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 11:00am-12:00pm on Wednesdays during the academic year in the McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium  (MDEA, #311 on the UCI Campus Map). Seminars on Wednesdays at 11am (MAE298) are mandatory for first-year graduate students.  For more information, please call 949-824-5406.

Fall 2009

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., Sept. 30 MDEA	Faculty/Staff	Welcome Orientation
	Julia Gelfand UCI Library	Information Resources and Library Services to Support Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI
Wed., Oct. 7 MDEA	Prof. James Bobrow University of California, Irvine	Multibody Systems Analysis and Optimal Control Theory Produce Coordinated Motions for Robots and Animals
Wed., Oct. 14 MDEA	Prof. Derek Dunn-Rankin University of California, Irvine	Burning Old Fuels in New Ways. Recent Results in Combustion Research
Wed., Oct. 21 MDEA	Dr. Stephen Broschart Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Exploration of Asteroids and Comets: Engineering Challenges and Solutions
Wed., Oct. 28 MDEA	Dr. Dan M. Goebel Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Solar Electric Propulsion for Earth Observation Satellites
Wed., Nov. 4 MDEA	Prof. Said Elghobashi University of California, Irvine	How do particles modify turbulent flows?
Wed., Nov. 11 MDEA	Holiday
Wed., Nov. 18 MDEA	Salvador Mayoral (MAE)	Jet Noise Shielding by Airframe Surfaces
	Sara Rostamimonjezi (MAE)	Effect of Velocity Ratio on Noise Source Distribution of Coaxial Jets
Wed., Nov. 25 MDEA	Adam Wachtor (MAE)	Large-Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Dispersion in Urban Environments
	Jeff Mishler (MAE)	Experimental Investigation of Water Formation in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells under Steady-State and Transient Conditions Using Neutron Imagery
Wed., Dec. 2 MDEA	TBD
	TBD

Previous Recent Seminars:

Spring 2009

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., April 1 MDEA	Prof. Marko Princevac University of California, Riverside	Field Measurements and Water Channel Modeling of Flow and Dispersion within Simple Arrays and in Southern Californian Cities
Wed., April 8 MDEA	Prof. Steven Dubowsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The Past, Present and Future of Robotics
Wed., April 15 MDEA	Dr. Ioannis Mikellides Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Computational Modeling of Partially-Ionized Gases for the Assessment of Material Degradation in Electric Propulsion
Wed., April 22 MDEA	Prof. Paulo Lozano Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Ionic Liquid Ion Sources in Space Propulsion and Nanotechnology
Wed., April 29 MDEA	Mu Li (MAE)	A Finite Volume SOFC Model for IGFC System Analysis
	Zahrae Noroozi (MAE)	Reciprocating Flow-Based Centrifugal Microfluidics Mixer
Wed., May 6 MDEA	Prof Javier E. Garay University of California, Riverside	Processing of Bulk Nanocrystalline Oxide Materials for Optical and Magnetic Applications
Wed., May 13 MDEA	Adrian Narvaez (MAE)	Evaluation of Spray Characteristics and Emissions Performance of Water and Oil Emulsions
	Oleg Goushcha (MAE)	Mixing of Passive Scalar in Grid-Generated Turbulence with Direct Application to Conventional Gas Turbines
Wed., May 20 MDEA	Jennifer Menasha (MAE)	Ammonium Bisulfate Formation in a Simulated Air Preheater
	Brendan Shaffer (MAE)	Dynamic Modeling for Understanding Spatial Temperature and Species Distributions in Internal-Reforming Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Wed., May 27 MDEA	Prof. Ashwin A. Seshia University of Cambridge	MEMS Resonators for Precision Sensing
Wed., June 3 MDEA	Erik Turner (MAE)	Dynamic Systems Level Modeling of a PEM Fuel Cell System for Residential Application
	Guang Wu (MAE)	Convective Vaporization and Burning of Fuel Droplet Arrays

Winter 2009

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., Jan. 7 MDEA	Paul Nissenson (MAE)	Understanding the Important Mechanisms of Br2(g) Formation from NaBr Aerosols
	Wayne Chang (MAE)	Insights into ClNO Formation in the Polluted Marine Boundary Layer and Its Impact on Urban Air Quality
Wed., Jan. 14 MDEA	Mina Rohani (MAE)	Controlling Breakup of Capillary Circular Liquid Jets with Practical Piezoelectric Devices
	Steven Spencer (MAE)	A Low Cost Parallel Robot and Trajectory Optimization Method for Wrist and Forearm Rehabilitation Using the Wii
Wed., Jan. 21 MDEA	James Maclay (MAE)	Strategies for Improved Dynamic Performance of Gas Turbines in Hybrid IGFC Systems Operating on Coal Syngas.
	Alexander Cohan (MAE)	Impact of Sea-Salt Aerosol on the Weekend Effect
Wed., Jan. 28 MDEA	Arezoo M. Ardekani (MAE)	Particles Interaction in Viscous Fluids: from Cell Lysis to Energy Applications
Wed., Feb. 4 MDEA	Prof. Sonia Martínez University of California, San Diego	Dealing with Noise in the Coordination of Multiagent Systems
Wed., Feb. 11 MDEA	Prof. Robert F. Sawyer University of California, Berkeley	Electric Drive and Electric Fuel for Motor Vehicles
Wed., Feb. 18 MDEA	Prof. Richard E. Wirz University of California, Los Angeles	Discharge Plasma Processes of DC Ion Thrusters
Wed., Feb. 25 MDEA	Iman Alizadeh (MAE)	Application of Constraint Stabilization to Low Thrust Mission Design
	Shervin Taghavi Nezhad (MAE)	Jet Noise Analysis Using U-RANS
Wed., Mar. 4 MDEA	Prof. Shixiao Wang Auckland University	Vortex Stability and Vortex Breakdown
Wed., Mar. 11 MDEA	Prof. Robert Breidenthal University of Washington	The Peculiar Behavior of Stationary and Accelerating Vortices

Fall 2008

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., Oct. 1 MDEA	Julia Gelfand UCI Library	Information Resources and Library Services to Support Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI
Wed., Oct. 8 MDEA	Prof. Volker Schmidt Universitaet Ulm, Germany	Computation of Tortuosity-Distributions of GDLs Based on 3D-Stochastic Modeling
Wed., Oct. 15 MDEA	David W. Gwozdz (MAE)	Shadow Moiré of a Composite Sample
	Alan Lai (MAE)	Study of flapping airfoils for MAV propulsion
Wed., Oct. 22 MDEA	Sadegh Dabiri Satari (MAE)	Growth and Collapse of Cavitation Bubbles in Flow Through Orifice
	Andrew D. Johnson (MAE)	Shock Driven Instability in Over-Expanded Nozzles
Wed., Oct. 29 MDEA	Prof. Edriss S. Titi University of California, Irvine Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel	Alpha Sub-grid Scale Models of Turbulence and Inviscid Regularization
Wed., Nov. 5 MDEA	Thomas S. Pine (MAE)	Intermediate Temperature Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Composite Anode Development
	Xuhui Feng (MAE)	Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Laser-Assisted Nanostructuring
Wed., Nov. 12 MDEA	Solmaz Sajjadi Kia (MAE)	Modified Anti-Windup Compensators for Stable Plants with Bounded Actuators
	David M. Allgood (MAE)	Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Wed., Nov. 19 MDEA	Erkut Aykutlug (MAE)	Multiple Timescale Structure in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
	David J. Beerer (MAE)	Autoignition Methane and Hydrogen in High Pressure and Temperature Flows
Wed., Nov. 26 MDEA	Soulak Abbilian (MAE)	Characterization of Multiphase Flows
	Igor Prikhodko (MAE)	Implementation Challenges of Micromachined Ultra High Precision Spin Polarized Gyroscopes
Wed., Dec. 3 MDEA	Kyung-Man Kim (MAE)	Predicting Mercury Capture by Particles in Gas Flow
	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

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., April 2 MDEA	Jonathan Arici (MAE)	Turbulent combustion in a model turbine burner
	Tim M. Brown (MAE)	Improvements in Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers
Wed., April 9 MDEA	Ben Colcord (MAE)	Numerical Model of Air Flow past a Cavity with Fuel Injection
	Adam R Schofield (MAE)	MEMS Tuning Fork Gyroscope with Multi-Degree of Freedom Sense Modes
Wed., April 16 MDEA	Do Anh-Tuan (MAE)	Synthesis and Characterization of Oxide-Ion Conducting Electrolytes for Intermediate Temperature SOFCs
	Peter Therkelsen (MAE)	Carbon Burnout Prediction using CBK and Time-Temperature-Oxygen Trajectories through a Coal Furnace
Wed., April 23 MDEA	No Regular Seminar (Faculty Meeting)
Wed., April 30 MDEA	Andrew Scott Martinez (MAE)	Microstructure Characterization of Random FC Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces
	Ronne Toledo (MAE)	Mathematical and Numerical analysis of a Liquid Jet Instability
Wed., May 7 MDEA	Prof. Reginald Mitchell Stanford University	Pulverized Coal and Biomass Char Conversion Studies
Wed., May 14 MDEA	Preben Nielsen (MAE)	Optimization of Fan Flow Deflection for Supersonic Turbofan Engines
	Julius Klein (MAE)	Biomimetic Orthosis for the Neurorehabilitation of the Elbow and Shoulder
Wed., May 21 MDEA	Dr. M.W. Lo Jet Propulsion Laboratory	A Transportation Network In The Earth-Moon Interplanetary Superhighway
Wed., May 28 MDEA	Jennifer Shockro (MAE)	Identification of Large Scale Geometrical Aspects of Turbulent Jet Scalar Regions and Interfaces
	Qing Wang (MAE)	CFD simulation of Macrolaminated Hydrogen Gas Turbine Premixer
Wed., June 4 MDEA	Roy Culver (MAE)	Methods for Mutlistage Turbomachinery Flow Calculations and their Effect on Flutter Analysis
	Tom Pine (MAE)	Intermediate Temperature Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Materials Set Development

Special Seminars 2008

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Mon. February 11 1:00pm in MDEA	Julie Bellerose University of Michigan	Dynamics and Controls for Binary Asteroids Exploration
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
Fri., March 7, 11:00 am in MAE Conference Room 4211 Engineering Gateway	Prof. Aditi Chattopadhyay Arizona State University
Mon., March 24 4:00pm in MDEA	Prof. Jurica Sorić University of Zagreb, Croatia	On Numerical Modeling of Large Strain Elastoplastic Structural Responses
Fri., April 4 11:00am in MDEA	Dr. Partha P. Mukherjee Los Alamos National Laboratory	Pore-Scale Modeling of Transport Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

Winter 2008

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., January 9 MDEA	Akshay Verma (MAE)	Microporous Membrane Reactor and its role in Advanced Power Plants
	Gim Song Soh (MAE)	Kinematic Synthesis of Six and Eight Bar Planar Linkages
Wed., January 16 MDEA	Sergio Lopez (MAE)	Mixed H2/Hinf controller design in sampled data systems
	Venkataranga Srivatsava Puranam (MAE)	Turbulent combustion in a curving contracting channel with a cavity stabilized flame
Wed., January 23 MDEA	Sadegh Dabriri Satari (MAE)	Effects of cavitation on liquid atomization
	Nivedan Tiwari (MAE)	Multi-photon Endoscopy for Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis
Wed., January 30 MDEA	Prof. Roy Smith UCSB	The dynamics of confusion and consensus in vehicle formations and mobile sensor networks
Wed., February 6 MDEA	Prof. Kara Peters North Carolina State University	Optical Fiber Sensor Networks for Damage Identification in Composites
Wed., February 13 MDEA	Prof. J.M. Mondelo Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona	Numerical tools for the computation of Libration Point orbits, its manifolds, and connections
Wed., February 20 MDEA	Montgomery Chittenden Rivers(MAE)	A foldable assembly technique for complex MEMS systems
	Li Zhao (MAE)	Fabrication of anode support solid oxide fuel cell
Wed., February 27 MDEA	David Beerer (MAE)	Autoignition characteristics of hydrogen/syngas mixed with flowing air
	Erik Turner (MAE)	Systems level dynamic modeling: 5kW PEM fuel cell with CHP
Wed., March 5 MDEA	Prof. Assimina Pelegri Rutgers University	A hierarchical material model integrating multi-scale phenomena in composites
Wed., March 12 MDEA	Laura Marchal (MAE)	A robotic strategy for training children to drive a powered wheelchair
	Josh Eichman (MAE)	Fuel cell configuration analysis: cascade-in-series versus single cell

Fall 2007

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., October 3 MDEA	Julia Gelfand UCI Library	Information Resources and Library Services to Support Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI
Wed., October 10 MDEA	Allie Auld (MAE)	Grid-Friendly Interconnections for Distributed Energy Resources
	Ozan Anac (MAE)	Identification and Modeling of Zero-Rate Response of Micro Gyroscopes
Wed., October 17 MDEA	Dr. Martin Rein German Aerospace Center	Cold spray deposition: A study of supersonic jet impingement
Wed., October 24 MDEA	Dr. Lutz Lesshafft UC Santa Barbara	Global modes and aerodynamic sound radiation in self-excited hot jets
Wed., October 31 MDEA	Aaron Freeman (MAE)	Advances in Optimization and Control of Turbulent Flows
	Francesco Lucci (MAE)	Direct Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Turbulent Flow Using the Immersed Boundary Method
Wed., November 7 MDEA	Dr. Fabrizia Ghezzo UC San Diego	Smart Composites for Structural Health Monitoring
Wed., November 14 MDEA	Dr. Jing Wang University of Minnesota	Nanoparticle and Nanofiber Filtration
Wed., November 21 MDEA	Dr. Taehyoun (John) Kim Boeing Commercial Aircraft	System Identification and Optimal Model Reduction for CFD/FEM Based Aeroelastic Analysis at Affordable Cost
Wed., November 28 MDEA	Guang Wu (MAE)	Multicomponent-Liquid-Fuel Vaporization with Complex Configuration
	Omid Rohani (MAE)	Force Control of a Shape Memory Alloy Wire Using Fuzzy Controller
Wed., December 5 MDEA	Shervin Taghavi Nezhad (MAE)	Agglomeration Multigrid Algorithm for Navier-Stokes Equations on Two Dimensional Hybrid Grids
	Li Mu (MAE)	System Simulation and Analysis of IGFC(integrated coal gasification fuel cell) Power Plant

Summer 2007

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
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

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., April 4 MDEA	Sadegh Dabiri (MAE)	Effects of Cavitation on Liquid Atomization
	Max Perez (MAE)	A Wavelength Multiplexed Interferometric Inertial Sensor Network for Nondestructive Evaluation and Distributed Monitoring
Wed., April 11 MDEA	Neha Gowadia (MAE)	Size-segregated Chemical Composition of Mainstream Cigarette Smoke
	Alexander Cohan (MAE)	Air Quality Modeling: Chlorine Impacts on the Weekend Effect
Wed., April 18 MDEA	Siarhei (Serguey) Piatrovich (MAE)	Multi-resolution Robustness and Multi-scale Aspects in Fully-Developed Turbulence
	Fazlul Zubair (MAE)	Aero-Optical Interaction Mechanisms in Compressible Turbulence
Wed., April 25 MDEA	James Allington (MAE)	Model Airplane Roll Control by Actuating Internal Mass
	Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte (MAE)	C-MEMS for Dielectrophoresis Applications
Wed., May 2 11:00am, MDEA	Rebecca  Shuppe (MAE)	Effect of Wedge-Shaped Deflectors on Flow Fields of Dual-Stream Jets
	Marc Carreras Sospedra (MAE)	Air Quality Impacts of Distributed Generation of Electricity in Southern California in Future Years
Wed., May 2 6:00pm, MDEA	Dr. Mary L. Good Donaghey University Professor and Founding Dean University of Arkansas at Little Rock	21st Century Engineering: How Do We Maintain a Global Advantage?
Fri., May 4, 11:00am, MDEA	Dr. Ray Sedwick Space Systems Laboratory, MIT	Space Power and Propulsion for the 21^st Century
Tue., May 8 MDEA	Dr. Zhehui (Jeff) Wang Los Alamos National Laboratory	Dust in plasmas: Evolution of a scientific frontier and its technological implications
Wed., May 9 MDEA	Prof. Roberto Horowitz University of California, Berkley	Dual-Stage Servo Systems and Vibration Compensation in Computer Hard Disk Drives
Thu., May 10 MDEA	Dr. Setthivoine You University of Tokyo	Compact magnetic confinement for fusion energy
Wed., May 16 MDEA	Felix Cheng (MAE)	Nonpremixed Combustion in an Accelerating Transonic Flow Undergoing Transition
	Zahra Noroozi (MAE)	Improving DNA Hybridization in Microchannels Using Actuating Flaps
Mon., May 21 MDEA	Dr. Manuel Gamero-Castaño Jet Propulsion Laboratory	The Structure of Colloid Thruster Beams
Wed., May 23 MDEA	Lucas White (MAE)	The Performance of PEM Fuel Cells Operating on Low Purity Hydrogen Streams
	Genis Turon Teixidor (MAE)	Carbon-MEMS Micro Electrode Arrays
Wed., May 30 MDEA	Erkut Aykutlug (MAE)	Model Reduction in Multiple Timescale Dynamical Systems
	Josep Salvans Tort (MAE)	Purely Meshless Smoothed Particle Computations of Taylor Vortex Flows
Wed., June 6 MDEA	Luis Rodrigues (MAE)	Benefits of Adaptive Schemes for Trajectory Optimization
	Alex Trusov (MAE)	Bias Drift in MEMS Gyroscopes

Winter 2007

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., Jan 10 MDEA	Joel Benito (MAE)	Advanced Mars Entry Guidance
	Po-Chang Lin (MAE)	CMEMS PEM fuel cell stack integration
Wed., Jan 17 MDEA	Soulak Abbilian (MAE)	Rijke Tube Testing of a low-Swirl Burner
	Arezoo M. Ardekani (MAE)	Computational method for particulate flow with collisions
Wed., Jan 24 MDEA	Prof. Nadine Aubry Carnegie Mellon University	Controlling Particles in Micro-Fluidic Devices
Wed., Jan 31 MDEA	Prof. Joseph Lai, Associate Dean for Research, School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Australian Defense Force Academy	On the Thrust Generation and Optimum Efficiency of a Plunging Airfoil
Fri., Feb 2 EG 4211	Prof. Shiyi Chen Johns Hopkins University and Peking University	Constrained Variation in Multiscale Simulations of Micro- and Nano-Fluidics and Subgrid-scale Stress Model of Fluid Turbulence
Wed., Feb 7 MDEA	Dr. Ashkan Varizi Harvard University	Structural Response of Metal Sandwich Plates under Shock Loading
Wed., Feb 14 MDEA	Albert Kobayashi, Emeritus Professor University of Washington	Advances in Experimental Mechanics for Smart Materials
Wed., Feb 21 MDEA	Prof. Stephen Davis, McCormick School (Institute) Professor, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University	The Solidification of Metallic Foams
Mon., Feb 26 MAE conference room, 11:00am	Dr. Lorenzo Valdevit University of California, Santa Barbara	Multifunctional Sandwich Structures: from aerospace applications to microelectromechanical systems
Wed., Feb 28 MDEA	Dr. John J. Tracy Senior Vice President of Engineering, Operations & Technology, The Boeing Company	Pursuing Technical Excellence at Boeing
Wed., Mar 7 MDEA	Pushpendra Singh Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology	Fluid dynamics of multiphase flows in micro-fluidic devices
Wed., Mar 14 MDEA	Robert Gaynor (MAE)	Reference Governors for Hydrogen Starvation Prevention in Load Following Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
	Ruth Lambert (MAE)	Simulation of a Moving Mechanical Actuator for Fast Biomolecular Synthesis Processus

Fall 2006

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., Sep 27 MDEA	Julia Gelfand Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Science	Information Resources & Library Services to support Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI
Wed., Oct 4 MDEA	Prof. Margaret S. Wooldridge University of Michigan	From Jet Engines to Semiconductor Materials: Reaction Kinetics in Engineering
Wed., Oct 11 MDEA	Jordi Casoliva Rodon (MAE)	Atmospheric Guidance for Aero-Gravity Assist Using Matched Asymptotic Expansions
	Adam Schofield (MAE)	Anti-Phase Driven Gyroscope with Multi-Degree of Freedom Sense Mode
Wed., Oct 18 MDEA	Prof. Gustaaf (Guus) Jacobs University of California, San Diego	Simulation of mixed continuum-discrete physics with high-order methods
Wed., Oct 25 MDEA	Yusuke Kuniba (MAE)	Dynamic modeling and transient analysis of 220kW SOFC/GT hybrid system
	Anh-Tuan Do (MAE)	Properties and Performance of SYT/LSGMC Composite Materials for Planar SOFC Anodes
Wed., Nov 1 MDEA	Andrew Johnson (MAE)	Unsteady Phenomena in Supersonic Nozzle Flow Separation
	Ben Colcord (MAE)	Numerical Modeling of Combustion in a Cavity
Wed., Nov 8 MDEA	Solmaz Sajjadi Kia (MAE)	Use of scheduling for anti-windup controller design
	Christopher Bolzo (MAE)	Fuel Preparation and Emissions Impact for Biodiesel in an Airblast Atomized Microturbine Engine
Wed., Nov 15 MDEA	Mina Rohani (MAE)	Controlling breakup of a liquid jet
	Andrew Martinez (MAE)	Microstructure Characterization of Randomized Fuel Cell Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces
Wed., Nov 22 MDEA	Ronne Toledo (MAE)	Numerical simulation of two phase flow using FEM with level-set approach
	Thomas Ihde (MAE)	Immersed Boundary Method
Wed., Nov 29 MDEA	Jay Cleckler (MAE)	Computational Examination of Acoustic Effects on Dust in Low Mach Number Flows
	Janea Magallanes (MAE)	Determination of Laminar Flame Speeds of Dry and Humidified Syngas Fuel Mixtures
Wed., December 6 6pm, MDEA	Prof. Sheila Widnall Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	School seminar: Dean's Distinguished Lecture "Space Shuttle redesign: System-Level Issues for Engineering"

Spring/Summer 2006

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., Apr 5 MDEA	Dr. Robert J. Braun United Technologies Research Center	Optimal Design and Operation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Small-Scale Stationary Applications
Mon., Apr 10 MDEA, 11am	Prof. Jan Achenbach Northwestern University	Structural Health Monitoring for Damage Tolerance
Wed., Apr 12 MDEA	Dr. Yu Wang Pennsylvania State University	Modeling of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells
Wed., Apr 19 MDEA	Dr. Jeffrey Caplin Dr. Scot Osburn Aerospace Corporation	Launch Vehicle Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN & C) Systems
Wed., Apr 26 MDEA	Francesc Gallobardes (MAE)	Engineering a 3D Microbattery
	Paul Nissenson (MAE)	Enhanced Photolysis in Aerosols: Evidence for Important Surface Effects
Wed., May 3 MDEA
	Prof. Peter Staudhammer University of Southern California	Returning to the Moon: The Fluid Mechanism
Wed., May 10 MDEA	Guangyao Jia (MAE)	Fast DNA Hybridization and Immobilization in a Centrifuge Platform
	Qing Wang (MAE)	A New Droplet Evaporation Model and its Application to Practical Sprays
Wed., May 17 MDEA	Chen Zou (MAE)	Fuel Cell Life Cycle Assessment
	Julius Klein (MAE)	Biomechatronic Design for Human-Automobile Interaction in an Aging Society
Mon., May 22 4pm, MAE Conf. Room (EG 4211)	Prof. Daniel Joseph University of Minnesota University of California, Irvine	Helmholtz Decomposition Coupling Rotational to Irrotational Flow of a Viscous Fluid
Wed., May 24 11am, MDEA	No Regular Seminar (Faculty Meeting)
Wed., May 24 4pm, MAE Conf Room (EG 4211)	Juan Carlos Padrino University of Minnesota	Purely Irrotational Theories for the Viscous Effects on the Oscillations of Drops and Bubbles
Wed., May 31 MDEA	Prof. Fazle Hussain University of Houston	Transient Growth of Perturbations in a Columnar Vortex
Fri., June 2 11am - 12pm, MAE Conf Room (EG 4211)	Prof. Xiao Ming Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics	Mechanisms of Flow Control and Examples of Application

Winter 2006

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., Jan 18 MDEA	Prof. Dennis McLaughlin  Pennsylvania State University	Aeroacoustics Experiments of Model Supersonic Exhaust Jets
Wed., Jan 25 MDEA	Chandra Tupelly (MAE)	6H-SiC Pressure Sensors for Harsh Environments
	Laura Marchal (MAE)	Learning to Drive a Power Wheelchair Using an Assist-as-Needed Controller
Mon., Jan 30 MDEA	Dr. Daniel Patt Boeing Phantom Works	Noise and Vibration Reduction in Rotorcraft using Actively Controlled Flaps
Wed., Feb 1 MDEA	Thomas Pine (MAE)	Sol-Gel Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterization of SYT Powders for Use in Reversible SOFCs
	Fabian Mueller (MAE)	Control Design for a Bottoming Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Gas Turbine Hybrid
Thu., Feb 2, 12pm MDEA (BLI Series Seminar)	Prof. Dorian Liepmann University of California, Berkeley	Two-Phase Flows in Microfluidic Devices
Wed., Feb 8 MDEA	Jitae Kim (MAE)	Rapid and Automated Sample Preparation for Nucleic Acid Extraction on a Microfluidic CD (Compact Disc)
	Jesse Pompa (MAE)	Effects of Cooling Techniques on Flame Propagation in a Centimeter-Scale Four-Stroke Engine
Wed., Feb 15 MDEA	Dr. Benjamin Villac	What's Possible? Explorations in Orbital Dynamics
Thu., Feb 16 MDEA	Dr. Jill Smith Army Research Laboratories	Materials by Design
Wed., Feb 22 MDEA	Dr. Amit K. Sanyal	Global Optimal Attitude Estimation using Uncertainty Ellipsoids
Wed., Mar 1 MDEA	Prof. Volker Sick  University of Michigan	High-Speed Imaging Techniques for Fuel Distribution Flow Fields, and Combustion Progress
Wed., Mar 8 MDEA	Alan Lai (MAE)	Study of Flapping Airfoils Using a Computational Method
	Satish Vutukuru (MAE)	Regional Scale Modeling of Secondary Organic Aerosol Dynamics
Wed., Mar 15 MDEA	Dr. Georgia C. Karvountzi General Electric	Modeling of High Temperature Fuel Cells and Their Integration with Turbines

Summer and Fall 2005

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Tue., Aug 16 11am - 12pm  MAE Conf. Room	Dr. Deepak Srivastava NASA Ames	Computational Nanotechnology: Nanomaterials by Design
Mon., Aug 29 11am - 12pm  MAE Conf. Room	Professor Sridhar Krishnaswamy Northwestern University	Ultrasonic Characterization of Materials
Tue., Sep 27 11am - 12pm MDEA	Professor Edgar Choueiri Princeton University	Future Challenges for Space Propulsion
Wed., Oct 5 11am - 12pm MDEA	Timothy Brown (MAE) Han Xu (MAE)	Fuel Cell / Electrolyzer Battery System Polymer Actuators Toward Responsive Drug Delivery Applications
Wed., Oct 12 11am - 12pm MDEA	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
Wed., Oct 19 11am - 12pm MDEA	Alex Trusov (MAE) Roy Culver (MAE)	Characterization of Capacitive Resonant Microstructures Fabricated in EFAB Process Improved Computational Tools for Low-Speed Flow Phenomena
Wed., Oct 26 11am - 12pm MDEA	Mark Effinger (MAE) Genis Teixidor (MAE)	Microturbine Operation on Diluted Fuels MicroBattery Anode
Wed., Nov 9 11am - 12pm MDEA	Professor Edmund YS Chao Johns Hopkins University	From CAD/CAM to VIMS/CAOS: A True Renaissance of Muscoleskeletal Biomechanics
Wed., Nov 16 11am - 12pm MDEA	Dr. Shane Ross University of Sourthern California	Design of Low Energy Space Missions Using Dynamical Systems Theory

Spring 2005

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., Apr 6 MDEA	Dr. Xiaolin Zheng	Ignition of Hydrogen and Hydrocarbons in Convective-Diffusive Systems
Wed., Apr 13 MDEA	Dr. Yanfei Gao	Micro- and Nano-Mechanics of Surface Contact Plasticity
Wed., Apr 20 MDEA	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
Wed., Apr 27 MDEA	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
Wed., May 4 MDEA	Paul Nissenson (MAE) Le Yanni Yan (MAE)	Spatial Distribution of Intensity Within Water Droplets Micromachined Resonators for Communication Application
Wed., May 11 MDEA	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
Wed., May 18 MDEA	Prof. David Keyes	Introduction to Domain Decomposition Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics
Wed., May 25 MDEA	Prof. Thomas Stahovich	Automated Sketch Recognition and the Future of Computer Aided Design
Wed., Jun 1 MDEA	Roberto C. Aguirre (MAE) (PhD Defense)	Turbulent Fluid Interfaces with Applications to Mixing and Aero-Optics
Wed., Jun 8 MDEA	(No Seminar)	Henry Samueli School of Engineering Faculty Meeting

Winter 2005

Date / Location	Speaker	Title
Wed., Jan. 12 MDEA	Trinh Pham (MAE) Rabih Zaouk (MAE)	Liquid-Fueled Miniature Film Combustor Carbon Microbatteries, Power on Chip
Wed., Jan. 26 MDEA	Zhichao Zhang (MAE) Juanita Vargas-Cordoba (MAE)	Numerical Simulation of Flutter and LCO Motion Generation for a Tumbling Robot Using a General Contact Model
Wed., Feb. 2 MDEA	Prof. George M. Homsy	Novel Marangoni Flows
Wed., Feb. 9	(No Seminar)
Wed., Feb. 16 MDEA	Dr. Martiqua L. Post	Plasma Actuators for Separation Control on Stationary and Oscillating Airfoils
Wed., Feb. 23 MDEA	Prof. Thomas S. Lundgren	Kolmogorov Turbulence and Intermittency
Wed., Mar. 2 MDEA	Prof. Anthony Leonard	Curvature and Torsion of Material Lines in Chaotic Flows
Thursday, Mar. 3 3:30-4:40, EG4211	Prof. Hanchen Huang	Model and Modeling of Nanostructures
Wed., Mar. 9 MDEA	(No Seminar)
Wed., Mar. 16 MDEA	Dr. James Hileman	Airframe Design for a Functionally Silent Aircraft