Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of
California, Irvine
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Seminar Series 2009-20010
The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) seminars are held according
to the schedule shown below. Unless indicated otherwise in this schedule,
the MAE seminars are held at
Fall 2009
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., Sept. 30 |
Faculty/Staff |
Welcome Orientation |
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Julia Gelfand |
Information Resources and Library Services to Support Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at |
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Wed., Oct. 7 |
Prof. James
Bobrow |
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Wed., Oct. 14 |
Prof. Derek Dunn-Rankin |
Burning Old
Fuels in New Ways. Recent Results in Combustion Research |
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Wed., Oct. 21 |
Dr. Stephen Broschart Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Exploration
of Asteroids and Comets: Engineering Challenges and Solutions |
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Wed., Oct. 28 |
Dr. Dan M. Goebel Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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Wed., Nov. 4 |
Prof. Said Elghobashi University of California, Irvine |
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Wed., Nov. 11 |
Holiday |
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Wed., Nov. 18 |
Salvador Mayoral (MAE) |
Jet Noise Shielding by Airframe Surfaces |
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Sara Rostamimonjezi (MAE) |
Effect of Velocity Ratio on Noise Source Distribution of Coaxial Jets |
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Wed., Nov. 25 |
Adam Wachtor
(MAE) |
Large-Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Dispersion in Urban
Environments |
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Jeff Mishler
(MAE) |
Experimental Investigation of Water Formation in Polymer Electrolyte
Fuel Cells under Steady-State and Transient Conditions Using Neutron Imagery |
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Wed., Dec. 2 |
TBD |
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TBD |
Previous Recent Seminars:
Spring 2009
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., April 1 |
Prof. Marko Princevac |
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Wed., April 8 |
Prof. Steven Dubowsky |
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Wed., April 15 |
Dr. Ioannis Mikellides Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Computational
Modeling of Partially-Ionized Gases for the Assessment of Material
Degradation in Electric Propulsion |
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Wed., April 22 |
Prof. Paulo Lozano |
Ionic Liquid Ion Sources in Space
Propulsion and Nanotechnology |
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Wed., April 29 |
Mu Li (MAE) |
A Finite Volume SOFC
Model for IGFC System Analysis |
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Zahrae Noroozi
(MAE) |
Reciprocating Flow-Based Centrifugal Microfluidics Mixer |
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Wed., May 6 |
Prof Javier E. Garay |
Processing
of Bulk Nanocrystalline Oxide Materials for Optical
and Magnetic Applications |
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Wed., May 13 |
Adrian Narvaez (MAE) |
Evaluation of Spray Characteristics and Emissions Performance
of Water and Oil Emulsions |
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Oleg Goushcha (MAE) |
Mixing of Passive Scalar in Grid-Generated Turbulence with
Direct Application to Conventional Gas Turbines |
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Wed., May 20 |
Jennifer Menasha (MAE) |
Ammonium Bisulfate Formation in a Simulated Air Preheater |
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Brendan Shaffer (MAE) |
Dynamic Modeling for Understanding Spatial Temperature and
Species Distributions in Internal-Reforming Solid Oxide Fuel Cells |
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Wed., May 27 |
Prof. Ashwin A. Seshia |
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Wed., June 3 |
Erik Turner (MAE) |
Dynamic Systems Level Modeling of a PEM Fuel Cell System
for Residential Application |
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Guang Wu (MAE) |
Convective Vaporization and Burning of Fuel Droplet Arrays |
Winter 2009
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., Jan. 7 |
Paul Nissenson (MAE) |
Understanding the Important Mechanisms of Br2(g) Formation from NaBr Aerosols |
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Wayne Chang (MAE) |
Insights into ClNO Formation in the Polluted Marine Boundary Layer and Its Impact on Urban Air Quality |
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Wed., Jan. 14 |
Mina Rohani (MAE) |
Controlling Breakup of Capillary Circular Liquid Jets with
Practical Piezoelectric Devices |
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Steven Spencer (MAE) |
A Low Cost Parallel Robot and Trajectory Optimization Method for Wrist and Forearm Rehabilitation Using the Wii |
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Wed., Jan. 21 |
James Maclay (MAE) |
Strategies for Improved Dynamic Performance of Gas Turbines in Hybrid IGFC Systems Operating on Coal Syngas. |
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Alexander Cohan (MAE) |
Impact of Sea-Salt Aerosol on the Weekend Effect |
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Wed., Jan. 28 |
Arezoo M. Ardekani (MAE) |
Particles Interaction in Viscous Fluids: from Cell Lysis to Energy Applications |
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Wed., Feb. 4 |
Prof. Sonia Martínez |
Dealing with Noise in the
Coordination of Multiagent Systems |
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Wed., Feb. 11 |
Prof. Robert F. Sawyer |
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Wed., Feb. 18 |
Prof. Richard E. Wirz |
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Wed., Feb. 25 |
Iman Alizadeh
(MAE) |
Application of Constraint Stabilization to Low Thrust
Mission Design |
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Shervin Taghavi Nezhad (MAE) |
Jet Noise Analysis Using U-RANS |
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Wed., Mar. 4 |
Prof. Shixiao Wang Auckland University |
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Wed., Mar. 11 |
Prof. Robert Breidenthal |
The Peculiar Behavior of Stationary and
Accelerating Vortices |
Fall 2008
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., Oct. 1 |
Julia Gelfand |
Information Resources and Library Services to Support Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at |
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Wed., Oct. 8 |
Prof. Volker Schmidt |
Computation of Tortuosity-Distributions of GDLs Based on 3D-Stochastic Modeling |
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Wed., Oct. 15 |
David W.
Gwozdz (MAE) |
Shadow Moiré of a Composite Sample |
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Alan Lai
(MAE) |
Study of flapping airfoils for |
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Wed., Oct. 22 |
Sadegh Dabiri
Satari (MAE) |
Growth and Collapse of Cavitation
Bubbles in Flow Through Orifice |
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Andrew D.
Johnson (MAE) |
Shock Driven Instability in Over-Expanded Nozzles |
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Wed., Oct. 29 |
Prof. Edriss S. Titi University
of California, Irvine Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
Alpha Sub-grid Scale Models of Turbulence and Inviscid
Regularization |
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Wed., Nov. 5 |
Thomas S.
Pine (MAE) |
Intermediate Temperature Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
Composite Anode Development |
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Xuhui Feng
(MAE) |
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Laser-Assisted Nanostructuring |
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Wed., Nov. 12 |
Solmaz Sajjadi Kia (MAE) |
Modified Anti-Windup Compensators for Stable Plants with
Bounded Actuators |
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David M. Allgood (MAE) |
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles |
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Wed., Nov. 19 |
Erkut Aykutlug (MAE) |
Multiple Timescale Structure in Nonlinear Dynamical
Systems |
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David J. Beerer (MAE) |
Autoignition Methane and
Hydrogen in High Pressure and Temperature Flows |
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Wed., Nov. 26 |
Soulak Abbilian (MAE) |
Characterization of Multiphase Flows |
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Igor Prikhodko (MAE) |
Implementation Challenges of Micromachined
Ultra High Precision Spin Polarized Gyroscopes |
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Wed., Dec. 3 |
Kyung-Man Kim (MAE) |
Predicting Mercury Capture by Particles in Gas Flow |
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Ruth A. Lambert (MAE) |
The Mechanics of Rigid Body and Elastic Motion of a
Slender Beam in a Viscous Fluid |
Previous Recent Seminars:
Spring 2008
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., April 2 |
Jonathan Arici (MAE) |
Turbulent combustion in a model turbine burner |
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Tim M. Brown (MAE) |
Improvements in Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers |
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Wed., April 9 |
Ben Colcord (MAE) |
Numerical
Model of Air Flow past a Cavity with Fuel Injection |
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Adam R Schofield (MAE) |
MEMS Tuning Fork Gyroscope with Multi-Degree of Freedom
Sense Modes |
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Wed., April 16 |
Do Anh-Tuan (MAE) |
Synthesis and
Characterization of Oxide-Ion Conducting Electrolytes for Intermediate
Temperature SOFCs |
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Peter Therkelsen (MAE) |
Carbon Burnout Prediction using CBK and
Time-Temperature-Oxygen Trajectories through a Coal Furnace |
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Wed., April 23 |
No Regular Seminar (Faculty Meeting) |
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Wed., April 30 |
Andrew Scott Martinez (MAE) |
Microstructure
Characterization of Random FC Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces |
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Ronne Toledo (MAE) |
Mathematical
and Numerical analysis of a Liquid Jet Instability |
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Wed., May 7 |
Prof. Reginald Mitchell |
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Wed., May 14 |
Preben Nielsen (MAE) |
Optimization
of Fan Flow Deflection for Supersonic Turbofan Engines |
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Julius Klein (MAE) |
Biomimetic
Orthosis for the Neurorehabilitation
of the Elbow and Shoulder |
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Wed., May 21 |
Dr. M.W. Lo |
A
Transportation Network In The Earth-Moon Interplanetary Superhighway |
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Wed., May 28 |
Jennifer Shockro (MAE) |
Identification
of Large Scale Geometrical Aspects of Turbulent Jet Scalar Regions and
Interfaces |
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Qing Wang (MAE) |
CFD
simulation of Macrolaminated Hydrogen Gas Turbine Premixer |
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Wed., June 4 |
Roy Culver (MAE) |
Methods for Mutlistage Turbomachinery Flow Calculations and their Effect on
Flutter Analysis |
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Tom Pine (MAE) |
Intermediate Temperature Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
Materials Set Development |
Special Seminars 2008
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Mon. February 11 1:00pm in |
Julie Bellerose University of Michigan |
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Fri., February 22, 11:00 am in MAE Conference Room 4211 Engineering Gateway |
Dr. Scott Peck The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA |
Invariant Based Design of Laminated Composite Materials |
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Fri., March 7, 11:00 am in MAE Conference Room 4211 Engineering Gateway |
Prof. Aditi Chattopadhyay Arizona State University |
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Mon., March 24 4:00pm in |
Prof. Jurica Sorić University of Zagreb, Croatia |
On Numerical Modeling of Large Strain Elastoplastic Structural Responses |
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Fri., April 4 11:00am in |
Dr. Partha P. Mukherjee Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Pore-Scale
Modeling of Transport Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells |
Winter 2008
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., January 9 |
Akshay Verma
(MAE) |
Microporous Membrane Reactor and
its role in Advanced Power Plants |
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Gim Song Soh (MAE) |
Kinematic Synthesis of Six and Eight Bar Planar Linkages |
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Wed., January 16 |
Sergio Lopez (MAE) |
Mixed H2/Hinf controller design
in sampled data systems |
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Venkataranga Srivatsava Puranam (MAE) |
Turbulent combustion in a curving contracting channel with
a cavity stabilized flame |
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Wed., January 23 |
Sadegh Dabriri
Satari (MAE) |
Effects of cavitation on liquid
atomization |
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Nivedan Tiwari
(MAE) |
Multi-photon Endoscopy for Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis |
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Wed., January 30 |
Prof. Roy Smith UCSB |
The dynamics of confusion and consensus in vehicle formations and mobile sensor networks |
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Wed., February 6 |
Prof. Kara Peters North Carolina State University |
Optical Fiber Sensor Networks for Damage
Identification in Composites |
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Wed., February 13 |
Prof.
J.M. Mondelo Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona |
Numerical
tools for the computation of Libration Point orbits, its manifolds, and
connections |
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Wed., February 20 |
Montgomery Chittenden Rivers(MAE) |
A foldable assembly technique for complex MEMS systems |
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Li Zhao (MAE) |
Fabrication of anode support solid oxide fuel cell |
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Wed., February 27 |
David Beerer (MAE) |
Autoignition characteristics of hydrogen/syngas mixed with flowing air |
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Erik Turner (MAE) |
Systems level dynamic modeling: 5kW PEM fuel cell with |
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Wed., March 5 |
Prof. Assimina Pelegri Rutgers University |
A
hierarchical material model integrating multi-scale phenomena in composites |
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Wed., March 12 |
Laura Marchal (MAE) |
A robotic strategy for training children to drive a
powered wheelchair |
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Josh Eichman (MAE) |
Fuel cell configuration analysis: cascade-in-series versus single cell |
Fall 2007
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., October 3 |
Julia Gelfand |
Information Resources and Library Services to Support Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at |
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Wed., October 10 |
Allie Auld (MAE) |
Grid-Friendly Interconnections for Distributed Energy Resources |
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Ozan Anac (MAE) |
Identification and Modeling of Zero-Rate Response of Micro Gyroscopes |
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Wed., October 17 |
Dr. Martin Rein German Aerospace Center |
Cold spray
deposition: A study of supersonic jet impingement |
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Wed., October 24 |
Dr. Lutz
Lesshafft UC Santa
Barbara |
Global modes and aerodynamic sound radiation in self-excited hot jets |
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Wed., October 31 |
Aaron Freeman (MAE) |
Advances in Optimization and Control of Turbulent Flows |
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Francesco Lucci (MAE) |
Direct Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Turbulent Flow Using the Immersed Boundary Method |
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Wed., November 7 |
Dr. Fabrizia Ghezzo UC
San Diego |
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Wed., November 14 |
Dr. Jing Wang University of Minnesota |
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Wed., November 21 |
Dr. Taehyoun (John) Kim Boeing Commercial Aircraft |
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Wed., November 28 |
Guang Wu (MAE) |
Multicomponent-Liquid-Fuel
Vaporization with Complex Configuration |
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Omid Rohani (MAE) |
Force Control of a Shape Memory Alloy Wire Using Fuzzy Controller |
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Wed., December 5 |
Shervin Taghavi
Nezhad (MAE) |
Agglomeration Multigrid
Algorithm for Navier-Stokes Equations on Two
Dimensional Hybrid Grids |
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Li Mu (MAE) |
System Simulation and Analysis of IGFC(integrated coal
gasification fuel cell) Power Plant |
Summer 2007
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Fri., July 27 MAE Conference Room 4211 Engineering Gateway |
Prof. Hui Hu Iowa State University |
Development of Advanced Fluid Diagnostic Techniques for Thermofluid Studies |
Spring 2007
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., April 4 |
Sadegh Dabiri (MAE) |
Effects of Cavitation on Liquid Atomization |
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Max Perez (MAE) |
A Wavelength Multiplexed Interferometric Inertial Sensor Network for Nondestructive Evaluation and Distributed Monitoring |
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Wed., April 11 |
Neha Gowadia (MAE) |
Size-segregated Chemical Composition of Mainstream Cigarette Smoke |
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Alexander Cohan (MAE) |
Air Quality Modeling: Chlorine Impacts on the Weekend Effect |
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Wed., April 18 |
Siarhei (Serguey) Piatrovich (MAE) |
Multi-resolution Robustness and Multi-scale Aspects in Fully-Developed Turbulence |
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Fazlul Zubair (MAE) |
Aero-Optical Interaction Mechanisms in Compressible Turbulence |
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Wed., April 25 |
James Allington (MAE) |
Model Airplane Roll Control by Actuating Internal Mass |
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Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte (MAE) |
C-MEMS for Dielectrophoresis Applications |
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Wed., May 2 11:00am, |
Rebecca Shuppe (MAE) |
Effect of Wedge-Shaped Deflectors on Flow Fields of Dual-Stream Jets |
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Marc Carreras Sospedra (MAE) |
Air Quality Impacts of Distributed Generation of Electricity in Southern California in Future Years |
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Wed., May 2 |
21st Century Engineering: How Do We Maintain a Global Advantage? |
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Fri., May 4, 11:00am, |
Space Power and Propulsion for the 21st Century
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Tue., May 8 |
Dust in plasmas: Evolution of a scientific frontier and its technological implications |
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Wed., May 9 |
Dual-Stage Servo Systems and Vibration Compensation in Computer Hard Disk Drives |
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Thu., May 10 |
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Wed., May 16 |
Felix Cheng (MAE) |
Nonpremixed Combustion in an Accelerating Transonic Flow Undergoing Transition |
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Zahra Noroozi (MAE) |
Improving |
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Mon., May 21 |
Dr. Manuel Gamero-Castańo |
The Structure of Colloid Thruster Beams |
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Wed., May 23 |
Lucas White (MAE) |
The Performance of PEM Fuel Cells Operating on Low Purity Hydrogen Streams |
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Genis Turon Teixidor (MAE) |
Carbon-MEMS Micro Electrode Arrays |
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Wed., May 30 |
Erkut Aykutlug (MAE) |
Model Reduction in Multiple Timescale Dynamical Systems |
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Josep Salvans Tort (MAE) |
Purely Meshless Smoothed Particle Computations of Taylor Vortex Flows |
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Wed., June 6 |
Luis Rodrigues (MAE) |
Benefits of Adaptive Schemes for Trajectory Optimization |
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Alex Trusov (MAE) |
Bias Drift in MEMS Gyroscopes |
Winter 2007
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., Jan 10 |
Joel Benito (MAE) |
Advanced Mars Entry Guidance |
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Po-Chang Lin (MAE) |
CMEMS PEM fuel cell stack integration |
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Wed., Jan 17 |
Soulak Abbilian (MAE) |
Rijke Tube Testing of a low-Swirl Burner |
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Arezoo M. Ardekani (MAE) |
Computational method for particulate flow with collisions |
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Wed., Jan 24 |
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Wed., Jan 31 |
On the Thrust Generation and Optimum Efficiency of a Plunging Airfoil |
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Fri., Feb 2 |
Prof. Shiyi Chen |
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Wed., Feb 7 |
Structural Response
of Metal Sandwich Plates under Shock Loading |
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Wed., Feb 14 |
Albert
Kobayashi, Emeritus Professor |
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Wed., Feb 21 |
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Mon., Feb 26 |
Dr. Lorenzo
Valdevit |
Multifunctional Sandwich Structures: from aerospace applications to microelectromechanical systems |
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Wed., Feb 28 |
Dr.
John J. Tracy |
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Wed., Mar 7 |
Pushpendra Singh |
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Wed., Mar 14 |
Robert Gaynor (MAE) |
Reference Governors for Hydrogen Starvation Prevention in Load Following Solid Oxide Fuel Cells |
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Ruth Lambert (MAE) |
Simulation of a Moving Mechanical Actuator for Fast Biomolecular Synthesis Processus |
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., Sep 27 |
Julia Gelfand |
Information Resources & Library Services to support
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at |
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Wed., Oct 4 |
From Jet Engines to Semiconductor Materials: Reaction Kinetics in Engineering |
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Wed., Oct 11 |
Jordi Casoliva Rodon (MAE) |
Atmospheric Guidance for Aero-Gravity Assist Using Matched Asymptotic Expansions |
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Adam Schofield (MAE) |
Anti-Phase Driven Gyroscope with Multi-Degree of Freedom Sense Mode |
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Wed., Oct 18 |
Prof. Gustaaf
(Guus) Jacobs |
Simulation of mixed continuum-discrete physics with high-order methods |
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Wed., Oct 25 |
Yusuke Kuniba (MAE) |
Dynamic modeling and transient analysis of 220kW SOFC/GT hybrid system |
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Anh-Tuan Do (MAE) |
Properties and Performance of SYT/LSGMC Composite Materials for Planar SOFC Anodes |
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Wed., Nov 1 |
Andrew Johnson (MAE) |
Unsteady Phenomena in Supersonic Nozzle Flow Separation |
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Ben Colcord (MAE) |
Numerical Modeling of Combustion in a Cavity |
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Wed., Nov 8 |
Solmaz Sajjadi Kia (MAE) |
Use of scheduling for anti-windup controller design |
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Christopher Bolzo (MAE) |
Fuel Preparation and Emissions Impact for Biodiesel in an Airblast Atomized Microturbine Engine |
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Wed., Nov 15 |
Mina Rohani (MAE) |
Controlling breakup of a liquid jet |
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Andrew Martinez (MAE) |
Microstructure Characterization of Randomized Fuel Cell Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces |
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Wed., Nov 22 |
Ronne Toledo (MAE) |
Numerical simulation of two phase flow using FEM with level-set approach |
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Thomas Ihde (MAE) |
Immersed Boundary Method |
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Wed., Nov 29 |
Jay Cleckler (MAE) |
Computational Examination of Acoustic Effects on Dust in Low Mach Number Flows |
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Janea Magallanes (MAE) |
Determination of Laminar Flame Speeds of Dry and Humidified Syngas Fuel Mixtures |
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Wed., December 6 6pm, |
Prof.
Sheila Widnall |
School
seminar: Dean's Distinguished Lecture |
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., Apr 5 |
Optimal Design and Operation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Small-Scale Stationary Applications |
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Mon., Apr 10 |
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Wed., Apr 12 |
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Wed., Apr 19 |
Launch Vehicle Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN & C) Systems |
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Wed., Apr 26 |
Francesc Gallobardes (MAE) |
Engineering a 3D Microbattery |
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Paul Nissenson (MAE) |
Enhanced Photolysis in Aerosols: Evidence for Important Surface Effects |
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Wed., May 3 |
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Wed., May 10 |
Guangyao Jia (MAE) |
Fast |
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Qing Wang (MAE) |
A New Droplet Evaporation Model and its Application to Practical Sprays |
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Wed., May 17 |
Chen Zou (MAE) |
Fuel Cell Life Cycle Assessment |
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Julius Klein (MAE) |
Biomechatronic Design for Human-Automobile Interaction in an Aging Society |
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Mon., May 22 4pm, MAE Conf. Room (EG 4211) |
Helmholtz Decomposition Coupling Rotational to Irrotational Flow of a Viscous Fluid |
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Wed., May 24 11am, |
No Regular Seminar (Faculty Meeting)
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Wed., May 24 4pm, MAE Conf Room (EG 4211) |
Juan Carlos Padrino |
Purely Irrotational Theories for the Viscous Effects on the Oscillations of Drops and Bubbles |
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Wed., May 31 |
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Fri., June 2 11am - 12pm, MAE Conf Room (EG 4211) |
Prof. Xiao Ming |
Winter 2006
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., Jan 18 |
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Wed., Jan 25 |
Chandra Tupelly (MAE) |
6H-SiC Pressure Sensors for Harsh Environments |
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Laura Marchal (MAE) |
Learning to Drive a Power Wheelchair Using an Assist-as-Needed Controller |
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Mon., Jan 30 |
Noise and Vibration Reduction in Rotorcraft using Actively Controlled Flaps |
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Wed., Feb 1 |
Thomas Pine (MAE) |
Sol-Gel Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterization of SYT Powders for Use in Reversible SOFCs |
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Fabian Mueller (MAE) |
Control Design for a Bottoming Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Gas Turbine Hybrid |
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Thu., Feb 2, 12pm (BLI Series Seminar) |
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Wed., Feb 8 |
Jitae Kim (MAE) |
Rapid and Automated Sample Preparation for Nucleic Acid Extraction on a Microfluidic CD (Compact Disc) |
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Jesse Pompa (MAE) |
Effects of Cooling Techniques on Flame Propagation in a Centimeter-Scale Four-Stroke Engine |
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Wed., Feb 15 |
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Thu., Feb 16 |
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Wed., Feb 22 |
Global Optimal Attitude Estimation using Uncertainty Ellipsoids |
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Wed., Mar 1 |
High-Speed Imaging Techniques for Fuel Distribution Flow Fields, and Combustion Progress |
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Wed., Mar 8 |
Alan Lai (MAE) |
Study of Flapping Airfoils Using a Computational Method |
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Satish Vutukuru (MAE) |
Regional Scale Modeling of Secondary Organic Aerosol Dynamics |
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Wed., Mar 15 |
Dr. Georgia C. Karvountzi |
Modeling of High Temperature Fuel Cells and Their Integration with Turbines |
Summer and Fall 2005
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Tue., Aug 16 11am - 12pm MAE Conf. Room |
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Mon., Aug 29 11am - 12pm MAE Conf. Room |
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Tue., Sep 27 11am - 12pm |
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Wed., Oct 5 11am - 12pm |
Timothy Brown (MAE) Han Xu (MAE) |
Fuel Cell / Electrolyzer Battery System Polymer Actuators Toward Responsive Drug Delivery Applications |
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Wed., Oct 12 11am - 12pm |
Eric Wolbrecht (MAE) Chong Wang (MAE) |
Control of a Pneumatically Actuated Orthosis for Upper Extremity Rehabilitation Three-Dimensional Mechanical Properties of Porcine Coronary Arteries: A Two-Layer Model |
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Wed., Oct 19 11am - 12pm |
Alex Trusov (MAE) Roy Culver (MAE) |
Characterization of Capacitive Resonant Microstructures Fabricated in EFAB Process Improved Computational Tools for Low-Speed Flow Phenomena |
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Wed., Oct 26 11am - 12pm |
Mark Effinger (MAE) Genis Teixidor (MAE) |
Microturbine Operation on Diluted Fuels MicroBattery Anode |
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Wed., Nov 9 11am - 12pm |
From CAD/CAM to VIMS/CAOS: A True Renaissance of Muscoleskeletal Biomechanics |
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Wed., Nov 16 11am - 12pm |
Design of Low Energy Space Missions Using Dynamical Systems Theory |
Spring 2005
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., Apr 6 |
Ignition of Hydrogen and Hydrocarbons in Convective-Diffusive Systems |
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Wed., Apr 13 |
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Wed., Apr 20 |
James Meacham (MAE) Jeff Nessler (MAE) |
Control and Dispatch of Distributed Energy Resources in the Built Environment A Robotic Device for Studying Locomotion in Spinal Cord Injured Rodents |
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Wed., Apr 27 |
Daisuke Ayoagi (MAE) Patrick Couch (MAE) |
An Assistive Robotic Device for Human Gait Rehabilitation Development of a CO2 Based Chemiluminescence Sensor for Lean Premixed Combustors |
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Wed., May 4 |
Paul Nissenson (MAE) Le Yanni Yan
(MAE) |
Spatial Distribution of Intensity Within Water Droplets Micromachined Resonators for Communication Application |
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Wed., May 11 |
Jose Robles (MAE) Jiayin
Liu (MAE) |
Gain Scheduling Techniques for Controller Design Learning to Perform a Novel Movement Pattern using Haptic Guidance: Slow Learning, Rapdi Forgetting, and Attractor Paths |
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Wed., May 18 |
Introduction to Domain Decomposition Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics |
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Wed., May 25 |
Automated Sketch Recognition and the Future of Computer Aided Design |
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Wed., Jun 1 |
Roberto C. Aguirre (MAE) (PhD Defense) |
Turbulent Fluid Interfaces with Applications to Mixing and Aero-Optics |
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Wed., Jun 8 |
(No Seminar) |
Henry Samueli School of Engineering Faculty Meeting |
Winter 2005
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Date / Location |
Speaker |
Title |
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Wed., Jan. 12 |
Trinh Pham (MAE) Rabih Zaouk (MAE) |
Liquid-Fueled Miniature Film Combustor Carbon Microbatteries, Power on Chip |
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Wed., Jan. 26 |
Zhichao Zhang (MAE) Juanita Vargas-Cordoba (MAE) |
Numerical Simulation of Flutter and LCO Motion Generation for a Tumbling Robot Using a General Contact Model |
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Wed., Feb. 2 |
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Wed., Feb. 9 |
(No Seminar) |
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Wed., Feb. 16 |
Plasma Actuators for Separation Control on Stationary and Oscillating Airfoils |
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Wed., Feb. 23 |
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Wed., Mar. 2 |
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Thursday, Mar. 3 3:30-4:40, EG4211 |
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Wed., Mar. 9 |
(No Seminar) |
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Wed., Mar. 16 |