All seminars will take place between 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm in 345 DCH except as noted.
If you'd like to meet with a speaker in person, contact that speaker's host in advance to schedule a meeting.
| date | speaker | title |
| 16 April 13 | Naomi E. Leonard, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering , Princeton University (host: Nilabh Srivastava) | "Network topology and the evolution of leadership in collective migration" (abstract) |
| 9 April 13 | John B. Heywood, Department of Mechanical Engineering , MIT (host: Nilabh Srivastava) | "The Evolving IC Engine: Future Prospects" (abstract) |
| 21 February 13 | Robert M'Closkey , Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA (host: Scott Kelly) | "Noise Spectra in Vibratory Gyros: the Case for Modal Tuning" (abstract) |
| 24 January 13 | Howie Choset, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (host: Scott Kelly) | "Degrees of Freedom, The More The Merrier" (abstract) |
| 4 December 12 | Mohammed Daqaq, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University (host: Scott Kelly) | "Powering Remote Sensors Using Self-Excited Oscillations" (abstract) |
| 15 November 12 | Andrew Lawrie, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol (host: Praveen Ramaprabhu) | "Rayleigh-Taylor Instability — A Century of Open Questions" (abstract) |
| 23 October 12 | Carmelita Frondoza, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University (host: Ahmed El-Ghannam) | "Use of Cell-Based Assays for Translational Research" (abstract) |
| 11 October 12 | Dan McAdams, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M (host: Scott Kelly) | "Product Synthesis Engineering Research" (abstract) |
| 27 March 12 | Joseph Katz, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, San Diego State University (host: Mesbah Uddin) | "The Role of Aerodynamics in Motor Racing and a Case Study for Rapid Aero-Development" (abstract) |
| 15 March 12 | Brian Feeny, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University (host: Nilabh Srivastava) | "Modal Decomposition in Vibrations" (abstract) |
| 9 February 12 | Burak Ozdoganlar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (host: John Ziegert) | "Mechanical Micro-Manufacturing and its Applications" (abstract) |
| 2 February 12 | Xubin Song, Eaton Corporation (host: Nilabh Srivastava) | "Energy Efficient Powertrain Controls from Laboratory to Production" (abstract) |
| 17 January 12 | Suveen Mathaudhu, US Army Research Office (host: Qiuming Wei) | "ARO Synthesis and Processing of Materials: Transforming the Army with Materials Science Fiction" (abstract) |
| 6 December 11 | Russ Tedrake, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT (host: Scott Kelly) | "Algorithms for Feedback Control of Walking Robots and Robotic Birds" (abstract) |
| 29 November 11 | Peter de Groot, Zygo Corporation (host: Chris Evans) | "Interferometry in All the Wrong Places: Optical Metrology for Precision Manufacturing" (abstract) |
| 13 October 11 | Kumbakonam Rajagopal, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M (host: Ron Smelser) | "Elasticity of Elasticity" (abstract) |
| 22 September 11 | Patricio Vela, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech (host: Scott Kelly) | "Estimation Theory Meets Visual Tracking and Active Contours" (abstract) |
| 7 April 11 | Harry Dankowicz, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (host: Nilabh Srivastava) | "Friction-induced Reverse Chatter in Rigid-body Mechanisms with Impacts" (abstract) |
| 22 March 11 | George Zhu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University (host: Nilabh Srivastava) | "Modeling and Control of SI and HCCI Dual Combustion Engines" (abstract) |
| 22 February 11 | Dan Inman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech (host: Scott Kelly) | "Fun With Funny Materials" (abstract) |
| 27 January 11, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm in 207 DCH | Hy Tran, Sandia National Laboratories (host: Stuart Smith) | "Evaluation of a Silicon Bulk-Micromachined Step Gauge for Optical and Hybrid Sensor CMMs" (abstract) |
| 7 December 10 | Yoed Rabin, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (host: Charles Lee) | "Engineering Aspects in Cryobiology and Cryomedicine" (abstract) |
| 11 November 10 | Kamran Mohseni, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder (host: Scott Kelly) | "Bio-Inspired Aerial and Underwater Sensor Platforms for Distributed Wireless Environmental Sensor Networking" (abstract) |
| 21 October 10 | Sukesh Roy, Spectral Energies LLC (host: Praveen Ramaprabhu) | "Laser Based Sensing for the Development of Next Generation Propulsion Systems" (abstract) |
| 14 September 10 | Andrea Micheletti, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata (host: Scott Kelly) | "Tensegrity Systems for Variable-Geometry Applications" (abstract) |
| 27 April 10 | Sukanta Basu, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University (host: Nilabh Srivastava) | "Addressing a Few Emergent Challenges in Wind Power Meteorology" (abstract) |
| 18 March 10 | Tim Topoleski, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (host: Scott Kelly) | "Engineering Health: Exploring Structure/Function Relationships in Biomaterials" (abstract) |
| 11 February 10 | Michael Smith, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, Caltech (host: Matt Davies) | "Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory" (abstract) |
| 26 January 10 | Lex Smits, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University (host: Mesbah Uddin) | "Turbulence in Hypersonic Flow" (abstract) |
| 3 December 09 | Shane Ross, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech (host: Scott Kelly) | Transport Networks: Mapping Chaotic Motion in the Solar System and Geophysical Flows via Invariant Manifolds" (abstract) |
| 5 November 09 | Andrew Pollard, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen's University (host: Mesbah Uddin) | "Turbulence and Fluid Dynamics Research and The Ubiquitous Turbulent Round Jet" (abstract) |
| 22 October 09 | Chang Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University (host: Scott Kelly) | "Biologically Inspired Sensors" (abstract) |
| 1 October 09 | Craig Woolsey, Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech (host: Scott Kelly) | "Efficient Motion Control for Underwater Gliders" (abstract) |
| 16 April 09 | Yuan Young, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology (host: Praveen Ramaprabhu) | "Dynamics of Elastic Filaments in Stokes Flow" (abstract) |
| 19 March 09 | Robert L. Watters, Jr., Measurement Services Division, NIST (host: Ed Morse) | "The Economic Impact of Metrology" (abstract) |
| 3 February 09 | Wayne Chen, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University (host: Qiuming Wei) | "Effects of Loading Rate and Surface Quality on Glass Failure" (abstract) |
| 15 January 09 | Stephen Hesler, Electric Power Research Institute (host: Ahmed Soliman) | "Maintaining Reliability of Existing Steam Turbine Fleet" (abstract) |
| 4 December 08 | R. G. Dominy, School of Engineering, Durham University, UK (host: Peter Tkacik) | "The Use of a Bluff Body Wake Generator for Wind Tunnel Studies of NASCAR Drafting Aerodynamics" (abstract) |
| 6 November 08 | Allison Hubel, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota (host: Gloria Elliott) | "Microfluidic Processing of Cells for Preservation" (abstract) |
| 7 October 08 | Masoud Rais-Rohani, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University (host: Howie Fang) | "Reliability-Based Design Optimization under Parametric Uncertainty" (abstract) |
| 23 September 08, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Jeff Eldredge, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA (host: Scott Kelly) | "An Exploration of Fundamental Mechanisms of Swimming and Flying in Nature using High-Fidelity Numerical Simulation" (abstract) |
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