Google and NASA team to establish a quantum AI research lab
Google announced that it will establish a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab with NASA to study the use of quantum computing for machne lerning in support of problems including web search, speech recognition, planning and scheduling, search for exoplanets, and support operations in mission control centers.
"We believe quantum computing may help solve some of the most challenging computer science problems, particularly in machine learning. Machine learning is all about building better models of the world to make more accurate predictions. If we want to cure diseases, we need better models of how they develop. If we want to create effective environmental policies, we need better models of what’s happening to our climate. And if we want to build a more useful search engine, we need to better understand spoken questions and what’s on the web so you get the best answer."
The lab will use a D-Wave Systems computer and share it with external researchers via NASA's USRA. According to D-wave Systems, "Installation has already begun at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, and the system is expected to be available to researchers during Q3."
"As part of the selection process, Google, NASA and USRA created a series of benchmark and acceptance tests that the new D-Wave 512-qubit system was required to pass before the installation at NASA Ames could proceed. In all cases, the D-Wave Two system met or exceeded the required performance specifications, in some cases by a large margin."
If you are interested in finding out more about quantum computing, you might talk to two members of the CSEE faculty who work on the topic: Professors Sam Lomonaco and Joel Morris.
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Fall 2013 Engineering Co-ops with Merck
Merck is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer health products, as well as animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company - one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.
Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of people like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.
Positions are currently available for Mechanical and Chemical engineers in the following areas for Fall 2013 co-ops:
Associate Specialist, Pharmaceutical Packaging Engineer Co-op
Associate Specialist - Viral Vaccine Engineering Co-op
Associate Specialist - Sterile Manufacturing Co-op
Associate Specialist, Pharmaceutical Packaging Tech & Dev. Co-op
Associate Specialist - MMD Co-op - Chemical Process Development and Commercialization
Apply online at https://merck.taleo.net/careersection/merck_university_recruiting_career_section/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en. Early applications are encouraged.
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NEW PAID SUMMER INTERNSHIP- in Annapolis Junction
Corporate IT Intern with Ultra Electronics-SOTECH
Ultra Electronics-SOTECH is looking for an intern to assist in the Corporate IT department.
During this internship, the intern will be involved in a varied of task including: PC Support, assisting with the web site, inventory, and other daily tasks.
Students must be US Citizen and in enrolled and majoring in the IT field, Basic computer skills and a passion for technology are expected.
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This internship is open to Freshmen and Sophomores.
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Returning Women Spotlight: Liz Winters
What's it like to be a Non-Trad Student Spotlight Series
The Women's Center exists to assist all women in achieving their full potential in education, career and personal life through academic and intellectual growth, professional development and personal empowerment. One of the ways we work to achieve this mission is in our support services and programs for returning women students undergraduate students over the age of 25). The Women’s Center offers meeting space for these students in addition to scholarship opportunities.
Next year we are hoping to launch a mentorship program for returning women students. To help raise awareness about this new pilot program, we’re highlighting some current Returning Women who are a part of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation Scholarship program. If you’re interested in learning more about the Returning Women’s meetings or scholarships, contact us at womens.center@umbc.edu.
Who are you?
I'm Liz Winters, a senior Psychology major. This year I have been part of the Student Veteran's Association, Health Leads and Psi Chi, among other organizations. I'm a married mom of 2, a veteran, a triathlete, and an aspiring marathoner. I plan on being a nurse one day soon.
What benefits have you experienced as a Newcombe Scholar?
Being a Newcombe Scholar has helped me to foster a lasting connection to the Women's Center community that helps support me in academic and personal growth endeavors. My support network includes grad students, undergrads, and staff & faculty mentors in all reaches of campus. The group is comprised of people, like me, who want to succeed and finish strong in various areas of academic study. The tone is overwhelmingly positive, even when we are in the thick of deadlines and coursework pressures. These benefits are invaluable to making my UMBC experience overwhelmingly positive.
What do you wish traditional students knew about being a non-traditional student?
We have more in common than you might think. We may be older, but we can certainly relate to the daily life of a traditional student. We feel the pressure to do well in classes. We wish we had more time to participate in all of the fun campus activities. We want to get out there and enjoy the nice weather. We want to relax and enjoy the weekend, too. Don't let our age be the thing that stops you from getting to know us.
What do you wish the University and Professors knew about being a non-traditional student?
We don't expect preferential treatment based on age or previous professional experience. We may often keep our non-traditional status to ourselves to keep the playing field even. When we chat with you after class about things we might have in common, we are doing it to make connections, not gain favor. Always give us the opportunity to rise to the challenge. Please be willing to mentor and teach us knowing that we will put forth our best effort in order to be better in our studies.
What is one piece of advice you would offer to new non-traditional students at UMBC?
Make UMBC your own, don't be a bystander. Get to know the other students in your classes. They are very smart and talented in the subject matter of your courses, even if they lack confidence sometimes. Get involved on campus in academic organizations and clubs, these connections will be valuable to getting you through to graduation. If you are a parent, your time spent volunteering on campus will be the one of the best examples you can give your kids that will make them see college as something they want to do, too. Have fun, and try not to stress out! When you do get overwhelmed stop by the Women's Center for some tea or yoga, or go to the RAC and do some ZUMBA- do anything! Just be active and get involved!
Update! Liz's Reflections Post-Graduation:
Since graduating with my Bachelor's degree, I have had some time to really process my learning and growing experiences from my Undergraduate work. The Newcombe Scholarships I received while I was finishing my studies afforded me the freedom to pursue a few volunteer and research opportunities I would otherwise not have been able to participate in. With my scholarship, I was able to afford daycare for my preschool-aged daughter a few extra times a week during each semester so that I could conduct research in local Head Start programs, and work with underprivileged patients in a local Baltimore medical clinic.
My time in the medical clinic as a Student Advocate for Health Leads really instilled a sense of Social Justice and activism in me. This experience not only enriched my time at UMBC, but also left a nagging feeling that I could be doing more in my community even after graduation. Some of my best memories of this time came from conversations with other women around campus and at the Women's Center who were returning students (and especially with one in particular who was in Health Leads). Every time I met someone new who showed promise as a Newcombe Scholar, I would encourage her to apply for the Newcombe Scholarship, and explain how I had used it to enrich my study experiences.
My Health Leads experience really stuck with me, and I had a hard time walking away from the program after I graduated. I eventually began to apply for open job positions with Health Leads, and am thrilled to be employed as their Advocate Coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic region. I love my job, and will never forget that it was the Newcombe Scholarship that put me in a position to gain this great experience-- putting me on the path to a wonderfully fulfilling career I never thought possible!
-update from September 2014
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9258210 - Lifeguard - YMCA of Central Maryland (Randallstown)
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Dr. Carlos Romero-Talamas joins the ME Department
Research focuses on dusty plasmas
Dr. Carlos Romero-Talamas joined the Mechanical Engineering Department is January 2013. His research is focused on understanding basic interactions between materials, charged
particles, and electromagnetic radiation. Dusty plasmas, which consist of large
collections of electrons, ions, molecules, and charged dust grains, are of
great interest to us. Relevance and applications of dusty plasmas range from
astrophysics to materials processing. Research is carried out in both theory
and experiments.
There is particular
interest in the strongly coupled regime, which leads to dusty plasma
crystallization, and in the basic properties of this type of so-called soft
matter. Characterization of dusty plasmas is carried out with special
diagnostic techniques, some of which are being developed here. Design and construction
of an experimental facility that includes the production of strong magnetic
fields through the dusty plasmas is underway.
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PhD proposal: A Semantic Resolution Framework for Manufacturing Capability Data Integration
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
A Semantic Resolution Framework for
Manufacturing Capability Data Integration
10:30am Tuesday, May 14, 2013, ITE 346, UMBC
Yan Kang
Building flexible manufacturing supply chains requires interoperable and accurate manufacturing service capability (MSC) information of all supply chain participants. Today, MSC information, which is typically published either on the supplier’s web site or registered at an e-marketplace portal, has been shown to fall short of the interoperability and accuracy requirements. This issue can be addressed by annotating the MSC information using shared ontologies. However, ontology-based approaches face two main challenges: 1) lack of an effective way to transform a large amount of complex MSC information hidden in the web sites of manufacturers into a representation of shared semantics and 2) difficulties in the adoption of ontology-based approaches by the supply chain managers and users because of their unfamiliar of the syntax and semantics of formal ontology languages such as OWL and RDF and the lack of tools friendly for inexperienced users.
The objective of our research is to address the main challenges of ontology-based approaches by developing an innovative approach that can effectively extract a large volume of manufacturing capability instance data, accurately annotate these instance data with semantics and integrate these data under a formal manufacturing domain ontology. To achieve the objective, a Semantic Resolution Framework is proposed to guides every step of the manufacturing capability data integration process and to resolve semantic heterogeneity with minimal human supervision. The key innovations of this framework includes 1) three assisting systems, including a Triple Store Extractor, a Triple Store to Ontology Mapper and a Ontology-based Extensible Dynamic Form, that can efficiently and effectively perform the automatic processes of extracting, annotating and integrating manufacturing capability data.; 2) a Semantic Resolution Knowledge Base (SR-KB) that incrementally filled with, among other things, rules/patterns learned from errors. This SR-KB together with an Upper Manufacturing Domain Ontology (UMO) provide knowledge for resolving semantic differences in the integration process; 3) an evolution mechanism that enables SR-KB to continuously improve itself and gradually reduce the human involvement by learning from mistakes.
Committee: Yun Peng (chair), Charles Nicholas, Tim Finin, Yaacov Yesha, Boonserm Kulvatunyou (NIST)
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Mechanical Engineering Students Present at URCAD 2013
Four Mechanical Engineering students presented their research in the 2013 URCAD on April 24.
"Characterization of Carbon Nano-Structure Infused Fiber Reinforcements on Glass Substrates" - Matthew Buchanan, Dr. Marc Zupan
The transition of laboratory processing to production volume often precludes new
material insertion. Carbon based nano-structures (CNS) show great promise in becoming a disruptive material technology; however, currently their use is limited because they cannot be manufactured in large quantities. This research focuses on a scalable production method to grow CNS on to substrates as an end material system or for harvesting. A novel, open-ended growth chamber and reel-to-reel scalable chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processing system was used for the growth of carbon nano-structures directly on moving glass fiber substrates. Our group conducted research on as-received and CNS-infused glass fiber filaments utilizing single-fiber fragmentation (SFF) tests. The shape and size of the birefringence patterns were used to describe how fiber behavior changed with processing. Post-mortem measurements of the critical fiber fragment lengths were used to identify the quality of the interfacial load transfer. A new material selection performance metric based on the critical aspect ratio was established to evaluate the hybrid interface (fiber-CNS-matrix) response. The results gathered suggest that
the presence of CNS increase interfacial load transfer. These results will be
used in optimizing the novel open-ended growth chamber during scale up of CNS
growth production.
This work was funded, in part, by the UMBC Office of Undergraduate Education through an Undergraduate Research Award, and Applied Nanostructured Solutions LLC, Baltimore, MD for the supply of fibers and CNS growth.
"Modeling Nanoparticle Heat Transfer in Tumors" - Korine Duval, Alex Lebrun, Anil Attaluri, Dr. Liang Zhu
Nanoparticle infusion is a rapidly growing cancer treatment research thrust. When placed in an alternating magnetic field, specialized nanoparticles have the unique ability to generate thermal energy. As elevated temperatures effectively kill cancer cells, the non-invasive heating capability of these nanoparticles provides a promising pathway for a controlled localized treatment of this disease. In this multidisciplinary effort, a predictive mechanism for the potency and overall behavior of this treatment is invaluable. Accordingly, in this work images from a Micro-CT scanner of nanoparticle injected mouse tumors are virtually reconstructed and tested. For this early stage, focus has been given to accurately reconstructing the tumor and nanoparticles in COMSOL® Multiphysics then assigning appropriate material properties. Preliminary results determined by direct comparison to the CT images reveal that a tumor has been successfully reconstructed. Also, corresponding SAR distributions have been determined from raw Micro-CT data, allowing for initial heat transfer analysis. Results from preliminary studies reveal that temperatures within the tumor surpassed steady state by 10-15 degrees Celsius.
This work was funded, in part, by NIH/NIGMS MARC U*STAR T34 08663 National Research Service Award to UMBC and by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
[1K22CA143148 to M.G.K. (PI); R01LM009722 to M.G.K.(collaborator)].
"Parametric Study of a Precise Heating and Cooling Technology Applicable to Microchannel Flow" - Joshua Hooks, Dr. Tony Farquhar
"Local Mechanical Behavior Measurements of Friction Stir Welded Titanium" - Christopher Paymon, Dr. Marc Zupan
Friction stir welding (FSW) is a novel
alternative, fusion, welding technique that offers many advantages over current
methods including reduced cost, waste, and possible improved performance. This research
used direct micro-sample testing, to link local microstructure and localized
texture to mechanical properties of FSW titanium with nickel tracking foil. The
nickel foil is used to reduce wear on the tool pin, decrease forging force, and
to map the complex flow within the stir zone. This was achieved by making
direct measurements of the unprocessed base metal and stir zone mechanical
properties using micro-scale tensile tests. The local mechanical properties throughout
the stir zone, exhibited yield strengths and ultimate tensile strengths within
one standard deviation to those of the base metal. This can be attributed to
two reasons: High deformation caused by the movement of metal around the tool
pin, and high temperatures caused by friction heating of the tool and metal.
The strain to failure inside the stir zone showed a fourteen percent decrease
than that of the base metal. Scanning electron microscope images were used to
visually inspect the fracture surface of the deformed specimens. These observations
showed that the material exhibited ductile fracture behavior at the weld center
and reduced ductility at the weld interface. These results show that the use of
a nickel foil in FSW titanium plates resulted in no reduction in strength while
the material became less ductile away from the weld center. These results are
important to improving process parameters in FSW as well as providing basic
design data.
This work was funded in part by an Undergraduate Research Award from the
UMBC Office of Undergraduate Education and by the Office of Naval Research.