Department of Mechanical Engineering

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