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Events The TechBridgeWorld Seminar Series presents the Spring 2007 V-Unit Presentations on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. in Newell-Simon Hall 1507. Free pizza and drinks will be served. Please contact Sarah Belousov with any questions or additional details. The presentations will include:
The TechBridgeWorld Seminar Series presented three Spring 2006 V-Unit Project Presentations on Wednesday, May 10, 2006, from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. in Wean Hall 5409. The presentations included:
The TechBridgeWorld Seminar Series presented a Spring 2006 V-Unit Presentation on Friday, April 28, 2006, from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. in Hamburg Hall 2503. This semester, a team of students from Carnegie Mellon’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management conducted a group V-Unit project entitled "Project HATCH: Helping Advance Technology, Communication, and Health in Haiti", in collaboration with Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti. This was the team’s final presentation. The first Robotics Institute Seminar on "The V-Unit as an Opportunity to Build a Vision: Case Studies from the Last Two Years" will be held on Friday, April 7th in Mauldin Auditorium, NSH 1305 at 3:30 p.m. Refreshments will be available at 3:15 p.m. Manuela Veloso and Bernardine Dias will be presenting. All are invited to attend. The TechBridgeWorld Seminar Series presented the Fall 2005 V-Unit Presentation on Friday, December 9, 2005, from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon in Wean Hall 4615A. This semester, a team of students from Carnegie Mellon’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management conducted a group V-Unit project to help TechBridgeWorld launch a new public health initiative. This was the team’s final presentation to examine the possibility of a virtual community that would provide unique opportunities to share best practices among peers in the public health field. As a case study, the students focused on reproductive health professionals in Peru as potential participants in a virtual community. The TechBridgeWorld Seminar Series presented the Summer 2005 V-Unit presentations on Wednesday October 26, 2005. Our recent V-Unit participants shared their experiences to a large and diverse crowd of interested students and faculty. The presentations included:
The first V-Unit presentation session was held on May 6, 2005, noon-1:30pm, in NSH 3002. Obaidullah Khawaja and Juan Pablo Gonzalez presented their Spring 2005 V-Units. All were invited to attend.
Dear SCS grad students, We are pleased to present to you the V unit (vision unit); an exciting new opportunity to apply your technology skills to address non-traditional problems dealing with society, development, and the environment. This internship/independent study opportunity encourages you to broaden your perspective of important challenges in technology research, and challenges you to develop innovative solutions that will benefit non-traditional groups/areas currently neglected by the major research funding sources. Completing a V unit will earn you academic credit, teach you to build a broader vision for challenges in technology research, and encourage you to gain greater perspective that will greatly benefit you in the future. Manuela Veloso and Bernardine Dias will be coordinating this program. The requirements are as follows:
Several of you have already indicated an interest in participating in such a program. Hence, we will be organizing an informational session for any graduate student in SCS who is interested in participating in this program in the Spring 2005 semester, or the Summer of 2005. This will be a meeting to concretely discuss your ideas for projects and plan your participation in the V unit program. Here is the relevant information: Date: Friday, October 15, 2004 If you are interested in participating in this program but cannot attend the meeting, please send email to Manuela Veloso (veloso@cs.cmu.edu) or Bernardine Dias (mbdias@ri.cmu.edu) and arrange a meeting. We will be selecting V unit participants for the Spring and Summer within the next month. Thank you. We hope many of you will take advantage of this great opportunity.
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