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August 27, 2009 @ 11:00 am
Bourns Hall A171
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Health Monitoring of Drive Connected Three-Phase Induction Motors from Wired Towards Wireless Sensor Networks Xin Xue, Ph.D. Candidate Advisor: Professor V. Sundararajan Wireless sensor network (WSN), one of the featured technologies that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has identified to help…
June 10, 2009 @ 1:00 pm
Bourns A277
Kinetics of Soot Oxidation by NO2 Hao-Wei Wu Department of Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Professor Heejung Jung Abstract: Soot is a byproduct of incomplete combustion of hydrocarbon fuels. When it is emitted to the ambient air, it is considered as a pollutant, and it can cause health hazard once inhaled into human bodies.…
June 05, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Bourns Hall A265
Engineering Thrills: A Lifetime of Amusement Ride Design William Watkins BME, Ohio State University Former Chief Mechanical Engineer Walt Disney Imagineering William Watkins will share his memories of the design and construction of Space Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain roller coaster rides at Disneyland and Walt Disney World…
June 04, 2009 @ 10:00 am
WCH Room 203
Thermal Rectification Effect caused by Ballistic Phonon Propagation through Asymmetric Nano-Structures John P. Miller Department of Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Professor Christopher Dames Abstract: Thermal rectification is a phenomenon where heat is transported though a device more easily in one direction than in the…
May 29, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Bourns Hall A265
Optical and Thermal Properties of Highly Ordered Mesoporous Thin Films Dr. Laurent Pilon Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of California, Los Angeles www.seas.ucla.edu/~pilon/  
May 22, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Bourns Hall A265
Biophotonics Dr. Javier González Department of Physics and Engineering San Luis Potosi Autonomous University San Luis Potosi, Mexico Several projects that involve the use of diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and Infrared Imaging for clinical applications will be presented. These projects resulted from a…
May 20, 2009 @ 1:00 pm
WCH Room 203
Laboratory and Field Investigation of Buoyant Plume Structure and Ground Level Concentration Shiyan Chen Department of Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Professor Marko Princevac Abstract: Atmospheric surface layer (ASL) is a part of the atmosphere that is strongly affected by Earth's surface. Biosphere is located within ASL,…
May 15, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Bourns Hall A265
Elastic Effects in Granular Flows Dr. Charles S. Campbell University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453 USA Previously, granular flows had been divided into (1) the slow, quasistatic regime using models born of metal plasticity theory and (2) the fast, rapid-flow regime using models born of the kinetic theory of…
May 08, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Bourns Hall A265
Granular Flows: Rheology and Booming Sand Dunes Dr. Melany L. Hunt Department of Mechanical Engineering California Institute of Technology Flows of dry particulate material as well as liquid-solid flows are ubiquitous in industrial and geophysical environments, such as debris flows, slurries, mining and milling operations, and…
May 01, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Bourns Hall A265
Direct Numerical Simulation of the Flow around a Golf Ball Distinguished Speaker Dr. Kyle D. Squires Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona Since the accidental discovery of drag reduction by surface roughening, golfers and equipment manufacturers have sought to optimize dimple…