Valuable Opportunities for Research Programs
This informal seminar series provides SSOE faculty with useful information or resources to improve implementation, management, funding or translation of their research programs. Topics will cover a wide variety of areas under this general theme, and suggestions for new topics are more than welcome (and should be sent to the Associate Dean for Research's office at ehv3@pitt.edu).
All lectures will be in Benedum 102 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm. Registration is required for lunch.
**Please check back often for new details about upcoming sessions!
Cancellations and Special Requests
If you would like to cancel an existing registration or if you have any special dietary needs, please notify Emily H. VonderPorten at ehv3@pitt.edu.
Upcoming Events
A Pitt Space Institute for the Final Frontier
Tuesday, September 10th at 12pm in 102 BEH
We are pleased to share that our next SSOE Valuable Opportunities for Research Programs Lunch & Learn session will be on Tuesday, September 10th at 12pm in 102 BEH. The presentation is titled ‘A Pitt Space Institute for the Final Frontier.’
If you would like to attend the session and receive a lunch, please contact Rose Gerber (rog128@pitt.edu) or Emily Huffman VonderPorten (ehv3@pitt.edu) directly. Please let them know of any dietary restrictions. Please rsvp no later than Friday, September 6th at 12pm in order to have a lunch provided.
This SSOE seminar will provide an overview of the Pitt Space initiative, built upon a foundation in space engineering, with the goal of updating faculty and inviting them to be part of this exciting new initiative.
Few topics continue to capture the imagination of our society more than space. Over the past several decades, space innovations and technologies have dramatically impacted our nation, and the world, in terms of communication, navigation, weather, entertainment, defense, and much more. Today, this field is even more active and exciting than the space race of the 1960s, where a large and growing community of agencies, companies large and small, and universities is contributing with new space missions and technologies.
The University of Pittsburgh has a long and rich history of space education and research, dating back to 1867-91, when Dr. Samuel Pierpont Langley was a pioneering member of our faculty and led the world-renowned Allegheny Observatory. Building upon this historic foundation, as well as present activities where Pitt is leading and supporting multiple research experiments in space, a new initiative spanning our entire campus and known as “Pitt Space” is underway and rapidly growing.
More About the Speaker:
Alan George, Ph.D. (Fellow, IEEE) earned a B.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from the University of Central Florida and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida State University, in 1982, 1985, and 1991, respectively. He served for 20 years at the University of Florida (UF) as ECE Professor, and since 2017 has served as department and endowed chair of ECE at Pitt. He founded in 2006 (at UF before moving to Pitt) and leads the NSF Space Center known as SHREC (Space, High-performance, and Resilient Computing). SHREC has led multiple technology experiments in space, supported numerous space missions led by NASA, DoD, and industry, developed and flight-proven an array of new hardware and software technologies for space, and provided dozens of Ph.D. and M.S. graduates in ECE and space engineering to the US space community.