Nokia Distinguished Lecture: Bill Spencer on Smart Sensing T

Nokia Distinguished Lecture: Bill Spencer on Smart Sensing Technology Smart Sensing Technology: A New Paradigm for Structural Health Monitoring Bill Spencer Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract: The ability to continuously monitor the integrity of civil infrastructure in real-time offers the opportunity to reduce maintenance and inspection costs, while providing for increased safety to the public. Furthermore, after natural disasters, it is imperative that emergency facilities and evacuation routes, including bridges and highways, be assessed for safety. Addressing all of these issues is the objective of structural health monitoring (SHM). Smart sensors densely distributed over structures can provide rich information for structural health monitoring using their sensing, computational, and wireless communication capabilities. Though smart sensor technology has seen substantial advances during recent years, implementation of smart sensors on full-scale structures has been limited; interdisciplinary efforts to address issues in sensors, networks, and application specific algorithms have only now begun to germinate. Following an overview of these issues, a new paradigm for structural health monitoring employing a network of smart sensors will be presented. Because of its ability to meet the demands of data intensive applications such as SHM, Intels Imote2 is adopted for this research. The performance of the ...



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FEA Distinguished Alumnus: M. Moghrabi

Mr. Mohamed S. Moghrabi was one of the 2008 FEA Distinguished Alumni. Introduced by Dean Ibrahim Hajj during the awards ceremony, he gave a talk entitled Engineering Vision, Leadership, Perseverance Outstanding Success! . Mr. Mohamed S. Moghrabi was born in Lebanon in January 1973. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering (with distinction) from AUB in 1995. In 1999 he obtained the Master of Engineering (Civil Engineering) degree also from AUB, with the thesis research completed at the University of Texas at Austin. Upon graduation, he worked for the international design consultancy firm Dar Al-Handasah (Shair & Partners). He started with Dar in the Beirut Head Office, and worked on projects in Lebanon, the Gulf, and North Africa. In 1999, he became Program Coordinator for the Dubai International Airport Expansion project. He also served as Project Manager in Qatar, for a number of high profile projects including the Qatar-Bahrain Causeway (worlds longest) and the New Doha International Airport project, with total estimated value exceeding USD 3 billion. Mr. Moghrabi later moved to Tameer Holding, the real estate developer. He joined Tameer Holding as Director of International Operations, covering the Gulf and Middle East, North Africa, Far East, South East Asia, Eastern Europe and parts of Central Africa. Shortly thereafter, he was promoted to Senior Director, with expanded scope to cover the entire Tameer strategic portfolio, UAE and International ...



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