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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=165 height=179 src="cid:image002.png@01CD603C.69229230" align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1"><![endif]><o:p></o:p></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Professor Sergiy Kharkivskiy</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>University of Western Sydney, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Nondestructive evaluation of non-uniform materials and structures using microwave and millimeter wave CW reflectometry</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Friday, July 13, 2012</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>11:15 a.m. Refreshments<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>11:30 – 12:30 p.m. Seminar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>Room W122, Engineering Building D3, UH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>Sponsored by the UH Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Abstract </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Non-uniform materials and structures including composite structures are widely used in different areas such as infrastructure and aerospace transportation. Nondestructive evaluation and monitoring of properties of these structures are important practical issue. There are several standard sensor techniques for this purpose, however, each of them has own advantages and disadvantages. In some cases, microwave and millimeter wave (mw and mmw) techniques may be the only suitable solution or can be used in combination with other methods such as eddy current and ultrasonic methods. In this presentation some applications of advanced mw and mmw continuous wave (CW) reflectometry will be introduced. They include evaluating and monitoring of cement-based materials and concrete-metal structures, painted metal surfaces, and dielectric layered walls used in infrastructure. These applications have been performed at the Applied Microwave Nondestructive Testing Laboratory (<i>amntl</i>) at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA, and partially have been continued in the Sensor Technologies Laboratory, a part of the nearly established Institute for Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), Australia. The potential of the development and application of mw and mmw CW reflectometry in the UWS will be also discussed. This discussion will focus on the use of the internal and external collaborations, and involving students and postdoctoral research fellows to the high-level research. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>*** </span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>About the speaker: </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Dr. Sergiy Kharkivskiy </b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>(professional name is Sergey Kharkovsky) received the Diploma in electronics engineering from Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics, Ukraine, in 1975, and his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in radiophysics from the Kharkov National University, Ukraine, and from the Institute of Radio-Physics and Electronics (IRE) of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, in 1985 and 1994, respectively. Currently he is an Associate Professor and a Program Director (Infrastructure Health Monitoring) in the Institute for Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), Australia. Prior to joining UWS in July 2011 he was a Member of the Research Staff at IRE from 1975 to 1998, a Professor in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at the Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey, from December 1998 to February 2003, and a Research Associate Professor in the Applied Microwave Nondestructive Laboratory (<i>amntl</i>), the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA, from March 2003 to June 2011. He has authored and co-authored more than 120 publications in the microwave and millimeter wave physics and engineering, material characterization and nondestructive evaluation, and he has 11 USSR patents and 4 US patents in his credit. He is <i>a Fellow </i>of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an Associate Editor for <i>the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (IEEE TIM) </i>where he is also a member of Best Paper Award Committee. He was recognized as a <i>IEEE TIM Outstanding Associate Editor </i>in 2010 and 2011 for his important contribution to the <i>IEEE TIM</i>. He is a member of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) and he was a member of the ASNT University Programs Award Committee in 2009-2011. He served as the Guest Editor for the ICONIC 2009 special issue of <i>the IEEE TIM</i>, 2010, and he is a Technical Program Committee co-chair for the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2013) which will be held in Minneapolis, USA, in 2013. His current research interest is microwave and millimeter physics and engineering, material characterization, sensor technologies, nondestructive evaluation and imaging of composite structures, structural health monitoring, and instrumentation and measurement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Parking: </span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Go to UH Entrance No. 1 (Exit I-45 South to Spur 5 and take a right at University Blvd.). At the Visitors Information Center, ask for the Cullen College of Engineering and parking instructions. For more information, contact Elaine Gildea at (713) 743-4251 or egildea@uh.edu.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>