Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering 2008:
NanoMechanical Engineering
Free on-line registration is required
Thursday May 15th, 2008
Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Building, 3330 Walnut St., Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
What does the future hold for Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering as a whole?
Come explore this question with us, as the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and the Nanotechnology Institute host Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering: Nanomechanical Engineering. This one-day forum will consist of talks presented by four distinguished speakers focusing on their forefront research at the intersection of Mechanical Engineering and Nanotechnology, a panel discussion on research and business opportunities in nanomechanics featuring experts from industry and government, and a student research poster session highlight Penn Engineering research in nanomechanics. The program will highlight current and future trends in nanotechnology, discuss emerging prospects, and provide networking opportunities.
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Featured Speakers:
- Prof. Arun Majumdar, Almy & Agnes Maynard Chair Professor; Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley Natinal Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley
- Prof. Rob Phillips, Professor of Applied Physics and Mechanical Engineering; Option Representative for Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology
- Prof. Juan G. Santiago, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
- Prof. Subra Suresh, Ford Professor of Engineering; Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Professor of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Government & Industry Panel: Opportunities in Nanomechanics
Moderator: Dr. Dawn Bonnell, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering; Director, Nano/Bio Interface Center, University of Pennsylvania
Panelists:
- Dr. John A. Kramar, Group Leader, Precision Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Dr. Demitris A. Kouris,,Program Manager, Nano and Biomechanics, National Science Foundation
- Dr. Richard R. Barto, Principal Member of Engineering Staff, Lockheed Martin-ATL
- Dr. Jeffrey H. Rosedale, Patent Attorney, Woodcock Washburn LLP
Tentative Agenda:
9:00 AM Welcome
9:15 "Nanomechanical Engineering in Energy Science and Technology"
Prof. Arun Majumdar
10:15 Break
10:45 "How Cells and Viruses Manage Their Genomes: A Single-Molecule View"
Prof. Rob Phillips
11:45 Lunch Break
1:00 PM "Nanochannel Electrokinetics: Fundamentals and Application to DNA Separation"
Prof. Juan Santiago
2:00 "Nanomechanics for Engineering and Life Sciences"
Prof. Subra Suresh
3:00 Student Poster Session, Refreshments
4:00 Government & Industry Panel: Opportunities in Nanomechanics
5:00 Concluding Remarks
5:15-6:30 Reception, Levine 1st floor lobby
The one-hour poster session starting at 3 pm will be a forum for students and postdocs to present their cutting-edge work in nano-scale mechanical engineering research areas. Students and post-docs from any department or institution are encouraged to present a poster, as long as the topic is relevant to mechanics or mechanical engineering at the nanoscale.
If you wish to present a poster, submit your full name, affiliation, co-authors' names and affiliations, and poster title to Denise Graham, at denisegr@seas.upenn.edu, no later than 5 pm on Tuesday, May 6th. A prize for the best poster will be awarded. If you will be presenting a poster, details on poster size and when/where to set up your poster will be sent to you separately.
Free on-line registration is required
For more information, please contact Denise Graham, denisegr@seas.upenn.edu, (215) 573-9928
Meeting Co-chairs:
Rob Carpick Haim Bau
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
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