Winter 2002 Mechanical Engineering
Department Seminar Series

Date
Seminar
Host
Jan 18 Biomechanics Panel Discussion
Ellen Arruda, Bob Dennis, Karl Grosh, Edgar Meyhöfer
Abstract
Art Kuo 
(panel moderator)
25 Robert Howe  (Harvard University)
Quantified touch: Tactile imaging and display in medicine
Brent Gillespie
Feb 1 Zhigang Suo  (Princeton University)
Mechanics of Fabricating Large, Zero-Defect,
Strain-Relaxed Semiconductor
Islands on Oxides
Wei Lu
8 Ron Rosenberg  (Michigan State)
Abstract
Jeff Stein
 15 Charles Williamson  (Cornell)
Resonance Forever!
Hong Im
22 Harold Craighead  (Cornell)
Micro and Nanomechanical Systems
Katsuo Kurabayashi
March 1 no seminar (spring break)
 
 
8 Chang-Jin "CJ" Kim  (UCLA)
MEMS/Microfluidic Devices Utilizing Surface Tension
Katsuo Kurabayashi
15 John Eaton  (Stanford University)
Turbulence Modification by Solid Particles Dispersed in Gas Flow
Charlie Hasselbrink
22 Yonggang Huang  (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes: A Continuum Analysis Incorporating the Interatomic Potentials
Krishna Garikipati
29

Pedro P. Castaneda  (University of Pennsylvania)
Recent Developments in Nonlinear Homogenization

Abstract

Krishna Garikipati
April 5 Nano Panel Discussion on Nanotechnology:

Charlie Hasselbrink (ME), Jay Guo (EECS) and Richard Laine (Mat. Sci. & Engr.) and Wei Lu.

Moderator: Khalil Najafi
12 Moshe Shpitalni  (ME, Michigan)
How many Machining System Configurations Exist?