Current News & Events
- John F. & Jacqueline K. Foss Endowment for Experimental Fluid Dynamics was recently established in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Design Day - December 9, 2005 - MSU Union, East Lansing, MI - 48824 (more details)
- November 18, 2005 - Groundbreaking Ceremony for Energy & Automotive Research Laboratories [more details]
- You are invited to a public presentation entitled 'The Enterprising University' on Friday, November 11, 2005 from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center on the campus of Michigan State University.
- Mechanical Engineering Student Design Day is April 29, 2005 from 8:15am to 1:30pm - MSU Union Building - It introduces the W.A. Dart Foundation's Day of Innovation and Creativity for 7th ~ 12th Grade students
- Congratulations to Dr. Clark Radcliffe, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, for winning the 2005 Withrow Award!
- Congratulations to Dr. Robert Hubbard, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, for winning the MSU Distinguished Faculty Award. [more]
- Congratulations to Brian Olson, Ph.D. Candidate, for winning the Excellence-in-Teaching Citation for demonstrating exceptional care and skill in meeting classroom responsibilities!
- John Lloyd and Timothy Hinds, on behalf of their multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed team of educators, receive one of three 2004 ASME Curriculum Innovation Honorable Mention Awards at the 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering in Anaheim, California on November 16, 2004. [more] [picture]
- The Department of Mechanical Engineering has created an annual award to recongnize a distinguished alumnus/alumna. Nominations are due by January 15, 2005. [more]
- Congratulations to Laura Hudy, Ph.D. Candidate, for winning the Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Award - The AIAA Foundation Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Awards have been established by the AIAA Evolution of Flight Campaign and the AIAA Foundation in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of powered flight. The Awards recognize the Wright brother’s aeronautical achievements and contributions to the evolution of flight. [more]
Department and College Seminars
- December 6, 2005 - Dr. David Backman - Full Scale Testing of the F-18: The Role of Experimental Stress Analysis
- November 15, 2005 - Dr. Karl Grosh - The Mechanics of Hearing
- October 25, 2005 - Dr. Pedro Ponte Castañeda - Effective Behavior, Microstructure Evolution and Macroscopic Instabilities in Elastomeric Composites
- October 11, 2005 - Dr. C.Y. Wang - Slip Flow
- October 18, 2005 - Dr. Michael S. Sacks - Biomechanics of Native and Engineered Heart Valve Tissues
- April 26, 2005 - Dr. K. Breuer - Micron and Nanometer-Scale Fluid Mechanics
- April 19, 2005 - Dr. M. Boyce - Biomacromolecular Dynamics
- April 12, 2005 - Dr. Michael Prime - Residual Stress Mapping With The Contour Method
- April 5, 2005 - Dr. K. R. Rajagopal - The Navier-Stokes Equations and Beyond - According to Stokes
- March 29, 2005 - Dr. B. Varatharajan - Hydrogen Combustion and Its Applications
- March 22, 2005 - Dr. Jim Winkelman - Closed-Loop Combustion Control Through Ionization Current Feedback
- March 1, 2005 - Dr. A. Majumdar - Mechanisms of Nano Heat Transfer
- February 22, 2005 - Joseph Colucci - Fuel Quality - An Essential Element in Vehicle Emission Control
- January 25, 2005 - Dr. Mary Boyce - Mechanics of the Finite Deformation Behavior of Biomacromolecular Networks
Thesis Presentations and Dissertation Defenses
- December 21, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - The Analysis of Dynamic Stress and Plastic Wave Propagation in the Taylor Impact Test - Gong Song
- December 15, 2005 - MS Thesis Presentation - Blunt Force Injury to Cartilage: Some Effects of Exercise and a Nutraceutical - Lynn Martin
- December 15, 2005 - MS Thesis Presentation - Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Sheet Hydraulic Bulge Test for Aluminum Alloys - Shreyas Nagaraj
- December 12, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - Level Set Method on Adaptive Cartesian Grids for Multi-Phase Flow Computation - Zhu Wang
- December 1, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - An Experimental Study of Pressure- and Electroosmotically-Driven Flows in Microchannels with Surface Modifications - Chee Lum
- November 18, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - Steam Turbine Exhaust-Pressure Limits Control Using Dynamic Pressure Sensors - Muhammad Riaz
- September 8, 2005 - MS Thesis Presentation - Multipoint Optimization of a 3D Radial Compressor Impeller - Steve Kowalski
- August 17, 2005 - MS Thesis Presentation - Material Layout Optimization of Continuous Panel Systems Through Parametric Modeling - Christina Isaac
- August 16, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - Computational Aeroacoustics: Its Methods and Applications - Shi Zheng
- August 16, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - Numerical Simulation of Rough-Surface Aerodynamics - Xingkai Chi
- August 2, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - Temperature Measurement of Aqueous Ammonium Chloride Solution During Solidification Process Using Laser-Induced Fluorescence - Mohammad Shafii
- June 29, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - Forming of Aluminum Alloys at Elevated Temperatures - Nader Abedrabbo
- June 28, 2005 - MS Thesis Presentation - Elementary Modeling and Design Optimization of Golf Shafts - Nicholas Abbruzzese
- June 7, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - Parameter Estimation in Multi-Axial Thermal Diffusivity Experiments - Sean Davis
- May 23, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - Friction Energy Absorption in Fiber Reinforced Composites - Thomas Brimhall
- May 19, 2005 - MS Thesis Presentation - Adaptive Resonance Tuning - Jeffery Jeltema
- May 11, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Chemically Reacting - Kian Mehravaran
- May 9, 2005 - MS Thesis Presentation - A Unified Momentum Equation Approach For Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) Problems With Stationary Boundaries - Jagadish Gattu
- April 26, 2005 - MS Thesis Presentation - Pool Boiling Heat Transfer From Porous-Coated Surfaces in FC-72: The Effects Of Subcooling and Non-Boiling Immersion Time - Xu Kuyan
- April 23, 2005 - MS Thesis Presentation - An Experimental Investigation of the Aerodynamic Shroud With an Off-Highway Engine Cooling Fan - Michael Dusel
- March 29, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - Pseudoelastic Deformation of Shape Memory Annular Plates Subject to Normal Tactions - Yuwei Chi
- March 16, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation - Elastohydrodynamic Modeling and Measurement of Cylinder-Kit Assembly Tribological Performance
- January 20, 2005 - Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation -Active Vibration Suppression of Flexible Structures Using Switching Control - Shahin Nudehi