ME Seminar Series

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Coordinator: William S. Oates

Syllabus:

Instructions for Speakers

Place and Time:

Contacts:

Prof. William S. Oates

Ms. Andrea Stanley

Mr. George Green

Seminar topics:
Research, Professional development, Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, September 4, 2007 Prof. Steve Van Sciver, "How to Write a Technical Paper", Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University.

Monday, September 10, 2007 Wei Ji, "Neutronic Analysis of the Stochastic Distribution of Particle Fuel in the Very High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (VHTR)" Doctoral Candidate, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan

Tuesday, September 18, 2007, Prof. Alex Povitsky, Combined Thermal and Gas Dynamics Numerical Model of Laser Ablation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Akron

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Prof. Irinel Chiorescu, Quantum Computing, Department of Physics, Florida State University. Molecular spins on the road of quantum computation

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 Prof. Anjaneyulu Krothapalli, "Multi-generation Concentrating Solar-Hydrogen Power System", Department of Mechanical Engineering,Florida State University.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 Mr. Joe Auchter. "Modeling of Wheeled Mobile Robots Using Dextrous Manipulation Kinematics", Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student (Advisor: Prof. Carl Moore), Florida State University. Mr. Eric Coyle "Terrain Input Classification", Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student (Advisor: Prof. Emmanuel Collins), Florida State University

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Prof. Jonathan Clark, High Performance Mobile Robots, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Dr. Betty Presnell, "How to Write a Great Business Plan," Associate Director of the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship, Presentation slides

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Mr. Steven Downey. "Complimentary use of Auger Spectroscopy and Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Identifying sub-micron precipitates", Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student (Advisor: Prof. Peter Kalu),

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 Prof. Ongi Englander, "Direct Micro-to-Nano Integration via Localized Synthesis of One-Dimensional Nanostructures", Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Prof. Jacob Jones, Ferroelectric materials, Department of Material Science, University of Florida.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Mr. John Fraser, Gus Ray, and Jack Sams, Entrepreneur Ventures , Office of IP Development and Commercialization, Florida State University.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007 Prof. Xiaoqiang Wang, Phase Field Modeling Applications in Biology, School of Computational Science, Florida State University.