

Our Creative Kick-Start Program was inspired by the concept created by Adobe Kickbox & remixed by Elon University Kickbox.

Oct 26 2018

Graduate Thesis Boot Camp!

Posted on October 26, 2018November 2, 2018 by Carol Johnk

Free 2-Day Graduate Thesis Workshop!

Presented by The Lichtenberger Engineering Library, College of Engineering, the Graduate College

and the Hanson Center for Technical Communication!

December 17^th & 18^th, 2018

Open to current engineering and computer science graduate students, Thesis Boot Camp is the perfect opportunity to set aside time dedicated to making progress on your dissertation or master’s thesis! Along with a comfortable, quiet working environment, writing and research support, breakfast, snacks and lunches, the workshop offers students community and motivation in that final push towards the completion of their dissertation or thesis.

Several optional workshops are also scheduled. They include help with editing, formatting, and creating citations among others! Throughout the entire 2 days 1-on-1 support is provided by writing facilitators, liaison librarians, and members from the graduate college to provide assistance when you need it.

Boot Camp targets current engineering and computer science graduate students at both the PhD and Masters level, who are currently writing their thesis / dissertation. Participants will benefit from the structured time, space, professional advising and peer support of the program.

What else do you need to know? Both days begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. – please plan to stay for the entire 2 days. It’s FREE, but is limited to 30 participants. Registration deadline is Friday, December 7th, at 11:59 p.m. It will be held in the Student Commons and in the Lichtenberger Library. Breakfasts, lunches, and snacks are included! And coffee! Lots of coffee!

More information and a draft of the schedule go here. The registration form is available here.

Mark your calendars and register today!!

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact (Kari Kozak, Head, Lichtenberger Engineering Library) in advance at (319-335-6046).

Aug 21 2018

New Learn & Create Workshops!!!

Posted on August 21, 2018August 21, 2018 by Carol Johnk

Exciting New Create & Learn Workshops!!

Wednesdays @ 1 p.m.

We are happy to collaborate with the Engineering Technology Center, NEXUS and the Department of Music to present some exciting workshops! Workshops are free (but there may be an optional materials fee) and are on Wednesdays from 1 to 2 p.m. Register online at lib.uiowa.edu/eng.

Library Resources

August 29^th: Standards & Patents: Presented by Kari Kozak, Lichtenberger Engineering Library.

Do you have a product you want to create? Learn how to search for patents and standards from around the world. Learn about the various resources that can be accessed both on and off campus.
Sign – Up Here

September 5^th: Collect & Analyze Data Using LabQuest Devices – John Kostman, Engineering Electronics Shop (EES) & Kari Kozak, Lichtenberger Engineering Library

The Tool Library includes LabQuest Devices and a wide range of sensors. These devices and attachments allow for the collection and analyzation of data for a nearly endless number of possibilities. This course will provide overview of what the library has and instruction on how to use it!
Sign-Up Here

September 12^th:Systematic Review – Qianjin (Marina) Zhang, Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Have you ever struggled with literature reviews? Try some strategies from systematic reviews that may give you some insight into your research topic through a more rigorous and structure approach. Systematic reviews are defined as “a research method that aims to locate and summarize all available evidence for a research question in order to guide decisions and practices” in medical and health sciences. Although systematic reviews originate from medical and health sciences, they are increasingly adopted by education, social sciences and, even, engineering. This workshop will introduce different review types (systematic reviews, scoping/mapping reviews and literature reviews), systematic review process, research question frameworks and search strategy, as well as point you to some available resources and services.
Sign-Up Here

Mini Piano using Capacitive Touch

Through the following 5 course series, learn all the steps to make your own mini piano using a circuit board and Arduino. This light weight keyboard allows you to play an octave worth of notes using capacitive touch, no strings or hammers required!

September 19^th: Printing Circuit Boards 1 – John Kostman, EES

Learn to create the keyboard circuit board with Multisim and Ultiboard. Part 1 is creating a circuit board from beginning to end. Part 2 goes into detail about special problems and challenges for circuit boards.
Sign-Up Here

September 26^th: Printing Circuit Boards 2 – John Kostman, EES

Learn to create the keyboard circuit board with Multisim and Ultiboard. Part 1 is creating a circuit board from beginning to end. Part 2 goes into detail about special problems and challenges for circuit boards.
Sign-Up Here

October 3^rd: Soldering Basics – Jeremy Roszell, EES

October 10^th: Building a Case with CREO and 3D printing – Brian Snider, EES

Sign-Up Here

October 17^th: Programming and Music Theory – Jean-Francois Charles, Dept of Music & Jeremy Roszell, EES

Halloween Costumes

October 24^th & 31st: Engineering Halloween Costumes Part 1 & 2 – Brian Snider, EES & John Kostman, EES

Want to learn quick and easy ways to spice up your Halloween costumes? Learn to incorporate nano pixels, lights and sound into your Halloween costumes.
Sign-Up Here – Part 1
Sign-Up Here – Part 2

Greeting Cards

November 7th & 28th: Creating Pop-up and Interactive Greeting Cards Part 1 & 2– Deanne Wortman, NEXUS & Kari Kozak, Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Want to impress your friends and family with fun and unique greeting cards? Learn about paper folding to create a pop-up cards with lights and sounds.
Sign-Up Here – Part 1
Sign-Up Here – Part 2

Sign up today for these workshops – space is limited and you won’t want to be left out!!

Apr 06 2018

Join us for Library Events During Engineering Research Week!

Posted on April 6, 2018April 23, 2018 by Carol Johnk

The University of Iowa College of Engineering has expanded its traditional Annual Research Open House event into a Research Week, celebrated this year from April 9-13. The week now features numerous activities that showcase how Engineering impacts the university’s stratetic direction in conducting leading-edge research.

We are excited to be participating in Research Week!!

On Thursday, April 12, the 10 Kick-Start Award winners will be presenting posters and talking about their award-winning projects! Check here for information on the students and their fascinating and diverse projects! They will be presenting their posters between 2:00 and 4:00. Stop in!

Also on Thursday, April 12 is a free Learn & Create Xpress Class! It will be held in the Engineering Library Creative space beginning at 2:00 pm. Brian Westra from the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, will be presenting a class on OpenRefine. OpenRefine is a free tool for reviewing and cleaning up spreadsheet or tabular data! Save yourself a lot of time by using OpenRefine to identify and fix problems in your tabular data. Automated functions easily and quickly handle common problems, such as splitting cells that contain multiple data values, detecting duplicates and typos, standardizing date formats, and trimming extra spaces from cells. OpenRefine also keeps track of all your steps, so you can easily reuse them or undo them if necessary. Feel free to download the free software (here) and bring your own laptop to class. Class size is limited, so be sure to register today!

On Friday, April 13, 2:00 t0 4:00. Living Books will be available to check-out in the library! Join us as books come alive! Researchers stand in for books, you are able to “check them out” for 15 minutes and take that time to talk one-on-one with Engineers about their inspiring research! Researchers from the Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering will be available! Come and learn more about research being done in your area of study or explore an entirely new area! Stop in and check out a living book! Refreshments will be provided!

Here is a comprehensive list of all the activities and opportunities going on throughout the week! All events are open to the public!

Monday, April 9

Mars Rover Prototype Demonstration
University of Iowa Robotics Club
The University of Iowa Robotics Club designed, built and programmed a prototype Mars rover to compete in The University Rover Challenge (URC). The URC is hosted annually by the Mars Society at their Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) near Hanksville, Utah. Teams competing in the University Rover Challenge build a rover to compete and perform varied tasks deep in the Utah desert simulating realistic Mars rover operation and procedures. Come see the Rover in action!
2:00 – 3:00, 2040 Seamans Center

Tuesday, April 10

Introduction to Systematic Reviews
Qianjin (Marina) Zhang, Engineering & Informatics Librarian
Systematic Reviews is a research method that is commonly used in medical and public health but increasingly adopted by researchers in education, social sciences and, even, engineering. This workshop will introduce concepts about systematic reviews and narrative reviews, which is also called literature reviews, and differences between the two types of reviews. We will also discuss when and how to conduct a systematic review as well as the library services that support your systematic review project
11:30 – 12:30, Creative Space, 2001 Seamans Center

Wednesday, April 11

20 Years of Saving Lives – Making Vehicles Safer
National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) staff
Drive the NADS simulators and discuss how they could be used in your research, education, and outreach activities. Student-led research projects may be able to use the simulators at low or no cost!
11:30 a.m. -12:00 Noon – presentation, 12:00 Noon – 1:00 p.m. – simulator demonstrations, 4602 Seamans Center

Thursday, April 12

Going to Graduate School Workshop
Allan Guymon, DEO Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
This seminar is targeted to undergraduate student who are considering graduate school.
• The application process for graduate school
• Information about how to get financial support through fellowships & stipends
• Information on BS/MS program
• Future job opportunities
There will be a significant amount of times devoted to questions. Undergraduate students from all disciplines are invited to attend, Refreshments provided.
11:30 am – 12:30 pm, 3111 Seamans Center

Research Open House Poster Fair
More than 110 posters will showcase the research activities and accomplishments of the College of Engineering’s graduate and undergraduate students.
2nd Floor Lobby, Seamans Center
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
5:00-6:00 p.m., W10 Pappajohn Business Building.

Paul D. Scholz Symposium on Technology and its Role in Society
“Engineering and Natural Disasters.”
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
W10 Pappajohn Business Building
A panel of three speakers will each give a 5-10 minute presentation followed by a moderated discussion and questions from the audience. The speakers are Daniel Miller from Stanley Consultants, Ron Knoche from Iowa City Public Works, and Professor Gabriele Villarini from the IIHR–Hydroscience & Engineering. The free, public symposium was named in 1993 to honor the late Paul Scholz, 20-year Tau Beta Pi advisor and associate dean of the UI College of Engineering (1979-1992). Scholz was inducted as a member of the Legacy of Iowa Engineering in 2006.
Co-sponsors are the UI Tau Beta Pi chapter, Tau Beta Pi alumni, and the College of Engineering.

Friday, April 13

Student Recognition Luncheon
Hotel Vetro
11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m.
All faculty, staff and student poster presenters and judges are invited to attend, please RSVP to kristina-venzke@uiowa.edu.

Engineering Living Library
A living library has researchers stand in for books. Instead of checking out print books, library users can read a person’s bio and if they choose that “book” then there is a 10-15 minute check out time where the library user can ask the living book questions about their research. This is a fun and inviting event for all participants. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
2:00 -4:00 p.m., 2001 Seamans Center

The university community and public are invited to attend any of the public scheduled events throughout the week.

Take advantage of this exciting opportunity to see all the innovation coming from the UI College of Engineering!

Apr 06 2018

Check Out a Living Book!

Posted on April 6, 2018April 23, 2018 by Carol Johnk

ENGINEERING LIVING LIBRARY EVENT!!

Friday, April 13, 2018

2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Friday the 13^th could turn out to be your lucky day!! Why? Because that’s the day we’re having a Living Book event! As part of National Library Week and the University of Iowa College of Engineering Research Week, we are providing the chance for you to check out Living Books!

From 2:00 to 4:00 pm on April 13^th, researchers will become “living books,” giving you the chance to check them out for a 10-15 minute period and talk one-on-one about their research! A perfect opportunity to visit with a researcher in your area of study – or explore and entirely different aspect of engineering!

Researchers from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, will be in the Engineering Library eager to share their research experiences!

Amina Grant, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Researching Lead and Copper in Iowa Drinking Water. She will be available to talk about her research on small or very small water systems in Iowa. Talk with her about her research and her overarching goal of providing a publicly accessible database.

Benjamin King, Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, will be sharing Researching the Development of Aerosols for Targeted Drug Delivery in the Lungs. His research allowed him to design and synthesize polymer-coated gold nanoparticles functionalized for targeted delivery in the lungs. Check this Living Book out for 15 minutes and learn about his research dealing with inhaled therapies!

Researching Human Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants like PCBs, Pesticides, and Siloxanes is Rachel F. Marek’s research focus! Her research involves analysis of PCBs, their breakdown particles and other environmental contaminants. Her study involves monitoring pesticides at farm houses, lab experiments with siloxanes, and novel instrument applications for monitoring environmental contaminants to ascertain whether people – especially children – are exposed to harmful chemicals. Don’t miss the chance to explore Rachel’s research with her!

Michael Rendleman, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, will be available to discuss his research: Researching Cancer Outcome Prediction with Machine Learning and Genomics. Tumor characterization is an integral part of personalized oncological medicine. In his research, he applies ” machine learning algorithms and techniques to publicly-available clinical data to infer missing values and to predict positive patient outcomes.” Come visit and learn about how this will provide a new path for clinical decision support!

Researching Artificial Intelligence and Virtual and Augmented Reality to Facilitate Environmental Research is the fascinating topic on which Yusuf Sermet, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is working. A recent project with which he has been involved is “Flood Expert.” Flood Expert is “. . . an intelligent system designed to improve societal preparedness for flooding by providing a knowledge engine that uses voice recognition, AI (artificial intelligence), and NLP (natural language processing) . . . The interaction and delivery channels include voice and text input via web-based systems, agent-based chat bots (e.g., MS Skype, Facebook Messenger), smartphone and augmented reality applications (e.g., Google Now, MS Cortana, MS HoloLens), automated web workflows (e.g., IFTTT), and smart home devices (e.g., Google Home, Amazon Echo). . .

Don’t miss this opportunity to ask questions and visit one-on-one with researchers! Mark your calendars now!

Friday, April 13, 2018

2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Mar 05 2018

Early Pi(π) Day Celebration on FRIDAY!!!

Posted on March 5, 2018March 6, 2018 by Carol Johnk

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286….

We’ll be celebrating Pi Day THIS Friday, March 9^th – before spring break!!!

We’ll be celebrating in the Engineering Library and will serve apple pie bites from 1:00 to 3:14 p.m. (when else?!) or while supplies last! We will also have free coffee – did I mention the pie bites, coffee, and lemonade are free? Come early – these tasty bites go fast!

We’ll see you in the Engineering Library on March 9th,

1:00 to 3:14 p.m.

Be there or be square –

after all, you’d be irrational to not celebrate with us!

The University of Iowa Libraries

Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Category: Events

We’re Celebrating Pi Day!