Colloquium Spring 2013 | Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Seminars are held from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. in MEC 224 unless indicated *

February to April 2013

April 17, 2013 MEC 221*	Dr. Richard Ranky President & CEO3 Spark LLC "How do Patents Work? An Engineer's Guide to Intellectual Property"
April 10, 2013	Dr. Ozer Unluhisarcikli Mechatronic Systems Engineer/D&E US, ASML "Wearable Robots and Rehabilitation Robotics"
March 13, 2013 MEC 221*	Dr. Shawn A. Chester Mechanical and Industrial Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology "Mechanics of Amorphous Polymers and Polymeric Gels"
March 6, 2013 MEC 221*	Dr. Ting Tan Civil and Environmental Engineering The University of Vermont "A Preliminary Idea of Bio-Inspired Wind Turbine Blade Structures"
February 27, 2013 MEC 221*	Dr. Paul Ranky Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology "Some R&D Results and New Research Methodologies in Concurrent/Simultaneous Product & Process Design Engineering with 3P and Other Methods"
February 25, 2013 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Dr. Manish K. Tiwari Group leader and senior scientist in the Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies (LTNT), ETH Zurich “Functional Nanocomposites: Synthesis, Characterization and Performance Evaluation”
February 22, 2013 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Dr. Brendan J. Englot United Technologies Research Center “Sampling-Based Coverage Path Planning for Complex 3D Structures Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, June 2009”
February 20, 2013 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Dr. Zi Chen Washington University “Nonlinear mechanics, morphology and instability of ribbons, plates and rods”
February 19, 2013 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Dr. Alper Murat McGill University “An Allocation based Modeling and Solution Framework for Location Problems with Dense Demand"
February 18, 2013 10:3- - 11:30 a.m.	Dr. Rajiv Malhotra Northwestern University “Fundamentals of Process Mechanics and Process Innovation in Incremental Forming”
February 15, 2013 MEC 221* 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.	Dr. Inanc Senocak Department of Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering Boise State University "Advanced Computing for Wind Energy and Environmental Applications"
February 14, 2013 MEC 221* 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.	Dr. Yingchun Yuan Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Wisconsin “A System Approach for Reducing the Environmental Impact of Manufacturing and Sustainability Improvement of Nano-scale Manufacturing”, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2009.
February 13, 2013 MEC 224* 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Dr. Jekanthan Thangavelautham Field and Space Robotics Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology “A Regulatory Theory of Cortical Organization and Its Applications to Robotics Advisor: Prof. Gabriele M.T. D’Eleuterio, External: Prof. Dario Floreano (EPFL)”
February 12, 2013 MEC 224* 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Dr. Nicholas A. Roberts Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN "Science/Engineering: Micro/Nano Thermal Transport, Thermal Rectification, Thermal Property Measurement, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, Phase Change Materials, Electronics Packaging, Nanofabrication, Electron-and Ion-Beam Induced Processing, Self- and Directed Assembly of Nanostructures via Pulsed Laser Induced Dewetting"
February 5, 2013 MEC 224* 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Dr. Siva P.V. Nadimpalli School of Engineering Brown University "Experimental Solid Mechanics with an emphasis on nano and micro mechanics of materials, Energy Storage Materials, Fracture Mechanics, Plasticity, Finite Element Modeling, and Microelectronic Packaging"