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X-WR-CALNAME:ME-EM Graduate Seminar Speaker Series: Dr. Mary Kasarda
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DESCRIPTION:Mary Kasarda is an associate professor in the Department of Mec
 hanical Engineering at Virginia Tech.  She is Co-Director of the VT Smart 
 Infrastructure Laboratory.  She received her BS\, MS\, and PhD in Mechanic
 al Engineering from the University of Virginia.  She has five years of pro
 fessional engineering experience\, including analytical and field work in 
 the area of high-speed rotating machinery with Du Pont and Ingersoll Rand.
   Her research areas are in vibration-related topics such as system health
  monitoring\, smart building applications\, and magnetic bearings as well 
 as in areas of engineering education.  She serves as a delegate on the ABE
 T Board of Directors.  She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and is a 
 Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).\n\n \n\nThi
 s event is being partially sponsored/funded by the Visiting Women & Minori
 ty Lecturer/Scholar Series (VWMLS) which is funded by a grant to Instituti
 onal Equity & Inclusion from the State of Michigan's King-Chavez-Parks Ini
 tiative.\n\n \n\nThe Virginia Tech Smart Infrastructure Laboratory:\n\nA H
 igh Performance Smart Research Building on the VT Campus\n\n \n\nThe Virgi
 nia Tech's Smart Infrastructure Laboratory (VT-SIL) education and research
  in topics that utilize sensor information to improve the design\, monitor
 ing and daily operation of civil and mechanical infrastructure as well as 
 to investigate how humans interact with the built environment.  The center
 piece of VT-SIL is the full-scale living laboratory in the new\, 160\,000 
 sq ft\, 5-story Goodwin Hall\, which is the most instrumented public build
 ing in the world for vibration monitoring of both the building structure a
 s well as human activity in the building.  In Goodwin Hall over 140 accele
 rometer mounts (3 axis per mount capability)\, along with other sensors\, 
 are being mounted throughout this operational campus building.  As of Fall
  2015\, the phase I instrumentation (over 230 hard-wired high-fidelity acc
 elerometers) is 90%+ installed and is in the commissioning stage.  Signifi
 cant amounts of pilot data have already been collected and analyzed in ini
 tial research studies.  This presentation will cover the development of th
 e instrumentation infrastructure\, the capabilities of the system\, and re
 sults from pilot research studies.
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LOCATION:Electrical Energy Resources Center (EERC)\, 103
SUMMARY:ME-EM Graduate Seminar Speaker Series: Dr. Mary Kasarda
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CATEGORIES:Lectures/Seminars
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