Review of teaching and research activities at the School of Engineering at the University of Valencia

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Review of teaching and research activities at the
School of Engineering at the University of
Valencia

• Vicente Cerverón-Lleó
• cerveron_at_uv.es

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UV overview

• Since 1499, the Estudi General de València has
  become the Universitat de València (UV), a modern
  European university, one of the largest, oldest
  and most varied in Spain.
• Academic areas
• Basic and Applied Sciences Technology
• Health sciences
• Social sciences
• Humanities and Education
• Some figures
• more than 50.000 students
• 3.800 professors and lecturers
• 92 departments and 16 research institutes

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Technology and Engineering at UV

• The UV has a vast background in the application
  of science to technological development.
• In 1940s UV created the section of Chemical
  Technology
• In 1960s UV started teaching and research in
  Electrical and Electronic Technologies and
  Computing and Information Technologies.

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Engineering degrees at UV

• UV has full Engineering degrees from 1993
• at its inception, organized from the Faculties of
  Physics and Chemistry
• since 2003, structured and organized in our own
  School of Engineering named Escola Tècnica
  Superior dEnginyeria
• www.uv.es/etse
• no English version by now

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ETSE-UV teaching activities

• Engineering degree programs (4 y. BSc)
• Chemical Engineering
• Industrial Electronics
• Electronics for Telecommunications
• Telematics Engineering
• Computer Engineering (IT-IS)
• Multimedia Engineering
• Master programs ...

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ETSE-UV teaching activities

• Master programs (MSc-PhD programs)
• Environmental engineering
• Electronic engineering
• Systems and Services for the Information Society
• Advanced Computing and Intelligent Systems
• International Master in Advanced Sciences of
  Modern Telecommunications (in English)
• http//www.uv.es/mscasmt

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Research activities

• Computing Department
• Electronic Engineering Department
• Chemical Engineering Department
• Robotics and ICT Institute

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Computing Department

• Computing Department ? Computing Services
• Research lines at Computing Dpt.
• Computational perception and learning
• Algorithms and parallelism for Genomic Analysis
  of DNA
• Networks and Virtual Environments
• Technologies and Architectures for Computing
  Perception and Robotics

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Research at Computing Dpt.

• Computational perception and learning
• Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision
• Multimodal and Interactive learning
• Applications (search MIPRCV)
• Interactive Transcription of 1-D Signals
• Interactive Retrieval of Multimedia Content
• Interactive Face Recognition and other Biometry
  applications
• Medical Imaging Assisted Diagnosis
• Assisted Vehicle Driving

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Research at Computing Dpt.

• Bioinformatics
• Genomic Analysis of DNA
• DNA sequence analysis oligonucleotide profiling
• Tools applied to the analysis of networks/graphs
• Algorithms and Parallelism for Genomic Analysis

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Research at Computing Dpt.

• Networks and Virtual Environments
• Reliable and High Performance architectures for
  Data Centers and Internet servers
• Networks On Chip
• Collaborative augmented reality
• Multiagent systems

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Research at Computing Dpt.

• Technologies and Architectures for Computer
  Perception and Robotics
• Smart CMOS Vision Sensors
• FPGA and application specific architectures

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Electronic Engineering Research

• Research Groups at Electronic Engineering
  Department
• Digital Signal Processing Group.
• Communications and Digital Systems Group.
• Industrial Electronics and Instrumentation
  Systems Group.
• Images Processing and Acquisition Group.

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Electronic Engineering Research

• Digital Signal Processing Group
• Digital signal processing and the application of
  different technical approaches to widely known
  fields (Biomedical Engineering, Industrial
  System).
• Implementation of different sort of
  architectures for real-time processing.

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Electronic Engineering Research

• DSP Group Research lines Experienced
  application fields
• Biomedical Engineering. / Telemedicine.
• Design of automated industrial process.
• Intelligent sensors. / Remote sensing.
• Hyperspectral images processing.
• Distributed control systems development.
• Design of real-time systems.
• Neural networks and pattern recognition.
• Fuzzy logic and data mining.

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Electronic Engineering Research

• Communication and Digital Systems Group
• design of digital electronic systems supported by
  advanced technologies (FPGAs, SOC, mP, ).
• signal integrity in high speed digital
  transmission systems.
• energy management electronic systems.

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Electronic Engineering Research

• Communication and Digital Systems Gr.
• Research lines Experienced application fields
• High sped data transmission networks.
• Electronic communication systems.
• Microelectronic design.
• Rehabilitation technologies.
• Electronic technologies applied to sport.
• Software design for realtime process control.
• Biomechanic electronic systems
• Industrial process control.

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Electronic Engineering Research

• Industrial Electronics and Instrumentation
  Systems Group
• High Power High Efficiency Converters.
• Renewable energies.
• Advanced control systems.
• Characterization of power electronics
  semiconductors.
• Solid-state sensors fabrication and
  characterization.
• Smart sensors systems design.
• Analog signal processing and sensors interfaces.
• Design of distributed measurement systems.

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Electronic Engineering Research

• Industrial Electronics and Instrumentation
  Systems Group.Experienced application fields
• Induction heating.
• Aerospace applications (battery
  charger/dischargers).
• Instrumentation system design.
• Environmental monitoring.
• Industrial process control.

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Electronic Engineering Research

• Image Processing and Acquisition Group
• Research lines
• Images analysis in medicine.
• 3D artificial vision.
• Measurement and control of ionizing radiations.
• Experienced application fields
• Images acquisition and processing in medical
  diagnosis.
• Dosimetry and X-rays qualification.
• 3D reconstruction and analysis of dynamical
  movement objects.

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Chemical Engineering Research

• Research Groups at Chem. Eng. Dept.
• Environmental engineering - water treatment and
  waste management
• Environmental engineering - air treatment
• Thermodynamic Transport Properties of Organic
  Mixtures
• Electrolyte Solution Thermodynamics
• Heterogeneous Catalysis
• Food technology

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Chemical Engineering Research

• Environmental engineering - water treatment and
  waste management (1)
• Biological nutrient (N, P) removal of waste
  water
• lab and pilot scales studies and development of
  process models.
• Fermentation - elutriation of primary sludge and
  anaerobic sludge digestion
• lab and pilot scales studies and development of
  mathematical models.
• Design of urban and industrial waste water
  treatment plants (WWTP)
• assessment of options and alternates, sizing of
  the different units, hydraulic estimations, and
  process simulation.

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Chemical Engineering Research

• Environmental engineering - water treatment and
  waste management (2)
• Control and optimization of waste water treatment
  plants (WWTP)
• development of advanced control strategies (fuzzy
  control and others) to optimize the performance
  of WWTP.
• Phosphorous recovery of waste water
• struvite precipitation.
• Use of different biomaterials as adsorbents in
  the removal of heavy metals in waste waters
• lab scale test with low cost bioadsorbents and
  modelling.

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Chemical Engineering Research

• Environmental engineering - air treatment
• Removal of air pollutants by means of biological
  treatment
• lab scale experimental tests in biofilters,
  biotrickling filters, bioscrubbers, etc.
• Pilot and full scale tests of biotrickling
  filters in the abatement of volatile organic
  compounds of industrial gas exhaust air
  emissions.
• Lab scale tests of photocatalytic oxidation of
  volatile organic compounds in indoor air and
  industrial gas emissions.

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Chemical Engineering Research

• Thermodynamic Transport Properties of Organic
  Mixtures
• Experimental determination of viscosity, density
  and refraction index of organic mixtures, and its
  correlation with different theoretical models.
• Measurement of vapour-liquid and liquid-liquid
  equilibria of industrial interest mixtures, and
  parameter determination of thermodynamic
  correlation models.
• Pilot scale distillation for extractive,
  azeotropic and others especial distillations.

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Chemical Engineering Research

• Electrolyte Solution Thermodynamics
• Experimental study of vapour-liquid equilibrium,
  liquid-liquid equilibrium, viscosity, density and
  refractive index of mixtures containing ionic
  liquids, and its correlation with different
  theoretical models.
• Experimental study of vapour-liquid equilibrium,
  viscosity, density and refractive index of
  mixtures including ionic salts, and its
  correlation with different theoretical models.

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Chemical Engineering Research

• Heterogeneous Catalysis
• Lab scale experimental test of catalyst for
  cracking, isomerization, hydrotreatments of
  different petroleum fractions.
• Study and catalyst optimization of paraffin
  deshydrogenation.

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Chemical Engineering Research

• Food technology
• Alcoholic fermentation
• Supercritical fluids for extraction and
  crystallization
• Food preservation
• Drying process

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Robotics and ICT Institute activities

• located at the PCUV (Scientific Park of the
  University of Valencia), it counts with more
  than 100 researchers
• Intelligent Transport Systems
• Communications and Information Systems
• Control Robotics
• ARTEC LSyM Virtual Reality, Simulation
  Modeling

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Robotics and ICT Institute activities

• RD in Intelligent Transport Systems
• Represents Spanish Government in standardization
  committees (Ministries Interior and Construction)
• Active as project managers on behalf of the DGT
  in Euro Regional project ARTS
• Active as project coordinator for the
  Spanish/Catalan area in SERTI (DGT/SCT).
• Active member of the World Wide Web consortium
  and expert in the definition and use of
  XML-related issues for Transport.
• Experts in the area of Tolling/Road pricing
• Test, evaluation and demonstration of transport
  systems and sensors Video sensing/enforcement on
  the CV35 near Valencia.

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Robotics and ICT Institute activities

• Communications and Information Systems Group
• Wireless sensor networks for environment
  monitoring.
• Distributed architectures for agricultural
  systems.
• Power line or radio communications
• CISCO Networking Academy Program technical
  networking courses

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Robotics and ICT Institute activities

• Control and Robotics (1)
• Architectures for mobile and aerial robot control
• Implementation and comparison of control
  architectures
• Tests on real mobile robots self-built mobile
  robot, Pioneer, Khepera, self-built helicopter
• Active sensorisation systems (ultrasonic)
• Flight-time based sensors
• Biologically inspired active sensors (triaural
  sensor) based on inter-aural intensity difference
  and inter-aural time diff.

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Robotics and ICT Institute activities

• Control and Robotics (2)
• Hardware implemented algorithms using
  programmable logic (FPGAs)
• Algorithms for detections of self-mobile objects
  as seen by a mobile robot
• Calculation of time-to-impact based on optical
  flow.
• Neural network based algorithms for controlling a
  Stewart motion platform
• Direct model-less connection between sensor
  signals (accelerometers) and actuator commands
  (bar lengths of the platform)

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Robotics and ICT Institute activities

• ARTEC-LSyM 3D Graphics, VR, RA, SM (1)
• Basic Tridimensional Modeling Oriented to
  Real-Time 3D Applications
• Real-Time Terrain Representation
• Virtual Actors with autonomous behaviour in
  interactive environments.
• Virtual Reality Application in Mental Disability
  Treatment
• High Quality Inmersive Display Systems and
  Navigation Metaphors for Educational Training
  Environments
• Virtual Environment for trainning Simulation
• Organization, Transmission and Virtual
  Environments Representation on Web

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Robotics and ICT Institute activities

• ARTEC-LSyM 3D Graphics, VR, RA, SM (2)
• Development and integration of civil simulators
  for training of heavy machinery operators
• Physically based modeling
• Collision detection
• Real-time Granular Systems models
• using Cellular Automata
• GPU implementation of algorithms
• PC clustering technologies for graphics rendering
• Development of affordable simulation systems
• Substitution of expensive workstations
• Movement and vibration analysis using 6DoF motion
  platforms
• Inertia stimula for simulator
• Car seat design
• Remote sensorization systems development

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Robotics and ICT Institute activities
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ETSE-UV international and corporate partnerships

• Universities and research centers
• European and American Universities
• CERN
• Companies and public organizations
• IBM, Cisco, Oracle (Academic alliances)
• Schneider Electric
• EPSAR
• National and Regional Transport Dpts.

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Review of teaching and research activities at the
Engineering School in University of Valencia

• Vicente Cerverón-Lleó
• http//www.uv.es/etse
• (English version in development)