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Winter 2013

Date &
Location
Speaker Title

Friday,

January 11

MDEA

Professor Arezoo Ardekani, University of Notre Dame

 

Transport of particles, drops, and small organisms in density stratified fluids

Friday,

January 18

MDEA

Ahmad Falahatpisheh, University of California, Irvine

 

Measure of Asymmetry of Transmitral Vortex Ring

Friday,

January 25

MDEA

Professor Arash Yavari, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Riemann-Cartan Geometry of Nonlinear Dislocation Mechanics

Friday,

February 1

MDEA

Dr. Mukul Kumar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Grain boundary networks: From consideration of the individual constituents to the collective response

Friday,

February 8

MDEA 

Professor Carlos F.M. Coimbra,  University of California, San Diego Hybrid Stochastic Learning Methods for Solar Forecasting

Thursday,

February 14

EH 2430

Colloquial Room

Frederick William (Bud) Brust, PhD, Engineering Mechanics Corporation of Columbus

 

Making a Small High Tech Company Prosper: Personal Experience and Suggestions

Friday,

February 15

MDEA

Dr. Andrew Martinez, University of California, Irvine

 

Integrating Power System Analysis and Atmospheric Chemistry Simulations to Develop Solutions for Clean Energy Conversion

Friday,

February 22

MDEA

Professor CJ Kim, University of California, Los Angeles Surface Tension Is Fair Game in Micro-Engineering: Let's Play!

Friday,

March 8

MDEA

Dr. John Vassberg, The Boeing Company

 

Boomerang Flight Dynamics

Friday,

March 15

MDEA

Professor Sandeep Kumar,

University of California, Riverside

Nanomechanics and Multi-physics of Nanoscale Thin Films

 

Fall 2012

Date &
Location
Speaker Title

Friday,

October 5

MDEA

Professor Dunn-Rankin, UCI MAE Department Julia Gelfand, UCI Library

Welcome to new graduate students ~ introduction to the MAE faculty

Information Resources and Library Services to Support

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI

Friday,

October 12

MDEA

Professor Stephen Pope, Cornell University, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Small Scales, Many Species and the Manifold Challenges of Turbulent Combustion

Friday,

October 19

MDEA

Professor Xanthippi Markenscoff, University of California, San Diego, MAE Department

Driving Forces

Friday,

October 26

MDEA

Dr. Lawrence L. Kulinsky, University of California, Irvine

Leaping over the Obstacles and Swimming Up the Waterfalls: Overcoming Challenges in Medical Diagnostics Research

 

Wednesday,

October 31

MDEA  11:00-12:00

Paul Marshall, Orion Assistant Program Manager, NASA Johnson Space Center and Larry Price, Orion Deputy Program Manager, Lockheed Martin Corporation

ORION: America's Deep Space Human Spacecraft; this is a presentation on the design and manufacture of Orion, NASA's next human exploration spacecraft

Friday,

November 2

MDEA

Seminar moved to Wednesday, October 31st, 11:00-12:00pm MDEA

Friday,

November 9

MDEA

Professor Jean-Pierre Delplanque, UC Davis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Sampling Issues in Exhaled Breath Diagnostic Techniques

Friday,

November 16

MDEA

Dr. Xinlei Wang, Associate Professor of Bioenvironmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Building Energy Efficiency and Zero-Energy Solar House

 

Friday,

November 30

MDEA

Dr. Carsten Mehring, Parker Hannifin Corporation

 

Phase-Change Phenomena in Aerospace fuel Pumps

Friday,

December 7

MDEA

Professor Roberto Furfaro, University of Arizona

 

The NASA OSIRIS REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission: Overview, Mission Responsibilities and Research at the UA Space System Engineering Laboratory

Past seminars

 

Spring 2012

Date &
Location
Speaker Title

Friday,

April 6

MDEA

Dr. L.J. Muzio, Dr. T.D. Martz Fossil Energy Research Corporation

Post-Combustion NOx Control for Stationary Combustion Sources: A Practical Overview of Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) Technology

Friday,

April 13

MDEA

Professor Andrei Shkel,

University of California, Irvine, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Precision Navigation and Timing Enabled by Microtechnology: Are We There Yet?

Friday,

April 20

MDEA

Professor Joyce Keyak,

University of California, Irvine, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Bone, a Living Structure:  On Earth, In Space, and Back Again

Friday,

April 27

MDEA

Dr. Jeff Emdee, Principal Director, Mission Planning & Payload Integration Launch Operations Division

Aerospace Corporation

Space Launch and Stewardship for National Security Space 
 

Friday,

May 4

MDEA

Dr. Christopher S. Roper,

HRL Laboratories, LLC

 

Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics in Three-Dimensional Micro-Lattice Structures

Friday,

May 11

MDEA

Professor Jonathan Posner

University of Washington, Mechanical Engineering,

Chemical Engineering

Electrokinetic Locomotion

Friday,

May 18

MDEA

Professor Michael McCarthy, University of California, Irvine,

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Computer-Aided Invention of Mechanical Movement

Friday,

May 25

MDEA

Mimi Aung, Section Manager, Guidance & Control

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Future Directions in Spacecraft Onboard Autonomous Guidance, Navigation and Control

Friday,

June 1

MDEA

Dr. Ping Liu,

HRL Laboratories

 

Electrochemical Energy Storage: Challenges and Opportunities

Friday,

June 8

MDEA

Professor Elisa Franco,   Mechanical Engineering

University of California, Riverside

Analysis, design and in  vitro implementation of robust biochemical circuits

Winter 2012

Date &
Location
Speaker Title

Friday,

January 13

MDEA

Professor Jack Brouwer,

University of California, Irvine

 

Dynamic Smart Energy and Power Systems Research

Friday,

January 20

MDEA

Professor Feng Liu, 

University of California, Irvine

 

Instability and Control of Vortices over Slender Bodies at High Angles of Attack --- Theory, Computations, and Experiments

Friday,

January 27

MDEA

Professor William A. Sirignano,  University of California, Irvine

 

Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engine Combustion Instability

Wednesday,

February 1

MAE Conference Room, EG 4th Floor 2-3pm

Professor Farshad Khorrami, Polytechnic Institute of New York University

 

 

Recent Advances in High-Gain Design For Nonlinear Systems And applications to Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles

Friday,

February 3

MDEA

Dean

Gregory N. Washington, University of California, Irvine

Distributed Intelligent Material Systems

Friday,

February 10

MDEA

Dr. Dharmakeerthi Nawarathna, Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine

Microfluidic immunomagnetic cell separation using shrink induced nano-magnetic traps

Friday,

February 17

MDEA

Darlene Lee,

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California

The Mission Loads Environment and Structural Design of the Mars Science Laboratory Spacecraft

Friday,

February 24

MDEA

Professor Stephen H. Davis, Northwestern University Control and Suppression of Interfacial Instability by Shear

Friday,

February 24

Calit2 Auditorium

2-3pm

Assistant Professor Jamie Guest, John  Hopkins University

 

Design of Material Architectures with Topology Optimization

Friday,

March  2

MDEA

Professor Guruswami Ravichandran, Caltech

High Pressure Hugoniot Measurements in Solids using Mach Reflections

Friday,

March 2

EH 2430 Colloquia

2-3pm

Professor Satish V. Kulkarni, Virginia Tech

 

 

Science & Technology and Policy: Their Interplay

Friday,

March 9

MDEA

Professor Andrew Alleyne,

Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Transient Thermal System Modeling and Control

Friday,

March 16

MDEA

Dr. Fazle Hussain,

Cullen Distinguished Professor, University of Houston

The Looming Crisis in Air Traffic Capacity - Can Vortex Dynamics Help?

Fall 2011

Date &
Location
Speaker Title

Friday,

September 23 MDEA

Dr. Igo Krebs

Mechanical Engineering,

MIT

Robotic Therapy: Bright Lights and Dark Shadows

Friday,

September 30

MDEA

Dr. Derek Dunn-Rankin, MAE Chair and Professor, UCI

Julia Gelfand, UCI Library

Welcome to new graduate students ~ introduction to the MAE faculty

Information Resources and Library Services to Support

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI

Friday,

October 7 MDEA

Dr. Pere Margalef

UC Irvine

Polygeneration of Electricity, Hydrogen and Heat with High Temperature Fuel Cells

Friday,

October 14 MDEA

Dr. Priya Vashishta

USC

 

Reactive nanosystems

Friday,

October 21  MDEA

Dr. Greg P. Carman

UCLA, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Analytical and Experimental Studies on Layered Multiferroic Materials (Macro-Nano)

Friday,

October 28  MDEA

Jayanth N. Kudva,

NexGen Aeronautics Inc.

25 Years of Adaptive Structures - A subjective Perspective

Friday,

November 4 MDEA

Faculty Retreat

 

 

Friday,

November 11

Veterans Day

 

 

Friday,

November 18 MDEA

Dr. David Whelan

Boeing

 

Aerospace Development Activities at Phantom Works, The Boeing Company

 

Friday,

November 25 MDEA

Thanksgiving

 

 

 

Friday,

December 2 MDEA

Dr. Andrew Martinez,

UC Irvine

Alicia Tan, UC Irvine

 

Dynamic Simulation of an SOFC-GT Locomotive Hauling Freight in Southern California

Air Quality Impacts of California State Renewable Energy Integration

 

Spring 2011

Date &
Location
Speaker Title

Friday,

April 1 MDEA

JunYong (J.Y.) Zhu, Ph.D

University of Wisconsin-Madison

On Energy Production from Lignocelluloses

Friday,

April 8 MDEA

Dr. Andrew Klesh

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Aircraft, Asteroids, CubeSats and Mars: Optimization in space exploration

Friday,

April 15 MDEA

Dr. Tim Brown

Sustainable Transportation Program Advanced Power and Energy Program

Minimizing Negative Impacts of Transportation While Meeting Mobility Requirements

Friday,

April 22 MDEA

Professor Tsu-Chin Tsao

University of California Los Angeles

Digital Control And Mechatronics for Precision Mechanical Motion  

Friday,

April 29 MDEA

Kambiz Vafai, University of California, Riverside

Interfacial interactions of Biomaterials in Water Decontamination Applications

Friday,

May 6 MDEA

Dr. Paul Nissenson, University of California, Irvine

Formation of Bromine From Deliquesced NaBr Aerosol in the Presence of Ozone and UV Light

Friday,

May 13 MDEA

Professor Alessandro Gomez  ME, Yale University

Multiplexed Electrosprays and their Applications

Friday,

May 20 MDEA

Professor Eva Kanso,

University of Southern California

Fluid-body coupling in aquatic locomotion

Friday,

May 27 MDEA

Professor Tetsuya Iwasaki, University of California Los Angeles

Coordinated Oscillations in Biological Systems

Friday,

June 3 MDEA

Franz Hernandez

University of California, Irvine

 

Kameel Abi-Samra

University of California, Irvine

Motion of Solid Particles in Simple Flow of Viscoelastic

 

 

Advanced Centrifugal Microfluidic Platforms

Winter 2011

Date &
Location
Speaker Title

Friday,

January 7 MDEA

Prof. Derek Dunn-Rankin
UC Irvine

Droplet Streams and Droplet Stream Flames

Friday,

January 14 MDEA

Mr. Monty Rivers

MAE, UC Irvine

Mr. Sung Chan Cho

MAE, UC Irvine

Chip-Scale Inertial Measurement Unit Utilizing Folded MEMS Fabrication

 

Two-phase transport in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Channels

Friday,

January 21 MDEA

Prof. Jacob (Jack) Brouwer

APEP/MAE, UC Irvine

Design and Control of Next Generation Fuel Cell Power Plants

Friday,

January 28 MDEA

Timothy J. Rupert Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nanocrystalline metals: Dynamic nanostructures and properties under loading

Friday,

February 4 MDEA

CANCELLED

 

Friday,

February 11 MDEA

Prof. Jinchou Xu

Penn State University

 

Optimal and User-Friendly Solvers for Large Scale Discretized PDEs

Friday,

February 18 MDEA

Mr. Channing Chow

USC

Mr. Enric Grustan

MAE, UC Irvine

Optimizing Spacecraft Placement for Liaison Constellations

 

Beams of Electrosprayed Nanodroplets for Colloid Thrusters and Hypervelocity Impact

Friday,

February 25 MDEA

Prof. Vincent McDonell

UCI, MAE

Evaluation of the Use of Alternative Gaseous and Liquid Fuels in Gas Turbines

Friday,

March 4 MDEA

Ashish Deshpande
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maine
Role of human biomechanics in achieving advanced neuromuscular
controls: Applications to Prosthetics, Rehabilitation and Assistive Robots

 

Friday,

March 11 MDEA

Arash Kheradvar

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Novel Experimental and Modeling Approaches to Cardiac Assessment and Cardiovascular Devices

Fall 2010

Date &
Location
Speaker Title
Friday, October 01
MDEA

Julie Gelfand

UCI Library

Information Resources and Library Services to Support

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI

Friday, October 08
MDEA

Dr. Seajin Oh

UC Irvine

Microneedle Transdermal Drug Delivery System
Friday, October 15
MDEA
Prof. J. Michael McCarthy
UC Irvine
Opportunities and Challenges in Kinematic Synthesis
Friday, October 22
MDEA

-          Allie Auld (MAE)

Cole Young (MAE)

Integration of Distributed Generation into the Electric Power System

Investigations on the Quality of Human Movement

Friday, October 29
MDEA

Prof. Ardalan Vahidi

Clemson University

Predictive Energy Management in Networked Vehicles: Exploiting Traffic and Terrain Preview for Fuel Saving
Friday, November 05
MDEA

Prof. Francesco Lanza di Scalea

UC San Diego

Ultrasonic Guided Waves for Structural Health Monitoring
 
Friday, November 12
MDEA

Shervin Taghavi Nezhad (MAE)

Ya Liu (MAE)

Computation of Self-excited Unsteady Transonic Flow of an Airfoil in a Channel Using URANS and DES

Stability Analysis on Multiple Solutions of Steady Transonic Small Disturbance Equation

Friday, November 19
MDEA

Prof. Guowei He

Chinese Academy of Sciences

A Non-Frozen Flow Model for Space-Time Correlations in Turbulent Shear Flows
Friday, November 26
MDEA
Thanksgiving  
Friday, December 03
MDEA

Prof. Heejung Jung

UC Riverside

Investigation of Diesel Particle Counting Method

Past seminars

 

(c) 2010 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
4200 Engineering Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697-3975

Spring 2010

Date &
Location
Speaker Title
Wed, March 31
MDEA
Prof. Roger Rangel  
Wed, April 7
MDEA
Prof. David Reinskensmeyer How do people respond to robot assistance during movement training?
Wed, April 14
MDEA
Guang Wu

James Arlington

Transient Convective Burning of Fuel-Droplet Arrays

A Ball Throwing Game to Test Disturbance Affect on Motor Learning

Wed, April 21
MDEA
Dr. Marc Carreras-Sospedra Air Quality Modeling of Future Paradigm Shifts in the Energy and Transportation Sectors
Wed, April 28
MDEA
Chang-hsiu Chen

Abdullah Alkudsi

Material properties of conducting polymer blends PEDOT:PSS/PVA for use in MEMS applications
Effect of Scales on the Mixing of a Passive Scalar in Grid Turbulence
Wed, May 5
MDEA
Prof. Veronica Eliasson
University of Southern California
Host:  Prof. Catrakis
Converging shocks in water and material effects
Wed, May 12
MDEA
Sergio Lopez

Christopher Daniel Bolszo 

Two-Stage Design of Multirate H Optimal Controllers

Pressure Atomization of Water-in-Oil Emulsions and Effects of Gaseous Crossflow

Wed, May 19
MDEA
Luis Rodriguez A Sequential Linear Quadratic Approach for Constrained Optimal Control
Wed, May 26
MDEA
Steven Spencer

Alexander Cohan

B.O.N.ES. a Robot for Rehabilitation and Motor Learning Experiments

 

High-Resolution Pollutant Transport in the San Pedro Bay of California

Wed, June 2
MDEA
Prof. Firdaus E. Udwadia
University of Southern California
Host:  Prof. Atluri
Connections between Constrained Motions of Mechanical Systems and Tracking Control of Nonlinear Systems

Past seminars

 

(c) 2010 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
4200 Engineering Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697-3975