Ric Parker, Director of Research and Technology for Rolls Royce, visits the Signature Engineering Building during his visit to establish the new University Technology Center at Virginia Tech for Advanced Diagnostics. Ric with other members of RR visited the Virginia Tech Smart Infrastructure Laboratory and its potential to meet RR's needs. We have now released a VT-SIl brochure and our first newsletter. Please click each name to download the appropriate documents: Brochure: The brochure will give a wide scope of the Virginia Tech Smart Infrastructure Laboratory inlacing our mission and what we are all about. Newsletter : This is our first newsletter and they will keep coming to keep you informed about what is going on today! Enjoy the read. Mico Woolard and Jessi Thangjitham join VT-SIL faculty! Mico is a mechanical engineering students working for Dr. Tarazaga and Jessi is a Civil and Environmental Engineering working for Dr. Eatherton and Dr. Leon. We are happy to welcome Rémi Leullieux from ICAM, Lille France. He is a french intern who will be working on experimental localization and path tracking algorithms. We have a long standing exchange program with ICAM and Remi is one of our latest exchange students. Check out the photo section on the VTNEWS website. You will find VTSIL here, performing a Modal Test on the Huckleberry Bridge in Blacksburg VA. A more complete (and fun) set of pictures can be seen by clicking on the title of this story or the "read more" button below. I recommend you take a look. On October 11, 2013, VT-SIL will address the Virginia Tech's College of Engineering advisory board on the latest events and progress of the instrumentation of the new Signature Engineering Building! We are very excited for this opportunity provided by Dean Benson. A formal walk through of the building today showed that the majority of the mounts have been installed. Next step cabling! Mr. Tucker continues to scan the building in order to create a 3D model of the building. This will allow for various research activities such as very accurate location and alignment of sensors for comparisons with building models. |
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