Spring 2008

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINARS

 

Date
Speaker
Title

 

Time & location

 

February 7

Prof. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

University of Pennsylvania

Realistic Haptic Feedback for Virtual Environments and Teleoperation

2:00 PM

T-254

 

February 14

Prof. Sung Kwon Cho, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh.

Microbubble Manipulations and Fluidics

2:00 PM

T-254

 

February 29

Dr. Niell Elvin

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Columbia University

 

Piezoelectric energy harvesting for

self-powered sensors

2:00 PM

T-254

 

March 3

Dr. Tie Hu

Department of Computer Science and Department of Surgery

Columbia University

Reality-based Soft Tissue Modeling and Insertable Surgical Imaging Device for Minimally Invasive Surgery

2:00 PM

T-254

 

March 7

Dean Joe Klewicki

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of New Hampshire

 

Wall-Pressure Fluctuations and their In-Plane Gradients at High Reynolds Number

 

2:00 PM

T-254

 

March 14

Dr. Chengyu Cao

Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

VPI&SU

 

Advanced Adaptive Theory for Unmanned and Intelligent Systems, Bio-inspired Applications, and More.

 

2:00 PM

T-254

 

March 25

Dr. Feng-Yuan Zhang

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Delaware

Development of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells

with Micro/Nano Technology

 

 

2:00 PM

T-254

 

March 28

Dr. Partha P. Mukherjee

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA

Pore-Scale Modeling of Transport Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

2:00 PM

T-254

 

April 1

Prof.  Masahiro Kawaji

Sustainable Energy Cluster

Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry

University of Toronto

MULTIPHASE FLOW AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN ENERGY SYSTEMS

2:00 PM

T-254

 

April 17

 

 

 

 

April 18