MEAM Seminar: “Multiscale Mechano-Medicine: from Mechanobiology to Tissue-Interfacing Stimulating Medical Devices”
Many human health problems are associated with alteration of tissue mechanics and often require mechanical stimulation to promote the healing process. While it is now well established that the mechanics […]
MEAM Seminar: “Bioinspired Microrobotic Systems for Interfacing with Cells and Tissues”
Control over the microscopic world, at the scale of the smallest organisms, depends on the development of robots and machines that can operate at micro-nanoscales. However, fundamental limitations in the […]
MEAM Seminar: “Additive Manufacturing: Future of Healthcare”
Personalized medicine as an emerging solution for health problems is leveraged by advanced manufacturing technologies. Personalized medical devices, tissue grafts, biomonitoring systems, and precision medicine are customized based on each […]
MEAM Seminar: “Control of Jump Stochastic Systems by Learning Recurrent Spatiotemporal Patterns”
Efficient learning for stochastic control and estimation remains a topic of high interest in a variety of disciplines and there are well-known advantages and disadvantages to both model-free and model-based […]
MEAM Seminar: “Laboratory Investigations of Wind Turbine Wakes at Field Reynolds Numbers”
Wind turbines and wind farms present unique challenges—fluid mechanically—as they combine extremely high Reynolds numbers with additional time scales imposed by the rotation, and three-dimensional effects. This implies that resolved […]
MEAM Seminar: “Strategies for Approaching One Hundred Percent Dense Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes”
Creating thick electrodes with low porosity can dramatically increase the available energy in a single cell and decrease the number of electrode stacks needed in a full battery, which results […]
MEAM Seminar: “Solid Interfaces in Electrochemical Devices”
While lithium (Li) ion battery technology has had major successes, at the current rate of progress, it is unlikely to meet the mid-century global demands related to full de-carbonization and […]
MEAM Seminar: “Mechanics for Energy Sustainability: From Fatigue of 2D Materials to Dendrites in Solid-state Batteries”
Achieving energy sustainability requires efforts from not only sourcing clean energy, but also storing and dispatching energy whenever and wherever needed, as well as being energy-efficient whenever possible. Two-dimensional (2D) […]
MEAM Seminar: “Leveraging Unsteady Flows for Enhanced Performance in Wind-Energy Systems”
Wind energy is poised to play a considerable role in the global transition to clean-energy technologies within the next few decades. Modern wind turbines, like aircraft and other aerodynamic structures, […]
MEAM Seminar: “Data-Aware Computational Models for Science and Engineering”
In the past half-century, partial differential equation (PDE)-based computational models have emerged as indispensable for science and engineering. However, remarkable gaps still exist between state-of-the-art simulations and reality, meaning that […]