Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series

2008 Spring Schedule, Thursdays at 3:00 p.m.

210 Hodson Hall

 

 

Seminar Date

Faculty Host

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

February 7

 

Sun

Dr. William Klug

UCLA

Modeling the Mechanics of Viral Capsids

February 14

 

Ramesh

Dr. Susan Trolier-McKinstry

Penn State

PIEZOELECTRIC FILMS in MEMS

 

February 21

 

Knio

Dr. Rupert Klein

FU Berlin

Asymptotics and Numerics of Sound-proof  Models for Atmospheric Flows

February 28

 

Okamura

Dr. Reza Ghodssi

University of Maryland

Toward Self-Sustaining Integrated Microsystems for Chemical and Biological Detection

March 6

 

Su

Dr. Michael Webber

University of Texas

A Critical Look at Green Transportation

 

March 13

 

Pi Tau Sigma Seminar (Cowan)

Dr. Sunil Agrawal

University of Delaware

Robotics for Neuro-motor Training - Exoskeletons for Gait Rehabilitation and Powered Mobility for 4-8 month Old Infants

March 20

 

Spring break

March 27

 

Christie Lecture

 

Dr. Matt Mason

Carnegie Mellon

Exploring Manipulation

 

April 3

 

Cowan

Dr. Michael Reiser, Janelia HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus

Reverse-engineering the Fruit Fly’s Visual Flight Control System

 

April 10

 

Hemker

Dr. Rajat Mittal

George Washington University

High-Fidelity Computational Modeling of Moving-Boundary and  Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems in Biological Flows

April 17

 

Billig-Croft Lecture

Dr. Michael Griffin

Administrator of NASA

This is Rocket Science

April 24

 

Nguyen

Dr. Brad Boyce

Sandia National Laboratories

Suppressing Fatigue Failure in Structural Metals through Stable Nanodomains

 

May 1

 

Nguyen

Dr. Harry Quigley

JHU School of Medicine

Solving the Biomechanics of Glaucoma