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Mechanical Engineering Home > Events: Seminars

Seminars: Spring 2009

 

Graduate Seminar - ME 8773/8774

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

Seminar Coordinator: Professor Sean C. Garrick

*Change of day, time, or meeting room

January 21, 2009

3:30 PM, 1130 ME



Dr. Sean C. Garrick
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Course Introduction

January 28, 2009

3:30 PM, 1130 ME


Host: Sean Garrick

Dr. Terrence W. Simon
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Title: Experiences with the Development of a New Space Power Engine (pdf)

February 4, 2009

3:30 PM, 1130 ME


Host: Sean Garrick

Dr. Vaughan Voller
Professor and Associate Head, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Title: An Enthalpy Model for Dendritic Growth (pdf)

February 11, 2009

3:30 PM, 1130 ME

Host: Sean Garrick

Dr. Tom Schwartzentruber
Assistant Professors, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Title: A Hybrid DSMC-CFD Method for Multi-scale Simulation of Hypersonic Flows (pdf)

February 18, 2009

3:30 PM, 1130 ME

Host: Paul Strykowski

Dr. Peyman Givi
William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Title: Petascale Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion via EPFVS-FMDF (pdf)

February 25, 2009

3:30 PM, 1130 ME

Host: David Pui

Dr. H. Young Chung
Fellow, Corporate Technology, Donaldson Company, Inc. Bloomington, MN 55431

Title: Electrospinning at Donaldson Company, A Tribute to Professor Benjamin Liu and the Center for Filtration Research (pdf)

March 4, 2009

3:30 PM, 1130 ME

Host: Sean Garrick

Dr. Kim A. Stelson
Professor and Director of NSF Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Title: Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicles(pdf)

 

March 11, 2009

Radisson University Hotel
3:00 PM

Dr. Uwe Kortshagen
Professor and Department Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Title: Mini Symposium (program details)

March 18, 2009

No Seminar, Spring Break - March 16 - 20, 2009

March 25, 2009

3:30 PM, 1130 ME

Host:

Dr. Michael D. Cloeter
Core R & D, Engineering & Process Sciences, Fluid Mechanics & Mixing Discipline, The Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX 77541

Title: A Novel Industrial-Scale Mixer for Mixing-Sensitive Chemistry (pdf)

April 1, 2009

Radisson University Hotel
3:00 PM

Dr. Uwe Kortshagen
Professor and Department Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Title: Mini Symposium (program details)

April 8, 2009

3:30 PM, 1130 ME

Host: Peter McMurry

Dr. Christopher M. Sorensen
Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-2601

Title: Fire, Fractals and Physics (pdf)

April 15, 2009

3:30 PM, 1130 ME

Host: Uwe Kortshagen

Dr. Timothy S. Fisher
Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088

Title: Vertical, Templated Carbon Nanotube Arrays: Synthesis and Applications (pdf)

April 22, 2009

4:00 PM
Room: 3-120 Molecular and Cellular Biology (map)


Host: Frank Kulacki

Dr. Sheri D. Sheppard
Professor and Co-Director of Center for Design Research, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Title: What we have learned about educating engineers: A field report from the Carnegie Study (pdf)
8th Annual ME Founders Lecture

April 29, 2009

3:30 PM, 1130 ME

Host: Sean Garrick

Dr. Victoria Interrante
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Title: Enabling Accurate Spatial Perception in Emersive Virtual Environments (pdf)

May 6, 2009

3:30 PM, 1130 ME

Host: Sean Garrick

Dr. Sotiris E. Pratsinis
Professor, Institute f. Verfahrenstechnik, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Title: Core-Shell Nanoparticles: One-step Aerosol Synthesis and Coating (pdf)

Seminar Coordinator
Sean C. Garrick, Assoc. Professor
Office: 245 ME
Phone: 612-625-0532
Fax: 612-624-5230 (THT)
E-mail:
garrick@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
ME Day Coordinator
Frank A. Kulacki, Professor
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