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

  Purpose  
Organizing Committee
Ossama Abdelkhalik Faculty Director
Ibrahim Miskioglu
S. Y. Lee
Bo Chen Dennis Meng Reza Yassar
  Scott Miers Archive: Last Year's Seminars
2007-08
Staff Assistant: Jo Anne Stimac

Fall 2008

DATE
SPEAKER
ORGANIZATION
TOPIC
09/04/2008
3 pm
Patrick Winston tape
09/11/2008
3 pm
Robert White
John Deere
09/18/2008
3 pm
Scott Miers
Michigan Tech
09/25/2008
3 pm
Bhavani Sankar
University of Florida
10/02/2008
3 pm
Teik C. Lim
University of Cincinnti
10/09/2008
3 pm
Hamid Garmestani
Georgia Institute of Technology
10/16/2008
3 pm
Dale R. Tree
Brigham Young University
10/23/2008
3 pm
Melik Demirel
Penn State
10/30/2008
3 pm
Mark Ingber
NSF
11/06/2008
3 pm
Ozden Ochoa
Texas A & M.
11/13/2008
3 pm
U115 M&M
John F. Conley, Jr.,
Oregon State University
11/20/2008
Dennis A. Siginer
Distinguished University Professor Assistant Provost Dean, College of Arts & Sciences Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Heat Transfer Asymptote In Laminar Flow Of  Non-Linear Viscoelastic Fluids In Straight Non-Circular Tubes And Interplay Of Elasticity And Inertia In Heat Transfer Enhancement

12/04/2008
Nigel Sammes
Colorado School of Mines
12/11/2008
Abel (Po-Ya) Chuang
General Motors

Spring 2009

DATE
SPEAKER
ORGANIZATION
TOPIC
Jan. 15 Michael J. Doyle Principle Scientist with Accelrys, Inc. Flexible and General. Data Mining and Knowledge Extraction for Analytical and Other Data
Jan. 22 Jinjie Shi Pennsylvania State University Acoustic Tweezers: Applying Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW) to Microfluidics and Active Plasmonics
Jan. 29 Madhukar Vable Michigan Technological University Engineering Triumphs and Disasters: A Mechanics of materials Viewpoint
Feb. 12 Paul Sojka Purdue University Secondary Atomization: The Aerodynamic Breakup of Drops
Feb. 19 Jeffrey E. Froyd Texas A & M University Improving Engineering Education: What is the plan?
Feb. 20 Sharnnia Artis Human Factors Engineering with Aptima, Inc. Self-Globalization: Strategies in Engineering Education, Research, and Practice
Feb. 26 Ed Bryan Director of IBM Software Group Solutions for the Industrial Sector Taking Product Development Global
Mar. 5 John Simonsen Oregon State University 'Frontiers of Nanotechnology in Bio-Based Material
Mar. 19 A. M. Rajendran Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Mississippi 'Research Opportunities in Mechanics and Nano/Biosciences at the Army Research Office' and 'Atomistic Modeling of Ductile Failure'.
March 26 John L. Crassidis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the State University of New York in Buffalo 'Deterministic Relative Attitude Determination of Formation Flying Vehicles'
April 2 David G. Wilson Energy Systems Analysis / Wind Energy Technology Departments at Sandia National Laboratories 'Sandia National Laboratories Wind Energy Research – SMART Rotor Program and Power Grid Control and Analysis R&D'
April 9 Mark Horstemeyer Mississippi State University 'Multiscale Modeling and Practical Engineering Applications'
April 16 Suhada Jayasuriya Texas A & M University, Director of the Control Systems Program in the CMMI devision of the National Science Foundation 'Funding Opportunities at the NSF and Cooperative Control under Hard Constraints and Coupling'
April 23 Bin Yao Purdue University.   'Nonlinear Adaptive Robust Control - Theory and Applications'