Seminar Archive

Spring 2008

March 04

Dr. Hilary Grimes-Casey
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the (Sustainable) Market: Capturing Policy, Technology and Market in the Life Cycle Model"

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March 06

NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND LOCATION: Given Lounge, Room 35-520

Dr. Erin MacDonald
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
"The Construction of Preference in Engineering Design and Implications for Green Products"

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March 18
Dr. Kripa Varanasi
General Electric Global Research
"Superhydrophobic Surfaces"
April 08 Dr. Susmita Bose
Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Washington State University
"Bioceramic Nanoparticles in Bone Implant and Protein Delivery"
April 29 Dr. Rhett Mayor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
"High-speed, High-precision Micromachining"

 

Fall 2007

September 18 LMP Safety Meeting (PDF Presentation)
October 2 Professor Tonio Buonassisi
MIT, Department of Mechanical Engineering, LMP
"Defect Engineering in Industrial Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells"
October 18
NOTE SPECIAL TIME
Dr. Peter G. Borden
Distinguished Member Technical Staff, Applied Materials, Inc.
Solar Business Group, Santa Clara, CA
"Scaling Photovoltaics Manufacturing to Drive Down Costs"
October 23 Professor Jason V. Clark
Purdue University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
"Extraction of Micro- and Nano-scale Geometric and Material Properties"
November 6 Dr. David Brock
MIT, LMP
"Making Sense of the Data: Methods for Data Interoperability and Distributed Modeling"
November 20 Professor Martin Culpepper
MIT, Department of Mechanical Engineering, LMP
"Small-Scale Nanopositioners for Nano-Scale Research and Manufacturing"
December 4 Professor Stephen Graves
MIT, Sloan School of Management, LMP
"Current Research in Supply Chain Management"

 

Spring 2007 Schedule

February 20 LMP Safety Meeting
February 27 Professor Martin Schmidt
MIT, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
"MEMS Manufacturing - To Take the Road Less Traveled?"
March 5 Professor Cutler Cleveland
Boston University, Department of Geography and Environment
TBD
March 13 Professor Curtis Taylor
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
"Nanomechanical Surface Engineering Via Probes: Nanomanufacturing Quantum Electronics"
April 3 Professor Alexander Slocum
MIT, Department of Mechanical Engineering
"Design of Medical Devices in a Precision Machine Design Class"
April 24 Professor Soundar Kumara
Penn State University, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
"Sensing and Complexity Applied to Monitoring and Manufacturing Systems"
May 1 Professor Andre Sharon
Boston University, Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation
"The Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation: Novel Automation Solutions for the Biotech, Photonics, and Semiconductor Industries"
May 8 Professor Bar Tan
Koç University, Department of Operations Management
"On the Benefits of Cooperation Among Independent Producers "
May 15 Dr. Kyriaki Polychronopoulou
University of Cyprus, Department of Chemistry
"Cr-Containing Nanostructured Hard Coatings Deposited by PVD Techniques"

 

Fall 2006 Schedule

September 19 LMP Safety Meeting (PDF presentation)
October 3 Professor Michael Gevelber
Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University
"Real-time Control for Improving Materials Processing Capabilities"
October 17 Dr. Kenneth C. Cadien
Director of Innovative Technology, Intel Corporation
"Optical Interconnects as Replacements for Cu Interconnects in Integrated Circuits "
October 31 Professor George Chryssolouris
Director, Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation, University of Patras
"Manufacturing R&D: A European Perspective"
November 14 Professor John Ziegert
Timken Chair in Design and Development, Clemson University
"Applications of Parallel Kinematics in the Design of Precision Machines”
November 29 Dr. Stephen Fantone
President, Optikos Corporation
"Opto-Mechanical Challenges in Manufacturing and Metrology"
December 7 Professor Oliver Rose
Dresden University of Technology
Benefits and Drawbacks of Simple Models for Complex Production Systems

 

Spring 2006 Schedule

February 28 Professor David Trumper
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
"Rubber Bearings for Precision Motion"
March 7 Hrishikesh Deo
Ph.D. Student, Mechanical Engineering
"Customizable Automotive Suspension System with Independent Control of Ride-height, Stiffness and Damping "
March 21 Professor John R. Williams
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Director IESL
"The Auto-ID Laboratories and the Internet of Things"
April 11 Professor L. James Lee
Helen C. Kurtz Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director, NSF Center for Advanced Polymer and Composite Engineering
Ohio State University
"Polymer Nanoengineering and Nanofluidics for Biomedical Applications"
April 27-28 MIT Manufacturing Summit:
Manufacturing Research and Education in the Global Economy
May 9 Professor Samir Nayfeh
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
"Short-Warp Weaving and the Textile Mini-Mill"

 

2005 Schedule

March 15 Dr. Stanley B. Gershwin
Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist
"Quality and Quantity Performance of Manufacturing Systems”
March 29 Professor David Trumper
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
"Ultra-High Performance Fast Tool Servo for Diamond Turning"
April 12 Dr. David Brock
Principal Research Scientist
"A Proposed Method for Integrating Data and Models in a Distributed Information Network"
April 26 Dr. Warren DeVries
Division Director, National Science Foundation
"Nanomanufacturing"
May 3 Dr. Steven W. Holland
Director of Manufacturing Systems Research, General Motors
"e-Manufacturing & the Next Automotive Paradigm"
May 10 Prof. Timothy G. Gutowski
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
"Manufacturing and Environment: Connecting the Dots"
September 13 LMP Safety Meeting
October 18 Dr. Daniel E. Whitney
Senior Research Scientist, MIT Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development
"A Unified Approach to Design of Assemblies Integrating Nominal and Variation Design"
October 25 Charles McLean
Group Leader, Manufacturing Simulation Modeling Group National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Modeling and Simulating the Manufacturing Enterprise"
November 1 Dr. Stephen C. Graves
Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management and Mechanical Engineering
"Order Fulfillment in Online Retailing: Some New Issues"
November 15 Dr. Ji Oh Song
Executive Vice President, Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.
"Mechatronics in Samsung: Today and Tomorrow”
November 29 Dr. Jian Cao
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
"Manufacturing at Multi-scales"