Dr. Soobum Lee's startup ACTIVEcharge featured in UMBC news
Enhancing turbine function through a vibration sensor device
By Megan Hanks
Sensing an opportunity to improve wind energy: Maryland Innovation Initiative and bwtech help UMBC faculty commercialize their research
Wind turbines are massive, with a single turbine blade measuring up to 350 feet (about 110 meters), longer than the wingspan of some commercial airplanes. At its highest point, a blade can be 850 feet (260 meters) off the ground, almost reaching the height of Eiffel Tower. When UMBC engineer
Dr. Soobum Lee looks up at these turbines, generating energy in fields and even offshore, he thinks about their size as an enormous opportunity, and also a challenge.
Lee, Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, studies energy harvesting, but not in a way that most casual observers would connect with wind turbines. He researches how vibrations can power portable devices on a very small scale, and he develops devices that convert those subtle vibrations into energy.
A few years ago, Lee began exploring how to harvest energy from the rotation of vehicle tires. This led him to begin looking at the spinning motion of wind turbines, and the additional small vibrations that turbines make as they spin continuously. He came up with a novel idea: using these small vibrations—not previously harnessed for energy—to power transmitters that could send sensor data to a wind turbine’s operation and maintenance systems.
Soobum Lee, right, with his business partners Ahmed Abdelaziz, center, and Pranay Kohli. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.
Lee explains that wind turbines have sensors on their blades to alert their operators if the blade gets damaged, such as by birds or lightning, or if there is a malfunction or maintenance issue. For example, icicles can form on turbine blades, changing their aerodynamics. Or, the blade could be vibrating abnormally, indicating a more serious mechanical or structural issue in the blade.
Until now, these sensors have been powered by batteries that need to be changed every two years or so. Changing the batteries is time-consuming and can be dangerous for people maintaining the turbines, as they need to climb up the turbines, hundreds of feet in the air, to access multiple sensors on one blade.
“The sensors are to help with maintenance,” says Lee. “If they also create a maintenance need, it’s a problem.” He wondered, what if you could design a sensor that wouldn’t require new batteries?
Over the past 7 years, UMBC faculty from engineering and the sciences to the arts have worked to commercialize their research, to bring innovative technologies to companies and consumers. Knowing that this can be a challenging transition, UMBC and the State of Maryland have created a range of initiatives to help faculty pursue entrepreneurship opportunities. One core opportunity is the Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII), established by the state and five research institutions, including UMBC, to promote research commercialization.
A unique feature of the MII program is the introduction of university “site miners” to facilitate the application process for faculty inventors. These commercialization experts support faculty with preparing proposals and advocate for projects in the review process. UMBC site miner David Fink, entrepreneur in residence, says, “The MII program is the most significant factor in the increased commercialization of UMBC-owned intellectual property.” Sixteen companies have been formed by UMBC faculty since the start of MII.
Since 2013, Lee has applied for three MII grants. His first two attempts were not successful but helped him grow his proposal. On his third try, he received a phase one grant to develop his vibration-powered sensor technology.
Through bwtech@UMBC, UMBC’s research and technology park, Lee connected with Pranay Kohli, an energy sector executive with experience working with companies and clients around the world. In 2018, Lee and Kohli founded ACTIVEcharge, LLC, a startup that develops solutions to autonomously monitor wind turbines.
Entrance to btwech@UMBC. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.
“Soobum and I have benefited tremendously from the MII program. Although we had the technology and the business skills, what MII and bwtech provided us was the ecosystem of professionals who have guided us along the way,” says Kohli, CEO of ACTIVEcharge. “That has opened up so many doors for us as we move forward to commercializing the solution.”
Technology with an impact
Lee’s work has continued to move forward since he received the MII grant. In the lab, he and his students have developed a power management circuit and have integrated it with a power source, sensor, and data transmitter that is about six inches tall and weighs about two pounds.
The sensor provides the signal to the transmitter, and the transmitter sends the data to a receiver. This process uses the energy produced by the attached mechanical generator, powered by vibrations from turbine blades. No external source of energy is needed. It is also designed to sit inside the blades, so it is completely protected from the elements and does not interfere with the blade aerodynamics.
The device that contains the sensor. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.
Lee and Kohli hope that, in the next two to four years, their integrated solution will be installed on turbine blades across the country and internationally. Their goal is to provide turbine maintenance crews with near-real-time data that can support their work in a way that doesn’t create additional labor or physical risk and prevents potential catastrophic events.
Sustainable energy projects are growing in the U.S., and now is an important moment to make technology improvements that will boost that growth further, Lee notes. He shares, “I want to make things even better than they are now.”
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Paid summer internship for undergraduate students
Narrative-based research with the Interdisciplinary CoLab
SUMMER 2020
Interdisciplinary CoLab is a 4-week paid summer internship on narrative-based research offered to undergraduate UMBC students. Participants work in interdisciplinary student teams to create effective narratives about our campus, our larger communities, and our lives. Their research results in public-facing products, such as websites, apps, or videos. Open to all majors, it is an excellent opportunity for students in STEM fields to learn to tell effective stories and for students in social science and humanities fields to gain research and technical skills.
Participants receive a $3000 stipend and a scholarship for a 3-credit internship course. The internship commitment is 30 hours per week (Monday - Friday, 9:30 am – 4:00 pm) during the 4-week Summer Session One, which runs from Tuesday, May 26th - Friday, June 19th.
Low cost summer housing is available in on-campus residence halls and apartments.
For more information, and to apply, please visit:
https://summer.umbc.edu/beyond-the-classroom/colab
SUMMER 2020 PROJECTS
1) A Protocol Manual for Urban Forest Health as Citizen Science: From Patch Sample to Public Advocacy
Project Leader: Dr. Jennifer Maher, English
Project description
The mission of the non-profit organization Baltimore Green Space is "to be a leader and partner in ensuring the communities’ open spaces and forest patches are considered priority assets in the growth and redevelopment of Baltimore.” The organization supports scientific documentation of the “social, health, environment, and economic benefits” green spaces create. The goal for this interdisciplinary team of student researchers will be to produce an urban forest health research protocol manual. Building on the collaboration of Baltimore Green Space, Dr. Matt Baker’s Summer Forest Patch Project, and community land stewards, the CoLab team will create the field manual to enable other advocates of forest health to develop persuasive, evidence-based information related to urban forest health for policymakers and the general public.
Required skills and abilities for applicants
Student members of the interdisciplinary team should share the following traits: intellectual curiosity, strong written and oral communication skills, leadership ability, and solid research skills. Ideally, the team would have student expertise in:
• Environmental science
• Rhetoric/technical communication
• Web design and video editing
2) Jazz and Justice: An American Art Form as Civic Deliberation
Project Leader: Dr. Earl Brooks, English
Project description
Celebrated trumpeter Wynton Marsalis calls jazz a model of participatory democracy and integration. Its performance as well as its complex history bridge the divides between art, rhetorical invention, and civic deliberation. At a time when democracies around the world are grappling with the immense challenges of polarization, wealth inequality, mistrust of institutions, and a media landscape that is as disorienting as it is informative, the history and vitality of jazz takes on a new importance. What does jazz teach us about navigating the issues that paralyze and fracture public consensus? This CoLab attempts to wrestle with such questions by exploring the local history of jazz in Baltimore. Students will work with the Baltimore Jazz Alliance to create content to educate the public about the history and importance of jazz for their newsletter and website.
Required skills and abilities for applicants
This project will require students to build strong written and oral communication skills, facility with multimedia composing platforms (i.e. Adobe Spark, Audacity, iMovie), research skills, leadership ability, logistics, and organizational strategies.
3) People and Places of Baltimore City - An Audio Tour of the Historic Zion Church of the City of Baltimore
Project Leader: Susanne Sutton
Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
Project description
The Zion Church of the City of Baltimore is one of the oldest churches in the city. Founded in 1755 as “The Evangelical Lutheran Congregation at Baltimore Town,” it serves Baltimore’s German immigrant community. Throughout its over 250-year history, pastors and congregations left their mark on Zion and the city as they led efforts to expand the church, to add a school, and to rebuild after a fire in 1840. Zion Church leaders are looking to modernize the visitor experience to appeal to a wider audience and increase interest in the Church as a central institution in Baltimore. The goal of this project is to produce an audio narrative tour of the historic Church. The CoLab student team will meet with Church leaders, examine historical resources, and, using appropriate technological tools, create audio narratives about the Church and its history for use in a digital visitor guide.
Required skills and abilities for applicants
Team members should have excellent communication and problem solving skills, work well in a group, and be flexible and creative. They should also have an interest in local history. Useful specific skills are: technical skills needed to produce audio narratives and display them and possibly link them to an existing website. Knowledge of historical research methods as well as writing and editing of audience-directed narratives are also important.
4) Radical Literature: Radical Literature in the First Half of the 20th Century
Project Leader: Dr. Kate Drabinski
Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies
Project description
An interdisciplinary team of student researchers will explore UMBC’s Special Collections holdings in radical literature. The collection boasts important primary sources for understanding the history of socialist movements in the United States, and debates within that movement about internationalism, racism, sexism, and other issues. Based on their research, the student team will create an online exhibition for the Special Collections website that will include a historical timeline, digital stories, and 2-4 research essays based on the collection. Additionally, the team will create a pamphlet about the collection that borrows from the style of the documents themselves to advertise the collection. The project’s goal is to make visible the collection’s breadth to encourage researchers, including students, faculty, and researchers from elsewhere, to use the collection.
Required skills and abilities for applicants
Student members of the interdisciplinary team should come to the project with an interest in understanding radical political movements in the past, and strong written and oral communication skills. At least one student should have some experience with graphic design and/or website production. Students will be trained to use the Omeka platform, but it would be helpful to have at least one member of the research team with some familiarity with digital skills.
5) The German-American Cultural Center: Celebrating Baltimore’s History and the German-Americans Who Helped Shape It
Project Leader: Dr. Xenia Wolff
Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
Project description
The Baltimore City Heritage Area includes Gay Street, a once vibrant main mercantile thoroughfare. The street has notable examples of late 19th and early 20th century small-scale commercial buildings. The last remaining example of this architecture is the Sexton House / Storefront at 146 North Gay Street, constructed in 1922. It is one of three buildings on the campus of the Zion Church of Baltimore. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it will house the German-American Cultural Center. Heritage Walks through City districts give visitors unique glimpses of important landmarks. The German-American Cultural Center will be an important stop along this Heritage Walk. In collaboration with Zion Church leaders, the interdisciplinary team of students will create a well-researched, informative, and entertaining website and a promotional video telling stories of Baltimore’s German-Americans and their role in Baltimore’s history for use in the Center at the Sexton House.
Required skills and abilities for applicants
Diverse skills are needed for the successful completion of this project. The ideal student team will have the following strengths: an interest in local history; ability to work as a group towards a common goal; ability to work with archived texts and images from various sources; interview skills; and web-building and video production skills.
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ASME Baltimore Network Event and Panel Discussion
Attend if you are looking for a job...
Panel Discussion:
"The engineering job search: What do they want from me?"
The ASME Baltimore Section is hosting a panel discussion to tackle your questions about the job search in 2020. Our panel is made up of local professionals directly connected to the hiring process in the government and industry.
It's a great time to look for a job; the market is in your favor. But how do you best position yourself to land the job you want? When is it acceptable to have a resume longer than 2 pages? How do you find who to follow up with when you've applied to the position through the website?
Enjoy the grandeur of The Engineers Club at the Garret-Jacobs Mansion in the Mount Vernon area of Baltimore and meet with local area professionals.
Attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions at the event and meet with the panelists. We encourage you to submit your questions in advance for the panel's consideration (email asmebaltimore@gmail.com).
A cash bar will be available at 5:45 - 8pm. The panel discussion will start at 6pm followed by a networking hour with hors d’oeuvres from 7-8pm. Connect with new engineering colleagues or reconnect with those you haven’t seen for a while. The panel will then give their closing comments at 8pm.
Date: Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
Time: 5:45pm to 8:00pm
Location: The Engineers Club of Baltimore
11 W. Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD 21201
Your local ASME Chapter sponsors the evening, complete with hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar; prices include your first drink.
Cost: includes your first beverage and hors d’oeuvres. A cash bar will also be open.
Students $5 - Caution-https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=M9DYFFD7XSSAA
Members & Non Members $10 - Caution-https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7ATGZWTB6RXG2
Open to engineers of all disciplines!
Feel free to distribute to others that may be interested.
Please make your reservations and respond by Friday, February 21st, 2020.
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Engineers Week 2020 - February 17th-21st
Join us for E-Week 2020!
Engineers Week 2020 is fast approaching! This year, Engineers Week will be from February 17th-21st. We will have several exciting events throughout the week and hope to see you there!
The first event of the week will be the Engineers Week Kick-Off Reception on Monday, February 17th, from 6-8pm in the Apartment Community Center. This year's speaker will be J.P. Blackford from Tau Beta Pi, who will share his experiences as an engineer.
Engineers Week T-Shirts will be on sale at all events for $12.
Here is the full program:
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Internship Opportunity - Deadline is February 22
NSF-funded IOT - REU summer program
Research Experiences for Undergraduates at UC Irvine
Cultivating the IoT-Enabled Smart Community (IoT-SITY)
June 21 - August 14, 2020
Application Deadline: Saturday, February 22nd at 11:59 PM PST
APPLY ONLINE: http://sites.uci.edu/iotsity
PROGRAM BENEFITS
- 8-weeks of research experience
- Hands-on research guided by faculty
- Mentors and graduate students
- Guest speakers, lab tours, and field trips
- On-campus housing and meals (3 meals per day)
- $4,800 stipend ($600/week)
- Travel allowance (up to $700)
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) RESEARCH DOMAINS
- Computer Architecture and Design
- Cyber-physical Systems
- Embedded Systems
- Human Computer Interaction
- Transportation Systems
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Hydrologic System Modeling
- Multimedia Computing Networks and Distributed Systems
- Intelligent Structure
QUESTIONS: Email us at oai@uci.edu
International Student Career Conference
Learn how to compete as a job/intern candidate in the U.S.!
This full-day conference will focus on the unique needs of international students in their internship and job search process in the United States. Topics will include H-1B and permanent resident statuses, negotiating for these statuses with potential employers, advice on getting the most out of your job search, and more. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from experts, alumni, students, and employers to make sure they are fully prepared to meet their career goals in the United States.
AN RSVP IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. Please RSVP via
UMBCworks under
Events> Workshops by
Monday, February 17th.
AGENDA INCLUDES:-Immigration lawyer
-International student alumni panel
-Career Center highlights
-Employer panel
-Experience the Hiring Process (interactive workshop)
-CPT/Intern Success Practicum overview
*If you require special accommodations for this event due to a disability, please notify us at least two weeks prior to the event. Requests received after that time cannot be guaranteed, but we will do our best to make the proper arrangements. Please email
careers@umbc.edu with your specific request - be sure to include title, date, and time of the event.
VITA
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) is an IRS sponsored program that provides free, on-campus tax return assistance to eligible individuals and families each Spring semester. Currently, to be eligible your household income must be $55,000 or less, you must be filing a US resident tax return and you must be able to show appropriate identification for all members of your household.
If you are interested in having your taxes prepared for free, go to http://cashmd.org/free-tax-preparationresources/ to make an appointment.
If you select UMBC’s VITA site, your appointment will take place on the UMBC campus in the Apartment Community Center on Walker Avenue.
Attention International Students: If you would like to have tax return assistance, please contact Diane Zeenny Ghorayeb by email or go to the ME office in ENG 210. One special meeting will be set up for a group, date TBD. Let her know if you are interested by Friday 02/07.
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The Writing Center interactive writing & research workshops
**From the Writing Center**
Students:
Please see the Academic Resources available through the Academic Success Center.
Here are some links to the Writing Center website and TutorTrac, their online scheduling system for Tutoring appointments.
Website:
Scheduling system:
Please see the attached flyer outlining the Writing Wednesday workshop series this semester. The Writing Center and the Library partner for these interactive writing and research workshops that are co-lead by faculty, staff, and Writing Center tutors.
The State Planning Committee is gearing up for the 2020 FLL State Championship on SUNDAY FEB. 23 at UMBC. We are in a new venue this year - the new Events Center!
Consider signing up to volunteer for this day.
3-MINUTE SIGN UP FORM IS LINKED HERE. Please indicate if you had a team competing this year.
Assignments will start to go out in early February. We have already filled about half of the positions and anticipate closing the volunteer sign-up no later than Feb. 15. We will be closing down many roles before this date.
All volunteers will receive an extensive Volunteer Welcome Packet with all the details of the day and training will be provided for all positions.
We will need 70 judges to staff this event. Please see this flyer for more information.
The 2020 FIRST LEGO League Maryland State Championship Volunteer Committee/Jenny Beatty, Deborah Harris, and Kalika White.
**from JCET, the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology at UMBC**
Hi, my name is Ben Cramer. I'm an engineer working on campus under JCET on the HARP2 instrument. I'm contacting you because I'm looking for student interns that might be interested in working on the project under mechanical systems. If you have any students that you think might be interested, please feel free to pass along my contact information or send their information to me. Below I've tried to briefly explain the project and what I'm looking for as for far duties, skills, expectations. I'm happy to meet with a potential student and just chat if they are curious. My goal is to bring on at least one student asap and up to 3 through the end of summer.
HARP2 is a polarimeter which will be part of the instrument suite on the NASA GSFC PACE mission, a mid-sized satellite mission scheduled to launch in fall of 2022. The HARP2 instrument is being designed and built by UMBC through JCET. The mechanical team has completed the design and is in the final stages of fabrication. The next phase of the project will be assembly followed by testing, calibration and verification. Delivery of the instrument to the PACE project is scheduled for the end of 2020. Student interns would be responsible for helping with documentation including developing testing and assembly procedures and writing reports. They would be responsible for development/design of ground support equipment, assembly fixtures and test apparatus as well of the manufacturing and assembly of this equipment. Students would also be responsible for hands on support and documentation during testing and calibration.
Ben Cramer - ben.cramer@umbc.edu
Mechanical Engineer
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
