Fifth Meeting, April 28th, 2016

Greetings, Humans. Live long and prosper.

We will have the Fifth Meeting of the Industrial Engineering English Club on April 28th, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., in room 1004, School of Industrial Engineering. Our guest speaker will be Juan Manuel Salamanca, and the topic of his presentation will be, simplistically put, Smart Bicycles.

Juan Manuel Salamanca García

• Ph.D. in Design - Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
• Masters Degree in Design Direction - Domus Academy, Milano.
• Industrial Designer - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota.
• Researcher and Professor, Universidad Icesi, Cali.
• Short Biographical Information

About the presentation:

Platoon Behavior

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control:
Our city is starting to build an exclusive network of bicycle paths. In this network, we would like to move safely and efficiently. This project is aimed to encourage a platoon behavior for the cyclists, in such a way that they keep a safe distance with each other, and that their effort is efficient because they minimize the need for braking and pedaling, synchronizing their progress with traffic lights and congestion.

Wireless communications make the bicycles talk to each other. Feedback mechanisms warn every rider to brake or speed up, in order to keep an efficient pace. The system could expand to help the riders choose their paths, notify them of upcoming hazards and build a comprehensive network of connected vehicles and devices to make commuting more enjoyable and productive for everybody.

Other sections:

The Industrial Engineering English Club will have its regularly scheduled sections:

1. Our guest speaker, Juan Salamanca.
2. The language-related section.
3. The fun and games sections.

As usual, we will not disclose the contents of sections 2 and 3. They will be a surprise for us all.

So,  we hope to see you at this meeting.

Cheers!

Leonardo Rivera C., Ph.D.
leonardo.rivera.c@correounivalle.edu.co

Ana Valdés
Oral Presentations Coach

Dear Friends of the English Club:

I have posted the lists of songs that I have available right now. We can always find some more in YouTube and other places, plus the Karaoke machine that professor Manyoma brought today.

Please check out the karaokes I have in my computer at List-of-songs.txt and the ones that I have on DVDs on List-of-songs-in-DVDs.txt.

Choose a couple of songs, and let me know which ones you would like to sing. We can probably find them.

We will see you this afternoon.

Leonardo Rivera.
leonardo.rivera.c@correounivalle.edu.co

Ana M. Valdés

English Club: March 7th, 2016

Dear Friends of the English Club:

First, I apologize if you are receiving multiple copies of this message. I have several mailing lists and I don't have the time, nor the inclination to collate them and remove duplicates.

Second, I would like to invite you again to our next meeting, which will be this next Monday, March the 7th, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. in room 1004, building 357 (School of Industrial Engineering). Our meeting has been specially designed to blow off some steam from this very hard semester we are finishing today.

We will do some KARAOKE!!! We will not have an academic part, neither about Industrial Engineering, nor about the English Language. If you cannot sing, all the better, it is more fun this way.

To this end, I have a good catalogue of karaoke music and Professor Manyoma has kindly promised to lend us his awesome and compact karaoke machine. However, if any of you has a preference or a song that would like to sing, please drop me a line and I will make everything in my limited powers to find it for you. The song, of course, HAS to be in English (it is an English Club, after all).

Please send me some ideas for songs that you would like to sing to my e-mail address (leonardo.rivera.c@correounivalle.edu.co). I will have some software robots and yellow minions find them for me.

If you do not send some ideas, you are condemned to listen to me singing (not good) and also to see Ana perform some songs (she is awesome!). So, if you want some variety, please send me your song requests.

Leonardo Rivera C., Ph.D. 
Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial
Universidad del Valle
Cali, Colombia

SPECIAL EDITION OF THE ENGLISH CLUB

Dear English Club Members:

To celebrate the end (at last!) of the semester, we will have a very special edition of the English Club.

We will meet Monday, March the 7th, from 4:00 to 7:oo p.m., most likely in room 1004, building 357 (School of Industrial Engineering).

Be prepared: This Club meeting will be different! It's all going to be just fun and games. We will not have an academic presentation at all.

If you have any questions, please drop me a line at leonardo.rivera.c@correounivalle.edu.co