Seminars, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland

Seminars & Lectures: 2008-09 Academic Year

Date	Series Affiliation	Speaker	Title
Spring/Summer 2009
Feb. 20 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	George Wittenberg, Associate Professor, Neurology Baltimore VAMC, University of Maryland School of Medicine	"Brain Mapping and Robots: New Directions in Rehabilitation" Resnik Lecture Hall EGR 1202 (View Webcast)
Feb. 26 2pm	Transforming Energy Lecture Series	Günther G. Scherer, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland	"Contributions of Electrochemical Energy Devices to a Sustainable Mobility" Resnik Lecture Hall EGR 1202
Feb. 27 1:30pm	Mechanical Engineering & ISR Systems Seminar	B.C. Khoo, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Program Co-Chair, Computational Engineering of SMA-II (Singapore-MIT Alliance), National University of Singapore	"Simulations of Supercavitation Flows with Isentropic Model Equations-of-State (EOS)" Pepco Room (Rm. 1105) Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
Mar. 13 1-5pm	Mechanical Engineering Research Review Day	John J. Buckley, Jr., Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing, Electronic Systems, Northrop Grumman Corp. (UMD, Mech Engr '83) * and * G. Lee Lushbaugh, Jr., Senior Vice President, President, Fossil Power, Bechtel Power Corp. (UMD, Mech Engr '74)	"Challenges in Engineering Practice, Education, and Research" Kay Boardrooms (Rm. 1107-1111) Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
Mar. 27 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	Dong Lee, Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University	"Development of Single Particle Mass Spectrometry" Resnik Lecture Hall EGR 1202
Apr. 3 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	Pierre Dupont, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Boston University	"Concentric Tube Robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery" Resnik Lecture Hall EGR 1202
Apr. 24 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	Harsha K. Chelliah, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia	"Challenges and Recent Progress in Development of Chemical Kinetic Models for Engineering Applications" Resnik Lecture Hall EGR 1202
May 1 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	Byeng D. Youn, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland	"Structural Health Prognostics Using Sparse Bayes Learning Scheme" Resnik Lecture Hall EGR 1202
May 4 3:30pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering Lecture Series	Antonio J. Conejo, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Castilla-LaMancha, Spain	"Economic Valuation of Reserves in Power Systems with High Penetration of Wind Power" Glenn L. Martin Hall EGR 1104
May 8 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	Michael Jensen, Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	"The Critical Heat Flux Condition in Mini-and Microchannels" Resnik Lecture Hall EGR 1202
May 15 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	John Gero, Research Professor, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University	"Cognitively-Based Computational Models of Design Creativity" 3117 CSI Building
July 20	Mechanical Engineering Seminar	Chris Bailey, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom	"Reliability & Prognostics Predictions: Applications in Electronics Reliability & Conservation of Heritage Structures"

Date	Series Affiliation	Speaker	Title
Fall 2008
Sept. 5 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	Chao-Ho Sung, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Carderock Division	"Vorticity-Preserving Artificial Dissipation Model for Vortical Wake Prediction" 2164 Glenn Martin Hall (Bldg. 088)
Sept. 19 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	Krishnaswamy Nandakumar, GASCO Chair Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute	"Multiphase Computational Fluid Dynamics: A New Tool to Aid in Scale Up of Chemical Processes" 3117 Computer Science Instructional Center (Bldg. 406)
Oct. 3 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	Karl Ulrich, CIBC Professor of Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	"Innovation Tournaments" 3117 CSI Building
Oct. 10 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	Andy Ruina, Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University	"Issues in Bipedal Locomotion" 3117 CSI Building
Oct. 17 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	Eckhard Wolfgang, European Center for Power ElectronicsNSF	"Robustness Validation of Power Electronics" 3117 CSI Building
Nov. 7 11am	Reliability Engineering Seminar Series	Dr. Rao Gullapalli, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine	"MRI: From Structure to Function" 2164 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Nov. 7 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	Nikhil Chopra, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland	"Delay-Independent Stability and Synchronization of Interconnected Nonlinear Systems" 3117 CSI Building
Nov. 14 1:00 - 5:30pm	Fifth Annual Symposium of the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics	Speakers: Wim van Saarloos Eitan Tadmor Elaine S. Oran Jose M. Ortiz de Zarate	Symposium Program 1107 & 1111 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
Nov. 21 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	John Wissler, Director of the Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory	"AFRL and the Air Vehicles Directorate" 3117 CSI Building
Dec. 5 2pm	Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series	S.K. Gupta, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland	"New Manufacturing Approaches to Realizing Bio-Inspired Robots" 3117 CSI Building

Seminar Guide

	Leaders in ME Lecture
	ME Seminar Series
	ASHRAE Seminar Series
	Burgers Seminar Program
	Transforming Energy Lecture Series
	Fluid Dynamics Reviews
	MEMS Graduate Student Seminar
	Center for Small Smart Systems Seminar
	Reliability Engineering Seminar Series
	SME Chapter 48 Seminar

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