Each semester, the Department of Mechanical Engineering holds research seminars which are open to all faculty and students. The department invites speakers from the department as well as outside on research topics of interest to the faculty and students. These seminars are held on Thursdays, 11:00 - 12:00 pm, in room SL 165, unless otherwise stated.

In the following, you will find the schedule for this semester's seminars along with the speaker and abstract information. (Click on the Title for the abstract.) Please check this page regularly for updated information. For more information, contact Dr. Sivakumar S. Krishnan at sskris@iupui.edu. Schedules of previous semesters may be accessed from the News and Events main page.

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• February 3, Thursday, 11 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Jack Pincus and Mr. Kurt Waldhuetter, Indiana University Research and Technology Center, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  Title: Technology Commercialization

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• February 17, Thursday, 11 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Prof. Yung Shin , Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
  Title: Intelligent Optimization and Control of Grinding Processes

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• February 24, Thursday, 11 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Nishant Nayan, Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana.
  Title: CFD Simulations Involving Flow and Mass Transfer in Pharmaceutical Isolators

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• March 3, Thursday, 11 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Mr. John Bowman , Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana.
  Title:  Cooling Challenges of Modern Truck Diesel Engines

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• March 10, Thursday, 10 am - 11:30 am, Room SL 165 (Note change of time)
  Speaker: Dr. Wayne Eckerle , Director of Research and Development, Cummins Engine Company, Columbus, Indiana.
  Title: Research and Development at Cummins

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• March 21, Monday, 10:45 am - 11:45 am, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Yun-Bo Yi , Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  Title: Clustering, Percolation and Mechanical Properties of Heterogeneous Multiscale Materials

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• March 22, Tuesday, 10:45 am - 11:45 am, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Alan Jones, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.
  Title: Adjusted Kinetics for Improved Autonomic Crack Healing During Fatigue

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• March 24, Thursday, 11 am - 12:30 pm, Room SL 165
  Coop and Internship Presentations

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• March 25, Friday, 10:45 am - 11:45 am, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Robert Liang, Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
  University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
  Title: Development of Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloy Composite Based Actuators

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• March 28, Monday, 10:30 am - 11:30 am, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Qin Ma, Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  Title: Micro-Scale Damage and Adhesion Degradation In Thermal Barrier Coating Systems

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• March 30, Wednesday, 10:45 am - 11:45 am, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Lan Jiang, Research Associate, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri.
  Title: Nanoscale Ultrafast Dynamics in Laser Solid Materials Interaction

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• April 4, Monday, 10:45 am - 11:45 am, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Sulin Zhang, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  Title: Atomistic and Multiscale Simulations of Nanostructured Materials

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• April 6, Wednesday, 9:45 am - 10:45 am, Room ET 137
  Speaker: Dr. Eduard G. Karpov, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  Title: Applications-Driven Multiresolution Approaches to Multiscale Computations

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• April 13, Wednesday, 10:45 am - 11:45 am, Room ET 137
  Speaker: Dr. Marwan Al-Haik, School of Computational Science and Information Technology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
  Title: Polymer Mediated Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes under High Magnetic Fields: Experimental and Computational Investigations

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• April 15, Friday, 9:00 am - 10:00 am, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Wahyu Lestari, Research Scientist, Advanced Materials and Structures Research Group, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH
  Title: Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures

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• April 18, Monday, 10:45 am - 11:45 am, Room ET 137
  Speaker: Dr. Guofeng Wang, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  Title: Toward the Nanoscale Design of Catalysts for Fuel Cells: A Computational Approach

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• April 22, Friday, 10 am - 11 am, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Mohammed Gad-El-Hak, The Inez Caudill Eminent Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
  Title: Flow Physics in Microdevices

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• April 28, Thursday, 11 am - 12 noon, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Stanley Chien, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  Title: Tools to Support Parallel Computing on Distributed Heterogeneous Computers

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• June 23, Thursday, 10 am - 11 am, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Kittisak Koombua, Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  Title: An Investigation of Mechanical Environment around a Tooth Root Using Finite Element Analysis (Thesis Defense)

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• July 11, Monday, 2 pm - 3 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Xiaoyang Sun, Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  Title: Monte Carlo Simulation of Hydrdogen Adsorption Capacity in Alkali-Doped Single-Wall and Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (Thesis Defense)

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• July 27, Wednesday, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Room SL 220A
  Speaker: Xiaofeng Li, Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  Title: A PDM-Based Integrated Product Development System for Concurrent Engineering (Thesis Defense)

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