Seminars, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland

Seminars & Lectures: 2009-2010 Academic Year

Date	Series Affiliation	Speaker	Title / Location
2009
Oct. 2 2 pm	ME Distinguished Lecture Series	Metin Sitti Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon	"Miniature Mobile Robots Down to Micron Scale" DEWALT Seminar Room 2164 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Oct. 6 2 pm	Mechanical Engineering Special Seminar	Mehdi Raessi Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University	"Numerical Modeling of Interfacial Flows with Applications to Drop Dynamics and Liquid Atomization" DEWALT Seminar Room 2164 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Oct. 9 2 pm	Mechanical Engineering Special Seminar	Amir Riaz Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland	"Multiscale Modeling Approach for Multiphase Flow in Disordered Media" DEWALT Seminar Room 2164 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Oct. 27 2 pm	Mechanical Engineering Special Seminar	Pinaki Chakraborty Research Scientist, Geological Fluid Dynamics Group, Department of Geology, University of Illinois	"Turbulent Friction on Rough and Smooth Walls: It is all in the Spectrum (Even in 2D)" DEWALT Seminar Room 2164 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Oct. 30 10 am	Mechanical Engineering Special Seminar	Jannette Frandsen Consultant, Fluid-Structure Systems, Denmark	"Kinetic Modeling of Water Waves" DEWALT Seminar Room 2164 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Oct. 30 2 pm	ME Distinguished Lecture Series	Charles 'Chuck' Tucker III Alexander Rankin Professor & Associate Dean, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	"Predicting Process-Induced Microstructure in Molded Composites" DEWALT Seminar Room 2164 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Nov. 6 2 pm	ME Distinguished Lecture Series	Eckart Meiburg Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara	"Computational Investigation of Gravity and Turbidity Currents" DEWALT Seminar Room 2164 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Nov. 13 2 pm	Mechanical Engineering Special Seminar	Sulin Zhang Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics, Penn State University	"Learning From the Bad: Virus-Inspired Design of Nanoparticles for Cell-Type Specific Drug Delivery" DEWALT Seminar Room 2164 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Nov. 18 1:00 - 5:30pm	Sixth Annual Symposium of the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics	Speakers: Kees Vuik Mohamed Gad-el-Hak Eugenia Kalnay Ralf Deiterding	Symposium Program 1107 & 1111 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
Nov. 20 2 pm	ME Distinguished Lecture Series	Mohamed El-Genk Regents' Professor & Director, Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies, University of New Mexico	"Space Reactor Power Systems for Enabling Deep Space Exploration Mission and Human Outposts" DEWALT Seminar Room 2164 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Dec. 4 2 pm	ME Distinguished Lecture Series	Ishwar Puri Professor & Department Head, Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech	"Magnetic fields, Fluids and Particles: Implications for MEMS, BioMEMS and Medicine" DEWALT Seminar Room 2164 Glenn L. Martin Hall

Seminars & Lectures: 2008-2009 Academic Year

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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