2014 – 2015 Archive
Date |
Speaker |
From |
Colloquium |
Spring 2015 |
(in 3-270 at 4:00pm unless otherwise noted) |
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| February 6, 2015 | Prof. André Taylor |
Associate Professor Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University MLK Visiting Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Advanced Energy Conversion and Storage Devices using Nanostructured Materials (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Energy) |
| February 20, 2015 | Prof. Christophe Clanet |
Director, The Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX) École Polytechnique & National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) |
Sports Ballistics (Shapiro Lecture in Fluid Mechanics) |
| February 27, 2015 | Prof. Aaron Dollar |
John J. Lee Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Yale University |
Reengineering the Hand: “Mechanical Intelligence” in Robotic Manipulation (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Robotics) |
| March 20, 2015 | Prof. Joel Burdick |
Richard and Dorothy Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology |
Recovery of Function in Major Spinal Cord Injury Using Epidural Stimulation (Paynter Lecture in Robotics) |
| April 3, 2015 | Prof. Levent Burak Kara |
Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University |
Visual Thinking and Ideation Through 3D Design Abstraction (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Design) |
| April 10, 2015 | Prof. Charbel Farhat |
Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures Departments of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Mechanical Engineering Stanford University |
Modeling and Simulation of Highly Nonlinear Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems (Den Hartog Lecture in Mechanics) |
| April 17, 2015 | Prof. Kenneth Goodson |
Davies Family Provostial Professor Bosch Department Chairman Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University |
Thermal Management at the Extremes (Rohsenow Lecture in Heat and Mass Transfer) |
| April 24, 2015 | Prof. Jeffrey A. Sutton |
Associate Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Ohio State University |
High-Speed Laser Diagnostics in Turbulent Combustion Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and New Insights (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Energy) |
| May 1, 2015 | Dr. Roger McCarthy |
Founder and Owner Roger McCarthy Engineering |
Product Mechanical Design: The Consumer Challenge (MechE Distinguished Alumni Seminar) |
| May 8, 2015 | Prof. Carlos Castro |
Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Ohio State University |
Mechanical Design of DNA Nanostructures and Measurement Devices (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Bioengineering) |
| May 15, 2015 | Prof. Carlos del Cañizo |
Assistant Professor Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Peabody Associate Visiting Professor (2014-2015) Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Is Silicon the Ultimate Photovoltaic Material? (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Energy) |
Fall 2014 |
(in 3-370 at 4:00pm unless otherwise noted) |
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| September 12, 2014 | Prof. Cullen Buie |
Assistant Professor Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Chair Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Microfluidic Bacterial Electrophenotyping for Biotechnology (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Micro/Nano Engineering) |
| September 26, 2014 | Dr. Charles Hill |
Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer, Design IBM |
Design at IBM: Delivering Great User Experiences at Scale (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Design) |
| October 3, 2014 | Prof. Kripa K. Varanasi |
Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Interfacial Engineering for Efficiency Enhancements in Energy-Water-Food (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Energy) |
| October 10, 2014 | Prof. Xuanhe Zhao |
Assistant Professor d’Arbeloff Career Development Chair Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Harnessing Instabilities in Soft Dielectrics: From Artificial Muscle to Transformative Skin (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Mechanics) |
| November 7, 2014 | Prof. Rohit Karnik |
Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Engineering Flows in Nanostructured Materials: From Graphene Membranes to Xylem Filters (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Micro/Nano Engineering) |
| November 14, 2014 | Prof. Kimani Toussaint |
Associate Professor Mechanical Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MLK Visiting Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Development of Multifunctional Plasmonic Nanoantenna Arrays (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Optics) |
| November 21, 2014 | Prof. Maria C. Yang |
Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Driving Early Stage Design Process through Design Representations (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Design) |