| Speaker |
Type |
Title |
Date |
| Dr. Jim Greogry |
Special Seminar |
Setting World Records for Speed and Distance with an Autonomous Jet-Powered UAV |
December 5, 2017 |
| Dr. Joseph E. Shepherd |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Pushing the Boundaries: From Detonations to Auto-injectors |
October 30, 2017 |
| Dr. Hui Hu |
Special Seminar |
Aircraft Icing Physics and Bio-inspired Icephobic Coatings for Aircraft Icing Mitigation |
September 21, 2017 |
| R.I. Sujith |
Special Seminar |
Synchronization Transition in a Thermoacoustic System |
May 11, 2017 |
| Jose Luis Mantari Laureano |
Special Seminar |
On the Refinement of Classical and Axiomatic/Asymptotic to Genetic Shear Deformation Theories to Study Classical and Advanced Composites |
May 10, 2017 |
| Michael J. Corso |
Special Seminar |
Current UAV/UAS Law Landscape |
April 20, 2017 |
| Eric A. Silk |
Special Seminar |
Spaceflight Cryogenics System Design and Application at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center |
April 18, 2017 |
| Dr. Elisabeth Guazzelli |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Falling Clouds of Particles |
April 17, 2017 |
| Dr. Beverley J. McKeon |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Systems Analysis of Wall Turbulence: Characterizing Natural and Synthetic Self-Sustaining Processes |
April 10, 2017 |
| S.A. Craig |
Special Seminar |
Boundary-Layer Stability and Transition Experiments at the University of Arizona |
February 28, 2017 |
| Theresa Kowalkowski |
Special Seminar |
Unlocking Jupiter's Secrets: NASA's Juno Mission |
February 6, 2017 |
| Barbara Esker |
Special Seminar |
NASA Aeronautics: A Look to the Future |
January 27, 2017 |
| Mr. Sam Scimemi |
Seminar |
From International Space Station to Mars |
November 15, 2016 |
| Dr. Sanjay Garg |
Seminar |
Aircraft Engine Advanced Controls Research under NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Programs |
November 15, 2016 |
| Prof. R.I. Sujith |
Special Seminar |
Prognosis of an Impending Combustion Instability |
August 3, 2016 |
| Dr. Katya M. Casper |
Special Seminar |
Pressure Fluctuations and Fluid-Structure Interactions during Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition |
April 11, 2016 |
| Dr. Ivan Marusic |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
High Reynolds Number Wall Turbulence: Universality, Structure, and Interactions |
April 11, 2016 |
| Dr. Ethiraj Venkatapathy |
Special Seminar |
Mary Poppins Approach to Human Mars Mission EDL |
April 8, 2016 |
| Dr. Johnson Samuel |
Special Seminar |
3D Printing of Hierarchical Fiber-reinforced Polymer Composites |
April 6, 2016 |
| Dr. Justin Wagner |
Special Seminar |
High-Speed Fluid Dynamics Experiments at Sandia |
April 5, 2016 |
| Dr. Patricia Beauchamp |
Special Seminar |
Technology Planning for Planetary Science Missions |
April 4, 2016 |
| Dr. A.F. 'Skip' Grandt |
Special Seminar |
Baby Steps â Early History of Aerospace Engineering at Purdue University |
March 31, 2016 |
| Dr. Charles Budney |
Special Seminar |
Concurrent Space Mission Design and Jet Propulsion Laboratoryâs Team-X |
February 24, 2016 |
| Dr. Richard Miles |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Pumping Air: FLEET, Radar REMPI and Backward Lasing New Methods for Measuring Flow Properties and Contaminants in Air |
October 26, 2015 |
| Dr. Lynn E. Snyder |
Special Seminar |
Dr. Lynn E. Snyder Seminar |
October 9, 2015 |
| Dr. George Schneiter |
Special Seminar |
Dr. George Schneiter Seminar |
October 9, 2015 |
| Dr. Alok Das |
Special Seminar |
Dr. Alok Das Special Seminar |
September 18, 2015 |
| Dr. Parul Agrawal |
Special Seminar |
Atmospheric Entry Studies for Uranus |
June 12, 2015 |
| Dr. Charles Meneveau |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Using Large Eddy Simulations of Large Wind Farms to Develop Better Engineering Models |
April 27, 2015 |
| R. Marshall Smith |
Special Seminar |
Exploration Systems |
April 22, 2015 |
| Mark Geyer |
Special Seminar |
Progress on NASA Orion Project |
April 13, 2015 |
| Dr. Peter Schmid |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Gradient-based Fluid Dynamics: From Simulation to Control and Design |
March 30, 2015 |
| Prof. Mitra L. Taheri |
Special Seminar |
Predictive Microstructural Evolution in Extreme Environments Using In Situ TEM |
March 23, 2015 |
| Dr. Robert W. Carpick |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Friction and Wear: New Insights from Atomic-Scale Measurements |
March 9, 2015 |
| Dr. John F. Matlik |
Special Seminar |
ICME from a Gas Turbine Engine Perspective |
March 5, 2015 |
| Prof. Chris Paredis |
Special Seminar |
A Theoretical Framework for Systems Engineering and Design - Asking 'Why?' Rather than Just 'How?' |
February 9, 2015 |
| Dr. Robert Dempsey |
Special Seminar |
How Do You Throw a Refrigerator Away in Space? |
January 30, 2015 |
| Karl E. Garman, Ph.D., P.E. |
Special Seminar |
Flight Testing and the Art of Baloney Detection |
November 25, 2014 |
| Dr. Julia Greer |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Hierarchical 3-D Nano-Architectures for Biomimetics, Batteries, and Lightweight Structural Materials |
October 6, 2014 |
| Dr. Xiao Chen |
Special Seminar |
Introduction to R&D Work and Collaborative Opportunities in Wind Turbine Blades at Institute of Engineering Thermalphysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
August 25, 2014 |
| Dr. T. Ben Britton |
Special Seminar |
Deformation in Metals â Studies in the Scanning Electron Microscope |
August 20, 2014 |
| Kwang-Yong Kim |
AAE Special Seminar |
Enhancement of Mixing in Passive Micromixers |
August 1, 2014 |
| Barbara Betti & Francesco Nasuti |
Special Seminar |
Boundary Layer and Gas-Surface Interaction Modeling in Liquid and Hybrid Rockets |
August 1, 2014 |
| Dr. Laurent Selle |
AAE Special Seminar |
Combustion Instabilities and Rocket Engines |
July 24, 2014 |
| Dr. Seongim Choi |
Special Seminar |
High/Multi-Fidelity Aerodynamic Analysis and MDO under Uncertainty Quantification |
July 24, 2014 |
| Hideyo Negishi |
AAE Special Seminar |
Advanced Numerical Modelling of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines |
January 21, 2014 |
| Dr. Jacob Hochhalter |
AAE Special Seminar |
Damage Science at NASA Langley Research Center |
November 21, 2013 |
| Daniel L. Dumbacher |
AAE Special Seminar |
Exploration is the Future |
September 30, 2013 |
| Dr. Robert Kielb |
AAE Special Seminar |
Turbomachinery Aeromechanics |
September 9, 2013 |
| Dr. J. Michael Owen |
AAE Special Seminar |
Experimental and Theoretical Research into the Secondary-Air Systems of Gas Turbines |
June 13, 2013 |
| Dr. Robert E. Skelton |
AAE Spring 2013 Special Seminar |
Integrating Structure and Control Design with Tensegrity Systems |
March 4, 2013 |
| Dr. Mikhail N. Shneider |
AAE Spring 2013 Special Seminar |
Weakly-ionized Plasma Processes in the Upper Atmosphere |
February 19, 2013 |
| Dr. Da-Hsuan Feng |
AAE Spring 2013 Special Seminar |
Roles and Responsibilities of Asian Universities in a New Global Academic-Business Paradigm |
February 18, 2013 |
| Michael J. Corso, Esquire |
Special Seminar |
An Engineer's Legal Clinic and Bird's Eye View of Aviation Law |
September 27, 2012 |
| Jarret M. Lafleur, PhD |
AAE Special Seminar |
Adapting to the Uncertain Future: Strategic Challenges in Defense Systems Analysis |
September 21, 2012 |
| Robert L. Sumwalt |
Special Seminar |
Professionalism and Aviation Safety |
April 17, 2012 |
| Khaki Rodway |
AAE Seminar |
Progress on the XCOR Lynx Sub-orbital Vehicle and Operations |
March 22, 2012 |
| William S. Saric |
AAE Seminar |
Progress in Laminar-Turbulent Transition - A Personal View |
March 2, 2012 |
| Steven J. Beresh |
AAE Seminar |
Fluctuating Wall Pressures Measured Beneath a Supersonic Turbulent Boundary Layer |
October 26, 2011 |
| Tom I-P. Shih |
PRISM Seminar |
Quantifying Uncertainties from the Grid in CFD Solutions |
October 7, 2011 |
| Gareth H. McKinley |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Extreme Rheometry of Associative Polymer Dispersions |
September 28, 2011 |
| Dr. Joseph C. Oefelein |
Special Seminar |
AAE & ME Seminar Dr. Joseph C. Oefelein |
September 7, 2011 |
| Dr. Mei Yuan |
AAE Seminar |
Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring and Application |
August 26,2011 |
| Vikas Tomar |
PRISM Seminar |
Experiments and Models Regarding Strain Dependent Thermal Conductivity and Strength at the Nanoscaleand Microscale |
April 29, 2011 |
| W. D. Nix |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Size Dependence of Strength of Metals |
April 13, 2011 |
| Richard Harris, NPR News |
Discovery Lecture Series |
How BIG was the BP Oil Spill? Getting the Truth |
February 3, 2011 |
| Andrea Prosperetti |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Some Particles, Some Bubbles |
February 2, 2011 |
| Mark uhran |
Nanotechnology Seminar Series |
The Future of Scientific Research on the International Space Station |
January 28, 2011 |
| Prof. Mitch Wolff |
Special Seminar |
Tip-to-Tail Integrated Aircraft Modeling |
December 7, 2010 |
| Dr. José A. Camberos |
Special Seminar |
Entropy Mystique: The Second Law of Thermodynamics in Aerospace Systems Analysis & Design |
December 7, 2010 |
| Dr. John H. Doty |
Special Seminar |
Design of Experiments (DoX) and the Second Law of Thermodynamics in Systems Analysis & Design |
December 7, 2010 |
| Professor H.J. Melosh |
Sigma Xi Research Award Lecture |
Results from NASA's Nov. 4, 2010 Flyby of Comet Hartley 2 |
November 17, 2010 |
| Dr.David Kunkee |
Special Seminar |
Overview of Polar-Orbiting Microwave Radiometers for Environmental Remote Sensing |
November 11, 2010 |
| Jeffrey Payne |
Special Seminar |
Aerosciences at Sandia Labs |
November 4, 2010 |
| Prof. Tim Healey |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar Tim Healey |
October 27, 2010 |
| Dr. Benjamin Mann |
Special Seminar |
New Frontiers in Topological Data Analysis: New Math for Biology, Imaging and Neuroscience |
October 18, 2010 |
| Dr. Bret Tobalske |
Special Seminar |
Special Seminar : Bret Tobalske |
October 14, 2010 |
| Prof. Ronald J. Adrian |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Ronald Adrian Midwest Mechanics |
September 22, 2010 |
| Dr. Michael Ol |
Special Seminar |
Unsteady Flow Separation at Low Reynolds Numbers: Flowfield Evolution vs. Force History |
July 16, 2010 |
| Sankaran Mahadevan |
PRISM Seminar |
Uncertainty Quantification and Model Validation in Mechanical System Behavior Prediction |
June 14, 2010 |
| Dr. Aaron Auslender |
Special Seminar |
Scramjet Performance Considerations |
May 14, 2010 |
| Dr. C.B. Lee |
Special Seminar |
Vortex Dynamics in Transitional Wall-bounded Flows |
April 27, 2010 |
| Dr. G.R. Liu |
Special Seminar |
G.R. Liu Special Seminar |
April 13, 2010 |
| Alina Alexeenko |
PRISM Seminar |
Gas Electrostatic Discharge in Capacitive RF-MEMS and Its Role in Degradation and Failure |
April 9, 2010 |
| Ann Rundell |
PRISM Seminar |
Quantitative Experiment Design for Highly Uncertain Biological Systems |
April 2, 2010 |
| Dr. David Steigmann |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Boundary-value Problems in the Theory of Lipid Membranes |
March 3, 2010 |
| Steven Dong |
PRISM Seminar |
Enabling Incompressible Flow Simulations with Large Time Step Sizes |
February 2, 2010 |
| Dr. Peyman Givi |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Filtered Density Function: Basic Theory and Modern Developments |
December 2, 2009 |
| Dr. Joël Chevrier |
PRISM Seminar |
Casimir force and of near-field radiative heat transfer at the MEMS and AFM scales |
October 23, 2009 |
| Dr. Joseph Katz |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Experimental Characterization of Turbulence within Turbomachines |
September 30, 2009 |
| James C. Hill |
Special Seminar |
Turbulent mixing--looking at an old problem with new tools |
September 24, 2009 |
| Yuan (Alan) Qi |
PRISM Seminar |
Efficient Bayesian Inference and Learning for Graphical Models |
September 11, 2009 |
| Dr. Oskar J. Haidn |
Special Seminar |
Selected Topics of Liquid Propulsion Research |
July 31, 2009 |
| Dr. Shirley J. Dyke |
Faculty Candidate Seminar |
The Sustainable Infrastructure Systems Through Condition Monitoring |
May 11, 2009 |
| Dr. Michael P. Brenner |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
The Fluid Mechanics of Fungal Spore Ejection, and Solutions to the Moderate Reynolds Number Navier Stokes Equation |
April 24, 2009 |
| Mr. William H. Gerstenmaier |
Hydrogen Symposium |
Hydrogen Symposium 2009 |
April 23, 2009 |
| Professor Philip L. Varghese |
PRISM Seminar |
Solutions of the Boltzmann Equation via a Discrete Velocity Monte Carlo Method |
April 17, 2009 |
| Kim B. Blair, Ph.D. |
Mechanical Engineering Design Seminar |
Innovation in Sports Technology: Developing Marketable Products |
April 14, 2009 |
| Xiaohui (Sandy) Guo |
PRISM Seminar |
Modeling of Squeeze-Film Damping in MEMS Based on Rarefied Flow Simulations |
April 3, 2009 |
| Dr. Dimitrios Peroulis |
PRISM Seminar Series |
RF MEMS: The Applications Perspective |
March 27, 2009 |
| Sharlotte Kramer |
Faculty Candidate Seminar |
Phase Shifting Interferometric Methods for Determination of In-Plane Tensorial Stress in Fracture Studies |
March 27, 2009 |
| Dr. Richard Kramer |
Faculty Candidate Seminar |
Advanced mesh-refinement methods applied to simulation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability |
March 27, 2009 |
| Dr. Vikas Tomar |
Faculty Candidate Seminar |
Failure Analyses of Complex Nanostructured and Microstructured Materials Across a Hierarchy of Length and Time Scales |
March 9, 2009 |
| Dr. K Ravi-Chandar |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Dynamic Strain Localization and Fragmentation in Ductile Materials |
March 6, 2009 |
| Dr. John W. Conklin |
Faculty Candidate Seminar |
The Spherical Graviatational Reference Sensor: A Buoy in Spacetime |
March 2, 2009 |
| Dr. Ryan S. Park |
Faculty Candidate Seminar |
Small-Body Navigation |
January 30, 2009 |
| Dr. Spandan Maiti |
Faculty Candidate Seminar |
AAE Faculty Candidate: Dr. Spandan Maiti |
January 14, 2009 |
| Dr. Olaf Weckner |
Faculty Candidate Seminar |
Simulation of Crack Propagation in Aerospace Structures |
January 12, 2009 |
| M. Pino Martín |
Faculty Candidate Seminar |
Validation and Interpretation of DNS Data on Compressible Turbulent Boundary Layers with Interactions |
December 8, 2008 |
| Pablo Tarazaga |
Faculty Candidate Seminar |
Dynamics and Control of a Pressurized Optical Membrane Augmented with Acoustic Actuators |
December 2, 2008 |
| Professor Zhigang Suo |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Thermodynamics of Large Deformation in Soft Active Materials |
November 21, 2008 |
| Prof. Philip Marcus |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
New Ways of Observing 3D Vortex Dynamics on Jupiter and What the Observations Say about Jupiter's Long-Term Climate Variability |
October 3, 2008 |
| Dr. Luigi Glielmo |
Special Seminar |
Identification and feedback control in deep brain stimulation: a simulation study |
September 8, 2008 |
| Professor Lorena Barba |
Mechanical Engineering Seminar |
Global Field Interpolation for Particle Methods |
August 18, 2008 |
| Dr. Hassan Mahfuz |
Special Seminar |
Enhancing Stab Resistance of Flexible Body Armor Using a Fixative Cross-Linker |
June 27, 2008 |
| Dr. Karen Marais |
Faculty Candidate Seminar |
Aspects of Development and Operation of Complex Systems |
May 19, 2008 |
| Dr. Timothée Pourpoint |
Research Assistant Professorship Candidate Seminar |
Energy Management in High Pressure Hydrogen Storage Systems |
April 23, 2008 |
| Dr. Mitchell Walker |
Special Seminar |
High Thrust-to-Power Hall Effect Thrusters |
April 7, 2008 |
| Dr. Sivakumar Rathinam |
AAE System of Systems Faculty Candidate Seminar |
Combinatorial Motion Planning for Multiple Vehicles with Non-Holonomic Constraints |
March 6, 2008 |
| DengFeng Sun |
AAE System of Systems Faculty Candidate Seminar |
Large Scale Modeling and Optimization of En Route Air Traffic Flows |
March 5, 2008 |
| Dr. Cedrick Ngalande |
Special Seminar |
Study of Rarefaction Effects in Gas Flows with Particle Approaches |
March 3, 2008 |
| Dr. Zahra Mohaghegh |
AAE System of Systems Faculty Candidate Seminar |
Risk-Based Methods for Complex Socio-Technical Systems |
February 29, 2008 |
| Dr. William S. Saric |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Flight Experiments on Laminar Flow Control in Swept-Wing Boundary Layers (An Unlikely Journey of a Mechanician) |
February 15, 2008 |
| Prof. Veli-Tapani Kuokkala |
Materials Science & Engineering Seminar |
Effects of strain rate and temperature on the properties and behavior of AHSS and austenitic stainless sheet steels |
February 15, 2008 |
| Professor Dai-Ning Fang |
Special Seminar |
Mechanical Properties and Design of Lattice Composites and Structures Applied in Aerospace Engineering |
October 11, 2007 |
| Professor G. Ravichandran |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Large Actuation through Electrostriction in Single Crystal Ferroelectrics |
October 5, 2007 |
| Dr. Kenny Breuer |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Bacterial Microfluidics - The Science and Engineering of Bacterial Flagellar Propulsion |
March 30, 2007 |
| Dr. Iván Gallego |
Center for Materials Processing and Tribology Seminar |
Intelligent Centerless Grinding: Increasing Precision and Productivity |
March 28, 2007 |
| Professor Kazuya Yoshida & Students |
Special Seminar |
Flight Test Activities at Tohoku University |
March 22, 2007 |
| Dr. Yang Cheng |
Special Seminar |
Particle Filtering for Spacecraft Attitude Estimation |
March 20, 2007 |
| Dr. Jack Chessa |
Special Seminar |
The eXtended Finite Element Method (X-FEM) for Moving Discontinuities in Solid and Fluid Dynamics |
March 5, 2007 |
| Veera Sundararaghavan |
Special Seminar |
Design of Materials with Enhanced Properties: A Multi-length Scale Computational Approach |
March 2, 2007 |
| Dr. Li Qiao |
Special Seminar |
Effects of Diluents on Laminar Premixed Flames in Microgravity |
February 26, 2007 |
| Dr. Kaushik Bhattacharya |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Stress-induced Transformation in Polysrystalline Shape-memory Alloys |
1/26/2007 |
| Professor Pedro Ponte Castañeda |
Midwest Mechanics Seminar |
Effective Behavior, Microstructure Evolution and Macroscopic Instabilities in Porous and Reinforced Elastomers |
April 28, 2006 |
| Dr. Alina Alexeenko |
Faculty Candidate Seminar |
Kinetic Modeling of Microscale Gas Flows |
March 21, 2006 |
| Dr.-Ing.habil. Michael E. Dreyer |
Special Seminar |
Sounding Rocket Experiment on Capillary Channel Flow |
February 3, 2006 |
| Dr. John Kizito |
Special Seminar |
Modeling in situ Shuttle Tile Repair using Extremely Viscous Fluids in Vacuum |
December 5, 2005 |
| Dr. James Cutler |
Special Seminar |
A Framework for Robust and Flexible Space Communication Systems |
December 1, 2005 |
| Dr. Robert Shorten |
Special Seminar |
Common Quadratic Lyapunov Functions for Switched Linear Systems |
June 13, 2005 |
| Dr. Minami Yoda |
Special Seminar |
Near-Wall Velocity Measurements in Electroosmotic Flow Within the Electric Double Layer Using Nano-Particle Image Velocimetry |
April 29, 2005 |
| Dr. Alex Van der Velden |
Special Seminar |
Aircraft Shape Optimization: Form Follows Function and Physics |
April 29, 2005 |
| Selin Aradag |
Special Seminar |
Numerical Analysis of Purdue-Mach 6 Wind Tunnel |
March 3, 2005 |
| Ken Stetson |
Short Course |
Hypersonic Laminar-Turbulent Transition |
October 26-27, 2004 |
| Sam Wanis |
Special Seminar |
Tailored Force Fields for Space Fabrication |
September 30, 2004 |
