2020-2021 Professional Delvelopment Seminars
The UAA College of Engineering welcomes all students and local engineers to a seminar series which aims to foster collaboration and information exchange among Alaskan engineers.
Location: At this time, all seminars are offered online only. Use the livestream links below to watch each week's session.
Time: Fridays from 11:45 am - 12:45 pm. Seminars will last one hour including Q&A.
Additional Information: Please contact Getu Hailu at ghailu@alaska.edu or Mohammed Heidari at mhkapourchali@alaska.edu.
*PDH CREDIT: To be eligible for PDH credit, a presentation must be viewed live or within 1 week of the presentation, and the related survey must also be completed/submitted within 1 week of the presentation.
| Date | Topic | Presenter | Livestream | Qualtrics Survey |
PDH Eligible* |
| 9/11/20 | Virtual Tour of the Central Region Traffic Signal System |
Val Rader, Alaska Department of Transportation |
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1.0 |
| 9/18/20 | Applications of Lidar on Traffic Engineering | Dr. Vinod Vasudevan, Assoc. Prof. Civil Eng., UAA |
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1.0 |
| 9/25/20 | Refrigeration and Compression Processes in Cold Climates | Dr. Eivind Brodal, Univ. of Tromso |
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1.0 |
| 10/2/20 | Renewable Energy Implementation in Alaskan Islanded Microgrids (*Slides from 10/2/2020 Presentation*) | Dr. Daisy Huang, Asst. Prof. Mech. Eng., UAF & AK Center for Energy and Power |
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1.0 |
| 10/9/20 | No Seminar |
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| 10/16/20 | Use of Herding Agents for In-situ burning: Lessons from Experiments in the Arctic and Beyond |
Dr. Srijan Aggarwal, Asst. Prof. Civil & Environ. Eng., UAF |
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1.0 |
| 10/23/20 | Decoding the Music-Listening Brain using Electroencephalography | Dr. Blair Kaneshiro, Research and Development Associate and Adjunct Professor, Stanford University |
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1.0 |
| 10/30/20 | No Seminar |
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| 11/6/20 | Thermal Management of Stationary Batteries | Martin Henke, UAA |  |
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1.0 |
| 11/13/20 | A Multi-Process Approach Towards Manufacturing High-Performance Magnesium Alloy Parts | Dr. Lukas Bichler, Prof. Mechanical Eng., University of British Columbia |
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1.0 |
| 11/20/20 | Rockfall Mitigation Tactics and Techniques | Dr. Martin Woodard, Chief Rockfall Engineer, GeoStabilization International |
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1.0 |
| 12/4/20 | No Seminar |
Seminars will resume in spring semester. Please check back for the spring schedule after the winter break. |
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| 2/5/21 | Engineering in Food Security | Kyle Alvarado, Graduate Student, UAF | |
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1.0 |
| 2/19/21 | Dynamic Power System Modeling for a Changing Electrical Grid | Dr. Phylicia Cicilio, Research Asst. Prof., UAF | |
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1.0 |
| 3/5/21 | Real-time Organ Motion Management in MRI-guided Radiation Therapy | Ehsan Salari, Assoc. Prof., Wichita State University |
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1.0 |
| 3/19/21 |
Is it Time for an Energy Transition in the Alaska Fishing Fleet? |
Chandler Kemp, |
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1.0 |
| 4/2/21 | Human Mars Mission Concepts | Michelle A. Rucker, Engineer, NASA Johnson Space Center | |
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1.0 |
| 4/16/21 | A Comprehensive, Process-based Model for Arctic Coastal Erosion |
Dr. Jifeng Peng, Prof. Mechanical Engineering, UAA | |
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1.0 |