Mechanical Engineering Colloquium

2016

Dr Chris Paredis, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and H.M. Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, Model-Based Decision Support in Systems Engineering and Design - March 14, 2016.


Prof Rajat Mittal, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Multiphysics Modeling of Cardiac Flows: From Heart Murmurs to Ventricular Clot Formation - February 23, 2016.


Prof Ugo Piomelli, Queen's University, Numerical simulations of turbulent flows over rough walls - January 19, 2016.

2015


Dr Jacob Hundley, Architected Materials Department, HRL Laboratories LLC, Lightweight Microlattice Materials: Processing and Simulation - December 10, 2015.


Prof Gerold Schneider, Hamburg University of Technology, Organically linked supercrystal of iron oxide nanoparticles with excellent mechanical strength and hardness - November 27, 2015.


Prof Michael Valášek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Mechatronics – New Source of Invention for Machines - November 18, 2015.


Dr Ali Momenimovahed, Canada National Research Council - October 20, 2015.


Dr Martin Schiemann, Department of Energy Plant Technology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Lithium as Energy Storage Material - October 09, 2015.


Dr Walter Silva, NASA Langley Research Centre, Two Lectures: Computational Aeroelastic Analysis of a Low-Boom Supersonic Configuration and Evaluation of Linear, Inviscid, Viscous, and Reduced-Order Modelling Aeroelastic Solutions of the AGARD 445.6 Wing Using Root Locus Analyses - September 22, 2015.


Dr Lynette Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Good Vibrations: Optimizing the design of tactile displays - September 23, 2015.


Dr Annie Ruimi, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Dynamics of filaments for surgical applications - July 8, 2015.


Prof Amitabha Ghosh, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India, Conceptual Evolution of Newtonian Mechanics: The Little Known Story of F = ma - June 16, 2015.


Dr Ben Evans, College of Engineering, Swansea University, The use of CFD in the design of a 1,000mph car: BLOODHOUND SSC, an engineering adventure - June 4, 2015.


Prof J.N. Reddy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, A Robust Continuum Shell Element for Large Deformation Analysis of Composite Structures - April 13, 2015.


Prof Hugh Liu, Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), University of Toronto, Wildfire Monitoring using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - April 10, 2015.


Prof Robert Martinuzzi, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Low-order Modelling of Quasi-periodic Turbulent Wakes - March 13, 2015.


Dr Nicola Pedrocchi, Institute of Industrial Technology and Automation, CNR, Milan, Italy, Human-Robot Cooperation in Small-Medium Enterprises: Safety related aspects and new applications - February 13, 2015.


Professor J. Maciej Floryan, University of Waterloo, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Certain aspects of flows over rough surfaces - February 6, 2015.


Dr Guillaume Haïat, Laboratoire Modélisation et Simulation Multiéchelle, UMR CNRS 8208, Laboratoire Modélisation et Simulation Multiéchelle, UMR CNRS 8208 - January 27, 2015.

2014

Professor Alexei Morozov and Dr Ting Zou, McGill University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, APC-Project: Design and Optimization of Power Trains for Electric Vehicles - December 5, 2014.


Professor Tamer Zaki, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laminar-to-turbulence Transition in Boundary Layers Buffeted by Free-Stream Disturbances - November 28, 2014.


Professor Stefano Gonella, University of Minnesota, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, Learning the Sparse Code of Solids with Anomalies: A Model-Agnostic Approach to Wave-Based Diagnostics - November 21, 2014.


Dr Dennis Gottuso, AREVA NP, France, Review of AREVA's Facilities and Modeling Capabilities - November 17, 2014.


Professor Jaime Cervantes, National University of Mexico, Division of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, The Strouhal Number of Fish Undulatory Swimming and the Buckling of Fluid Columns - November 14, 2014.


Professor Frank Vernerey, University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Mechanics of Interstitial Growth in Degradable Hydrogel Scaffolds - November 7, 2014.


Professor Joaquim Martins, University of Michigan, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Aircraft Wing Design via Numerical Optimization: Are we there yet? - October 17, 2014.


Dr. Georgios Michailidis, Ecole Polytechnique France, Manufacturing Constraints and Multi-Phase Shape and Topology Optimization via a Level-Set Method - October 3, 2014.


Dr. David Finkleman, SkySentry, LLC, Space Debris: The Rest of the Story - September 26, 2014.


Professor Harry Dankowicz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Discontinuity-induced Bifurcations in Models of Mechanical Contact, Capillary Adhesion, and Cell Division - September 19, 2014.


Professor Ou Ma, New Mexico State University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, A New Reduced Gravity Physical Simulation Technology for Potential Space and Medical Applications - March 28, 2014.


Professor Scott White, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Autonomous Materials Systems:  From Self-Healing to Regeneration - February 21, 2014.

2013

Professor Michael Selig, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Applied Aerodynamics Group and Subsonic Aerodynamics Research Lab, Modeling Full-Envelope Aerodynamics of Small UAVs in Real-Time - November 15, 2013.


Professor Karen Willcox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Multifidelity Modeling for Design, Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification - October 09, 2013.


Dr. Mikhail Zichenkov and Svetlana Kuzmina, Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI), Russia, The Effect of Shock Waves Movement on Flutter and Self-Oscillations of an Elastic Aircraft in Transonic Flow - May 23, 2013.


Professor Dennis Bernstein, University of Michigan, Aerospace Engineering Department, What is Hysteresis and What Causes Hystereric Damping and Friction? - March 22, 2013.


Dr. Mason Peck, Chief Technology Officer, NASA, NASA Technology Investments: Building our Future in Space - March 13, 2013.


Dr. Antoinette Maniatty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Investigating Electromigration using X-Ray Microbeam Diffraction Coupled with Modeling and Simulation - February 26, 2013.


Dr. Vladimir Golubev, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, High-Fidelity_Numerical Experiments in Low-Re Airfoil Unsteady Aerodynamics, Acoustics and Flow Control - February 20, 2013.

2012

Professor Harald Kleine , University of New South Wales, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Australian Defence Force Academy, Time-resolved resolution of transient compressible flows - September 2012.


Professor Rajesh Rajamani , University of Minnesota, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Novel Sensors, New Estimation Algorithms and Active Controls:Technologies for Improving Highway Vehicle Safety and Mobility - September 2012.


Professor Dimitri Mavriplis , University of Wyoming, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Computational Methods for Aerodynamic Analysis and Design - September 2012.


Dr Antonis I. Vakis, University of Cyprus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, MECH-393: Machine Element Design Lecture: Static Failure Prevention - May 2012.


Dr Antonis I. Vakis University of Cyprus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Interface Mechanics and Dynamics in Nanotechnology - May 2012.


Professor Massimo Ruzzene Georgia Institute of Technology, D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Multifunctional Structured Materials and Wave-based Structural Diagnostics, - May 2012.

 

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