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Spring 2004 Seminars

01/13/04 Dr. Anjaneyulu Krothapalli Energy as if People Mattered
01/20/04 Professor Jose V.C. Vargas Fuel cells and the hydrogen economy -thermodynamic optimization of internal structure and research perspectives
01/26/04 Dr. Dieter Wolf, Argonne National Lab Monday 4:30-6:00 pm Place: FSU Main Campus, CSIT, School of Computational Science & Information Technology, Dirac Science Library, 4th Floor, Room 499
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Fall 2003 Seminars

08/26/03 Dr. Farrukh Alvi Welcome and Introduction to Graduate Studies
09/02/03 Jeffrey N. Wagener B.S. MS Student presentation
09/09/03 Students of Dr. Cesar Luongo NASA-sponsored Power and Propulsion Research at CAPS
09/16/03 Prof. Adrian Bejan Constructal Theory and Design
09/23/03 Michael Nagel and Joe Allard Summer Internship presentations
09/30/03 Dr. Daudi Waryoba Grain boundary characterization in drawn and annealed OFHC copper wires
10/07/03 Sanjeev Srivastava Multi Agent System for Predictive Reconfiguration of Shipboard Power Systems
10/14/03 Chika Okoro An Algorithm to Describe Pressure-Driven Ballistic Gun Performance
10/21/03 Huei-Hsin Chen Electrodeposition and Characterization of CuInSe2 on Flexible Polymer for Applications in Thin film Solar Cells
10/28/03 Dr. Peter Gielisse The Role of Nanomaterials in Future Engineering
11/04/03 James J. Beahn Control of Compressible Dynamic Stall using Microjets
12/02/03 Sirish Namilai Atomic Simulation of Deformation of Carbon Nanotubes with Defects
Spring 2003 Seminars

01/14, 4:00 pm ET  Huadong Lou Active Control of Supersonic Impinging Jets Using Microjets
01/21, 4:00 pm ET  I. Wygnanski On the Dynamics of Controlled Separation and Reattachment of Turbulent Flow
02/04, 4:00 pm ET  Ho-Myung Chang, Ph.D. Thermal Science in Cryogenic Refrigeration Systems
02/06, 4:00 pm ET  Dr. Srikanth Vedantam Energy and Kinetics for Shape Memory Alloys
02/11, 4:00 pm ET  Dr.Takao Suzuki Periodic flow separation control of an inlet diffuser and Feedback control using an inverse method of vortex imaging
02/13, 4:00 pm ET  Dr.Juan Carlos Ordoņez Energy-Systems Design: System Structure from Thermodynamic Optimization
02/20, 4:00 pm ET  Dr. G. Delagrammatakis Methodologies and Case Studies in Optimal Vehicle Design
02/27, 4:00 pm ET  Mr. Kumar Bobba Generalized Hydrodynamic Stability: Theory, Computations and Experiments in Shear Flow Turbulence
03/05, 4:00 pm ET  Dr. Weilin Qu Transport Phenomena in Single-Phase and Two-Phase Micro-Channel Heat Sinks
03/25, 4:00 pm ET  Professor Eric Loth Generation of Micro-Bubbles and their Dispersion in Turbulent Flows
Fall 2002 Seminars

09/03, 4:00 pm ET  Dr. Farrukh Alvi Welcome and Introduction to Graduate Study
09/10, 4:00 pm ET  D. R. Waryoba The Correlation between Recrystallization Kinetics and Microhardness in Drawn OFHC Copper Wires
10/22, 4:00 pm ET  Ghazal P. Saheli Statistical Continuum Mechanics Analysis of an Elastic Two-Isotropic-phase Composite material
10/29, 4:00 pm ET  Ho-Myung Chang Thermodynamics and Cryogenic Refrigeration for HTS Power Applications
11/12, 4:00 pm ET  Ning Zhuang An Experimental Investigation of Supersonic Cavity Flows
11/26, 4:00 pm ET  Madjid Fathi Applied Computational Methodologies for advance manufacturing
Spring 2002 Seminars

01/08, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Dave Cartes Introduction
01/14, 4:00 pm ET  Prof. Theodore Van Duzer Applications of Unique Superconductor Quantum Phenomena in Electronics
01/22, 4:15 pm ET  Su Jianhua Growth and Characterization of Mercury Cuprate Superconductors on Silver
01/29, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Dave Cartes Why Should You Join the Student Section of the ASME International
02/05, 4:15 pm ET  Mohammad Kilani
Pan Zheng 		Surface Micromachined Pumps
Magnetic MEMS
02/18, 5:00 pm ET  Ms. Elizabeth Abbott Florida Power and Light and Electricity for the Future
02/19, 4:15 pm ET  Abdallah Mbaruku
Dongsheng Li 		Effects of Fatigue Loading on HTS tapes
The texture evolution of linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) materials during uniaxial extension is studied using wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS)"
02/26, 4:15 pm ET  Mike Reed Advanced Technologies At General Atomics
03/19, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Joel W. House Thermo-Mechanical Processing of Tantalum
03/28, 4:15 pm ET  S. Namilae
Xianglei Chen 		Atomic Simulation of Grain Boundary Sliding
Micromechanics Based Modeling of the High velocity Impact Response of Layered Heterogeneous Materials
04/02, 4:15 pm ET  T. Curry

Hiranmayi Palanki 		Robust Fault Detection Using Robust l1 Estimation and Fuzzy Logic
Stability and Quench Protection of YBCO Wires and Coils
04/09, 4:15 pm ET  Lei Wu
Ming Li 		Web-Based Control of a Three-Tank System
Material Characterization Using Digital Speckle Photography Technique
04/16, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Balakrishna Palanki Low Temperature Sintering - A Novel Technology in Materials Processing
Fall 2001 Seminars
08/28, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Farukh Alvi Departmental Introdction for Incoming Graduate Students
09/04, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. Walt Wager Kick off Workshop: Program for Instructional Excellence in Mechanical Engineering (PIE-ME)
09/18, 4:15 pm ET   Dr. Emmanuel Collins Robotics Program at FAMU/FSU
09/25, 4:15 pm ET  Yanan Zhao
Shaolin Mao		 A Genetic Search Approach to Unfalsified PI Control Design for a Weigh Belt Feeder
Investigation of index heating as source of quench in the NHMFL 45T hybrid superconducting outsert
10/02, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. Walt Wager PIE-ME (Faculty Only)
10/09, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Jon D. Brown The Engineer and Entepreneurship
10/16, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Leon Van Dommelen Boundary layer separation control on a thin airfoil using suction. Postscript version
10/23, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. David Cartes Optimization of electrical power conversion for a superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) system.
10/30, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. Walt Wager PIE-ME (Faculty Only)
11/09, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. William L. Dean How to Enjoy, Progress and Profit from a Diversified Engineering Career
11/27, 4:15 pm ET  Carl A. Moore Cobots
12/04, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Paul Becker Materials Challenges in Heavy Duty Diesel Engine Development
Spring 2001 Seminars
01/16, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. Mark Sheplak A Micromachined Thermal Shear Stress Sensor
01/23, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. Ganesh Raman Resonant Acoustics and its Suppression
01/30, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. Charles Merkle Pulse Detonation Modeling
02/06, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. C. J. Chen Development in Bio-magnetic Fluid Dynamics and Its Applications
02/16, 2:00 pm ET  Prof. Raj Rajagopal Modeling of Dissipative Process in Materials
02/27, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Vijay Arakeri Sonoluminescence: Making Light out of Sound
03/20, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. Jonathan Naughton Skin Friction Measurement in Aerodynamic Flows: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions
03/27, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Peter Chung Homogenization Techniques for the Multi-Scale Simulation of Solids
04/06, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. K. Ravi-Chandar Dynamic Failure in Polymers
04/10, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. Alberto M. Cuitiño Solid Mechanics: An Atomistically Informed Continuum
04/17, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. Gary Settles Non-traditional Fluid Dynamics: Adventures Beyond the Realm

Fall 2000 Seminars
11/28, 4:15 pm ET  Ben Anders Biomimetic Flight
11/14, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. Rajat Mittal Numerical Simulation of Transitional and Turbulent Cardiovascular Flows
10/31, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. Amiya Mukherjee An Examination of the Constitutive Equation for Elevated Temp Plasticity
10/24, 4:15 pm ET  Daudi Waryoba Application of Orientation Imaging Microscopy in Quantifying Heavily Deformed OFHC Copper
10/17, 4:15 pm ET  Richard Meeker Jr., P.E. Process Control Engineering, A Practical Overview
10/10, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Emmanuel Collins The Research Process: Thesis Preparation and Politics
10/02, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Ken Yu Active Combustion Control For Advanced Propulsion Application
09/26, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Hamid Garmestani Microstructure Sensitive Design: A New Paradigm in Highly Constrained Design
09/19, 4:15 pm ET  Prof. L. N. Cattafesta III Active Control of Flow-Induced Cavity Resonance
09/12, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. Sheng-Yuh Jaw Development of Color Particle Image Velocimetry and Its Application in Rotating Flow
08/29, 4:15 pm ET  Dr. E. Collins Graduate Study at FAMU-FSU

Summer 2000 Seminars
08/01, 4:00 pm ET  Dr. S. Awoniyi Do Engineers Need to Know About Kurt Godel's Incompleteness Theorem?
07/25, 4:00 pm ET  Dr. S. Peterson Hruda Thermodynamics: What students don't know and professors won't teach them
07/11, 2:00 pm ET  Dr. G. Buzyna The Taylor-Proudman Theorem
06/27, 4:00 pm ET  Dr. H. Garmestani Characterization of Materials Heterogeneity Using Statistical Continuum Approach
06/13, 4:00 pm ET  Dr. F. Alvi Supersonic Impinging Jets and Their Control
05/30, 4:00 pm ET  Dr. P. Kalu Orientation Imaging Microscopy of Highly Deformed Cu-Based Materials
05/16, 4:00 pm ET  Dr. L. Van Dommelen   D'Alembert's Paradox
05/09, 4:00 pm ET  Dr. C.J. Chen History of Science and Technology

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