Fall 2008

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINARS

Date	Speaker	Title	Time & location
September 11	Prof. Xinyan Deng Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Delaware	Toward the development of a dragonfly robot: the effect of wing-wing interaction and chordwise flexibility on aerodynamic performance	2:00 PM T-254
September 18	Dr. Pablo Bueno Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Texas Austin	The Effects of Upstream Mass Injection on Shock-Induced Boundary Layer Separation	2:00 PM T-254
September 25	TBA	TBA	2:00 PM T-254
October 2	Prof. Nicholas Ouelette Department of Mechanical Engineering Yale University	Lagrangian Measurements in Two-Dimensional Flow	2:00 PM T-254
October 16	Ms. Sarah Felix, Mechanical Engineering University of CA, Berkeley	Strain Sensing with Piezoelectric Zinc Oxide Thin Films for Vibration Suppression in Hard Disk Drives	2:00 PM T-254
October 23	Dr. Jong Kim NASA, Goddard	Derivative-enhanced Computational Approaches with Automatic Differentiation Method	2:00 PM T-254
October 30	Prof. Y. Andreopoulos Mechanical Engineering CCNY	Vorticity and Strain Rates in Compressible Turbulence Interactions with Shock or Expansion Waves	2:00 PM T-254
November 6	Prof. Bassanni Lehigh University.	Mechano-chemical effects in the adhesion of thin shells	2:00 PM T-254
November 18	Prof. Yoshiyuki Noda Toyohashi University of Technologies	Advanced Sloshing Suppression Control for Liquid Container Transfer System	2:00 PM T-254
December 4	Dr. Noma Park University of Minnesota	Tackling numerical and modeling issues of computational fluid dynamics using mathematical optimization theory	2:00 PM T-254
December 11	Prof. Gonzalez Cruz CCNY	Climate change	2:00 PM T-254