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Mechanical Engineering Home > Events: Seminars

Seminars: Spring 2008

  Syllabus (pdf)
Schedule (pdf)

Graduate Seminar - ME/ISyE 8773/8774

Wednesdays, 3:30 - 5:00 pm *
Room 1130 ME

Seminar Coordinator: Professor Jane H. Davidson

*Change of day, time, or meeting room

January 23, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
Main Series

Host: Davidson

Dr. Max Donath
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director, Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute, University of Minnesota, Mpls MN 55455

Title: In-vehicle Technology to Correct Teen Driving Behavior: Addressing Patterns of Risk (pdf)

January 30, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
ISyE Series


Host: Benjaafar

Dr. William Cooper
Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Mpls, MN 55455

Title: Demand Estimation and Pricing with Models that do not Explicitly Account for Competition (pdf)

February 6, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
Main Series

Host: Aksan

Dr. Scott C. Morris
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, IN 45656

Title: Flow Excited Helmholz Resonators (pdf)

February 13, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
Main Series

Host: Davidson

Dr. Kumar K. Tamma
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Mpls MN 55455

Title: Macro/Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transport and Bridging of Spatial and Temporal Characterization in Thin Films, Superlattices and Periodic Multi-Layer Structures (pdf)

February 20, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
Main Series

Host: Heberlein

Dr. Paul G. Slade
Consultant, Circuit Interruption and Electrical Contacts, Ithaca NY 14850 (Retired Director of Vacuum Interrupter Research, Development & Design, Eaton Corporation)

Title: Industrial R&D: Pushing the Limits of Vacuum Interrupter Performance While Living with Uncertainty and Time Pressure (pdf)

February 27, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
Main Series

Host: Davidson

Dr. Frank Kreith
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 427 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0427

Title: A Vision for Sustainable Transportation System Based on Biomass (pdf)
Kreith's presentation slides (pdf)

February 27, 2008

3:30 PM, 4125A+B ME
ISyE Series

Host: Benjaafar

Dr. Ozalp Ozer
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4026

Title: An Integrated Framework to Optimize Dynamic Time-to-Market and Production Decisions (pdf)

March 5, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
Main Series

Host: Davidson

Dr. Adela Ben-Yakar
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thermal/Fluids Systems, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-0292

Title: Femtosecond Laser Nanosurgery Shedding Light on Nerve Regeneration and Treatment of Cancer (pdf)

March 12, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
ISyE Series

Host: Cooper

Dr. Shane G. Henderson
Associate Professor, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

Title: Ambulance Location and Relocation

March 19, 2008

No Seminar - Spring Break - March 17-21, 2008

March 26, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
Main Series

Host: Rajamani

Dr. Giorgio Rizzoni
The Ford Motor Company Chair in Electromechanical Systems, Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Director of Center for Automotive Research and Intelligent Transportation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1278

Title: Personal Mobility in 2027: Energy and the Vehicles of Tomorrow (pdf)

March 26, 2008

3:30 PM, 4125A+B ME
ISyE Series

Host: Rangarajan

Dr. Mihailo R. Jovanovic
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Mpls MN 55455

Title: Turbulence Suppression in Channel Flows by Small Amplitude Transverse Wall Oscillations (pdf)

April 2, 2008

4:00 PM, 2-620 Moos Tower
Main Series

Host: Erdman

Gerald W. Timm
President, GT Urological, LLC
Professor, Department of Urologic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Mpls MN 55455

Title: Advances in Medical Device Development for Urological Applications (pdf)

ME Founders' Day Lecture

April 9, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
Main Series

Host: Stelson

Dr. Charles L. Gray
Director, Advanced Technology Support Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NEL, Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Title: Meeting the Environmental Challenges of 21st Century Vehicles (pdf)

April 16, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
Main Series

Host: Rajamani

Dr. Anna G. Stefanapoulou
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121

Title: Applying Simple Control Techniques in Fuel Cell Systems (pdf)

April 23, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
ISyE Series

Host: Cooper

Dr. Michael Fu
Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science, Decision and Information Technologies, Robert H. Smith School of Business and ISR, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Ttitle: A Model Reference Adaptive Search Method for Global Optimization (pdf)

April 30, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
Main Series

Host: Kittelson/Siepmann

Dr. Sean Garrick
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Title: Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Reacting Multiphase Flows: Theory and Application of the Nanoscale and Microscale (pdf)

May 7, 2008

3:30 PM, 1130 ME
Main Series

Host: Stelson

Dr. Thomas R. Kurfess
Professor and BMW Chair in Manufacturing, Director, Campbell Graduate Engineering Center, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0921

Title: The Globe, the Car, and the Co-Processor: A Tale about Producing the Most Complex Consumer Product on Earth (pdf)

Seminar Coordinator
Jane H. Davidson, Professor
Office: 3101E ME
Phone: 612-626-9850
Fax: 612-625-6069 (ENV)
E-mail:
jhd@me.umn.edu
Course Secretary
Betsy A. Antinozzi, Executive Administratrive Specialist
Office: 1100 ME
Phone: 612-625-0140
Fax: 612-626-1854
E-mail: antin003@umn.edu
Course TA
Andre Olson
E-mail: olso4159@umn.edu
Donaldson Lecture Series
Ilja Siepmann
139 Smith H
Phone: 612-624-1844
E-mail: siepmann@umn.edu
ME Day Coordinator
Karon Mooney
Phone: 612-626-2289
E-mail:
mooney@me.umn.edu

 

 

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