Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Previous Seminars

Spring Quarter 2022

Friday, April 1
Speaker: Gi-Dong Sim
Title: Understanding the Mechanical Behavior of Small-scale Materials: Small for the sake of Big
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: SungWoo Nam

Friday, April 8
Speaker: Johann F. Osma
Title: Bio-nanotechnology and microsystems for different industrial applications
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: SungWoo Nam

Friday, April 15
Speaker: Kejie Zhao
Title: Mechanics of Redox Active Materials
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Mark Walter

Friday, April 22
Speaker: Satyandra K. Gupta
Title: Additive Manufacturing with Robots: Improving Part Strength, Processing Speed, and Process Flexibility
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Sasha Voloshina

Friday, April 29
Speaker: Dr. Anatoly Zlotnik 
Title: Uncertainty Management in Gas Pipeline Operations
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: David Copp

Friday, May 6
SpeakerJ.S. Chen
Title: Meshfree Method after 20 Years and its New Application to Data-Driven Computational Mechanics
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Ramin Bostanabad

Friday, May 13
SpeakerPerry Johnson
Title: On the Physics and Simulation of Turbulence
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Feng Liu

Friday, May 20
SpeakerDavid Blunck
Title: Better Understanding Ignition and Flow Development: Case Studies of Using Infrared Thermography to Study Flows
Location: Zoom Link 
Host: Vince McDonell

Friday, May 27
SpeakerTing Zhu
Title: Mechanics of extremely heterogeneous materials
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Penghui Cao

 

Winter Quarter 2022

Friday, January 14
Speaker: Xian Shi
Title: Enabling Ultra-High-Efficiency Propulsion and Power Generation: Detonation Chemistry, Dynamics, and Control
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Bihter Padak

Friday, January 28
Speaker: Wendy Gu
Title: Nano-Architected Materials from Colloidal Nanoparticles
Location: Zoom Link TBA

Friday, February 4
Speaker: Dr. Jacqueline Huynh
Title: Flight Procedure Noise Modeling and Validation for Current and Future Aircraft
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Dimitri Papmoschou

Friday, February 11
Speaker: Prof. George Haller
Title: Reduced Modeling of Non-Linearizable Dynamics from Equations and Data
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Haithem Taha

Tuesday, February 22
Speaker: John S. Baras
Title: From Robust Control to Robust Machine and Reinforcement Learning: A Unifying Theory via Performance and Risk Tradeoff
Location: ISEB Colloquium 1200 

Friday, February 25
Speaker: Christian Hubicki
Title: Robots that Think on their Feet: Algorithms for Rapidly Adaptive Bipedalism
Location: Zoom Link

Friday, March 4
Speaker: Negar Mehr
Title: Safe and Interactive Autonomy: Learning and Control for Multi-Agent Interactions
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Solmaz Kia

Friday, March 11
Speaker: Mark McDannel
Title: An Anteater’s 43 Years in Environmental Engineering: from the Opposed Jet Combustor to Food Waste Recycling
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Vince McDonell

 

Fall Quarter 2021

Friday, October 8
Speaker: Peyman Givi
Title: Turbulent Combustion Computation in the Age of Big Data and Quantum Information
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Feng Liu

Friday, October 22
Speaker: Necmiye Ozay
Title: Coordination of for large collections of dynamical systems with constraint satisfaction guarantees
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Tryphon Georgiou

Friday, October 29
Speaker: Magnus Egerstedt
Title: Constraint-Based Control Design for Long Duration Autonomy
Location: TBA
Host: Camilo Vélez Cuervo

Friday, November 5
Speaker: Nicholas R. Glavin
Title: Enabling Multifunctional Sensors with 2D Materials
Location: TBA
Host: SungWoo Nam

Friday, December 3
Speaker: Jinchao Xu
Title: Deep Learning and Scientific Computing
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Feng Liu

 

Spring Quarter 2021

Friday, April 9
Speaker: Gretar Tryggvason
Title: Numerical Simulations of Complex Multiphase Flows: Opportunities and Challenges
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Perry Johnson

Friday, April 16
Speaker: Yannis Kevrekidis
Title: Reconcilable Differences
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Tryphon Georgiou

Friday, April 23
Speaker: Emre Neftci
Title: Data and Power Efficient Intelligence with Neuromorphic Hardware
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Yoonjin Won

Friday, April 30
Speaker: Eric Diller
Title: Micro-Scale Surgery: Using Magnetic Fields to Control Tiny Robots in the Gut and Brain
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Camilo Velez Cuervo

Friday, May 7
Speaker: Timothy W. Simpson
Title: Design for Metal Additive Manufacturing: Three Use Cases and Their Implications 
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Ramin Bostanabad 

Friday, May 14
Speaker: Said Elghobashi
Title: How do dispersed inertial particles modify turbulent flows?
Location: Zoom Link

Friday, May 21
Speaker: Kristi Morgansen
Title: Integrated Sensing and Actuation for Robust Flight Systems
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Haithem Taha

Friday, May 28
Speaker: Luca Mastropasqua
Title: Thermo-electrochemical conversion and storage of chemicals for a net-zero industrial sector
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Jacob Brouwer

 

Winter Quarter 2021

Friday, January 8
Speaker: Amit Dhadwal
Title: An Engineering Foundation to a Non-Engineering Career Path: Life lessons learnt as a former UCI student
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Roger Rangel

Friday, January 15
Speaker: Phillip Westmoreland
Title: Combustion, a transdisciplinary intersection of molecular and thermomechanical physics 
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Bihter Padak

Friday, January 22
Speaker: Helen Huang
Title: Advancing Multimodal Neuromechanics and Understanding of Brain Dynamics of Human Locomotion
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Sasha Voloshina

Friday, January 29
Speaker: Ananya Renuka Balasrishna
Title: Mathematical design of energy-related materials
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Mark Walter

Friday, February 5
Speaker: Marios Soteriou
Title: Progress Toward Making Reacting LES Predictive
Location: Zoom Link
Host: William Sirignano

Friday, February 12
Speaker: Naomi Ehrich Leonard
Title: Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics: Consensus and Dissensus with Tunable Sensitivity to Input
Location: Zoom Link
HostSolmaz Kia

Friday, February 19
Speaker: JoAnn Lighty
Title: Developing Technologies for Chemical-looping with Oxygen Uncoupling Utilization
Location: Zoom Link
HostBihter Padak

Friday, February 26
Speaker: Camilo Vélez-Cuervo
Title: Engineering materials for next-generations microrobots
Location: Zoom Link

Friday, March 5
Speaker: Kevin Hemker
Title: Nanotwinned Ni-alloys with Impressive Properties and Stability
Location: Zoom Link
Host; Penghui Cao

 

Fall Quarter 2020

Friday, October 16
Speaker: George Em Karniadakis
Title: Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for Fluid Mechanics and Beyond
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Said Elghobashi

Friday, October 23
Speaker: Marcias Martinez
Title: ALEX - The Medical Doctor of the Aerospace Industry
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Edwin Hernandez

Friday, October 30
Speaker: Karen A. Thole
Title: Directional Effects of Additively Manufactured Components
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Vince McDonnell

Friday, November 6
Speaker: Michael Alley
Title: Rethinking Research Presentations: The Assertion-Evidence Approach
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Natascha Buswell

Friday, November 13
Speaker: Frank Allgöwer
Title: Data and/or controls - is control theory becoming obsolete?
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Faryar Jabbari

Friday, November 20
Speaker: Elaine Oran
Title: Flames, Fire Whirls, and Blue Whirls: What more can there be?
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Feng Liu

Friday, December 4
Speaker: Maria Prandini
Title: Multi-agent decision-making with application to energy systems
Location: Zoom Link
Host: Faryar Jabbari

 

Spring Quarter 2020

Friday, April 17
Speaker: Marc Madou
Title: From carbon origami to graphene bridges: Controlling Carbon 3D Shapes, Microstructure and Function
Location: Webinar. Details TBA

Friday, April 24
Speaker: Howon Lee
Title: Digital 4D Printing for Engineered Living Materials
Location: Webinar. Details TBA

Friday, May 1
Speaker: S. Elghobashi
Title: Effect of Forced-Air Warning on Pathogens Dispersion in an Operating Room
Location: Webinar. Details TBA

Friday, May 8
Speaker: SungWoo Nam
Title: Mechanically-coupled Properties in Two-dimensional Van der Waals Materials
Location: TBA

Friday, May 15
Speaker: Chris Dames
Title: Nanoscale thermal metrology using SEM, TEM, and confocal microscopy
Location: TBA

Friday, May 22
Speaker: Khammash Mustafa
Title: Cybergenetics: Theory and methods for building genetic control systems in living cells
Location: TBA

Friday, May 29
Speaker: Jeff S. Shamma
Title: Game Theory and Self-Organizing Decision Systems
Location: TBA

 

Winter Quarter 2020

Friday, January 17
Speaker: Terry J. Hendricks
Title: Innovative Thermal System Design & Economic Paradigms Driving Low- and High-Temperature Energy Recovery & Transport Opportunities in Terrestrial & Space Applications
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, January 24
Speaker: Keonwook Kang
Title: Computer simulation, a powerful tool for studying physical systems
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, January 31
Speaker: Michael S. Braasch
Title: Inertial Navigation Systems and Aiding
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 7
Speaker: Jonathan Freund
Title: Laser-induced breakdown for ignition and other stories in plasma-coupled combustion
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 14
Speaker: Allen Tannenbaum
Title: Integrative Analysis of High-Dimensional Data
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 21
Speaker: Nosang Vincent Myung
Title: With the Sense of Smell, the World can be Colorful
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 28
Speaker: Brandon Sorbom
Title: SPARC and the Path to High Field Fusion
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, March 6
Speaker: Chang-Jin "CJ" Kim
Title: Drag Reduction of Watercraft: Microfluidics Applied to Macro Flows
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

 

Spring Quarter 2019

Friday, April 12
Speaker: Catherine Berdanier
Title: Mixed Methods Approaches to Studying Doctoral Engineering Attrition, Persistence, and Cognition
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, April 19
Speaker: Yasser Aboelkassem 
Title: Multiscale Modeling of Cardiac Blood Flow Dynamics from Genotype-to-Phenotype
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, April 26
Speaker: Paulo Tabuada 
Title: Secure state-estimation and control for dynamical systems under adversarial attacks
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 3
Speaker: Gobind Singh Bisht
Title: Chemical patterning technologies for scaling IC manufacturing beyond the reach of optical lithography
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 10
Speaker: Girish Krishnan
Title: Distributed Compliance: From Monolithic Systems to Soft Robots
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 17
Speaker: Nasr M. Ghoniem
Title: Multiscale-Multiphysics Modelling of the Mechanics of Extreme Environment Materials
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Wednesday, May 22
Samueli School Distinguished Lecture Speaker: Giorgio Rizzoni 
Title: Future mobility: the transition to smart cities and connected and automated vehicles
Location: Calit2 Auditorium

Friday, May 24
Speaker: Prab R. Bandaru
Title: Layered thermal metamaterials for the efficient directing, harvesting, and dissipation of heat
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 31
Speaker: Junmin Wang
Title: Personalized Vehicle Control for Energy Efficiency and Driving Safety Enhancements
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Winter Quarter 2019

Friday, January 11
Speaker: James W. Gregory 
Title: Unsteady Compressible Aerodynamics in a Time-Varying Freestream
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, January 18
Speaker: Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi
Title: TEAM-CoSTAR at DARPA SubTerranean Challenge: Collaborative Autonomous Robots to Explore Extreme and High-risk Terrains
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, January 25
Speaker: Alexander A. Balandin
Title: Unique Heat Conduction Properties of Graphene - Applications in Thermal Management
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 1
Speaker: Kaushik Bhattacharya
Title: Liquid crystal elastomers
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 8
Speaker: J. Michael McCarthy
Title: Design of LInkage Systems to Draw Specified Curves
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 15
Speaker: Marc Madou
Title: Novel Strategies in Carbon Micro and Nanofabrication
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 19
Speaker: Kui Jiao
Title: MAE Special Seminar: Multiphase multi-scale transport in proton exchange membrane fuel cell
Location: EG 4211

Friday, February 22
Speaker: Cheng Sun
Title: Self-organization of defects in materials under irradiation
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, March 1
Speaker: Amir Faghri
Title: Advances and Opportunities of Integrating Heat Pipe Concepts in Active and Passive Energy Systems
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, March 8
Speaker: Eric Sunada
Title: JPL’s  Thermal Control Technologies for Future Space Science Exploration
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Fall Quarter 2018

Friday, October 12
Speaker: Mary L. 'Missy' Cummings
Title: A Machine Learning Approach to Modeling Human Interaction with Autonomous Vehicles
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, October 19
Speaker: Sabah Bux
Title: High-Efficiency Lanthanide Thermoelectric Materials for Space Applications
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, October 26
Speaker: Francesco Bullo
Title: Stochastic Vehicle Routing for Max Entropic Surveillance
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, November 2
Speaker: Fabio Bressan
Title: Design and Manufacturing process with composite materials, state-of-the-art
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, November 9
Speaker: Kostas Kardis
Title: Modeling, Planning, and Control of Uncertain Mobile Robotic Systems
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, November 30
Speaker: Mitul Luhar
Title: Model-based Design of Active and Passive Flow Control for Wall Turbulence
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

 

Spring Quarter 2018

Friday, April 6
Speaker: Satyandra K. Gupta
Title: Smart Robotic Assistants for Manufacturing Applications
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, April 13
Speaker: Dennice Gayme
Title: Wind Farm Modeling and Control for Power Grid Support
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, April 20
Speaker: John Vassberg
Title: Advanced Concepts Design Center and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, April 27
Speaker: Tim Fisher
Title: Thermal Materials and Fast Transient Processes for Aerospace (and more)
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 4
Speaker: Marcus Herrmann
Title: Integrated Turbulence Simulations and Multiphase Research
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 11
Speaker: Chiara Daraio
Title: Meta-materials with Locally Addressable Properties - from Self-folding to Autonomous Propulsion
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 18
Speaker: Aaron Ames
Title: Safety-critical Control of Dynamic Robotic Systems
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 25
Speaker: Robert M'Closkey
Title: Advances in CVG Resonator Modeling and Offset Compensation
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, June 1
Speaker: Wilson Chiu
Title: Synchrotron-based Hard X-Ray Microscopy: A Tool for 3-D Spectroscopic Imaging at the Nanoscale
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

 

Winter Quarter 2018

Friday, January 12
Speaker: David A. Howe
Title: Advanced Position, Navigation, Timing (PNT) within an LTE Network
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, January 19
Speaker: Huajian Gao
Title: Mechanics of cell-nanomaterial interactions
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, January 26
Speaker: Antonio Sanchez
Title: On the bulk motion of the cerebrospinal fluid in the spinal canal
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 2
Speaker: Scott Moura
Title: Identification, Control, and Fault Diagnostics of PDE Battery Electrochemistry Models
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 9
Speaker: Choongho Yu
Title: Energy Conversion and Storage with Nanostructured Graphitic Carbon
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 16
Speaker: Dimitri Papamoschou
Title: Reduction of Jet Noise for Future Supersonic Commercial Aircraft
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Wednesday, February 21
Speaker: Peyman Givi
Title: Node Partitioning and Quantum Speedup for Turbulent Combustion Simulation
Location: MAE Conference Room

Friday, February 23
Speaker: Malcolm C. Smith
Title: Active and passive control: from thought experiment to Formula One racing
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Wednesday, February 28
Speaker: Hui Hu
Title: Aircraft Icing Physics and Innovative Strategies for Aircraft Icing Mitigation
Location: MAE Conference Room

Friday, March 2
Speaker: Satish G. Kandlikar
Title: New understanding of the heat transfer mechanisms during pool and flow boiling and its application in boiling enhancement – An innovation Driven Approach
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, March 9
Speaker: Robert Pitz
Title: Cellular Tubular Flames: A Model of Preferential Diffusion and Extinction in H2 Fueled Laminar and Turbulent Flames
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

 

Fall Quarter 2017

Friday, October 13
Speaker: Liping Wang
Title: Radiative Heat Transfer with Nanowire Metamaterials for Energy Applications
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, October 20
Speaker: Robert Flores
Title: Optimal Design of Distributed Energy Resource Systems That Minimizes Cost While Reducing Carbon Emissions
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, October 27
Speaker: Qiang Zhu
Title: Performance of Ray Fins in Fish Locomotion – Effects of Stiffness Distribution
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, November 3
Speaker: Mario A. Rotea
Title: Optimization and Control of Wind Energy Systems
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, November 17
Speaker: Jaafar El-Awady
Title: Quantifying the Evolution of Fatigue Damage and Crack Intiation in Metals: Coarse-Grained Simulations and In Situ Experiments
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA) 

Friday, December 1
Speaker: Vigor Yang
Title: Data-Enabled Design for Combustion Dynamics in Propulsion Engines
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

 

Spring Quarter 2017

Friday, April 14
Speaker: Jim Meacham
Title: The Building Energy Revolution: Past, Present, and Future
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, April 21
Speaker: Professor Guillermo Aguilar
Title: From Laser Dermatology to a Window to the Brain
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, April 28
Speaker: Professor Morteza Gharib
Title: Lessons for Bio-Inspired Design
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 5
Speaker: Professor Shane Cybart
Title: Direct-Write Helium Ion Lithography of High-Transition Temperature Superconducting Electronics
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 12
Speaker: Dr Chris Weinberger
Title: Structure, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Transition Metal Carbides
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 19
Speaker: Professor Mihailo Jovanovic
Title: Controller Architectures: Tradeoffs between Performance and Complexity
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 26
Speaker: Professor Joseph P. Heremans
Title: Principles of Solid-State Heat-to-Electricity Conversion Based on Spin
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, June 2
Speaker: Dr. Shane Stephens
Title: Hydrogen fuel, Saving the Tip of the Iceberg
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)


Winter Quarter 2017

Friday, January 20
Speaker: Dr. R. Scott Erwin
Title: Working in a Vacuum: 20 Years of Control for Space Applications
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, January 27
Speaker: Professor Jaime Marian
Title: Using Fundamental Modeling to Explain the Plastic Behavior of BCC Single-Crystals
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 3
Speaker: Professor Kevin Anderson
Title: Development of a Multicascade Refrigeration Electronics Thermal Control System for Application to Venus Lander Payload Missions
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 10
Speaker: Professor Chunlei Wang
Title: Materials and Architecture Persepctives for On-Chip Energy Storage Power Generation
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 17
Speaker: Professor Luciano Demasi
Title: Nonlinear Aeroelastic Responses of Highly Deformable Joined-Wing Configurations
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 24
Speaker: Professor Andrew Teel
Title: An Introduction to Hybrid and Stochastic Hybrid Dynamical Systems
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, March 3
Speaker: Professor Derek Dunn-Rankin
Title: Lasers, Flames, and Aerosols -- Fringe Combustion Topics: electrical aspects of flames, burning hydrates, and miniature combustors
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

 

Fall Quarter 2016

Friday, October 7
Speaker: Professor Chih-Ming Ho
Title: Phenotypic Personalized Nanomedicine
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, October 14
Speaker: Michael T. Barako, Ph.D.
Title: Thermal Applications of Multifunctional Materials with Nanoscale Architectures
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, October 28
Speaker: Dennis M. Kochmann, Ph.D.
Title: Seamlessly Bridging from Atomistics to the Continuum in Metals – Mechanical and Computational Challenges
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, November 4
Speaker: Professor Brad E. Paden
Title: Adventures in Mechatronics
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
 

Winter Quarter 2016

Friday, January 8
Speaker: Professor Ashok Gopalarathnam
Title: Low-order Modeling of Unsteady Airfoil and Wing Aerodynamics Dominated by Leading-edge Vortex Shedding
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, January 15
Speaker: Professor Xiaofeng Liu
Title: Time-Resolved Non-intrusive Pressure Measurement Technique and its Applications
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Wednesday, January 20
Speaker: Professor Richard Miles, Princeton University
Title: Pumping Air - FLEET, Radar REMPI and Backward Lasing New Methods for Measuring Flow Properties and Contaminants in Air
Location: 4200 Engineering Gateway, MAE Conference Room

Friday, January 22
Speaker: Professor Bassam Bamieh, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Quantifying Network Controllability
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, January 29
Speaker: Adrienne Lavine, Ph.D.
Title: Thermochemical Energy Storage with Ammonia
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 5
Speaker: Professor Thomas Bewley
Title: New Methods for State Estimation and Adaptive Observation of Environmental Flow Systems Leveraging Coordinated Swarms of Sensor Vehicles
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 12
Speaker: Professor Jorge Cortes, UC San Diego
Title: Distributed Coordination for Separable Network Optimization with Coupling Constraints
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 19
Speaker: Professor Han Wang, University of Southern California
Title: TBA
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 26
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, March 4
Speaker: Professor Kevin Lynch, Northwestern University
Title: TBA
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
 

Spring Quarter 2016

Friday, April 15
Speaker: Dr. Vladimir Djapic &Michael Ouimet
Title: Heterogeneous Adaptive Maritime Mobile Expeditionary Robots (HAMMER)
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, April 29
Speaker: Professor Werner Dahm, Arizona State University
Title: Autonomic Closure for Turbulence Simulations
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 6
Speaker: Dr. Amir Rahmani, JPL
Title: Coordination and Control of Robot Teams
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 13
Speaker: Professor Allison M. Beese, Penn State
Title: Additive manufacturing of structural materials: processing-structure-property relationships
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 20
Speaker: Professor João P. Hespanha, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Opportunities and Challenges in Control Systems arising from Ubiquitous Computation and Communication
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, May 27
Speaker: Professor Yanliang Zhang, Boise State University
Title: Thermoelectric Energy Conversion - Materials, Manufacturing and Systems
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)


Fall Quarter 2015

Friday, October 2
Speaker: Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California
Title: Robots at Sea - From Drones to Autonomy
Location: MDEA

Friday, October 9
Speaker: Irene J. Beyerlein, Ph.D., Theoretical Division, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Deformation Twinning in Hexagonal Close Packed Metals
Location: MDEA

Friday, October 16
Speaker: Federico Toschi, Ph.D., Chair of Computational Multiscale Transport Phenomena Department of Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Title: Relative Separations of Particles in Turbulence
Location: MDEA

Friday, October 23
Speaker: Dr. Aaron Katzenstein, South Coast Air Quality Management District
Title: Air Quality in Southern California -- Past, Present, and Future
Location: MDEA

Friday, October 30
Speaker: Jessica Oakes, Ph.D., Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Physiologically Based Simulations of Airflow and Particle Transport in the Lung
Location: MDEA

Friday, November 6
Speaker: Prof. George A. Lesieutre, Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Title: The Use of Acoustic Metamaterials to Increase Damping of Sandwich Panels in Tension
Location: MDEA

Friday, November 13
Speaker: Ahmed F. Ghoniem, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Combustion for Clean Energy: From Low Emissions to Low Co2
Location: MDEA

Friday, December 4
Canceled


Spring Quarter 2015

Friday, April 3
Speaker: Professor Jeff D. Eldredge, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept., UCLA
Title: High-Fidelity Simulations and Low-Order Modeling of Agile Flight
Location: MDEA

Friday, April 10
Speaker: Professor Mehran Mesbahi, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington
Title: Autonomous Networked Aerospace Systems
Location: MDEA

Friday, April 17
Speaker: Professor Ehsan Jabbarzadeh, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina
Title: Bioinspired Nanomatrix Platforms for Dynamic Programming of Stem Cells
Location: MDEA

Friday, April 24
Speaker: Dr. Salah Feteih, Northrop Grumman Corp.
Title: UAV & Airworthiness Certification
Location: MDEA


Friday, May 1
Speaker: Professor Carlos Cesnik, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
Title: X-HALE: a UAV for Nonlinear Aeroelastic Experiments
Location: MDEA

Friday, May 8
Speaker: Dr. Maksudul M. Alam, Deputy Director, R&D InnoSense, LLC
Title: Nanostructured Materials for Photoelectrochemical Generation of Hydrogen and Optoelectronic Devices
Location: MDEA

Friday, May 15
Speaker: Professor Garritt Tucker, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University
Title: Computational Methods for Quantifying Plasticity in Nanostructured Materials
Location: MDEA

Friday, May 22
Speaker: Professor SungWoo Nam, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Location: MDEA

Friday, May 29
Speaker: Professor Beverley J. McKeon, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech
Title: Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) Wall Turbulence: A Systems Approach
Location: MDEA

Friday, June 5
Speaker: Dr. Amitabha Ghosh
Location: MDEA


Winter Quarter 2015

Friday, January 9
Speaker: Jonathan Hopkins, MAE Department, UCLA
Title: Design And Fabrication Of Complex Flexible Structures And Microarchitectures
Location: MDEA

Friday, January 16
Speaker: CANCELLED
Location: MDEA

Friday, January 23
Speaker: Professor Robert M'Closkey, MAE Department, UCLA
Title: How To Tune Your Gyro
Location: MDEA

Friday, January 30
Speaker: Dr. Scott A. Epstein, South Coast Air Management District
Title: Using Modern Data Networks to Improve Air Quality Models for Policymaking in the South Coast Air Basin
Location: MDEA

Friday, February 6
Speaker: Professor Srinivas Tadigadapa, Professor of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Title: Quartz MEMS - Only a matter of Time!
Location: MDEA

Friday, February 13
Speaker: Graduate student seminar: Jeff Botimer, Brendan Smith, Justin Rowe
Location: MDEA

Friday, February 20
Speaker: Professor Fabio Pasqualetti, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside
Title: Controllability Metrics, Limitations and Algorithms for Complex Networks
Location: MDEA

Friday, February 27
Speaker: Professor Jack Brouwer, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Irvine
Title: Lean, Efficient and Sustainable Energy Conversion for Data Centers
Location: MDEA

Friday, March 6
Speaker: Professor Anthony Waas, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington
Title: On modeling damage and failure in ceramic matrix fiber reinforced composites
Location: MDEA

Friday, March 13
Speaker: Professor Bassam Bamieh, Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation, UC Santa Barbara
Title: Network Controllability: Fundamental Limitations of Local vs. Global Feedback
Location: MDEA


Fall Quarter 2014

Friday, October 3
Speaker: Professor Mease, UCI MAE Department and Julia Gelfand, UCI Library
Title: Welcome To New Graduate Students ~ Introduction To The MAE Faculty Information Resources And Library Services To Support Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering At UCI
Location: MDEA

Friday, October 10
Speaker: Haithem Taha, Assistant Professor MAE Department, University of California, Irvine
Title: Flapping-Wing Micro-Air-Vehicles: Theoretical and Practical Challenges
Location: MDEA

Friday, October 17
Speaker: Janelle P. Wharry, Assistant Professor Boise State University
Title: Hardening Mechanisms in Neutron- and Ion-Irradiated Fe-9Cr ODS Alloy
Location: MDEA

Friday, October 24
Speaker: Parviz Moin, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University
Title: Wall modeling for large eddy simulation of turbulent boundary layers
Location: MDEA

Friday, October 31
Speaker: Dr. Matt Miyasato, Deputy Executive Officer, Science & Technology Advancement, South Coast Air Quality Management District
Title: Transforming Transportation: the Air Quality Challenge
Location: MDEA

Friday, November 7
Speaker: Suveen Mathaudhu, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside
Title: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom...for MG Alloys
Location: MDEA

Friday, November 14
Speaker: Dr. Alan T. Asbeck, Research Scientist Harvard Biodesign Lab
Title: Soft Exosuits for Walking Assistance
Location: MDEA

Friday, November 21
Speaker: Dr. Ioannis G. Mikellides, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Title: On a Path to Electric Propulsion Immortality: Magnetic Shielding of Hall-effect Plasma Accelerators
Location: MDEA

Friday, December 5
Speaker: TBD
Title: TBD
Location: MDEA

Friday, December 12
Speaker: CANCELLED
Location: MDEA