DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR SERIES FALL 2017
SPRING 2018 Roberto Horowitz
Ilya Kolmanovsky
Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering James Fife Endowed Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Aerospace Engineering University of Michigan
September 22, 2017 Modeling, Control and Estimation of Freeway Traffic Networks NOWINSKI SEMINAR: Kon-Well Wang Stephen P. Timoshenko
Professor andTim Manganello/BorgWarner Department Chair Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Michigan
October 20, 2017 From Muscles to Plants – NatureInspired Adaptive Metastructures Allen Robinson Department Head and Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University
November 17, 2017 Title: The shale gas revolution: green energy or a bridge to nowhere? Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs, Professor, Willett Scholar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
December 1, 2017 Bio-mechatronics: Using Technology to Improve Human Movement
JERZY L. NOWINSKI DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
The Nowinski Lecture Series honors the late Jerzy L. Nowinski, Professor Emeritus in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware, for his contributions to the field of Applied Mechanics. Each year, one outstanding individual in Applied Mechanics is invited to present a lecture in the series. Dr. Nowinski was the H. Fletcher Brown Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and subsequently the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Delaware from 1961 to 1973.
February 23, 2018 Drift Counteraction Optimal Control: Theory, Computations and Applications Scott L. Diamond, PhD Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Institute for Medicine and Engineering University of Pennsylvania
March 2, 2018 Multiscale Analysis of Blood Using Microfluidics and High Dimensional Phenotyping
JACK R. VINSON SEMINAR: Alexandre M. Bayen Liao-Cho Innovation Endowed Chair Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies University of California Berkeley
April 6, 2018 Inference and Control in Routing Games Markus J. Buehler
McAfee Professor of Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Laboratory for Atomistic & Molecular Mechanics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
May 11, 2018 Multiscale Smart Materials by Design - Connecting Simulation, Design, Synthesis Across Multiple Scales
JACK R. VINSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
The Vinson Lecture honors Jack R. Vinson, the H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Delaware. Vinson, who joined the UD faculty in 1964 and taught one of the first composites courses in the US in 1969, was the founding director of the University’s Center for Composite Materials in 1974. He served as chairmain of UD’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from 1965 to 1979. UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 33