Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory

Symposium Chair:

Dr. G. Song
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston

Intelligent Sensors and Actuators Symposium

Earth & Space 2008 Conference

March 3 – 5, 2008 in Long Beach, California, USA.

Renaissance Long Beach Hotel

Conference Website: http://content.asce.org/conferences/earth2008/call.html

Symposium Website: http://egr.uh.edu/smsl/conference.html

The Dynamics and Controls Committee of Aerospace Division of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is organizing a symposium on “Intelligent Sensors and Actuators” at the “Earth and Space 2008” conference. Abstracts are due September 17 (Extended Deadline Sept. 24th 2007), 2007 and Session Proposals are due September 14, 2007 (Extended Deadline Sept. 21th 2007). The draft full length papers are due January 20, 2008 and final papers are due at the conference.

Procedures to submit the abstracts:

Visit http://www.cconnect.org/ to submit the abstract. Proceed to create a new online account. Once you input your information, a pass code will be sent to your email account.
You could then login with your email address and pass code.
Select “Earth & Space 2008”. Continue.
You will then follow the procedures to submit the abstract. Please select the track “Intelligent Sensors and Actuators Symposium”.
The conference website is http://content.asce.org/conferences/earth2008/call.html
Please also email your abstracts and session proposals to Symposium Chair: Dr. G. Song at gsong@uh.edu

Symposium topics include but not limited to:

Piezoceramic based sensors
Fiber optical sensors
Shape memory alloy actuators
Controllable dampers
Structural vibration control via semi-active approaches
Structural vibration control via active approaches
Modeling of intelligent structures
Structural health monitoring using intelligent sensors
Applications in civil engineering
Applications in aerospace engineering
New sensing and actuation principles
Other emerging sensors and actuators

Photo Gallery of Long Beach

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Best Paper Awards and Best Student Paper Awards:

With donation from TREK, Inc. and dSPACE, Inc., the Symposium will have four classes of Best Paper Awards.

(2) - $500 - Best Paper Awards
(1) - $500 - Best Young Investigator Paper Award (The lead author obtained the Ph.D. degree during the past three years)
(2) - $400 - Best Graduate Student Paper Awards (The lead author has to be a full time graduate student)
(1) - $300 - Best Undergraduate Paper Award (The lead author has to be a full time undergraduate student)

Please email your nomination to Dr. Song at gsong@uh.edu. The nomination will then be review by the Award Committee, which consists of:

Professor Jan Gou, University of Central Florida
Professor Bin Xu, Hunan University
Professor Shi Yan, Shenyang Jianzhu University
Professor Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University

All the papers to be included in the proceedings will be peer-reviewed by the Dynamics and Controls Committee, and they will be deposited in the Engineering Index (EI) database.

Active Vibration Control Student Design Competition

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Long Beach, CA

Photographed by G. Song