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Mechanical Engineering Home > Events: Seminars

Seminars: Spring 2005

January 19, 2005 No Seminar
January 26, 2005
3:30 pm,
EE/CSci 3-180
MAIN Series

Host: Joachim Heberlein

Jennifer K. Alexander
Assistant Professor
Program in History of Science and Technology
and Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota
Title: The Roots of Efficiency in John Smeaton’s Wheels

February 2, 2005
THT Series
3:30 pm 1130 ME

Host: Terry Simon

Jungho Kim
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Title: Gravity Effects on Boiling Heat Transfer: Investigations Using a Microheater Array

February 9, 2005
THT Series
3:30 pm 1130 ME

Host: Sean Garrick

Herek L. Clack
Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616
Title: Trace Gas Adsorption within Gas-Powdered Sorbent Suspensions: Enhancing Mercury Emissions Control for Coal-Fired Utilities

February 16, 2005
IE Series
3:30 pm 1130 ME

Host: Diwakar
Gupta
Rajan Suri
Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 3166 Engineering Centers Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
Title: POLCA: The Material Control Strategy for Low-Volume and Custom-Engineered Products
February 23, 2005
MAIN Series
2 :45 pm
3-180 EE/CSci

Host: Joachim Heberlein
Jane C. Ammons
Associate Dean of Engineering for Faculty Affairs, NSF ADVANCE Professor of Engineering, Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205
Title: Reverse Production Systems: Models and Insights
March 2, 2005
THT Series
3:30 pm 1130 ME

Host: David Kittelson
Mark Z. Jacobson
Associate Professor, Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4020
Title: Enhanced Coagulation Due to Evaporation and Van der Waals Forces and its Effect on Nanoparticle Evolution

March 11, 2005
MAIN Series
4:00 pm

Location: TBA
Host: Joachim Heberlein

Eduard Arzt
Title: From Biological To Artificial Nano-Scale Devices: How Flies And Geckos Adhere To Surfaces
Donaldson Company Distinguished Lecture Series
J
oint seminar with Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and Mechanical Engineering

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN DATE

March 14-18, 2005

No seminar, Spring Break

March 23, 2005
D&M Series
3:30 pm 1130 ME

Host: Tianhong Cui

Peter J. Hesketh
Professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405
Title: MEMS Enabled Microfluidics - Microvalves and Miniature Gas Chromatography Systems On-A-Chip

March 30, 2005
IE Series
3:30 pm 1130 ME

Host: Saif Benjaafar

Prof. Ton G. de Kok
Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Title: Operational planning and control of value networks: a paradigm shift?

April 6, 2005
THT Series
3:30 pm 1130
MEHost: Terry Simon

Massoud Kaviany
Professor of Applied Physics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Title: Heat Transfer in Nano Porous Media: Phonons in Gage Crystals and Ion-Doped Powders

April 13, 2005
D&M Series
3:30 pm 1130 ME
Host: Tianhong Cui

Efstathios I. Meletis
Ph.D.G. & L. Williams Professor, Materials Science & Engineering Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Title: Functionally Gradient, Multifunctional and Self-Organized Nanocomposite Thin Films and Surface Layers

April 20, 2005
MAIN Series*
4:00 pm
2-690 Moos Tower
Host: Joachim Heberlein

Kenneth H. Keller
Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Title: Biomedical Engineering: The Challenge of Success
ME Founders Day

April 27, 2005
IE Series
3:30 pm 1130 ME

Host: Diwakar Gupta
J. George Shanthikumar
Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1777
Title:Stochastic Dynamic Optimization with Model Uncertainty and Learning
May 4, 2005
D&M Series
3:30 pm 1130 ME

Host: Tianhong Cui
Wen H. Ko
Professor, EECS Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
Title: TBA
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


* Change of day, time, and/or meeting room

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