Come celebrate EC-week with the College of Engineering and Computing
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Events will be held throughout the College on Thursday, February 21 and Friday, February 22. Following is a tentative schedule of events (check back here for up-to-date schedule).
Making a World of Difference TODAY
Thursday, February 21
Open Houses/Tours
- 10 am to 12 noon, Computer Vision Lab, Swearingen Engineering Center, Room 3D11. Come learn about computer vision and medical imaging from Computer Science and Engineering assistant professor, Dr. Song Wang.
- 11 am to 12 noon, Hydraulics Lab, 300 Main Street building. Civil and Environmental Engineering invite you to visit their two-story facility with over 7,300 square feet facility which includes a laboratory equipped with a large glass-sided flume, a multi-purpose physical model basin, large flow capacity, and various standard demonstration setups on head losses in pipes, series and parallel operation of centrifugal pumps, groundwater flow, weirs, and water surface profile.
- 2 pm to 4 pm, Pervious Concrete Lab, Swearingen, Room 0B36. Dr. Liv Haselbach invites you to learn more about the various aspects of pervious concrete, a unique and effective means to address important environmental issues and support green, sustainable growth.
Hands-On Experience
- 9 am to 12 noon, Computer Lab, Swearingen, Room 1D15. Come play computer games created by Dr. Tang's game programming and design classes. Three sets of games are available: 1) internet-based fighting game, 2) several small-scale flash games (created by last summer's gaming day camp), and 3) several large-scale flash games (created by students from the Governor's School).
- 2:30 pm, the Courtyard at the Swearingen Engineering Center, Segway rides. You may have seen them rolling around downtown Columbia in use by the Columbia Police Department, or heard about them, but here is your unique opportunity to come ride one. Our future fuel cell researchers invite you to come step on a Segway and experience for yourself the future of personal transportation today.
Special Display
- Stop by the Swearingen Lobby to learn more about future fuels thanks to Chris Daetwyler and the South Carolina Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Alliance.
- Dr. Van Zee and other future fuels researchers invited you stop by the Swearingen Lobby to learn more about future fuels research here at the University of South Carolina.
Special Event
- 7 pm, AMOCO Hall in Swearingen. The College invites you to Get Reel with Engineering and Computing on Movie Night. We’re showing "Live Free or Die Hard" -- starring Bruce Willis, this film features a criminal plot that is put in place to take down the entire computer and technological structure that supports the economy of the United States (and the world). It’s up to a decidedly "old school" hero, police detective John McClane, to take down the conspiracy, aided by a young hacker. Did we mention that the popcorn and drinks are on the College?
Making a World of Difference TOMORROW
Friday, February 22
Open Houses/Tours
- 9 am to 10 am, X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy facility, Swearingen 3B15. Dr. Shuguo Ma invites you to learn more about the XPS facility at USC. XPS is used to measure elements that contaminate a surface, uniformity of elemental composition across the top surface, and uniformity of elemental composition as a function of ion beam etching. XPS can also be used to analyze the change in surface chemistry of a material after chemical or physical treatments. (For more info, visit http://www.engr.sc.edu/xps)
- 9 am to 11 am, David Metts of the Electrical Engineering department invites you to visit his lab in Swearingen 2A36 for a special demonstration.
- 12 noon to 2 pm, Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) Research Center, located on Catawba Street, behind the 300 Main Street building. Dr. Abdel Bayoumi and the Mechanical Engineering department invite you in for this very rare opportunity to visit the CBM and view the inner workings of this facility. CBM, supported by the US Army, is only one of two such facilities in the entire United States representing the leading edge of maintenance decision-making, and its application in military aviation as well as in industry and how they will impact significant economic gains for maintenance programs. To learn more, visit http://cbm.me.sc.edu.
- 2 pm to 3 pm, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, first floor of the "B" wing in Swearingen. Professors Esmaiel Jabbari, Melissa Moss, James Blanchette and Michael Matthews invite you to come learn and ask questions about the research the College is doing on Alzheimer's disease, tissue engineering and sterilization.
Hands-On Experience
- 2:30 pm, the Swearingen Lobby, Robotics. The College of Engineering and Computing is an international sponsor of FIRST Robotics and as such, we invite you to come see and play with some robots yourself and learn about FIRST and all of it's programs (Lego League, VEX Challenge, etc.)
Special Display
- Stop by the Swearingen Lobby to learn more about future fuels thanks to Chris Daetwyler and the South Carolina Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Alliance.
- Dr. Van Zee and other future fuels researchers invited you stop by the Swearingen Lobby to learn more about future fuels research here at the University of South Carolina.
Special Event
- 1:30 to 2:30 pm, the Reading Room in Swearingen. Helen Fields of our Career Center will be offering a special presentation on Interview Preparation.
In conjunction with EC-week, we are also sponsoring a departmental contest for charity entitled, "Change Starts with Me." Following with the tag line of "Making a World of Difference," it is recognized that to make a world of difference a change must first take place, and that change starts at home, with the individual themselves. Monday through Friday of Engineering and Computing Week, the College is encouraging everyone to drop by Student Services to drop in their spare change to support either their favorite department or one of the departments charities. The contest is one of points based on coins and paper bills deposited. The department with the most points at the end of the week will have all money collected, combined and donated to their department's charity. Winning department to be announced on Monday, February 25.
The departments have chosen to support Junior Achievement of Central South Carolina (Chemical Engineering), Habitat for Humanity (Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering), One Laptop Per Child (Computer Science and Engineering), and the South Carolina Solar Council (Electrical Engineering).
All events are free and are open to the general public and are appropriate for all ages.
If, as they say, everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day, then everyone can certainly be an engineer or computer scientist during EC-week!
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