Mechanical Engineering Seminars | Department of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering Seminars - Spring 2012

Spring 2012 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
01/19/12	Dr. Yulia Peet , NSF Research and Teaching Fellow, Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,Northwestern University Code Integration for Large-Scale Systems Simulations with Grid Overlapping Methods	ECCR 1B40
01/26/12	What Happened at Deepwater Horizon? Learning from the Gulf Oil Spill Donald Winter - 6:30 PM Alina Handorean - 7:30 PM Fernando Rosario-Ortiz - 7:45 PM Paul Hsieh - 8:00 PM Dessert reception in Engineering Lobby after speakers. NOTE Time and Location Change for this Weeks Seminar RSVP encouraged but not required: http://tinyurl.com/CUDeepwater	MATH 100 6:30-9:00 PM
02/02/12	Dr. Subhas Singhal - Batelle Fellow and Director, Fuel Cells, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Current Status of High Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells	ECCR 1B40
02/09/12	Dr. Zhongping Tan - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Biofrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder - Chemical Approaches for Producing Homogeneous Glycoforms	ECCR 1B40
Wednesday 02/15/12	Matthew Spenko - Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Department, Illinois Institute of Technology -Mobile Robotics in Challenging Terrains: Wheel/Soil Interaction Models	MCEN Conference Rooms 11:00AM-12:00 PM
Wednesday 02/15/12	Dr. Scott Bunch - Assistant Professor - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder Scientific Fraud: The Case of Hendrik Schon	ECCR 1B40 5:00-6:15PM
02/23/12	Dr. George Skidmore, Principal Scientist at DRS Infrared Technologies - Introduction to Microbolometers for Infrared Imaging	ECCR 1B40
03/01/12	Dr. Pietro Valdastri - Assistant Professor & Director of STORM Lab, Vanderbilt University -Capsule Robots for Endoscopy and Surgery - A paradigm for Bio-Mechatronic design towards the next generation of Surgical Robots	ECCR 1B40
03/08/12	No Seminar Today! GEARRS. You may attend the Keynote Speaker's Presentation and count it as seminar! Make sure you sign attendance sheet!	ECCR 1B40
03/15/12	Dr. Masood Tabib-Azar - USTAR Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah - Nano-electro-mechanical and Novel Plasma Transistorsfor Computation in Very Harsh Environment inthe Presence of Ionizing Radiation	ECCR 1B40
03/22/12	Dr. Jiaqing He - Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University - Advanced Electron Microscopy of Nanostructures and Defects in thermoelectric Materials	ECCR 1B40
04/05/12	Dr. M. Stanley Whittingham - Professor Chemistry and Materials Science Engineering and Director, Institute for Materials Research, SUNY at Binghampton Materials – The Technology Barrier to Advanced Batteries for Energy Storage	ECCR 1B40
04/12/12	Dr. Rong Long - Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder - Mapping Strain and Stress Fields in Soft Gels	ECCR 1B40
04/19/12	Dr. Jinsang Kim - Associate Professor, Dept of Materials Science & Eng., Chemical Engl, Biomedical Eng., & macromolecular Science and Eng., University of Michigan - Functional Organic Molecules and Conjugated Polymersfor Optoelectronic and Biosensor Application	ECCR 1B40
04/26/12	Dr. Stephen Wrenn, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University - Modeling the Shell Parameters of Microbubble Cavitation	ECCR 1B40
05/03/12	Dr. Shelly Miller- Associate Professor & Graduate Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder -Globeville Colorado Air Quality Outreach and Solutions	ECCR 1B40