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<Title>Student Research opportunity Green Building Environments</Title>
<Tagline>Paid, on-campus research opportunity to energy savings</Tagline>
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    <h3>NSF REU 2014</h3>
    <h2>Research Experiences for Undergraduates<br>
    in Green Building Environments at UMBC</h2>
    <h3>May 28 – August 15, 2014</h3>
    <p>New emerging “smart plugs” embed a micro-controller and low-power 
    communication device that allows you to monitor the power consumption of
     individual devices (e.g., microwave, coffee machine, laptop) plugged 
    into power sockets, and communicate such power consumption information 
    over a wireless network to a central monitoring station. Such devices 
    could lead to substantial savings of energy &amp; money by enabling 
    Internet-based monitoring &amp; real-time control of the behavior of 
    individual appliances. This project will use real-life microcontroller 
    kits (ACME Plugs from Moteware) &amp; real-life building measurement 
    data to explore whether such measurement-based monitoring can be used to</p>
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    <li>Develop Smart Circuit Breaker — i.e., to lessen the burden of the 
    user of plugging each and every appliance/device in the building with a 
    smart plug; we will investigate connecting multiple devices together 
    with an individual smart plug/smart circuit breaker and design a smart 
    circuit breaker using energy metering chip (ADE7753), AC/DC power 
    supply, Microcontroller with radio (TI MSP430F16 and Cypress Powerline 
    Communications (PLC) modem) and solid state AC relay (Sharp S216SE1) 
    etc.</li>
    <li>Profile individual devices — i.e., use NILM (non-intrusive load 
    monitoring) data analytics algorithm on the time-series of power 
    consumption traces to infer the type of plugged-in device (e.g., 
    distinguish between a laptop &amp; a coffeemaker), thereby building a 
    dynamic catalog of the types &amp; number of devices connected by a 
    consumer.</li>
    <li>Predict the power consumption of individual rooms — i.e., using the 
    past history of the power consumption of individual devices to create 
    predictive inferences of the usage patterns for individual devices 
    (e.g., learn that the individual switches on a dehumidifier for ~3 hrs 
    every Thu).</li>
    <li>Receive $4,500 stipend, free on-campus housing</li>
    <li>Access to university resources, Travel support to UMBC, Unique research experience</li>
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    <p>Please send your CV (include any relevant experience) and unofficial transcript to Dr. Nirmalya Roy at <a href="mailto:nroy@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">nroy@umbc.edu</a> .</p>
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<Summary>NSF REU 2014   Research Experiences for Undergraduates  in Green Building Environments at UMBC   May 28 – August 15, 2014   New emerging “smart plugs” embed a micro-controller and low-power...</Summary>
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<Title>Bits Blog: A Skype Founder and a Famous Smoothie Maker Swap Tales in London</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">As the city’s technology scene rises many are trying to think of ways to avoid the kind of tensions that have arisen between the haves and have-nots in the San Francisco Bay Area.<br><div><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td>
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<Summary>As the city’s technology scene rises many are trying to think of ways to avoid the kind of tensions that have arisen between the haves and have-nots in the San Francisco Bay Area.      </Summary>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="43104" important="false" status="posted" url="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/posts/43104">
<Title>DealBook: Tap to Pay (Not So Much in the U.S.)</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Using smartphones to make payments for transit, food, clothing or even to pay bills is commonplace overseas but is not as widespread in the United States because of costs.<br><div><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td>
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<Summary>Using smartphones to make payments for transit, food, clothing or even to pay bills is commonplace overseas but is not as widespread in the United States because of costs.      </Summary>
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<Title>Environmental Justice Internship (MD State Gov)</Title>
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    <div>OVERVIEW:</div>
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    <div>The Maryland Department of the Environment is seeking a student intern to work on <span>environmental justice (EJ) initiatives related to quality communication with communities and </span><span>other stakeholders. The primary objectives are (1) to assist a student to complement his/her </span><span>academic career with work-place experience, (2) to formulate a pilot program focused on </span><span>environmental justice and community outreach, (3) develop and edit communication pieces </span><span>regarding EJ and communities, and (4) assist with upkeep of the EJ portion of the MDE website. </span>
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    <div>INTERNSHIP: </div>
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    <div>The internship will be an unpaid, credit bearing academic/work related experience. The intern is <span>expected to work at least 10 hours a week on the project over the course of the semester. </span>
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    <div>PROJECT GOALS: </div>
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    <div>MDE would like an intern to research and develop a community outreach tool for communities <span>affected by various environmental issues. </span>
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    <div>1. Pilot Project: This will be a pilot project implemented in a few communities. The first <span>phase of this project will be to research how different communities prefer to receive </span><span>information, i.e. community meetings, community newsletters, etc. The second stage of </span><span>the project will focus on consolidating and analyzing this research while developing a </span><span>tool for surveying communities about their interests and preferred methods of </span><span>communication. In the third stage of the project, the student will implement the survey </span><span>tool to determine the preferences of the various pilot communities and then analyze the </span><span>results. Ultimately, the Department would like to be able to use this tool repeatedly as </span><span>communities express interest in projects and/or issues of concern.</span>
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    <div>2. Assist the Office of Environmental Justice &amp; the Office of Communications in editing, <span>drafting, and revising brochures for stakeholders about MDE programs and processes </span><span>as it relates to EJ. </span>
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    <div>3. Attend policy meetings to observe and recommend ways to address and improve EJ <span>policy at the Department. </span>
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    <div>SUPERVISION: </div>
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    <div>This internship would primarily be supervised by the Environmental Justice Coordinator at MDE; <span>however, the student would also interact and work with the Air and Radiation Management </span><span>Administration at MDE, the Office of Communications at MDE, and the Commission on </span><span>Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities (CEJSC). </span>
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    <div>HOW TO APPLY: </div>
    <div><br></div>
    <div>Please email a cover letter and resume to Lisa Nissley, Legislative Liaison &amp; Environmental <span>Justice Coordinator, <a href="mailto:lisa.nissley@maryland.gov">lisa.nissley@maryland.gov</a>.</span>
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<Summary>OVERVIEW:     The Maryland Department of the Environment is seeking a student intern to work on environmental justice (EJ) initiatives related to quality communication with communities and other...</Summary>
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