The School of Engineering at Campbell University (http://www.campbell.edu/engineering/, http://www.campbell.edu/about/history-quick-facts/) seeks three Engineering Faculty for full-time, tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor. One position in Mechanical Engineering begins Fall 2018 and is focused on teaching the thermal, energy and fluid sciences. Two positions (one in Mechanical Engineering, focused on teaching a common senior design sequence, and one in Electrical Engineering, focused on teaching sophomore and junior-level courses) begin in January 2019. Campbell’s BS in Engineering program (with concentrations in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and electrical engineering) welcomed its inaugural first-year class in fall 2016. These positions present faculty with a unique opportunity to provide leadership in building an innovative engineering program and the prominence of the new School and University.

Responsibilities

Duties will include: develop, implement and teach project-based engineering curricula; actively participate in the scholarship of teaching and learning; engage in student advising, student organizations, assessment, accreditation activities, and committee responsibilities. Applicants should be interested in contributing leadership toward the development of the engineering program. Candidates must be committed to innovative engineering undergraduate education; dedicated to excellence in undergraduate teaching, mentoring students, and scholarship; and committed to the University’s mission.

Qualifications

Candidates are required to have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering, respectively, or a closely related engineering discipline from an accredited institution of higher education; experience developing and teaching project-based engineering curricula; and knowledge of the current practices and research pertaining to innovative undergraduate engineering curricula.

Applications

Interested applicants should apply online at http://www.campbell.edu/about/employment/ and include a cover letter of introduction, a curriculum vita, and contact information for five professional references. Questions may be directed to Dr. Jenna Carpenter, Dean, School of Engineering [carpenter@campbell.edu].

Campbell University maintains a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in employment. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity in all phases of the employment process and in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Accordingly, the University is committed to administering all educational and employment activities without discrimination as to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ethnicity or national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status and any other characteristic protected by law, except where appropriate and authorized by law.

EEO/AA/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Protected Veterans

Our Catonsville Nine 50th Events continue…Please come out tomorrow (Sat. May 12) for UMBC Alum, Joe Tropea’s “Activism and Art” exhibit opening and screening of Lynne Sachs’ short documentary Investigation of a Flame.    The exhibit is looking fabulous…artwork from C9 member Tom Lewis and great context pieces too…And Lynne Sachs (and others) will be there for documentary Q&A.  

Here’s the link where you can register for this FREE event at MDHS!   https://www.mdhs.org/activism-and-art 

Activism and Art

COMMUNITY DISCUSSION PANELISTS

2018 Summer Horizons Program

• Friday, June 29, 2018
• The 2018 program will begin at 9:00 AM and will end at 11:30 AM. (Registration and Seating will begin at 8:30 AM)
• UMBC Commons Building, Floor 2, Game Room
• Light breakfast refreshments will be provided.
• This event is FREE to the public but (participants must register). 

Are you interested in pursuing graduate education in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) area? Do you have doubts about the application process, inquiries about next steps, or questions about deadlines?

Our Summer Horizons Program is for you!

• Directions and Parking: http://about.umbc.edu/visitors-guide/directions/
• Google maps link: UMBC Commons Driving Directions
• Parking: If you are not a UMBC student you will need to cover your own parking. Please use the pay to park stations around campus. The nearest one is in the Commons Drive garage, the first floor. Please see the rest of the stations marked with a “P ” letter (metered parking) in this map.

AGENDA

8:30 – 9:00 a.m

• Registration

9:00 a.m.

• Welcome
• Renetta G. Tull, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives, Director of PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP
• Sundiata “Sunji” Jangha, Director Upward Bound Mathematics and Science Center Academic Opportunity Programs, Co-PI, National Science Foundation’s LSAMP Program
• Justine M. Johnson, M.A., Associate Director, Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program (moderator)

9:10 a.m.

• Preparing for Graduate Study: Timelines and Choices
  • K. Jill Barr, J.D.,  Sr. Assistant Dean of Graduate Enrollment, The Graduate School
  • D. Michael Suica,  Manager, Recruitment and Admissions, The Graduate School

9:40 a.m.

• Elements of the Graduate School Application: GRE, Transcripts, Letters of Recommendation, Statement of Purpose
  • Renetta G. Tull, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives, Director of PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP

10:00 a.m.

• Understanding Graduate School – Panel of Graduate Students

10:30 a.m.

• Introduction: Justine M. Johnson, M.A., Associate Director, Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program (moderator)
• Key Note Speaker:  Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Ph.D., President, UMBC

11:30 a.m. Evaluations and Adjourn

About our Keynote Speaker

Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III 

Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, President of UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) since 1992, is a consultant on science and math education to national agencies, universities, and school systems. He was named by President Obama to chair the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. He also chaired the National Academies’ committee that produced the report, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads (2011). His 2013 TED talk highlights the “Four Pillars of College Success in Science.”

Named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME (2012) and one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report (2008), he also received TIAA-CREF’s Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence (2011), the Carnegie Corporation’s Academic Leadership Award (2011), and the Heinz Award (2012) for contributions to improving the “Human Condition.” UMBC has been recognized as a model for inclusive excellence by such publications as U.S. News, which the past eight years has recognized UMBC as a national leader in academic innovation and undergraduate teaching. Dr. Hrabowski’s most recent book, Holding Fast to Dreams: Empowering Youth from the Civil Rights Crusade to STEM Achievement, describes the events and experiences that played a central role in his development as an educator and leader.

Summer Horizons is co-sponsored by PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP, The Meyerhoff Graduate Biomedical Fellows Program, the USM Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, and The Graduate School at UMBC.

For additional resources, including access to funding opportunities: Please visit the Institute for Broadening Participation’s website,  “Pathways to Science,”  and fill out the form in the left corner:  http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/. The website has information on a variety of opportunities, which include as an example, a wealth of information on funding and internships through NASA:  http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/nasa.aspx. Our student participants have taken advantage of this resource in the past, and several have had offers for great opportunities. 

Related articles

• President Obama Appoints UMBC President as Chair of National Education Commission(baltimore.cbslocal.com)

The Dresher Center is pleased to announce our Summer 2018 Faculty Research Fellows

Eric Campbell, Assistant Professor, Philosophy: “Pragmatic Naturalism"

Raphael Falco, Professor, English and Director of the Honors and Medieval and Early Modern Studies: “Bob Dylan and the Sibling Arts”

Jennifer Maher, Associate Professor, English: “Race, Space, and Freedom: The Ongoing Fight for Mobility Rights”

Congratulations to these faculty members!

Dr. Damon Bradley is a NASA Scientist and an international DJ. He is an example of one who can reach the sky and live the dream. Dr. Bradley,  a DJ and creator of TechnoFist, will be the featured artist at the PROMISE Cookout today, 1:00 PM, Centennial Park, Columbia/Ellicott City, Maryland.

Damon Bradley received his PhD from UMBC. The Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE) department interviewed him several years ago, when he was a student. Here is a quote from 2012.

“Originally from South Philadelphia, Damon got his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State. In 2006, Damon came to UMBC and is now a pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. When he’s not studying, Damon works as founder and group leader of the Digital Signal Processing Technology Group at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, takes care of his family, and occasionally enjoys electronic dance music at nightclubs in Washington D.C. and New York City.”

Things have literally “taken flight” since then!

SPACE

Damon Bradley is now Damon Bradley, PhD, and he co-leads projects that will put instruments into space. The NASA website quotes Dr. Bradley:

“Basically, what we’re doing is miniaturizing a 100-year-old radio receiver signal-processing technology,” said ECHOES co-Principal Investigator Damon Bradley, who led the development of the digital signal-processing system for the radiometer on NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP mission, which tracks global soil-moisture levels. “ECHOES is essentially a low-frequency radar that uses space-based digital-signal processing, as on SMAP, but for probing the ionosphere as opposed to mapping global soil-moisture levels.”

Goddard’s Shing Fung (left), Mark Adrian (standing), and Damon Bradley (right) are miniaturizing a century-old technology for studying the ionosphere potentially from a constellation of CubeSats. Bradley is holding an electronics board that the team will migrate to the Goddard Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory later this year for testing.
Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk

MUSIC

On the music scene, The Resident Advisor notes that he has been a veteran of the music scene since the 90’s, but that he started DJ’ing years later.

He started DJ’ing around 2007, playing progressive house for a few parties and UMBC’s student radio station while in graduate school. He returned to his techno roots in 2010 and started DJ’ing techno in 2015 in Washington DC.

From the Resident Advisor:

Damon is the creator of TechnoFist and is also one of the co-founders of SEQUENCE in DC. Currently, he’s focused on exposing the boundaries of techno to as many people as possible, and he does this using the TechnoFist group and TechnoFist podcast he created in 2014 and 2015, respectively. He curates both new and classic techno on TechnoFist which now has over 1,200 members, mostly from New York, Washington DC, and various countries in Europe. Damon has played in various places in Washington DC, including Jimmy Valentines, and Dr. Clocks Nowhere Bar for the Degenerate, Void Archive, and Phonic parties. More recently, Damon joined forces with Ron Jackson, Jacob Knibb, Boss Ross, and Juana to form SEQUENCE, an ambitious underground techno event series that aims to push the Washington DC techno scene as far as possible.

You can hear more of TechnoFist on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/technofist

STEM

In addition to being a leader at NASA, and a DJ, Dr. Bradley gives talks around the world. He was a speaker at the recent USA Science and Engineering Festival, where the bio notes that his NASA Digital Signal Processing Technology Group won an award, and that he is an advocate for STEM literacy.

 “The group recently received the NASA Applied Engineering Technology Directorate Win New Work Award for having achieved 10 Internal Research and Development wins over a four-year period while being staffed by only five group members. He has a special passion for inspiring young students in science literacy and STEM. He is also the founder of the National Society of Black Engineers, Greenbelt Space Chapter, which has been running strong since 2004.”

Dr. Damon Bradley. Photo: USA Science and Engineering Festival.

TODAY

DJ Damon Bradley will be the featured artist at the 2018 PROMISE Friends and Family Cookout, today.

• Date: Saturday, May 5, 2018
• Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
• Location: Centennial Park – Pavilion D, MD
• Address: 10000 MD-108 Ellicott City, MD 21042

The music will go until approximately 2:30 PM, and then graduates will be recognized. (Program pushed up to avoid pending rain.)

Damon Bradley first came to the PROMISE Cookout many years ago, when he was thinking about going to graduate school. He spent time meeting other people, and talking with Dr. Janet Rutledge, who is one of the PROMISE Founders, CSEE faculty, and current Dean of The Graduate School at UMBC. He says that coming back to the PROMISE cookout brings him “full circle.”

DJ Damon Bradley’s participation in the PROMISE Cookout is sponsored by the Graduate Student Development Unit, of The Graduate School at UMBC.

References: 

NASA (2017), NASA Team Miniaturizes Century-Old Technology for Use on CubeSats, https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-team-miniaturizes-century-old-technology-for-use-on-cubesatsnasa-team-miniaturizes

Resident Advisor Ltd (2018).  Damon Bradley, (DJ Biography),   https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/damonbradley/biography

UMBC (2012)  Damon C. Bradley, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering: Inspiring Innovation, https://www.csee.umbc.edu/2012/10/damon-c-bradley/

USA Science and Engineering Festival (2018). Damon Bradley, Research Engineer, NASA, Speaker. https://usasciencefestival.org/people/dr-damon-bradley/

To honor Dr. Cedric Herring’s life and work, the following memorials are being held this month:

Texas Memorial Service and Burial     May 5th

Dr. Cedric Herring will be memorialized at a service on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 1:00 pm at the El Campo Heritage Center, 803 Fahrenthold Street, El Campo, Texas 77437.  The family asks that in lieu of flowers, memorial donations in memory of Dr. Cedric Herring may be made to the UMBC Foundation, and designated to the Language, Literacy & Culture Program. 

Any flowers should be sent so that they can be delivered to the El Campo Heritage Center between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. Saturday.

UMBC On-Campus Memorial        May 21st

The Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program with the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the President’s and Provost’s Offices invite you to join them at a Memorial on May 21, 2018 from 3 to 5 pm on the Kuhn Library’s 7^th Floor.

Sympathy Cards for his family

The LLC Program (Sherman Hall, Room 421) and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Administration and Policy (Public Policy Building, Room 252) are collecting cards and notes for Dr. Herring’s family.

Please share your photos of Dr. Herring with Liz Steenrod at esteenrod@umbc.edu, or call her with any questions at (410) 455-2376.