MME Graduate Seminars, Fall 2008
Date	Presenter	Abstract	Presentation
Sept. 15	Thomas Bruce	Delamination Fracture Mechanics of Continuous Fibre Polymer Composites
Sept. 15	Khaled Al-Aribe	Photo-responsive Hydrogel Valve for Controlling Flow through Microchannels
Sept. 22	Graham Hunt	The Aerodynamic Design of Automotive Cooling Fan Blades
Sept. 22	Mei Liu	Label-Free Molecular Interactions Studied by Back-Scattering Interferometry and Hydrodynamic Focusing
Sept. 29	K-H. Wehking	Structure & Fields of Activity of the Institute of Mechanical Handling and Logistics of the Univ. of Stuttgart
Oct. 6	Harish Pungotra	Efficient Algorithm to Detect Collision between Deformable B-spline Surfaces for Virtual Sculpting
Oct. 6	Cheryl Quenneville	Experimental and Computational Assessments of High-Impact Tibia Loading	n/a (confidential)
Oct. 20	Vineet Bhakhri	The Strain-rate Dependence of the Nanoindentation Stress of Gold
Oct. 20	Mohsen Mohammadi	Stress Concentration around a Circular Hole in Functionally Graded Solids
Oct. 27	Syed Zahir Husain	Over-Determined Formulation of Computational Fluid Dynamics Problems
Oct. 27	Khaled Sultan	Natural Convection and Nucleate Boiling in High Porosity Porous Media
Nov. 3	David Weaver	Flow-Induced Vibrations	unavailable
Nov. 10	Jonathan Weiler	The Development of Comprehensive Material Models of the Structure-Property Relationship
Nov. 10	Mohammad Hossain	Flow Instability Due to Presence of Distributing Wall Heating
Nov. 17	Angela Kedgley	Development of a Fluoroscopy-Based RSA System and its Preliminary Applications	n/a (confidential)
Nov. 17	German Kalugin	Use of Electromagnetic Effects for Flow Control
Nov. 24	Franco Berruti	Biofuels and Bioproducts: Issues and Opportunities
Dec. 1	William Lin	Large-scale Physical Simulation of a Downburst Outflow
Dec. 1	Rebecca Austman	Investigation of Bone Strains in the Distal Ulna Using Experimental & Finite Element Methods	unavailable
Dec. 8	Hao Liu	Controlled Synthesis of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes via Chemical Vapor Deposition
Dec. 8	Yadav Khanal	Cognitive Factors and Object-oriented Frameworks in Engineering Design