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Events
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…