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Mechanical Engineering Seminars - Fall 2009

Seminar Archive

Fall 2009 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
08/27/09 Dr. Ronggui Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder Nanoscale Thermal Transport

ECCR 200

9/3/09 Dr. Michael Hannigan, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder - Improving Human Health by Reducing Exposures to Harmful Air Pollutants ECCR 200
9/10/09 Dr. Thomas Perkins, Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder - Advanced Force Spectroscopy Techniques for Optical Traps and AFMs DLC 3:00-4:00
9/17/09 Dr. Bakhtier Farouk, J. Harland Billings Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department, Drexel University - Thermally Induced & Mechanically Generated Acoustic Waves in Gases & Supercritical Fluids: Recent Advances ECCR 200
9/24/09 CANCELLED



10/01/09 Dr. Z. John Zhai, Assistant Professor in Architectural Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder - Roles of CFD in Building Design
ECCR 200
10/08/09

Dr. David Kassoy, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
The Response of a Compressible Gas to Extremely Rapid Transient, Spatially Resolved Energy Addition: An Asymptotic Formulation

ECCR 200
10/15/09 Dr. Roger Schmidt , IBM Fellow, Chief Engineer for Data Center Energy Efficiency - IT Power and Cooling Trends: Industry Thermal Issues MATH 100
10/22/09

Dr. Oleg Vasilyev, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
Wavelet Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics

ECCR 200

10/29/09 Dr. Betta Fisher, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,Cornell University
Oxycombustion for Carbon Sequestration
ECCR 200
11/5/09 Dr. Ryan Justice, Materials Engineer, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, OH -An overview of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Adaptive Active Multifunctional Materials Research Program
ECCR 200
11/12/09 Paul Rice, Director of Microscopy, Nanomaterials Characterization Facility (NCF), University of Colorado, Boulder - Tools for Visualizing Nanotechnology ECCR 200
11/19/09 Dr. Mark Rentschler, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder ECCR 200
12/3/09 Won Park, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder - ECCR 1B40
12/10/09 Christopher Soles, Polymers Division, NIST ECCR 200