MME Graduate Seminars, Winter 2009
Date	Presenter	Abstract	Presentation
Jan. 12	Bipasha Bose	Local Plastic Deformation of Zr-Nb 2.5% CANDU Pressure Tubes
Jan. 12	Khaled El-Bannan	Development of a Novel Piezoelectric inchworm actuator for MR guided surgery
Jan. 19	Taravat Khadivi	Numerical simulation of flow over low aspect ratio elliptical cavities
Jan. 19	Kar Man Leung	Exploring bacterial nanowires: functions, properties and applications	not available
Jan. 26	Sam Asokanthan	From Spinning Tops to MEMS Gyroscopes - A Multi-Body Dynamic Journey	not available
Feb. 2	Dong Wang	Design and Implementation of Diesel Engine Emissions Control Models through Numerical and Experimental Approaches
Feb. 2	Mihnea Ionescu	Carbon Nanotube Synthesis via Spray Pyrolysis CVD Method
Feb. 9	Aidan Keikhaee	Effect of Three-Dimensional Distributed Roughness on the Laminar-Turbulent Transition
Feb. 9	Behzad Ghafouri	In-Situ Performance of Automotive Cooling Fans
Feb. 23	Botao Peng	A New Approach to Specify Inlet Boundary Conditions for CFD Modeling on Hydrodynamics in CFB Riser
Feb. 23	Joel Book	Modal Characterization of Micron-Scale Structures
Mar. 2	Yu Liu	Friction Force Microscopy at Nanoscale
Mar. 2	Yougui Chen	Doping Effects on Carbon Nanotubes as Catalyst Supports For PEMFCs
Mar. 9	Slobodon P. Simonovic	Climate Change and Water Management
Mar. 16	Lee Betchen	Optimization of the Pore Structure of High-Conductivity Porous Foams
Mar. 16	Pun-Pang (Matthew) Shiu	Rapid Fabrication of Micromold Masters for Polymeric Microfluidic Devices
Mar. 23	Kuldeep Sareen	Accurate Surface Reconstruction from Large and Partially Spurious Point Cloud Data
Mar. 23	Shadi Keshavarzmanesh	Adaptive Assembly Process Planning and Control
Mar. 30	Rajeev Kumar	Direct Numerical Simulation of the Flow Past a Surface-Mounted Square Prism of Finite Height
Mar. 30	Marin Vratonjic	The importance of disturbances in the biomechanical forces
Apr. 6	Hadi Babaei	Study and Development of Thermoacoustic Devices
Apr. 6	Adam Kirchhefer	Aerodynamics of White-Throated Sparrows
Apr. 13	Jin Jiang	Nuclear Power Plants and their Control Systems