Civil Systems Faculty and Students Featured at CITRIS Opening

Six CEE Civil Systems research projects were featured in demonstrations during the opening ceremony of the CITRIS building. They were:

• Civil Systems student, Andrew Tinka, along with Mechanical Engineering students, Tarek Rabbani and Mohammad Rafiee, and Environmental Engineering student, Qingfang Wu, demonstrated autonomous drifters to the public as part of the Lagrangian drifter project.
  
  
• The Mobile Millennium team unveiled arterial traffic for the first time to the public through an interactive visualizer placed in the CITRIS Tech Museum. Professor Alexandre Bayen presented it to the guests as part of the opening. See news release.
  
  
• Civil Systems student, Greg Mclaskey, demonstrated how the absolute calibration of nanoseismic sensors measures displacement force-time functions. The sensors measure displacement down to 1 pm, and released force down to 1 mN.
  
  
• Civil Systems student, Iris Tien, used wireless sensors both to help quantify the diagnosis of neuropathologies, in particular, early stage Parkinson’s disease, and to help in the evaluation of the effectiveness of medication for Duchene’s muscular dystrophy.
  
  
• Principal investigator, Roger Bales of UC Merced, and Civil Systems student, Branko Kerkez, demonstrated how wireless instrumentation at the Southern Sierras Critical Zone Observatory is allowing recording of data dense in time, space, and number of variables on a uniquely large scale.
  
  
• Civil Systems student Mario Magliocco explained the installation and operation of the seismic observatory at the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) at the Homestake gold mine, Lead SD.

See full press release.