Mechanical Engineering Seminars | Department of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering Seminars - Fall 2008

Fall 2008 seminars are held on Thursdays at 3:30 pm. The ME seminar series covers a broad range of topics of interest to the mechanical engineering community. The public is invited to attend.

Date	Speaker & Topic	Location
08/28/08	Scott Bunch, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder - Electromechanical Responators from Graphene Sheets	ECCR 1B51
09/04/08	William P. King, Associate Professor, Mechanical Science & Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Thermomechanical Probes at the Nanometer Scale	ECCR 1B51
09/11/08	Yifu Ding, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder - Materials and Metrologies for Nanoimprint Lithography	ITLL 1B50
09/18/08	David G. Cahill, Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign - Extremes in Heat Conduction: Pushing the Boundaries of the Thermal Conductivity of Materials	ITLL 1B50
09/25/08	Olivier Desjardins, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder - Numerical Methods for Liquid Atomization and Application in Detailed Simulations of a Diesel Jet	ITLL 1B50
10/02/08	Gregory B. McKenna, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor & The John R. Bradford Endowed Chair in Engineering, Texas Tech University - Nanomechanics in Polymers: Ultrathin Films and Surface Viscoelasticity	ITLL 1B50
10/09/08	Mehran Mehregany, Goodrich Professor of Engineering Innovation, Case Western Reserve University - High Temperature Sensing and Mechanical Logic based on a Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Platform	ECCR 200
10/16/08	Hongbin Ma, Associate Professor, University of Missouri at Columbia - Highly Efficient Heat Pipes	ITLL 1B50
10/23/08	Rishi Raj , Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder -Graphene Nanodomain Networks With Multifunctional Properties For Extreme Environments	ITLL 1B50
10/30/08	Kamran Mohseni, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder - Digitized Heat Transfer	ITLL 1B50
11/06/08	Helfried Naefe, Professor, Max Planck Institute of Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany - SOLID STATE ELECTROCHEMICAL APPROACHES TO CHARACTERIZATION OF THE THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY OF TERNARY ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS	ITLL 1B50
11/13/08	Nils Hoivik , Associate Professor, Micro- and Nanosystems Technology, Vestfold University College- 3D integration and packaging of future microsystems	ITLL 1B50
11/20/08	John Volckens, Assistant Professor, Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University- "Mechanical Engineers Can do Anything, so I Asked Them to Solve Today's Global Health Problems."	ITLL 1B50
12/04/08	Uday Kompella, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado, Denver - Nanotechnology for drug and gene delivery	ITLL 1B50
12/11/08	Shu Yang, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania - Harnessing Elastic Instability on Patterned Polymer Surfaces	ITLL 1B50