| January 17 |
Shri Ramaswamy
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of
Wood & Paper Science, University of Minnesota
Title: Thorough
Air Drying of Tissue and Towel
|
| January 24 |
Jae-Keun Lee
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, University of Minnesota
Visiting from: School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan
National University, Changjeon, Kumjeong, Pusan, 609-735,
Korea
Title: Electrostatic
Separation of Unburned Carbon from Fly Ash for Recycling:
Laboratory Testing to Industrial Implementation
|
| January 31 |
William L. Cooper
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Industrial Engineering, University of Minnesota
Title: Revenue
Management and Markov Decision Processes
|
| February 7 |
Robert G. Watts
Cornelia and Arthur L. Jung Professor, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Lindy Claiborne Boggs Center
for Energy and Biotechnology, Tulane University
Title: Global
Warming and the Engineering Implications
|
| February 14
|
James R. Mondt
J.R. Engineering, Ltd., Fort Collins, CO retired
from General Motors
Title: Clean
Car Technology
|
| February 21 |
Edward A. Fletcher
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota
Title: Solar
Energy as a Benign Alternative Prime Energy Source
for Industrial Processes
|
| February 28 |
Denis E. Beller
Ph.D., Systems Engineering and Integration Group,
Technology and Safety Assessment Division, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Title: The
Need for Nuclear Power
|
| March 7 |
Diwakar Gupta
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering Division,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of
Minnesota
Title: Semi-Finished
Product Design and Inventory Deployment to Improve
Delivery Performance of Integrated Steel Mills
|
| March 14 |
Paul Citron
Vice President for Research, Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis
Title: Breakthrough
Implanted Biomedical Devices: An Exploration of the
Bench-to-Bedside Process
|
| March 21 |
Chris Berndt
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, State
University of New York at Stony Brook
Title: Variability
in Thermal Spray Coatings with a Special Reference
to Biomaterials: A Problem or an Opportunity?
|
| March 28 |
Spring Break - No Seminar
|
| April 4 |
Caroline Hayes
Nelson Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University
of Minnesota
Title: Intelligent
Decision Support: Present and Future Keys to the Information
Processing Bottleneck
|
| April 11 |
Ralph Volino
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis
Title: Laminar-Turbulent
Transition under Gas Turbine Airfoil Conditions
|
| April 18 |
Professor Benoit
Montreuil
Canada Research Chair in Enterprise Engineering and
Director of the Virtual Research Laboratory in Enterprise
Logistics, Faculty of Administration Sciences, University
of Laval, Pavillon P. Prince, Office 2626, Quebec
(Quebec) CANADA
Title: Factory
Design: The Emerging Challenges
|
| April 25 |
No Seminar
|
| May 2 |
Timothy G. Gutowski
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Title: Environmentally
Benign Manufacturing
|
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