Mechanical Engineering Seminars | Department of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering Seminars - Fall 2011

Fall 2011 seminars are held on Thursdays at 3:30 PM in ECCR 200.
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
08/25/11	Dr. Jeffrey Luftig, W.Edwards Deming Professor Of Management & Dr. Barbara Lawton, Lockheed Martin Professor and Program Chair - Engineering Management, University of Colorado, Boulder Ethical Decision-Making & the Role of Leadership	ECCR 200
09/01/11	Dr. Kevin Cavicchi, Assistant Professor of Polymer Engineering, Department of Polymer Engineering - University of Akron - Shape Memory Block Copolymers	ECCR 200
09/08/11	Dr. Jianliang Xiao, Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, CU Boulder - Mechanics of stretchable electronics: theory and experiment	ECCR 200
09/15/11	Dr. C. Michael Roland, Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory -MANIFESTATIONS OF THE GLASS TRANSITION IN POLYMERS FAR FROM THEIR GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE	ECCR 200
09/22/11	Dr. John Pellegrino - Research Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, CU Boulder -Membranes succeed by separating: Membrane research in the Mechanical Engineering Department	ECCR 200
09/29/11	Dr. Mike Smith, NASA - 2011 is the 20th "anniversary" of the nanotube. After twenty years of carbon domination will boron nitride now lead the field?	ECCR 200
10/06/11	Dr. Frank Kreith - Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering, CU Boulder - SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMICS, AND POLITICS	ECCR 200
10/13/11	Dr. Glenn Morrison, Associate Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology - Reducing population exposure through passive control of air pollution in buildings	ECCR 200
10/20/11	Dr. James G. Brasseur, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University - Improving the Accuracy of Large-Eddy Simulation of Boundary Layer Flows,with Application to the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and its Interaction with Wind Turbine Aerodynamics	ECCR 200
10/27/11	Dr. Michael Calvisi, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs - Dynamics and Modeling of Ultrasound Contrast Agent Microbubbles	ECCR 200
11/03/11	Dr. Abul K. Azad, Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory - Terahertz metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications	ECCR 200
11/10/11	Dr. Rodney S. Ruoff, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin Graphene-based and Graphene-derived Materials Cancelled	ECCR 200
11/17/11	Dr. Dimos Poulikakos - Head of Dept of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich * Cancelled*	ECCR 200
12/01/11	Dr. Raymond Tu, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, the City College of New York -Using Periodically Sequenced Oligomers to Make Nanoscale Composites	ECCR 200
12/08/11	Dr. Rishi Raj, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder -Flash Sintering: A Low Energy Method for Manufacturing of Ceramics	ECCR 200