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

  Purpose  
Organizing Committee
Ossama Abdelkhalik Faculty Director
Dr. Roshan D'Souza
Fernando Ponta
Bo Chen Dennis Meng Reza Yassar
  Archive: Last Year's Seminars
2006-07
Staff Assistant: Jo Anne Stimac
Fall 2007
DATE
SPEAKER
ORGANIZATION
TOPIC
     
09/13/07
Bahram (Bob) Farahmand Boeing Technical Fellow with Boeing Company in Huntington Beach, California Virtual Testing & Applications (Multiscale Modeling & Simulation) PDF
09/20/07 Subrata Mukherjee Cornell University BEM/FEM Analysis of MEMS With Thin Features PDF
09/27/07 Judy Vance, Program Manager National Science Foundation Shaking the Money Tree- Funding at NSF PDF
10/04/07 Somnath Ghosh Ohio State University A Multiscale Characterization and Analysis Methodology for Ductile Fracture in Heterogeneous Metallic Materials PDF
10/11/07 Greg Stark GE Aviation Navigation in Flight Management Systems and Future Challenges PDF
10/18/07 Craig R. Friedrich MTU Safety Orientation for Faculty,
Staff, and Students
PDF
10/25/07 John Balk University of Kentucky Deformation of Nanoporous Noble Metals:  How Strong are They? PDF
11/01/07 Michele H. Miller (MEEM) and Debra D.Charlesworth, the Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School Michigan Tech Problem Solving Obstacles in the Research lab:  Perceptions of Graduate Students and Faculty
11/08/07 Paul Cefola Massachusetts Institute of Technology Comparison of US and Russian Space Surveillance Systems
11/15/07 T. Alan L ovell
Air Force Research Laboratory
Space Vehicles Directorate
Kirtland AFB, NM
An Overview of the Astrodynamics and Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, & Control Efforts at the Air Force Research
Laboratory
12/06/07 Robert Tilove
General Motors - Research and Development Smart Assembly
12/13/07 Mark Shannon
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Microcombustion for Small Scale Power Sources and Fuel Cells

Spring 2008

01/17/08 A. Jeffrey Giacomin
University of Wisconsin Core Deflection and Flash in Injection Molding
01/24/08 Kok-Meng Lee
Georgia Institute of Technology Computational Intelligence in Machine Vision for Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (MV-RAM)
01/21/08 Robert Spinner
Mayo Clinic Intraneural Ganglia: A Complex Clinical Problem Begging for a Hydrodynamic Explanation
01/31/08 Debjyoti Banerjee
Texas A&M University Nano-Devices for Enhanced Cooling and Explosives Sensing
02/14/08 Taher Saif University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mechanics of Learning and Memory
02/21/08 Oleg Yakimenko Dept. of Mechanical and Astronautical Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA Rapid Prototyping of GN&C Algorithms for Aerospace Vehicles
02/28/08 Eric Stach Purdue University Understanding the Onset of Plasticity in Materials Using Quantitative In-Situ Nanoindentation
03/06/08 Dennis Desheng Meng Michigan Technological University Fuel Delivery and CO2 Byproduct Removal for Micro Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
03/20/08 Tony Jun Huang Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at
Pennsylvania State University
'Fluidics: Interfacing Biology, Mechanics, and Photonics in the Micro/Nano Scale'.
03/27/08 Patrick Phelan Director for the Thermal Transport Processes
of the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Division
within the National Science Foundation
'Opportunities in Thermal Transport Processes Research at NSF'
04/03/08 Amanul Haque Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Pennsylvania State University 'Coupling Mechanics at the Nanoscale'
04/10/08 Hassan Aref Virginia Tech and Technical University of Denmark 150 Years of Vortex Dynamics
04/17/08 Georges Fadel Clemson University Multi-material Designand Manufacturing
04/24/08 Georges Gioia University of Illinois Nikuradse meets Kolmogórov, or: How to derive the diagram from the spectrum