Graduate Seminars

Fall 2018 E SC 514/E MCH 514 Seminar Schedule

Please note: All E SC 514/E MCH 514 seminars will be held from 3:35-4:25 p.m. in 114 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building.

• Presentation: "Graduate education issues"
• Speaker: Corina Drapaca and Elzbieta Sikora, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State

• Presentation: "Nonlinear interactions ofelastic waves with rough interfaces: Principles, measurements and implications"
• Speaker: Parisa Shokouhi, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State

• Presentation: "Manipulating wave propagation with mechanical metamaterials"
• Speaker: Kathryn Matlack, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C

September 12

• Presentation: "Multiple-porosity and multiple-permeability poroelasticity: From CO2 geosequestration to cerebrospinal fluid pathophysiology"
• Speaker: Amin Mehrabian, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Penn State

• Presentation: "Study of the anterior cruciate ligament––My cross to bear"
• Speaker: Patrick Smolinski, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh

• Presentation: "Linking material microstructure with damage diagnostics and prognostics"
• Speaker: Antonios Kontsos, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University

• Presentation: "Optimal bounds and optimal microstructures for multiphase composites"
• Speaker: Liping Liu, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University

• Presentation: "Patterns, growth and energy –– Lessons from biology for architectural design"
• Speaker: Petra Gruber, Department of Biology, University of Akron

• Presentation: "Advanced X-ray imaging research for cancer diagnosis"
• Speaker: Hong Liu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma

• Presentation: "Information science on a Petri dish"
• Speaker: Vijayanand C. Kowtha, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.

• Presentation: "Ethics discussion: ASCE case study 2 (Challenger)"
• Speaker: Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State

• Presentation: "Monolithic integration of pixelated LEDs for lighting and microdisplay applications"
• Speaker: Jian Hsu, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State

• Presentation: "Using an EIS applique to monitor organic coating performance in marine atmospheric environments"
• Speaker: Barbara A. Shaw, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State

• Presentation: "Particles and plankton: Scale-dependent complexity in a turbulent world"
• Speaker: Margaret L. Byron, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Penn State