Mechanical Engineering Seminars | Department of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering Seminars - Spring 2013

Spring 2013 seminars are held on Thursdays at 3:30 PM in ECCR 1B40.
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
01/17/13	Dr. Katherine Dykes, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colorado Tool for Wind Technology Systems Engineering Research TWiSTER Dr. Andrew Ning, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colorado Objects and Constraints for Wind Turbine Optimization	ECCR 1B40
01/24/13	Dr. Chuck Kutscher, Principal Engineer and Manager, Thermal Systems Group, NREL Presentation Tips Seminar followed by Work Session	ECCR 1B40
01/31/13	Dr. Tae-Woo Lee, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, POSTECH, Korea Flexible organic light-emitting diodes using graphene anodes for solid-state lightings	ECCR 1B40
02/07/13	Dr. Christopher J. Orendorff, Sandia National Laboratories, Advanced Power Sources R & D Dept. Approaches to Evaluating and Improving Lithium-Ion Battery Safety	ECCR 1B40
02/14/13	Dr. Walt Musial, Principal Engineer & Manager Offshore Wind and Ocean Power Systems, National Wind Technology Center, NREL, Golden, CO Offshore Wind and Ocean Power Systems	ECCR 1B40
02/21/13	Dr. Jeff Sakamoto, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Michigan State University - Keeping up with the increasing demands for electro-chemical energy storage: Ceramic oxide electrolytes enabling a new class of safe, high energy density batteries	ECCR 1B40
02/28/13	Dr. Ka Yee Lee, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago Beyond Wrinkling: Stress Relaxation in Lung Surfactant Monolayers and OtherThin Films	ECCR 1B40
03/07/13	Dr. Alexei Poludnenko, National Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., Turbulent Combustion: From a Jet Engine to an Exploding Star	ECCR 1B40
03/14/13	GEARRS TODAY! No Graduate Seminar. You can attend the keynote or another session and have it count!	ECCR 1B40
03/21/13	Marcelo Bergquist, Vice President of Operations, Tendril Corporation, Boulder Colorado Lessons Learned from a Career in Industry	ECCR 1B40
04/4/13	Dr. Alfred William Eustes, III , Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines - Extraterrestrial Drilling: How On Earth Can Martian Drilling Help Us?	ECCR 1B40
04/11/13	Dr. Pat Moriarty, NREL	ECCR 1B40
04/18/13	Dr. Jiwoong Park, Associate Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University Graphene and Boron Nitride for Atomically Thin Circuitry	ECCR 1B40
04/23/13	Special Tuesday Seminar Dr. Robert D. Howe, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering and Area Dean for Bioengineering, Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Science - Fixing the Beating heart: Ultrasound-Guided Robotoc Surgery	DLC 1B70
04/25/13	Dr. Eleanor Stride, Fellow at St. Catherine's College, Biomedical Ultrasonics, Biotherapy & Biopharmaceuticals Laboratory (BUBBL), University of Oxford Engineering Bubbles	ECCR 1B40
05/02/13	Dr. Dave Allen, Melvin H. Gertz Regents Chair in Chemical Engineering & Professor Department of Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas	ECCR 1B40