Fall 2006 Mechanical Engineering
Department Seminar Series

Note: All seminars are from 2-3 p.m. in 2211 GG Brown, unless otherwise noted.

Date Speaker Institution Seminar Title Host
Sept. 22
 Anthony M. Dean Chemical Engineering Department
Colorado School of Mines
"Engineering Applications of Detailed Chemical Kinetics"
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Sept. 29
 Levi T. Thompson Chemical Engineering Department
University of Michigan
"Beyond Fossil Fuels: Devices for Hydrogen Production and Conversion"
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Oct. 6
 Brian Kirby Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Program
Cornell University
"Fabrication for Design and Control of Micro/nanoscale Fluid Systems"
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Galip Ulsoy
Oct. 13
 Tamas Kalmar-Nagy Aerospace Engineering
Texas A&M
"Of Random Time Delays, Rabbits, and the Visible Points of the Integer Lettuce"
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Nikos Chronis
Oct. 20
 Steve Ceccio Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
"Science and Engineering of Friction Drag Reduction on Ships"
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Nikos Chronis
Oct. 27
 Dan Haworth Department of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
"Multidimensional Modeling for Advanced IC-Engine Development"
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Volker Sick
Nov. 17
 Christopher Calladine Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
"DNA: An Engineering Perspective"
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Noel Perkins
Dec. 1
 Heinz Pitsch Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
"Computational Chemistry Based Multi-Scale Simulations of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells: Development of Models and Numerical Algorithms, and Application to Fuel Cells"
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Angela Violi
Dec. 8
 Hami Kazerooni Mechanical Engineering
UC Berkeley
"That Which Does Not Stabilize, Will Only Make Us Stronger"
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Nikos Chronis
Winter 2007
Feb. 2
Time/Location TBD 		Professor Gerard A. Ateshian Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
"Applications of Mixture Theory to Cartilage Mechanics and Tissue Engineering"
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