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. Sohel Anwar at soanwar@iupui.edu. Schedules of previous semesters may be accessed from the News and Events main page.

• January 26, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. M. Razi Nalim, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN.
  Title: Boosting Gas Turbine Energy Efficiency with Constant Volume Combustion

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• February 2, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Alan Jones, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN.
  Title: Self-Healing Polymer Technology

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• February 9, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Erdal Yilmaz, Research Associate, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN.
  Title: Fixed-Grids Methods for Moving Bodies in CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)

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• February 17, Friday, 10:30 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Mr. Daniel Aw, Graduate Student of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN.
  Title: Development of the Advanced Virtual Manufacturing Lab (AVML)

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• February 23, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Mr. Luke Jones, Graduate Student, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN.
  Title: Analysis & Validation of a Notched Fuel Pump Drive Shaft

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• March 1, Wednesday, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, Room SL 165 (Jointly with Dept. of Mathematical Sciences)
  Speaker: Dr. Luoding Zhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN.
  Title: Simulation of Elastic Filaments with a 2-D Viscous Pulsatile Flow

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• March 2, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: D. McGown, E. Smith, A. Koers, K. Iaizza, A. Wall, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN.
  Title: Presentation of Interns and Coops

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• March 9, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Tamer Wasfy, President, Advanced Science and Automation Corp, Indianapolis, IN.
  Title: Coupled Finite Element Modeling of Flexible Multibody Dynamics and Liquid Sloshing

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• March 24, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Ravi Penmetsa, Assistant Professor, Wright State University, Dayton, OH.
  Title: Reliability Based Design of Complex Aircraft Systems

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• March 30, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Xiaoping Yang, Research Scientist, Cummins Inc., Columbus, IN.
  Title: Investigating Machining Impact on Fatigue Variance: A Machining Quality Perspective

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• April 6, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. George Chiu, Associate Professor, Mechatronic Systems Research Laboratory (MSRL), School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
  Title: Modeling and Control of Electrophotography: From Artifact Reduction to Signature Embedding

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• April 13, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Tim Frazier, Technical Advisor, Department Head, Performance System Integration Advanced Engineering, Cummins Inc, Columbus, IN.
  Title: Performance Systems Integration for the Diesel Powertrain Beyond the Year 2007

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• April 20, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Chinbay Q. Fan, R&D Manager, Electrochemical Technology, Gas Technology Institute, Des Plaines, IL
  Title: Hydrogen Energy to Power the Future

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• April 27, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Mr. Andrew White and Mr. Josh Peters, BPMME Graduate Students, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI.
  Title: (ME 597 Projects) A Method for Determining Turbine Airfoil Geometry Parameters from a Set of Coordinates and A Study of the Applicability of Computational Fluid Dynamics to Knife Seal Design in the Gas Turbine Industry

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• July 14, Friday, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Room SL 220A
  Speaker: Mr. Dhruv Baronia, Master's Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI.
  Title: (Thesis Defense) Numerical Analysis of Hot Jet Injection and Premixed Flame Propagation in a Channel

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• August 7, Monday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room ET 137
  Speaker: Mr. Andrew White, BPMME Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI.
  Title: (ME 597 Project) A Method for Determining Turbine Airfoil Geometry Parameters from a Set of Coordinates, Part II
  Speaker: Mr. Joshua Peters, BPMME Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI.
  Title: (ME 597 Project) Development and Demonstration of a 3D CFD Methodology for Labyrinth Seal Studies in the Gas Turbine Industry
  

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