Lectures

Below are the archived lectures:


Spring 2004 Lectures
01/13/04 Dr. Anjaneyulu Krothapalli Energy as if People Mattered
01/20/04 Professor Jose V.C. Vargas Fuel cells and the hydrogen economy -thermodynamic optimization of internal structure and research perspectives

08/26/03 Dr. Farrukh Alvi Welcome and Introduction to Graduate Studies
09/02/03 Jeffrey N. Wagener and Philip J. Flater B.S. M.S. Summer Project presentation
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09/09/03 Students of Dr. Cesar Luongo NASA-sponsored Power and Propulsion Research at CAPS
09/16/03 Prof. Adrian Bejan Constructal Theory and Design
09/23/03 Michael Allen Nagel and Joe Clark Allard Summer Internship presentations
9/30/03 Dr. Daudi Waryoba Grain boundary characterization in drawn and annealed OFHC copper wires
10/07/03 Sanjeev Srivastava Multi Agent System for Predictive Reconfiguration of Shipboard Power Systems
10/14/03 Chika Okoro An Algorithm to Describe Pressure-Driven Ballistic Gun Performance
10/21/03 Huei-Hsin Chen Electrodeposition and Characterization of CuInSe2 on Flexible Polymer for Applications in Thin film Solar Cells
10/28/03 Dr. Peter J. Gielisse The Role of Nanomaterials in Future Engineering
11/04/03 James J. Beahn Control of Compressible Dynamic Stall using Microjets
11/18/03 Dr. Hans J. Schneider-Muntau Development of Pulse Magnets for Magnetic Fields up to 100 T
12/0 2/03 Sirish Namilae Atomic Simulation of Deformation of Carbon Nanotubes with Defects

03/25/03 Professor Eric Loth Generation of Micro-Bubbles and their Dispersion in Turbulent Flows
03/05/03 Dr. Weilin Qu Transport Phenomena in Single-Phase and Two-Phase Micro-Channel Heat Sinks
02/27/03 Mr. Kumar Bobba Generalized Hydrodynamic Stability: Theory, Computations and Experiments in Shear Flow Turbulence
02/20/03 Dr. G. Delagrammatakis Methodologies and Case Studies in Optimal Vehicle Design
02/13/03 Dr. Juan Carlos Ordoņez Energy-Systems Design: System Structure from Thermodynamic Optimization
02/11/03 Dr. Takao Suzuki Periodic flow separation control of an inlet diffuser and Feedback control using an inverse method of vortex imaging
02/06/03 Dr. Srikanth Vedantam Energy and Kinetics for Shape Memory Alloys
02/04/03 Ho-Myung Chang, Ph.D. Thermal Science in Cryogenic Refrigeration Systems
01/21/03 I. Wygnanski On the Dynamics of Controlled Separation and Reattachment of Turbulent Flow
01/14/03 Huadong Lou Active Control of Supersonic Impinging Jets Using Microjets

11/26/02 Madjid Fathi Applied Computational Methodologies for advance manufacturing
11/12/02 Ning Zhuang An Experimental Investigation of Supersonic Cavity Flows
10/29/02 Ho-Myung Chang Thermodynamics and Cryogenic Refrigeration for HTS Power Applications
10/22/02 Ghazal P. Saheli Statistical Continuum Mechanics Analysis of an Elastic Two-Isotropic-phase Composite material
09/10/02 D. R. Waryoba The Correlation between Recrystallization Kinetics and Microhardness in Drawn OFHC Copper Wires
09/03/02 Dr. Farrukh Alvi Welcome and Introduction to Graduate Study

04/16/02 Dr. Balakrishna Palanki Low Temperature Sintering - A Novel Technology in Materials Processing
04/09/02 Lei Wu
Ming Li
Web-Based Control of a Three-Tank System
Material Characterization Using Digital Speckle Photography Technique
04/02/02 T. Curry
Hiranmayi Palanki
Robust Fault Detection Using l1 Estimation and Fuzzy Logic
Stability and Quench Protection of YBCO Wires and Coils
03/28/02 S. Namilae
Xianglei Chen
Atomic Simulation of Grain Boundary Sliding
Micromechanics Based Modeling of the High Velocity Impact Response of Layered Heterogeneouns Materials
03/19/02 Dr. Joel W. House Thermo-Mechanical Processing of Tantalum
02/26/02 Mike Reed Advanced Technologies At General Atomics
02/19/02 Abdallah Mbaruku
Dongsheng Li
Effects of Fatigue Loading on HTS tapes
The texture evolution of linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) materials during uniaxial extension is studied using wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS)
02/05/02 Pan Zheng
Mohammad Kilani
Magnetic MEMS
Surface Micromachined Pumps
01/29/02 Dr. Dave Cartes Why Should You Join the Student Section of the ASME International
01/22/02 Su Jianhua Growth and Characterization of Mercury Cuprate Superconductors on Silver
01/14/02 Professor Theodore Van Duzer Applications of Unique Superconductor Quantum Phenomena in Electronics

12/04/01 Dr. Paul Becker Materials Challenges in Heavy Duty Diesel Engine Development
11/27/01 Carl A. Moore Cobots
11/09/01 Dr. William L. Dean How to Enjoy, Progress and Profit from a Diversified Engineering Career
10/23/01 Dr. David Cartes Optimization of electrical power conversion for a superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) system
10/16/01 Dr. Leon Van Dommelen Boundary layer separation control on a thin airfoil using suction.
10/09/01 Jon D. Brown Cultivation of the spirit of Entrepreneurship
09/25/01 Yanan Zhao
Shaolin Mao
A Genetic Search Approach to Unfalsified PI Control Design for a Weigh Belt Feeder
Investigation of index heating as source of quench in the NHMFL 45T hybrid superconducting outsert
09/18/01 Prof. Emmanuel Collins Robotics Program at FAMU/FSU
09/04/01 Prof. Walt Wager Kick off Workshop: Program for Instructional Excellence in Mechanical Engineering (PIE-ME)
08/28/01 Dr. Farukh Alvi Departmental Introdction for Incoming Graduate Students

04/17/01 Prof. Gary Settles Non-traditional Fluid Dynamics: Adventures Beyond the Realm
04/10/01 Prof. Alberto M. Cuitiño Solid Mechanics: An Atomistically Informed Continuum
03/27/01 Dr. Peter Chung Homogenization Techniques for the Multi-Scale Simulation of Solids
03/20/01 Dr. Jonathan Naughton Skin Friction Measurement in Aerodynamic Flows: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions
02/27/01 Dr. Vijay Arakeri Sonoluminescence: Making Light out of Sound
02/16/01 Professor Raj Rajagopal Modeling of Dissipative Process in Materials
02/06/01 Prof. C. J. Chen Development in Bio-magnetic Fluid Dynamics and Its Applications
01/30/01 Prof. Charles Merkle Pulse Detonation Modeling
01/23/01 Prof. Ganesh Raman Resonant Acoustics and its Suppression
01/16/01 Prof. Mark Sheplak A Micromachined Thermal Shear Stress Sensor

11/28/00 Ben Anders Biomimetic Flight
11/14/00 Prof. Rajat Mittal Numerical Simulation of Transitional and Turbulent Cardiovascular Flows
10/31/00 Prof. Amiya Mukherjee An Examination of the Constitutive Equation for Elevated Temp Plasticity
10/24/00 Daudi Waryoba Application of Orientation Imaging Microscopy in Quantifying Heavily Deformed OFHC Copper
10/17/00 Richard Meeker Jr., P.E. Process Control Engineering, A Practical Overview
10/10/00 Dr. Emmanuel Collins The Research Process: Thesis Preparation and Politics
10/02/00 Dr. Ken Yu Active Combustion Control For Advanced Propulsion Application
09/26/00 Dr. Hamid Garmestani Microstructure Sensitive Design: A New Paradigm in Highly Constrained Design
09/19/00 Prof. Louis N. Cattafesta III Active Control of Flow-Induced Cavity Resonance
09/12/00 Dr. Sheng-Yuh Jaw Development of Color Particle Image Velocimetry and Its Application in Rotating Flow
08/29/00 Dr. E. Collins Graduate Study at FAMU-FSU
08/08/00 Dr. Sam Awoniyi Do Engineers Need to Know About Kurt Godel's Incompleteness Theorem?
08/01/00 Dr. Simone Peterson Hruda Thermodynamics: What Student's Don't Know, and Professors WON'T Teach Them

07/11/00 Dr. George Buzyna The Taylor-Proudman Theorem
06/27/00 Dr. Hamid Garmestani Characterization of Materials Heterogeneity Using Statistical Continuum Approach
06/13/00 Dr. Farrukh S. Alvi Supersonic Impinging Jets and their Control
05/30/00 Dr. Peter Kalu Orientation Imaging Microscopy of Highly Deformed Cu-Based Materials
05/16/00 Dr. L. Van Dommelen   D'Alembert's Paradox
05/09/00 Dr. C.J. Chen History of Science and Technology

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