Transcript Review of teaching and research activities at the

Review of teaching and research
activities at the
School of Engineering at the
University of Valencia
Vicente Cerverón-Lleó
[email protected]
UV overview
Since 1499, the “Estudi General de València” has
become the Universitat de València (UV), a
modern European university, one of the largest,
oldest and most varied in Spain.
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Basic and Applied Sciences & Technology
Health sciences
Social sciences
Humanities and Education
Some figures
◦ more than 50.000 students
◦ 3.800 professors and lecturers
◦ 92 departments and 16 research institutes
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Technology and Engineering at UV
The UV has a vast background in the
application of science to technological
development.
 In 1940s UV created the section of
Chemical Technology
 In 1960s UV started teaching and
research in Electrical and Electronic
Technologies and Computing and
Information Technologies.
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Engineering degrees at UV
UV has full Engineering degrees from
1993
 at its inception, organized from the
Faculties of Physics and Chemistry
 since 2003, structured and organized in
our own School of Engineering named
Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria
◦ www.uv.es/etse
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 no English version by now
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ETSE-UV teaching activities
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Engineering degree programs (4 y. BSc)
◦ Chemical Engineering
◦ Industrial Electronics
◦ Electronics for Telecommunications
◦ Telematics Engineering
◦ Computer Engineering (IT-IS)
◦ Multimedia Engineering
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Master programs ...
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ETSE-UV teaching activities
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Master programs (MSc-PhD programs)
◦ Environmental engineering
◦ Electronic engineering
◦ Systems and Services for the Information
Society
◦ Advanced Computing and Intelligent Systems
◦ International Master in Advanced Sciences of
Modern Telecommunications (in English)
 http://www.uv.es/mscasmt
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Research activities
Computing Department
Electronic Engineering Department
Chemical Engineering Department
Robotics and ICT Institute
Computing Department
◦ Computing Department ≠ Computing Services
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Research lines at Computing Dpt.
◦ Computational perception and learning
◦ Algorithms and parallelism for
Genomic Analysis of DNA
◦ Networks and Virtual Environments
◦ Technologies and Architectures for Computing
Perception and Robotics
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Research at Computing Dpt.
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Computational perception and learning
◦ Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision
◦ Multimodal and Interactive learning
◦ Applications: (search MIPRCV)
 Interactive Transcription of 1-D Signals
 Interactive Retrieval of Multimedia Content
 Interactive Face Recognition and other Biometry
applications
 Medical Imaging Assisted Diagnosis
 Assisted Vehicle Driving
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Research at Computing Dpt.
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Bioinformatics
◦ Genomic Analysis of DNA
◦ DNA sequence analysis:
oligonucleotide profiling
◦ Tools applied to the analysis of
networks/graphs
◦ Algorithms and Parallelism for Genomic
Analysis
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Research at Computing Dpt.
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Networks and Virtual Environments
◦ Reliable and High Performance architectures
for Data Centers and Internet servers
◦ Networks On Chip
◦ Collaborative augmented reality
◦ Multiagent systems
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Research at Computing Dpt.
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Technologies and Architectures for
Computer Perception and Robotics
◦ Smart CMOS Vision Sensors
◦ FPGA and application specific architectures
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Electronic Engineering Research
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Research Groups at Electronic
Engineering Department
◦ Digital Signal Processing Group.
◦ Communications and Digital Systems Group.
◦ Industrial Electronics and Instrumentation
Systems Group.
◦ Images Processing and Acquisition Group.
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Electronic Engineering Research
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Digital Signal Processing Group
◦ Digital signal processing and the application of
different technical approaches to widely
known fields (Biomedical Engineering,
Industrial System).
◦ Implementation of different sort of
architectures for real-time processing.
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Electronic Engineering Research
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DSP Group: Research lines
& Experienced application fields
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Biomedical Engineering. / Telemedicine.
Design of automated industrial process.
Intelligent sensors. / Remote sensing.
Hyperspectral images processing.
Distributed control systems development.
Design of real-time systems.
Neural networks and pattern recognition.
Fuzzy logic and data mining.
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Electronic Engineering Research
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Communication and Digital Systems
Group
◦ design of digital electronic systems
supported by advanced technologies (FPGAs,
SOC, mP, …).
◦ signal integrity in high speed digital
transmission systems.
◦ energy management electronic systems.
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Electronic Engineering Research
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Communication and Digital Systems Gr.
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Research lines & Experienced application fields
◦ High sped data transmission networks.
◦ Electronic communication systems.
◦ Microelectronic design.
◦ Rehabilitation technologies.
◦ Electronic technologies applied to sport.
◦ Software design for real–time process control.
◦ Biomechanic electronic systems
◦ Industrial process control.
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Electronic Engineering Research
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Industrial Electronics and Instrumentation
Systems Group
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High Power & High Efficiency Converters.
Renewable energies.
Advanced control systems.
Characterization of power electronics
semiconductors.
Solid-state sensors fabrication and characterization.
Smart sensors systems design.
Analog signal processing and sensors interfaces.
Design of distributed measurement systems.
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Electronic Engineering Research
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Industrial Electronics and Instrumentation
Systems Group.
Experienced application fields
◦ Induction heating.
◦ Aerospace applications (battery
charger/dischargers).
◦ Instrumentation system design.
◦ Environmental monitoring.
◦ Industrial process control.
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Electronic Engineering Research
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Image Processing and Acquisition Group
◦ Research lines
 Images analysis in medicine.
 3D artificial vision.
 Measurement and control of ionizing radiations.
◦ Experienced application fields
 Images acquisition and processing in medical
diagnosis.
 Dosimetry and X-rays qualification.
 3D reconstruction and analysis of dynamical
movement objects.
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Chemical Engineering Research
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Research Groups at Chem. Eng. Dept.
◦ Environmental engineering - water treatment
and waste management
◦ Environmental engineering - air treatment
◦ Thermodynamic & Transport Properties of
Organic Mixtures
◦ Electrolyte Solution Thermodynamics
◦ Heterogeneous Catalysis
◦ Food technology
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Chemical Engineering Research
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Environmental engineering - water
treatment and waste management (1)
◦ Biological nutrient (N, P) removal of waste water:
 lab and pilot scales studies and development of process
models.
◦ Fermentation - elutriation of primary sludge and
anaerobic sludge digestion
 lab and pilot scales studies and development of
mathematical models.
◦ Design of urban and industrial waste water
treatment plants (WWTP)
 assessment of options and alternates, sizing of the
different units, hydraulic estimations, and process
simulation.
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Chemical Engineering Research
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Environmental engineering - water
treatment and waste management (2)
◦ Control and optimization of waste water
treatment plants (WWTP)
 development of advanced control strategies (fuzzy
control and others) to optimize the performance of
WWTP.
◦ Phosphorous recovery of waste water
 struvite precipitation.
◦ Use of different biomaterials as adsorbents in the
removal of heavy metals in waste waters
 lab scale test with low cost bioadsorbents and
modelling.
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Chemical Engineering Research
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Environmental engineering - air treatment
◦ Removal of air pollutants by means of biological
treatment
 lab scale experimental tests in biofilters, biotrickling
filters, bioscrubbers, etc.
◦ Pilot and full scale tests of biotrickling filters in
the abatement of volatile organic compounds of
industrial gas exhaust air emissions.
◦ Lab scale tests of photocatalytic oxidation of
volatile organic compounds in indoor air and
industrial gas emissions.
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Chemical Engineering Research
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Thermodynamic & Transport Properties of
Organic Mixtures
◦ Experimental determination of viscosity, density
and refraction index of organic mixtures, and its
correlation with different theoretical models.
◦ Measurement of vapour-liquid and liquid-liquid
equilibria of industrial interest mixtures, and
parameter determination of thermodynamic
correlation models.
◦ Pilot scale distillation for extractive, azeotropic
and others especial distillations.
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Chemical Engineering Research
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Electrolyte Solution Thermodynamics
◦ Experimental study of vapour-liquid
equilibrium, liquid-liquid equilibrium, viscosity,
density and refractive index of mixtures
containing ionic liquids, and its correlation
with different theoretical models.
◦ Experimental study of vapour-liquid
equilibrium, viscosity, density and refractive
index of mixtures including ionic salts, and its
correlation with different theoretical models.
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Chemical Engineering Research
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Heterogeneous Catalysis
◦ Lab scale experimental test of catalyst for
cracking, isomerization, hydrotreatments of
different petroleum fractions.
◦ Study and catalyst optimization of paraffin
deshydrogenation.
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Chemical Engineering Research
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Food technology
◦ Alcoholic fermentation
◦ Supercritical fluids for extraction and
crystallization
◦ Food preservation
◦ Drying process
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Robotics and ICT Institute activities
located at the PCUV (Scientific Park of the
University of Valencia), it counts with more
than 100 researchers
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Intelligent Transport Systems
Communications and Information Systems
Control & Robotics
ARTEC & LSyM:
Virtual Reality, Simulation & Modeling
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Robotics and ICT Institute activities
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R&D in Intelligent Transport Systems
◦ Represents Spanish Government in standardization
committees (Ministries Interior and Construction)
◦ Active as project managers on behalf of the DGT in
Euro Regional project ARTS
◦ Active as project coordinator for the Spanish/Catalan
area in SERTI (DGT/SCT).
◦ Active member of the World Wide Web consortium
and expert in the definition and use of XML-related
issues [for Transport].
◦ Experts in the area of Tolling/Road pricing
◦ Test, evaluation and demonstration of transport
systems and sensors:Video sensing/enforcement on
the CV35 near Valencia.
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Robotics and ICT Institute activities
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Communications and Information
Systems Group
◦ Wireless sensor networks for environment
monitoring.
◦ Distributed architectures for agricultural
systems.
 Power line or radio communications
◦ CISCO Networking Academy Program:
technical networking courses
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Robotics and ICT Institute activities
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Control and Robotics (1)
◦ Architectures for mobile and aerial robot control
◦ Implementation and comparison of control
architectures
◦ Tests on real mobile robots: self-built mobile
robot, Pioneer, Khepera, self-built helicopter
◦ Active sensorisation systems (ultrasonic)
◦ Flight-time based sensors
◦ Biologically inspired active sensors (triaural
sensor) based on inter-aural intensity difference
and inter-aural time diff.
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Robotics and ICT Institute activities
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Control and Robotics (2)
◦ Hardware implemented algorithms using
programmable logic (FPGAs)
◦ Algorithms for detections of self-mobile objects
as seen by a mobile robot
◦ Calculation of time-to-impact based on optical
flow.
◦ Neural network based algorithms for controlling
a Stewart motion platform
◦ Direct model-less connection between sensor
signals (accelerometers) and actuator commands
(bar lengths of the platform)
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Robotics and ICT Institute activities
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ARTEC-LSyM: 3D Graphics,VR, RA, S&M (1)
◦ Basic Tridimensional Modeling Oriented to Real-Time
3D Applications
◦ Real-Time Terrain Representation
◦ Virtual Actors with autonomous behaviour in interactive
environments.
◦ Virtual Reality Application in Mental Disability Treatment
◦ High Quality Inmersive Display Systems and Navigation
Metaphors for Educational Training Environments
◦ Virtual Environment for trainning & Simulation
◦ Organization, Transmission and Virtual Environments
Representation on Web
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Robotics and ICT Institute activities
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ARTEC-LSyM: 3D Graphics,VR, RA, S&M (2)
◦ Development and integration of civil simulators for training of
heavy machinery operators
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Physically based modeling
Collision detection
Real-time Granular Systems models
using Cellular Automata
GPU implementation of algorithms
◦ PC clustering technologies for graphics rendering
 Development of affordable simulation systems
 Substitution of expensive workstations
◦ Movement and vibration analysis using 6DoF motion
platforms
 Inertia stimula for simulator
 Car seat design
◦ Remote sensorization systems development
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ETSE-UV international and
corporate partnerships
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Universities and research centers
◦ European and American Universities
◦ CERN
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Companies and public organizations
◦ IBM, Cisco, Oracle (Academic alliances)
◦ Schneider Electric
◦ EPSAR
◦ National and Regional Transport Dpts.
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Review of teaching and research
activities at the
Engineering School in
University of Valencia
Vicente Cerverón-Lleó
http://www.uv.es/etse
(English version in development)