Announcements

Announcements

engineering building Refer to this page periodically for announcements and new projects in Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Engineering at the National Science Foundation [PDF]

Making smart composites using carbon nanotubes

NSF grant brings Experiential Library to the department

Engineering at the National Science Foundation

Distinguished Lecturer Series:

April 7, 2008
Dr. Joe Fernando: Wading in Troubled Waters: Tsunamis, Storm Surges and Stressed Environment [PDF]

March 3, 2008
Dr. Manuel Marquez: The Magic of Microfluidics: Designing and Engineering New Materials [PDF]

Feb. 11, 2008
Dr. Jeffrey Fredberg: A Hard Day in the Life of a Soft Cell: Physical Laws Governing Cytoskeletal Deformation, Contraction, and Remodeling [PDF]

Nov. 12, 2007
Dr. Steven Frankel: Computational Aeroacoustics in a Model of the Human Vocal Tract [PDF]

Oct. 22, 2007
Dr. Anette (Peko) Hosoi: Optimizing Locomotion in Nature [PDF]

Sept. 24, 2007
Dr. John Burns: Computational Issues in Control and Design, from
Ultra-Small Nano Devices to Ultra-Large Space Structures [PDF]

April 23, 2007
Dr. Mihir Sen: From the Simple to the Complex, An Engineer's Perspective [PDF]

Feb. 26, 2007
Dr. Hassan Aref: Marvelous Mathematical Models [PDF]

Jan. 29, 2007
Dr. Joel Levine: From Kitty Hawk to Mars, the First Airplane on another Planet [PDF]

Dec. 11, 2006
Mr. Dennis Bushnell: Wavetop Tours through the Emerging Technologies and their Potential Applications and Implications [PDF]

Nov. 13, 2006
Dr. Ahmed Ghoniem: Energy Crisis [PDF]

Oct. 16, 2006
Dr. Ronald Merrell: Emerging Medical Problems, Engineering Solutions [PDF]