The University of Maine - Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Seminars

Graduate Program/Research - Mechanical Engineering Seminars

Spring 2009, 3:10 pm on Fridays in Boardman 220

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
Jan 30	Dustin McCann	Dynamic Analysis and Testing of Inflatable Fabric Structures for Space Applications
Feb 6	Xinfeng Xie	Carbon Materials Derived from Wood
Feb 13	Prof. Shahinpoor	Soft Ionic Polymeric Robots For Endovascular Brain Surgery
Feb 20	Prof. Sarvestani	Principles of Tissue Engineering
Feb 27	David LaBrecque	Extracting Energy from Flowing Fluids with a Flexing, Rotating Wing
March 20	Radek Glaser	Experimental investigations of Magnetic and Magneto-Rheological Materials and their properties
April 3	Christie Mahaffey	Using a Continuous Wavelet Transform to Characterize Gaits of Deep-diving Cetaceans
April 10	Patrick Bates and Raul Urbina	The Characterization and Design of Cross-Flow Tidal Turbines
April 24	Jessica K. Allen	Developing an Automated Acoustic Alarm to Prevent Large Whale Shipstrike Mortality Events
May 1	Andrew Goupee	Transient Thermoelastic Multiscale Analysis of Heterogeneous Materials

Fall 2008, 3:10 pm on Fridays in Boardman 220

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
Sept 12	Keith Berube	Initial Data Analysis of a Structural Health Monitoring System for Carbon Fiber Composite Strands in a Cable Stayed Bridge
Sept 19	Dr. Mohsen Shahinpoor	Smart Medical Implants
Sept 26	Dr. Sanjay Arwade	Using pattern recognition to solve mechanics problems
Oct 3	Dr. Shoreh Parandoosh	Development of pressure sensitive bio-adhesive hydrogel for epidermal application
Oct 17	Ronnie Oliver	The design of a stair climbing robotics platform, a companion robot predecessor
Oct 24	Dr. Ron LaComb	Second Harmonic Generation Imaging of Diseased States in Tissues
Oct 31	John Bridge	Alumino-Silicate (Geopolymer) Matrix-Ceramic Fiber Composites for High Temperature Structural Application
Nov 7	Mark Totten	Lockheed Martin’s Renewable Energy Interest
Nov 14	Radek Glaser	Smart MR Gates Design, Manufacturing, Testing and Applications
Nov 21	Yuezhong Feng	An array of parallel edge cracks with alternating lengths in a strip subjected to a thermal shock
Dec 5	Pei-Hsin Kuo	Effect of Temperature on Stiffness of Synthetic Surfaces and Racing Speed
Dec 12	Hind Derar	Effect of thermal protection system on vibration of aerospace structural panels

Spring 2008, 3:10 pm on Fridays in Boardman 220

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
Jan 25*	Prof. Shahinpoor	Ionic Polymer Conductor Nano-Composites as Distributed Nanosensors, Nanoactuators and Artificial Muscles
Feb 1	Prof. Peterson	Animals in Engineering
Feb 8	Lin Lin	In-situ Measurement of Interface Permeability
Feb 15	Raul Urbina	Vibration Monitoring of Rotating Machinery
Feb 22	Keith Berube	Variability of Marine Composite Material Properties in a Manufacturing Round Robin Study
Feb 29	Andy Goupee	Characterization of Random Heterogeneous Media
March 21	Douglas Dow	Finite Element Analysis to Predict Fatigue Failure of Hybrid Joints Subjected to Fully Reversed Loading
March 28	Hind Derar	Effect of Thermal Protection System on Vibration of Aerospace Structural Panels
April 4	Serdar Yorulmaz	Analysis and Testing of Laser Welded Steel Sandwich Panels
April 11	Prof. Davids	Analysis of Inflatable Fabric Beams and Arches
April 18	Prof. Jin	A Perturbation Solution for Magma-Driven Multiple Dike Propagation
April 25**	Mauricio Fernandez	Effects of temperature and primary creep in hybrid metal to composite bolted joints
May 2	Yu Fu	Residual strength of metal particulate reinforced ceramic composites with multiple cracks

* Venue: Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium (Room 165 of the Engineering and Science Building).

**Thesis defense at 11:00 AM

Fall 2007, 3:10 pm on Fridays, 220 Boardman Hall

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
Sept. 21	Ryan Beaumont	Direct numerical simulation of transition over realistic stenotic geometries
Sept. 28	Dominique Corriveau	Experimental Investigation into the Fatigue Life of Hybrid Joints under Fully Reversed Loading
Oct. 19	Prof. Bhaganagar	Direct numerical simulation as a tool to study natural systems
Oct. 26	Keith Berube	Field Monitoring of Bridges
Nov. 2
Nov. 9	Kyle Spratt	Design of a Torsional Wave Sensor
Nov. 16	J. Kaitlyn Allen	Population Dynamics of Right Whales in the Gulf of Maine
Nov. 23
Nov. 30
Dec. 7	Mehmet Sen	Proper orthogonal decomposition methodology to understand underlying physics of rough-wall turbulent boundary layer

Spring 2007, 3:10 pm on Fridays, 220 Boardman Hall

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
Feb 2	Lin Lin	Slow Wave Detectability Through Reflections at an Interface
Feb 16	Mick Peterson	Development of Total Management of Racing and Training Surfaces for Equine Athletes
Feb 23	Adam McNaughton	Processing and High Temperature Compression Testing of Monolithic Silicon Carbide (SiC)
Mar 30	Doug Read	Naval Architecture, Wave Resistance, and Stuff (abstract)
Apr 6	Dominique Corriveau	Experimental Investigation into the Fatigue Life of Hybrid Joints Under Fully Reversed Loading for Use in Naval Vessels
Apr 13	Prof. Senthil Vel	Multiscale Analysis — Background and Overview
Apr 20	Andy Goupee	Multiscale Analysis of Functionally Graded Materials (abstract)
May 18	Jean Paul Kabche, Ph.D.	Testing and Modeling of Fabric in Inflatable Structures

Fall 2006, 3:10 pm on Fridays, 220 Boardman Hall

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
Oct. 20	J. Kaitlyn Allen	Creating a Mortal Shipstrike Risk Assessment for Right Whales in the Bay of Fundy (abstract)
Oct. 27	Kate Beaumont	Impact Testing of Large Composite Hull Panels for the Mark V.1
Nov. 17	Chris Malm	Finite Element Analysis of Airbeams
Dec. 1	Andy Goupee	Multiscale Analysis and Design of Functionally Graded Materials: Macroscopic Transient Analysis of Arbitrary 2D Geometries (abstract)
Dec. 8	Mehmet Sen	Turbulent Flow Analysis for rough-surface using Snapshot Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) (abstract)
Dec. 15	Ashuman Singh

Spring 2006

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title

Feb. 17	Vince Cacesse	Overview of Aerospace and Ship Structures Research
Feb. 24	Christie Mahaffey	Qualitative GIS Modeling of Shipstrike Risk in the US Gulf of Maine
Mar. 10	Becky Woodward	Ph.D. Defense: SIFTING OUT THE SECRETS OF THE SEINERS OF THE SEA: USING MORPHOLOGY, OSTEOLOGY, AND DTAG DATA TO COMPARE SWIM PERFORMANCE IN FOUR SPECIES OF BALEEN WHALES
Mar. 24	Jacques Nader	Probabilistic Finite Element Analysis of Tension Test for Marine Grade Composite
Mar. 31	Andy Goupee	Optimization of Functionally Graded Plate Material Composition in Three Dimensions
April 7	Chris Malm
Apr. 14	Rajeev Baskiyar	Thermoelastic analysis of functionally graded tubes’
April 21	Don Bragg
April 28	Jean-Paul Kabche	Ph.D. Defense: Structural Testing and Analysis of Hybrid Composite/Metal Joints for High-Speed Marine Structures
May 5	Wenjin Luo

Fall 2005

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
August 12	Jose Daniel Melo	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte “Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of Composite Materials”
Sept. 16	Various	“Organizational Meeting Structure and Pizza at Pat’s”
Sept. 23	Keith Berube	“Variability in Flexural Response of E-Glass/Vinyl Ester Composites Fabricated using the VARTM Process”
Oct. 7	Eric Landis	Strength of Materials: Is Continuum Mechanics Obsolete
Oct. 21	Aaron Cohen	Zachry Professor of Engineering, Texas A&M University “The US Space Program Safety and Innovation”
Nov. 4	Zhihe Jin	“Some Studies on Fracture of Advanced Materials”
Nov 18	Michael “Mick” Peterson	“Ground Penetrating Radar for the Detection of Racetrack Sub-Surface Anomalies”
Dec. 2	Ryan Beaumont	“A Novel Meshing Algorithm for the Fundamental Study of Coronary Artery Disease”
Dec. 9	Jean-Paul Kabche

Spring 2005

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
Jan. 21	Jean-Paul Kabche	“Experimental Characterization of Hybrid Composite Metal Joints for Marine Structures”
Jan. 28	Andrew Goupee	“Optimization of Natural Frequencies of Bidirectional Functionally Graded Structures”
Feb. 4	Becky Woodward	“Experimental Modeling of Large Whale Entanglement Injuries”
Feb. 11	————-	No Seminar
Feb. 18	Jacob Pelletier	“Multi-objective Optimization of Functionally Graded Plates”
Feb. 25	Dr. T. Plona	“Slow Waves and Geophysical Exploration”
Mar. 4 & 11		Spring Break
Mar. 18	Prof. James Sucec	“Integral Calculation of Turbulent Boundary Layers Including Reynolds Number Effect on Thermal and Velocity Wakes”
Mar. 23-28	Visitors for Faculty Opening
Apr. 1		Seminar Cancelled due to Meeting
Apr. 8	Fadi ElChiti	“Development of Design Allowables for Woven Fabric Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composites for use in Marine Applications”
Apr.	Prof. K. Bhaganagar	“Numerical Simulation of turbulence using high performance computing: An overview of ongoing and future research in our group”
	John Forester