Department of Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics
Graduate Seminar Series Banner
 Thursdays, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m., Room 112, ME-EM Building
 Refreshments Served

  Purpose  
Organizing Committee
Dr. Henry Sodano   Dr. Spandan Maiti Dr. Abhijit Mukherjee   
Dr. Roshan D'Souza   Advisor: Dr. William Endres
  Current Year Seminar 2007-08 Archive: Last Year's Seminars
2006-07 		Staff Assistant: Jo Anne Stimac
Fall 2006
DATE
SPEAKER
ORGANIZATION
TOPIC
HOST
09/07/2006
 Mary Peed Michigan Tech How to Speak Maiti
09/14/2006
 Abhijit Mukherjee Michigan Tech Numerical Study of Growth Vapor Bubbles during Flow Boiling Maiti
09/21/2006
 John Huhn/Steve Stahlhut Motion Eng. Co. Inc. High Speed Imaging & Advanced Image Processing Allen
09/28/2006
 Qingli Dai Michigan Tech   Maiti
10/03/2006
 Prof Zbib Univ Washington Recent Advances in Multiscale Modeling of Materials Behavior Maiti
10/12/2006
 Karen Crosby Southern University Baton Rouge LA Tiered Mentoring in a Cross-disciplinary and Multi-institutional Research Projec Sutherland
10/19/2006
 Maarten Deboer Sandia National Lab Mechanics of Micromachines Subhash
10/26/2006
 Tim Osswald Univesity Of WI Modeling & Simulation of Polymer Proc Using Radial Func Method Gupta
11/02/2006
  Craig Friedrich  Michigan Tech Mechanical Micromachining Techniques and Applications Multi-Scale Technologies Institute  
11/09/2006
 Caroline Hayes Univ of MN Challenges Faced by Globally Distributed Engineering Design Teams D'Souza
11/16/2006
 Satish Kandlikar Rochester Inst of Tech Challenges in Fuel Cell Dev from Heat Transfer & Fluid Flow Consideration (Abstract & Biography - PDF) Mukherjee
11/23/2006
 Thanksgiving      
11/30/2006
 Mike Hickner Sandia National Lab (MTU Alum) J. Allen
12/07/2006
 Byron Pipes Purdue University
Carbon Nanotube fibers and Yarns
 Odegard
12/14/2006
 Anthony Waas Univ of MI Microstructural Instabilities in Braided Textile Composites: Experiments and Analyses (PDF) Odegard
Semester Break
Spring 2007
01/18/2007 Ranjit Pati Michigan Tech

Spin Modulated Molecular Electronics: Opportunities and Challenges

  
01/25/2007 Hailin Li National Research Council, Canada An Investigation on the Combustion and Emission Characteristics of HCCI Engine Operation Using n-Heptane  
02/01/2007 Jeff Hamilton Vice President & Chief Technical Officer for GM Exhaust, Filtration Business for Cummins Inc Technology Development for Energy Efficiency and Low Emissions Naber
02/08/2007 Winter Carnival
02/15/2007 Tom Hahn UCLA Multifunctional Polymer-Matrix Nanocomposites Miskioglu
02/22/2007 Ioannis Chasiotis Univ of Illinois Mechanical Behavior of Polymeric Nanofibers Subject to Cold Drawing  
03/01/2007 Xiangfa Wu University of Nebraska-Lincoln NE Delamination of Nanofiber-Reinforced Advanced Polymer Composites and Nanomechanics of Nanofiber Network  
03/08/2007 Reza Yassar Mississippi State University Structural Evolution in Materials with Hardening Inclusions  
03/15/2007 Spring Break
03/22/2007 William Desmet Katholieke University-Belgium Automotive NVH refinement- an overview of some recent experimental and numerical
research activities at the K.U.Leuven - Noise and Vibration Research Group		 Blough
03/29/2007 Amitabh Narain Michigan Tech Experimental/Computational Investigations of Internal Condensing Flows – Effects of Specified and Unspecified Exit Conditions  
04/05/2007        
04/12/2007 K.T. Ramesh Johns Hopkins Univ The Processes of Massive Dynamic Failure Maiti
04/19/2007 Stan Szwaja Visiting Professor from Poland Cogeneration of Heat and Power in the Biogas Fueled Internal Combustion Engine Naber
   

 

Top of Page