Mechanical Engineering

ME Department Seminar Series - Spring 2011 Speakers


Speaker Affiliation  Date  Location  Presentation Title  Abstract 

Maureen Clemmons



Transformations,  Winnetka, California

Feb. 18  

Vester Hughes Auditorium - Caruth Hall 

Wind, Pyramids & Obelisks: Using the Wind to Build the Megaliths of Egyptian Antiquity

 Details

Pia Vogel

SMU    Feb. 25 Huitt-Zollars Pavilion

Nature's Nanomotors: Billions of Years of Darwinian Engineering

 Details
Khosrow Behbehani UT Arlington March 25   Huitt-Zollars Pavilion Sleep Disordered Breathing Detection Using Spectrogram of Features Derived From Nocturnal Electrocardiogram  Details
Joseph Katz Johns Hopkins University April 1 Huitt-Zollars Pavilion

The Impact of Small Scale Eddies Generated by Roughness Elements on the Characteristics of Turbulence in a Rough Wall Boundary Layer 



 Details

 SWMLS

Mory Gharib

Caltech April 8

Junkins 113

Lessons for Bio-Inspired Design: Morpho-dynamics of embryonic heart



 Details

 SWMLS

Tyler Nichols SMU     April 15 Junkins 110 The Effect of Vehicle Configuration on the Performance of Pulsed Jet Propulsion  Details
Jeong-Bong Lee    UT Dallas    April 29 Huitt-Zollars Pavilion

MEMS-Enabled Tunable Nanophotonics

 Details