Details of September 19th Meeting:

Speaker:  Song Fu, Professor at UNT (https://www.linkedin.com/in/songfu/)
Site Director, NSF eCAT Center and Director, Vehicle and Edge Computing Laboratory – UNT

A brief introduction of eCAT:

The Center for Electric, Connected and Autonomous Technologies for Mobility (eCAT) was officially approved and supported by the US National Science Foundation in March 2023.

eCAT’s mission is to develop and deploy next-generation electrification, resilient sensing/perception, real-time edge computing, and smart infrastructure techniques to achieve higher safety and efficiency, aiming to initiate and accelerate the transformation of mobility methods from conventional vehicles to electric, connected, and autonomous vehicles by creating essential and innovative technologies.

The Center’s strategic directions include:
· Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
· Infrastructure
· Mobility Solutions

More information regarding the Center can be found at https://www.ecat.center/.

There are a range of advantages for Center members including limiting university research project overhead to 10%, access to the students, faculty, and facilities at the participating universities, connection to other industry members, industry defining research roadmap, and many more.

In addition to UNT, the Center’s university partners include Wayne State University (Detroit, MI), the University of Delaware (Newark, DE), and Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY). More universities are planning to join the Center.

Sept 19th Meeting Location: UTD Synergy Park North Building; 3000 Waterview, Richardson, TX
Directions: NE Corner Synergy Park Blvd and Steward Dr.
Lunch Cost: Pre-registered: Guests: $15; IEEE Member: $10, IEEE Life and Student Members: $5, RSVP due at least Friday prior to the meeting.

Anyone without a Pre-registration or late RSVP for lunch will be asked to wait until all pre-registered have had a chance to go through the buffet line.

Anyone not pre-registered will be charged the ‘Guest’ rate.

There is No charge for ‘No Lunch, e.g., those that are just attending the talk’