Fall 2007 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 21 Nicolas Triantafyllidis Aerospace Engineering University of Michigan
"On Magnetorheological Elastomers; General Theory and Application to the Stability of a Rectangular Block under a Transverse Magnetic Field"

Sept 28 Srinivasa Salapaka Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois
"Systems Tools In Scanning Probe Microscopy"

Shorya Awtar
Oct 5 Eliot Fang Manager/Deputy and Technical Assistant VP Office of Science & Technology and Research Foundations, Sandia National Laboratories
"Computational Materials Science in Engineering Decision-Making"

Wei Lu
Oct 12 Thomas Pence Mechanical Engineering, MSU
"On the Swelling Mechanics of Elastic Materials"

Alan Wineman
Oct 26 Chris Rutland University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mechanical Engineering
"Large Eddy Simulation for IC Engine Simulations"

Volker Sick
Nov 2 Satyandra K. Gupta Mechanical Engineering Department and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
"Towards automated Micro and Nanoscale Assembly Using Optical Tweezers"

Kazu Saitou
Nov 30 Larry Taber Washington University at St. Louis
Biomechanics of Early Heart Development"

Krishna Garikipati
Dec 7 Gregory Washington Professor and Associate Dean of Research College of Engineering, Ohio State University
"Smart Electromagnetic Structures"

Diann Brei