Professor Mo Jamshidi to Discuss System of Systems Engineering Tomorrow During Live International Video-Conference
Mo Jamshidi, UTSA’s Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair of Electrical Engineering, will deliver a two-hour lecture tomorrow by video-conference about System of Systems Engineering. The video-conference will be broadcast live to researchers in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Madrid, Spain. UTSA students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to attend.
The live video conference will be broadcast from 9 to 11 a.m. on Tues., Oct. 20 from Biotechnology, Sciences and Engineering Building 2.102 to audiences at Universidad Nacional de Salta in Argentina and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain.
System of systems engineering combines simple systems to form larger systems that are capable of completing more complex tasks than their smaller components could do. The discipline has applications in the defense, energy, environmental and health care industries.
During the international discussion, Jamshidi will offer:
- an introduction to System of Systems (SoSE) engineering, “From Definition to Implementation”
- an overview of how multi-robotic systems work in air, on land and in the water
- insight into the development of UTSA’s first hybrid green energy system, which uses solar and wind power
- an introduction to cloud computing and its intersection with System of Systems Engineering
- video clips of System of Systems research activities taking place in UTSA’s Autonomous Control Engineering (ACE) Laboratory with Spanish subtitles
Jamshidi will follow the video-conference with a visit to Argentina in early 2010, where he will be joined by System of Systems engineers from Spain.
With a career spanning more than four decades, Jamshidi is known internationally as a leader in system of systems engineering. In the past, he conducted research for U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Department of Energy, NASA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. During that time, he worked on the first generation of adaptive optics for the Hubble Telescope, the engineering of nuclear breeder reactors, the Mars Pathfinder Project and the applications of robotics for energy efficiency. His current research, conducted in UTSA’s Autonomous Control Engineering (ACE) laboratory, focuses on the applications of System of Systems engineering to land, sea and air robots, and solar-wind energy systems.
