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Convocation 2018
Tuesday, September 4
11am – noon
Vietnam Veterans Peace Memorial Amphitheater
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Jul16
Excel Charts
This workshop provides a thorough exploration of charting with Excel. Participants create pie, line, stacked column, stock and scatter charts, and learn the proper uses of each. Custom axis formatting and trend lines are also covered. Previous Excel experience is required. This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today!
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Jul17
Creating Forms with Adobe Acrobat
This workshop provides an introduction to Adobe Acrobat. Acrobat is used to create, edit and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. PDF files can be set up as interactive forms for distribution and data collection. Participants learn to work with Acrobat’s toolbars, navigate, edit and annotate PDF documents, manage bookmarks, and set document security via passwords. Also covered are Acrobat’s form features, from form creation through distribution and compiling responses. No previous Acrobat experience is required. This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today!
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Jul17
One on One Fidelity Financial Counseling Sessions Available
Contact Joanne Costa in Human Resources at x 8083 with questions
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Jul18
Introduction to Photoshop, Part 2
The second workshop in the three part series covers the use of Photoshop’s sophisticated painting and selecting tools. Participants learn about blending modes, as well as the creation of custom brushes. The selecting tools are used to separate objects from their backgrounds to create a composite image. Previous Photoshop experience, or Part 1 of the Introduction class is required. This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today!
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Jul23
Terminal Four Contributor Training
T4 is the campus website content management system. It is used to ensure that our website has a consistent look and feel. This workshop covers the features of Contributor access. Contributors can edit existing web pages and add web page content. Please note that you must be granted access to your department website by the Web Development team before attending T4 training. This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today!
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Jul23
Excel Pivot Tables
This workshop provides a thorough exploration of the use of tables, pivot tables and pivot charts in Excel. Participants create pivot tables to summarize hundreds of rows of transactional data in just a few clicks, without complex formulas, or time-consuming grouping and reorganization. Previous Excel experience is required. This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today!
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Jul25
Introduction to Photoshop, Part 3
The last workshop in the three part series covers the use of Photoshop’s layer features. Users assemble a collage from separate documents, and use layers to organize and define the final image. An adjustment layer is used to perform color correction. Also covered are text layers, and layer styles. Finally, cropping and image size changes are covered, as well as saving documents as different file formats. Previous Photoshop experience, or Part 1 of the Introduction class is required.
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Jul25
UMass Law Post-Bar Party
Whether you are taking the bar exam this year, or took it years ago, join UMass Law alumni, faculty and staff to welcome the class of 2018 and celebrate this milestone! Wednesday, July 25, 2018 4:30-7:00 pm McGreevy's Boston 911 Boylston Street Across from Hynes Convention Center Boston, MA We'll be serving complimentary appetizers and a cash bar will be available. There is no charge to attend this event, but we appreciate your RSVP in advance. Please register at: alumni2.umassd.edu/postbar2018
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Jul26
HITEC (High Impact Technology Exchange Conference)
Miami, FL
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Jul27
Introduction to Qualtrics
UMass Dartmouth has selected Qualtrics as our Internet survey tool. All Faculty and Staff have access to create and publish their own surveys. Students may also use Qualtrics under the direction of a Faculty or Staff member. This workshop covers the authoring and administration of surveys, as well as data collection. Question types are covered in detail, and survey logic is also included. No previous survey experience is necessary. Note that access to Qualtrics is managed by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. Please contact Jonathan Bonilla at JBonilla1@umassd.edu at least three business days prior to this workshop to request access. Students must have a Faculty or Staff advisor request access on their behalf. This workshop takes place in the Library, room 135. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today!
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Aug27
One on One Fidelity Financial Counseling Sessions Available
Contact Joanne Costa in Human Resources at x 8083 with questions
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Aug30
ORAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDACY BY: Guilin Zhao
TOPIC: COMPETING FAILURE AND PROPAGATION TIME ANALYSIS FOR DYNAMIC INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEMS LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 213A ABSTRACT: The Internet of Things (IoT) has developed rapidly with the aim to improve the quality of modern life. Despite its considerable benefits, the IoT poses many design challenges among which assessing the reliability of an IoT system is critical for assuring the success rate of IoT service delivery. As a cyber-physical system consisting of both physical and communication subsystems, an IoT system exhibit various dependent and dynamic behaviors that complicate its reliability modeling and analysis significantly. In particular, functional dependence (FDEP) exists in the IoT system, where the failure of one component (trigger) causes other components (dependent components) to become isolated (inaccessible or unusable). If such an isolation effect takes place with a certain probability, it is called the probabilistic functional dependence (PDEP) behavior. The FDEP or PDEP behavior can cause deterministic or probabilistic competitions in the time domain between failure isolation and failure propagation effects, making system reliability analysis challenging. Existing works addressing such competing failure effects mostly assume that any failure propagation originating from a component instantaneously takes effect, which is often not true in real-world scenarios. Moreover, the existing works have assumed non-cascading FDEP/PDEP, where each system component can be a trigger or a dependent component, but not both. However, in practical systems with hierarchical configurations, cascading FDEP/PDEP can take place where a component can play a dual role as both a trigger and a dependent component simultaneously. Such a component causes correlations among different FDEP/PDEP groups, further complicating the IoT system reliability analysis. Besides competing failures with random propagation time and cascading effects, phased-mission and standby sparing behaviors are also modeled. Combinatorial methodologies are proposed for the reliability analysis of IoT systems subject to those complex behaviors. The suggested methodologies are flexible without limitation on distribution types of component lifetime, failure propagation time, or failure isolation factors. Case studies on smart home systems are presented to demonstrate applications of the proposed methods and effects of different parameters on the reliability of IoT systems. NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend. All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public. Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing Committee Members: Dr. Lance Fiondella and Dr. Honggang Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UMass Dartmouth; Dr. Suprasad Amari, Senior Principal Engineer, BAE Systems *For further information, please contact Dr. Liudong Xing at 508.999.8883, or via email at lxing@umassd.edu.
