Winter 2007 Mechanical Engineering
Department Seminar Series

Date	Speaker	Institution	Seminar Title	Host
Jan. 12 Time/Location TBD	Professor Albert Folch	Department of Bioengineering University of Washington	"Lab-on-a-Chip Devices for Cell Biology Studies" Download in PDF Format
Jan. 19 Time/Location TBD	Professor Charles K. Westbrook	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	"Chemical Kinetics of Hydrocarbon Ignition The Origin of Engine Knock, Diesel Ignition, HCCI Combustion, Explosions and Soot Production" Download in PDF Format
Feb. 2 1:00 p.m., 2211 GGB	Professor Gerard A. Ateshian	Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Columbia University	"Applications of Mixture Theory to Cartilage Mechanics and Tissue Engineering" Download in PDF Format
Feb. 9 Time/Location TBD	Xudong Zhang, Ph.D.	Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	"Musculoskeletal Dynamic Modeling or Digital Simulation and Biological Inspiration" Download in PDF Format
Feb. 16 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. 2211 GGB	Professor Ken Goodson	Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University	"Thermal Phenomena in Electronic Microstructures" Download in PDF Format
Feb. 23 Time/Location TBD	Professor Professor Todd Thorsen	Department of Mechanical Engineering M.I.T.	"Microfluidic Tools for Cell Biology" Download in PDF Format