Mechanical Engineering Seminars
Seminars are typically held on Thursday afternoons at 3.00pm in the Seminar Room, E547. Any change in venue and/or time will be noted. All interested academics, technical staff, students and visiting lecturers are most welcome to attend. Postgraduate students are expected to attend.
Date: Thursday 16 February 2012
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Automated Cellular Delivery and Surgery Device using BioMEMS/NEMS
Speaker: A Steven Banerjee
Affiliation: PhD Candidate, University of Canterbury
Date: Tuesday 14 February 2012
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Integrated Computational Materials Design: From Genome to Flight
Speaker: Professor Gregory Olson
Affiliation: Northwestern University and QuesTek Innovations LLC
Seminars 2011
Seminars 2010
Kelvin Barnsdale (GRC) - 30.09.2010
Nick Emery - 23.09.2010
Gurvinder Virk (Massey University) - 16.09.2010
Shrirish Patel (PhD Candidate) - 15.09.2010
Date: Thursday 2 September
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Explicitly Minimizing Clinical Risk around Meals through Closed-loop Control of Blood Glucose in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Speaker: Mr Fraser Cameron
Affiliation: Ph.D.-cand. Stanford University
Date: Thursday 2 September
Time: 9.00am
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Managing and representing uncertainty in New Product Development
Speaker: Mr Damian Rince
Affiliation: Visiting Research Assistant, L’ecole d’ingenieurs du Cesi
Date: Wednesday 1 September 2010
Time: 2.00pm
Venue:HP Seminar Room, NZi3 Building
Title: Making aircraft engines quieter. Progress towards optimised acoustic treatments for advanced turbofans
Speaker: Professor Jeremy Astley
Affiliation: Director, Rolls Royce UTC
Date: Thursday 12 August 2010
Time: 2.00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: A Two-mass Cantilever Beam Model for Vibration Energy Harvesting Applications
Speaker: Qing Ou, PhD Candidate
Affiliation: University of Canterbury
Date: Thursday 29 July 2010
Time: 2.00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Three-Dimensional Characterization, Visualization, and Analysis of Polycrystalline Microstructures
Speaker: Dr Alexis Lewis
Affiliation: US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC
Date: Thursday 22 July 2010
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Adapting simplified propeller turbines to higher specific speeds: CFD studies
Speaker: Mr Adam Fuller
Affiliation:University of Canterbury
Date: Thursday 15 July 2010
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Minimally-invasive fibre-optic sensors for hydrostatic pressure and contact stress in biomechanics applications
Speaker: Prof. Peter Wild
Affiliation:University of Victoria, Canada
Date: Friday 5 June 2010
Time: 12.00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Trampoline bounces - Where does the energy go?
Speaker: S. Koch, P. Arnemann, M. Mueller, P.-M. Falk
Affiliation: TU Darmstadt
Date: Friday 28 May 2010
Time: 2.00pm
Venue: Room 446 Erskine Building
Title: Modelling nephron dynamics and tubuloglomerular feedback
Speaker: Mr Scott Graybill
Affiliation: University of Canterbury, Centre for Bioengineering
Date: Thursday 27 May 2010
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Quantifying Tissue Attenuation and Damping Structure with Magnetic Resonance Elastography
Speaker: Dr Eli Van Houten
Affiliation: University of Canterbury, Mechanical Engineering
Date: Thursday 20 May 2010
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Computational Models of Neurovascular Coupling
Speaker: Hannah Farr, Ph D Candidate
Affiliation: University of Canterbury, Bioengineering
Date: Thursday 15 April 2010
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: An FRST Wood Science Research Project at the Universities of Canterbury, Auckland and Manchester, UK
Speaker: Professor Ken Entwistle
Affiliation: Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC and University of Manchester, UK
Date: Tuesday 30 March 2010
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Tranquility in the City
Speaker: Professor Greg Watts
Affiliation: University of Bradford, UK
Date: Thursday 18 March 2010
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Comparison of Theoretical and Experimental Results for the Directivity of Panels and Openings
Speaker: Dr John Davy
Affiliation: CSIRO, Australia
Date: Thursday 18 February 2010
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: AdRIA: an Example for New Forms of Interaction:
Industry/Academia in Mechatronics in Germany
Speaker: Professor Peter Hagedorn
Affiliation: Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
Date: Tuesday 16 February 2010
Time: 11.00am
Venue: E547 Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Characterisation of step coverage by pulsed-pressure metalorganic chemical vapour depostition: Titanium dioxide thin films on 3D micro-and nano-scale structures
Speaker: Ms Vilailuck Siriwongrungson
Affiliation: University of Canterbury Doctoral candiate- Ph.D. Defence
Date: Thursday 14 January 2010
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: E547, 5th floor Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: Synthetic Jets for Flow Control
Speaker: Dr. John E. Cater
Affiliation: University of Auckland
Seminars 2009
Date: Thursday 1 October 2009
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: E547, 5th floor Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: The Challenge of Multiple Scales in the Biological Sciences: Applications in Cerebro-vascular Perfusion
Speaker: Professor Tim David
Affiliation: Director, Centre for Bioengineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury
Date: Thursday 15 October 2009
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: E547, 5th floor Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: An Overview of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kansas and a Discussion of Correlation Transfer: Part II
Speaker: Professor Ronald Dougherty
Affiliation: Visiting Erskine Fellow from the University of Kansas
Date: Thursday 8 October 2009
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: E547, 5th floor Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building
Title: An Overview of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kansas and a Discussion of Correlation Transfer: Part I
Speaker: Professor Ronald Dougherty
Affiliation: Visiting Erskine Fellow from the University of Kansas