Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series
University of Pittsburgh
Fall Term (04-1)
Sep 26 “Integration of a Microsystem for Chemical and Biological Sensing”
Dr. Chung-Chiun Liu, Wallace R. Persons Professor of Sensor Technology and Control, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Case Western Reserve University
Oct. 10 “Theoretical
Foundations for the Analysis of Laminar and Turbulent Spray Flows”
Professor William A. Sirignano, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine
Oct 17 “One-Dimensional Nanostructures: Nanotubes, Nanowires, Nanobelts
and Their Sensors”
Professor Zhengwei Pan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Tennessee (Location TBA)
Oct. 24 “Fracture Initiation, Micromechanics, and
Manufacturing”
Dr. Ming Li, Section Head-Process Mechanics
Section
Alcoa Technical Center
Oct 31 “The Future of Nuclear Power”
Dr. John E. Goossen, Director of Science & Technology Dept.,
Westinghouse Electric Company
Nov. 7 “Analytical
and Test Methods used in Naval Shock Design”
Dr. Rudolph J. Scavuzzo, Consulting Engineer
Emeritus Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Akron School of Engineering
Nov. 14 “Transport
Phenomena in Microscale and Biomedical Applications using Ferrofluids”
Professor Ishwar Puri, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Nov. 21 "Droplet Spray Diffusion Flame"
Yoram Tambour, Stephen Berger Chair Professor in Aeronautical Engineering,
Technion, Israel (Location
TBA)
Dec. 5 “Wireless Acoustic Sensors and Developing the US S&E Workforce for
the 21st Century”
Dr. Vasundara V. Varadan
Division Director, Electrical & Communications Systems
The National Science
Foundation (Location TBA)