Berg | Engineering

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December 04, 2022 Adam Wolf - Modern Electronics Design Services
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The barriers to creating electronics have never been lower. With a computer, an internet connection, a credit card, and a few hundred bucks, anyone can get started creating electronics. Business folks want electronics in everything, but they don’t necessarily want to staff engineers. This creates a market opportunity for designing electronics at a very small organizational scale–even as a “side hustle”! In this talk, we discuss modern electronics design services, changes over the past ten years, and look to the future.
Presented for the Engineering Lecture Series at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
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47min
November 23, 2022 Michael Hammond - I’m a designer and so can you!
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The traditional roles of industrial designers and mechanical engineers has changed dramatically in the past decade, the relationship between the two has become even more intertwined and inseparable. A great engineer thinks like an industrial designer, and a great designer learns to think like the engineer. We need to remember that both are creative roles, but each have their own specific strengths that we can leverage and build on. Shared understanding and empathy and good communication, and often compromise are at the core of what makes the engineer/designer unit successful in developing innovative new products – and from this talk we will learn how industrial designers look at the problem, what their goals are in a project, and how you can work better with them to make the magic happen (and vice versa!).
Presented for the Engineering Lecture Series at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
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40min
November 20, 2022 Dr. Laura Albert - Protecting infrastructure for cyber-security using optimization and analytics
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In this talk, Professor Laura Albert will discuss how to protect critical information technology (IT) infrastructure using industrial and systems engineering methods. Critical IT infrastructure is vulnerable to risks that can be introduced from supply chains, and therefore, there is a need to design plans to mitigate these risks. In this research, we propose new optimization models and network interdiction models to identify a combination of cost-effective mitigations that maximally delay supply chain attacks when there exist multiple adversaries and that capture the interaction between a defender and multiple attackers. We propose network interdiction models for protecting critical infrastructure that prioritizes cost-effective security mitigations to maximally delay adversarial attacks. We consider attacks originating from multiple adversaries, each of which aims to find a “critical path” through the attack surface to complete the corresponding attack as soon as possible.
Presented for the Engineering Lecture Series at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
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48min
November 12, 2022 Dr. Timothy Kowalewski - To Err is Human - Surgical Skill and Robotics
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Surgical robots enjoy widespread adoption. This provides opportunities to augment the art of surgery with more rigorous, quantitative science, giving rise to the field of computational surgery. Such opportunities may help tackle long-standing challenges in healthcare like the prevalence of human error. This talk will focus on two related research problems. First, how do we quantify and improve the existing technical skills of a surgeon? This requires a method whose scores correlate with patient outcomes, that can scale to cope with 51 million annual surgeries in the United States, and that can generalize across the diversity surgical procedures or specialties. One solution comes from an unexpected source: crowds of non-expert raters. Second, how can robotic tools render surgical tasks fundamentally easier, perhaps making errors unlikely or impossible in the first place? This will briefly survey topics like policy-blended human-robot shared control to ensure safety in robotic tissue grasping; novel patient-specific catheter robots that safely remove plaque via inverse design of soft robots and a theranostic excimer laser; and robotic 3D bioprinting directly onto moving human anatomy to explore new reconstructive procedures.
Presented for the Engineering Lecture Series at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
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50min
October 20, 2022 Dr. Heidi-Lynn Ploeg - Why you can stand on the floor
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“Why You Can Stand on the Floor” is in large part due to the mechanics of your musculo-skeletal system, and is the primary research focus of the Bone and Joint Biomechanics (BJB) Laboratory. Osteoporosis (OP) is a debilitating disease of the musculo-skeletal system and a major health concern in an aging population. Currently, OP affects 10 million Americans, that is 1 in 2 elderly women and 1 in 4 elderly men. According to the Administration on Aging: “People 65+ represented 12.4% of the population in the year 2000 but are expected to grow to be 20% of the population by 2030.” The projected costs of OP are therefore $45 billion by 2025 an increase of $10 billion from 2004. Contributing factors to OP are loss of skeletal integrity, inactivity and the development of sarcopenia in the aged. Conversely, exercise has been shown to reduce both sarcopenia and retard bone loss in the aged. In animal models, exercise has been shown to increase skeletal integrity by 10 to 14% for the same mineral density. Solving the mysteries of how human tissue adapts to mechanical stimuli with increased strength will permit new and improved innovations in bone and joint health, disease prevention and treatment. The research goal of the BJB Lab is to develop accurate physical and virtual models of the human musculo-skeletal system for the planning and assessment of orthopaedic and rehabilitative procedures for:
Disease prevention
Designing biomedical devices
Planning surgical intervention
Enhancing computer aided surgery
Presented for the Engineering Lecture Series at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
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47min
May 26, 2022 Dr. Mariana Kersh - The scaling up of biological strength
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Over a lifespan of approximately 70 years, bone withstands millions of loading cycles from muscle forces with incredible resilience to fatigue. However, the mechanisms driving bone formation, organization, and strength are yet to be fully resolved. What is known is (1) the mechanical cues for bone development in mammals are a result of the dynamic muscle and joint forces experienced during locomotion, and less influenced by static gravitational forces and (2) the adaptation of bone to accommodate increased external forces occurs in a specific manner. That is – it doesn’t just get bigger - it has a specific preferential distribution of material in order to maintain efficient mechanical competency.
In this talk, I will present our recent efforts to understand the three-dimensional mechanics of bone during growth and aging. First, using a murine model of growth, we investigated the determinants of spatially heterogeneous strain within the tibia using longitudinal imaging and multi-scale computational models. We also investigated these allometric relationships in equine bone to determine if these hold true for larger animals. Next, I will present a computational assessment of bone strain energy in older human bone samples. Here we aim to identify whether increased strain energy is characterized by morphological features and associated with specific phases of cellular activity during bone remodeling. We present evidence to suggest that an uncoupling in osteoclast to osteoblast activity exists that may be related to strain-mediated cell dynamics.
Presented for the Engineering Lecture Series at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
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44min
May 25, 2022 Dr. Bryony DuPont - Design Automation for Sustainability
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As global population continues to increase and consumers become more affluent, there is growing demand for both electricity and consumer products. However, in recent decades, consumers have become more aware of the negative environmental consequences of electricity and product consumption, including resource depletion, pollution, and increased greenhouse gas emissions. This begs the question: can we meet this growing demand for energy and products, but do so while reducing our impact on the environment? Design engineers are uniquely qualified to answer this question, as our methodologies influence the complete lifecycle design of products and systems, from initial ideation through manufacturing, use, and disposal. In this talk, I’ll explore my lab’s recent work in Design Automation, and how we have created and applied optimization, machine learning, and machine intelligence methods to help designers create greener products and systems, including offshore renewable energy systems and more sustainable consumer products.
Presented for the Engineering Lecture Series at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
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55min
May 17, 2022 Dr. Susan Mantell - Debonding in Dental Composites
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In dental restorations, debonding between the tooth and restoration causes critical failure. Dental composites are comprised of micron sized, spherical glass beads embedded in a UV curable polymer matrix. The evolution of the stiffness and shrinkage strain of the dental composite during cure is a key contributor to the integrity of the bond between the tooth and restoration. An experimental evaluation of the stiffness and shrinkage strain during cure will be presented. These data form the basis of a constitutive model that describes the relationship between stress and shrinkage strain. This constitutive model is incorporated into a finite element analysis, that allows dental researchers to predict shrinkage stresses at the early stages of dental composite development. Validation of the finite element analysis as well as case studies will be presented.
Presented for the Engineering Lecture Series at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
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48min
February 10, 2022 Frequency Response - Engineering Dynamics
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19min
February 10, 2022 Fatigue Overview - Machine Component Design
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18min

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How many episodes does Berg | Engineering have?

The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.