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June 2008
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5/30, Friday - 6/2, Monday

RoboCup World Event
Suzhou International Expo Center, Suzhou, China
See http://www.robocup-cn.org for more information

6/2, Monday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Jean-Christophe Guillermin
8:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Fuel Cell UAV Design Presentation
Committee: Dr. Mohammed Cherkaoui, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Dimitri Mavris (AE), Dr. Alain Lerat (AE)

6/3, Tuesday

Meeting for graders for summer semester
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Graders must attend this meeting in order to be hired

6/4, Wednesday

Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115

6/5, Thursday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Lucas McCaslin
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 401
Title: Methodology for Predicting Microelectronic Substrate Warpage Incorporating Copper Trace Pattern Characteristics
Committee: Dr. Suresh Sitaraman, Chair (ME), Dr. Russell Peak (ME), Dr. Charles Ume (ME)

6/6, Friday

Deadline to submit Letters of Intent for the DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers Program Solicitation.
Submit to kathy.garcia@carnegie.gatech.edu. See letter

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Christopher Sommer
11:00 a.m.
Neely Building, Room 118
Title: Fuel Cycle Design and Analysis of SABR: Subcritical Advanced Burner Reactor
Committee: Dr. Wilfred van Rooijen, Chair (NRE), Dr. Weston Stacey (NRE), Dr. Nolan Hertel (NRE)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Khalid Sorensen
3:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Operational Performance Enhancement of Human Operated Flexible Systems
Committee: Dr. William Singhose, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Steve Dickerson (ME), Dr. Ye-Hwa Chen (ME), Dr. Thomas Morley (MATH), Dr. Bruce Walker (PSYC)

6/7, Saturday - 6/11, Wednesday

2008 ASME Annual Meeting
Walt Disney World, Swan and Dolphin Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Flordia
Register at www.asme.conferences.org/annualmeeting08

6/7, Saturday - 6/11, Wednesday

ASME 2008 Annual Meeting
Orlando, Florida
View www.asme.org

6/9, Monday - 6/13, Friday

ASME Turbo Expo
Berlin, Germany
View www.asme.org for more information

6/11, Wednesday - 6/14, Saturday

GT Off-Road (Baja SAE) Competition
Montreal, Canada

6/11, Wednesday - 6/14, Saturday

GT Off-Road Baja SAE Competition
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
For more information, view http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/minibaja/

6/12, Thursday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Lorenzo Crosatti
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Thermal Performance of Gas-Cooled Divertor Modules
Committee: Dr. Minami Yoda, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Said Abdel-Khalik (ME), Dr. Yogendra Joshi (ME), Dr. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Donald R. Webster (CEE), Dr. Narayanan Komerath (AE)

6/13, Friday

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Multi-Scale Study of hcp Metals
Speaker: Laurent Capolungo (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

6/16, Monday

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MS&E Building, Room 3201A
Title: Incorporating Organizational Factors into Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) of Complex Systems
Speaker: Dr. Zahra Mohaghege (University of Maryland)

Nuclear Engineering Seminar
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Incorporating Organizational Factors into Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) of Complex Systems
Speaker: Zahra Mohaghegh (University of Maryland)

6/16, Monday - 6/18, Wednesday

ASME 6th Annual Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference
Denver, Colorado
See www.asme.org for more details.

6/18, Wednesday

GTPRIND Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MS&E Building, Room 3201A
Title: Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapon Effects, and Nuclear Forensics
Speaker: Doug Berning (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Preparation Panel (Demystifying the Quals)
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Contact Dr. David Rosen if you have any questions about this panel discussion with some Woodruff School faculty members.

Alternate Woodruff School Graduate Committee Meeting
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4115

6/18, Wednesday - 6/20, Friday

ASME 3rd Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference
Irvine, California
Go to www.asme.org for more information

6/20, Friday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Brian Guerriero
10:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Haptic Control and Operator-Guided Gait Coordination of a Pneumatic Hexapedal Rescue Robot
Committee: Dr. Wayne Book, Chair (ME), Dr. Chris Paredis (ME), Dr. Harvey Lipkin (ME)

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Laura Raibeck
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: Environmental Analysis of Biologically Inspired Self-Cleaning Surfaces
Committee: Dr. Bert Bras, Chair (ME), Dr. Dave Rosen (ME), Dr. Jeanette Yen (Biology)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Abraham Greenstein
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 205
Title: Analysis of Thermal Conductivity Models with an Extension to Complex Crystalline Materials
Committee: Dr. Samuel Graham, Co-Chair(ME), Dr. Sankar Nair (CHBE), Dr. David McDowell (ME), Dr. Zhuomin Zhang (ME), Dr. Martha Gallivan (CHBE), Dr. Patrick Schelling (PHYSICS)

6/23, Monday

Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Seminar
2:00 p.m.
TBD
Title: Structured Treatment of Uncertainty in Complex Thermal-Hydraulics Codes
Speaker: Mohammad Pourgol-Mohammad (Goodman Global, Inc.)

Nuclear Engineering Seminar
2:00 p.m.
Ford Building, Room 2229
Title: Structured Treatment of Uncertainty in Complex Thermal-Hydraulics Codes
Speaker: Mohammad Pourgol-Mohammad (Goodman Global Inc.)

6/24, Tuesday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Jon Danielson
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 413
Title: Mobile Boom Cranes and Advanced Input Shaping Control
Committee: Dr. William Singhose, Chair (ME), Dr. Wayne Whiteman (ME), Dr. Mark Costello (AE)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Joshua Vaughan
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Dynamics and Control of Mobile Cranes
Committee: Dr. William Singhose, Chair (ME), Dr. Kok-Meng Lee (ME), Dr. Rhett Mayor (ME), Dr. John-Paul Clarke (AE), Dr. Patricio Vela (ECE)

6/25, Wednesday

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by David Damm
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 295
Title: Batch reactors for scalable hydrogen production
Committee: Dr. Andrei G. Fedorov, Chair (ME), Dr. William J. Wepfer (ME), Dr. Srinivas Garimella (ME), Dr. Timothy C. Lieuwen (AE/ME), Dr. William J. Koros (ChBE)

6/26, Thursday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Michael Hirsch
10:30 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Fretting Behavior of AISI 301 Stainless Steel Sheet in Full Hard Condition
Committee: Dr. Richard W. Neu, Chair (ME), Dr. David L. McDowell (ME), Dr. Itzhak Green (ME)

6/27, Friday

Ph.D. Proposal Presentation by Ashish Sinha
9:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Cooling of Electronics at Elevated Ambient Temperatures
Committee: Dr. Yogendra Joshi, Chair (ME), Dr. Srinivas Garimella (ME), Dr. S Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (ME), Dr. Sotira Yiacoumi (CE), Dr. Sankar Nair (ChBE)

6/29, Sunday - 7/4, Friday

Acoustics 08, Joint Meeting: 155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 5th FORUM ACUSTICUM, and 9th Congres Francais d'Acoustique
Paris, France
View asa.aip.org/meetings.html for more information

6/30, Monday

M.S. Thesis Presentation by Jonathan Jobe
10:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Multi-Aspect Component Models: Enabling the Reuse of Engineering Analysis Models in SysML
Committee: Dr. Chris Paredis, Chair (ME), Dr. Dirk Schaefer (ME), Dr. Leon McGinnis (ISYE)

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Krishna Tunga
2:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: STUDY OF Sn-Ag-Cu ALLOY RELIABILITY THROUGH MATERIAL MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION AND LASER MOIRE INTERFEROMETRY
Committee: Dr. Suresh K. Sitaraman, Chair (ME), Dr. Richard Neu (ME), Dr. Charles Ume (ME), Dr. Arun Gokhale (MSE), Dr. Rao Tummala (ECE)

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