MAIN DEPARTMENT SERIES* (3-180 EE/CSci)
Topic: GLOBALIZATION
Host: Joachim V.R. Heberlein
THERMODYNAMICS AND HEAT TRANSFER SERIES (1130 ME)
Topic: NANO-HEAT TRANSFER
Hosts: Terry W. Simon or Richard J. Goldstein
DESIGN & MANUFACTURING SERIES (1130 ME)
Topic: BIO-MIMETICS
Host: Kim A.Stelson
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SERIES (1130 ME)
Topic: INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Host: William L. Cooper
*Change of day, time, and/or meeting room
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September 7 |
No Seminar |
September 14, 2005
MAIN
3:30 pm
3-180 EECS
Host:
J. Heberlein |
Mark R. Henderson
Professor, Department of Engineering, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus, Mesa, AZ 85212
Title: Globalizing the Engineering Student |
September 21, 2005
IE
3:30 pm
1130 ME
Host: |
Otis B. Jennings
Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Title: Large-Scale Membership Services |
September 28, 2005
THT*
4:00 pm
2-650 Moos T
Host:
David Pui
|
Kikuo Okuyama
LM Fingerson/TSI Distinguished Lecture
Professor, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Title: Aerosol Nanoparticle Research in Materials Science and Engineering |
October 5, 2005
MAIN
3:30 pm
3-180 EECS
Hosts:
J. Heberlein
K. Stelson |
Dr. Sandy Narayan
Business Director, 3M, Latin America and Africa, Safety, Security and Protection Services Business, St. Paul, MN 55144
Title: Engineering
Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization |
October 12, 2005
D&M
3:30 pm
NOTE:Room Change 3-180 EECS
Host:
K. Stelson
|
David E. Alexander
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Program in Entomology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7534
Title: Should 747's Flap Their Wings? Technology and the Biomechanics of Flight |
| October 19, 2005
IE
3:30 pm
1130 ME
Host:
|
David P. Morton
Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Operations Research, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-0292
Title: Stochastic Network Interdiction of Nuclear Material Smuggling |
October 26, 2005
MAIN
3:00 pm
3-180 EECS
Hosts:
J. Heberlein
T. Simon |
Lee S. Langston
Emeritus Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3139
Title: The Role of Gas Turbines in Global Energy Conversion |
November 2, 2005
THT
3:30 pm
1130 ME
Host: T. Simon |
Daniel D. Joseph
Regents Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN 55455
Title: Exceptional Properties of Polymeric Solutions Seeded wtih Silica Nanoparticles |
November 9, 2005
IE
3:30 pm
1130 ME
Host:
S. Benjaafar |
Stephen C. Graves
Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management Science & Engineering Systems, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Title: Strategic Inventory Placement in Supply Chains: Recent Developments and New Directions |
November 16, 2005
D&M*
3:30 pm
2-650 Moos Tower
Hosts:
J. Heberlein
K. Stelson |
Steven Vogel
James B Duke Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Title: Bear Bones and Ferrous Wheels: When Might Nature be Worth Copying?
Donaldson Company Distinguished Lecture Series |
| November 23, 2005 |
No Seminar – Happy Thanksgiving |
November 30, 2005
THT
3:30 pm
1130 ME
Hosts:
T. Simon
S. Garrick
|
Themis Matsoukas
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Fenske Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
Title: Synthesis and Processing of Nanomaterials in Dusty Plasmas
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December 7, 2005
MAIN
3:30 pm
1130 Mechanical Engineering
Host:
J. Heberlein |
Ronald D. Christenson
Corporate Vice President of Plant Operations and Chief Technology Officer, Cargill, Inc., Minneapolis, MN 55440-5724
Title: Growing with a Global Organization: Personal Perspectives
|
December 14, 2005
D&M
3:30 pm
1130 ME
Host:
K. Stelson
|
Wendy Kuhn Silk
Professor of Water Science and Quantitative Plant Biology, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8627
Title: Biomechanics of Plant Habit
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Seminar Coordinator
Joachim V.R. Heberlein, Professor
Office: 2101F ME
Phone: 612-625-4538
Fax: 612-625-4344 (HTPL)
E-mail: jvrh@me.umn.edu |
Course Secretary
Betsy A. Antinozzi,
Executive Administrative Specialist
Office: 1100 ME
Phone: 612-625-0140
Fax: 612-626-1854
E-mail: antin003@umn.edu |
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