* * * BROWSER ALERT * * *

You appear to be using Netscape 4, or a similar outdated Web browser. You should consider upgrading to a newer, standards-compliant browser.

Although this page may not display properly, it should function correctly.


San Diego State University - Minds That Move the World

Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

College of Engineering, San Diego State University

Skip repeated menu and go directly to page content.

Seminars AE&EM

Seminar schedule, Fall 2009 (Fridays, 2:00 p.m. in Room E300)
Date Speaker Title
December 4 2009,
2.00pm
Dr. Reza Ghanimati
NAVAIR
Fatigue Analyses of C-2A Aircraft Nose Langing Gear
November 13 2009,
2.00pm
Dr. Jae Noh
Goodrich Aerostructures
Composite Analysis with Micromechanics
November 13 2009,
2.00pm
Alex Velicki
The Boeing Company
Blended Wing Body Development
October 23 2009,
2.00pm
Will Weston
San Diego State University
Library Resources and Research Tools for Engineering Graduate Students
October 9 2009,
2.00pm
Dr. Gustaaf Jacobs (San Diego State University) Computational Analasis of Droplet-laden and Separated High-speed Flows
October 2 2009,
11.00am
Dr. Ing. Massimo De Sanctis
University of Pisa
Hydrogen Embrittlement and Re-embrittlement Susceptibility in Ultra High Strength Steels for Automotive and Aerospace Applictions
September 18 2009,
2.00pm
Dr. Luciano Demasi
Aerospace Engineering
San Diego State University)
An Infinite Number of Composite Plate Theories Based on an Invariant Model: the Generalized Unified Formulation

Seminar schedule, Spring 2010 (Fridays, 2:00 p.m. in Room E300)
Date Speaker Title
May 7, 2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Aerodynamics, Propulsion & Fluid Mechanics
April 30, 2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials
April 23, 2010,
2.00pm
TBA TTopic Area - Aerodynamics, Propulsion & Fluid Mechanics
April 16, 2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials
April 9 2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Aerodynamics, Propulsion & Fluid Mechanics
April 2, 2010,
2.00pm
SPRING BREAK No Seminar
March 26,, 2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials
March 19, 2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Aerodynamics, Propulsion & Fluid Mechanics
March 12, 2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials
March 5, 2010,
2.00pm
SDSU Students SDSU Student Research Symposium
February 26, 2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Aerodynamics, Propulsion & Fluid Mechanics
February 19,2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials
February 12, 2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Aerodynamics, Propulsion & Fluid Mechanics
February 5, 2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials
January 29, 2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Aerodynamics, Propulsion & Fluid Mechanics
January 22, 2010,
2.00pm
TBA Topic Area - Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials

Past Seminars

Date Speaker Title
May 12, 2009,
1.30pm
Dr. Vassili Toropov
University of Leeds
Stacking Sequence Optimization of Composite Aircraft Structures with Blending and Manufacturing Constraints.
March 13, 2009,
11.00am
Dr. Rainer Kurz
Solar Turbines
Compressor behavior in transient operating conditions
April 3, 2009,
1.30pm
Dr. Paul Fischer
Argonne National Laboratory
Accurate, Stable, and Scalable Algorithms for Convection-Dominated Flows
February 27, 2009,
11.00am
Dr. Stefan Llewellyn Smith
UC, San Diego
Vortex rings with swirl
December 11, 2008,
11.00am
Dr. Gordon Claycomb
Lockheed Martin (retired)
A brief overview of aerospace random vibration measurements and testing
December 5, 2008,
11.00am
Dr. Alison Marsden
UC San Diego
Optimization and virtual surgery improve simulated hemodynamics for single ventricle heart patients
November 21 2008,
11.00am
Lorenzo Valdevit
UC Irvine
Optimal design of actively cooled panels for hypersonic vehicles: A combined materials/geometry selection tool
October 24 2008,
11.00am
Dr. Dario Baldelli
Northrup Grumman
Introduction to flutter prediction using flight test data
November 7 2008,
11.00am
Dr. Sutanu Sarkar,
UC San Diego
Mixing in a stratified environment: high-resolution simulations.

Date Speaker Title
April 24 2008,
2.00pm
Dr. G. Spedding,
University of Southern California
The flight of birds, bats and other small-scale flying machines.
April 16 2008,
2.00pm
Dr. J.A. Domeradzki,
University of Southern California
Energy cascade in turbulent flows; quantifying effects of local and nonlocal interactions.
March 21 2008,
3.30pm
Dr. Wai Sun Don,
Brown University
Advanced Hybrid High Order Methods for Multi-scales problems in Shocked Flows.
October 25 2007,
2.00pm
Dr. Farzad Mashayek,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Simulation of Nanoparticle Dynamics and Coating in Low-pressure Plasma Reactor

Date Speaker Title
April 12 2007,
2.00pm
Dr. John Dabiri,
California Institute of Technology
Non-invasive Measurements of Animal Propulsion and Sensing
March 15, 2007,
2.00pm
Dr. Raphael Hafka,
University of Florida
Combining Differrent Surrogates in Engineering Design Optimization
March 1, 2007,
2.00pm
Dr. Robert Skelton,
UCSD
Dynamics and Control of Tensegrity Systems