Thursday, Feb. 9
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Rekhi Hall G06
SFHI Transportation presents:
Pasi T. Lautala
Research Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Tech
Michigan Technological University’s Rail Transportation Program–part of the Michigan Tech Transportation Institute–is one of seven members of a research university consortium that has received the US Department of Transportation’s (USDoT) first multi-million grant to a University Transportation Center focused solely on rail transportation. The University of lllinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will lead the consortium.
The $3.5 million grant is part of a $77 million USDoT initiative to advance research and education programs that address critical transportation challenges facing the nation. In addition to UIUC and Michigan Tech, the members of the National University Rail Center (NURail) are MIT, the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Kentucky and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
NURail is one of 10 University Transportation Centers nationwide to receive the federal funding.
For the full story, see Railway.
Wednesday, Feb. 8
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Rekhi Hall G06
SFHI Transportation presents:
Peter T. Savolainen
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Wayne State University Transportation Research Group
Wednesday, Feb. 8
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Rekhi Hall G06
SFHI Water Systems presents:
Danielle Wain
Environmental Engineering CE 5992 Graduate Seminar
Monday, Feb. 6
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Rekhi Hall G06
SFHI Water Systems presents:
Woo Hyoung Lee
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency
February 3, 2012—
Michigan Technological University’s Rail Transportation Program–part of the Michigan Tech Transportation Institute–is one of seven members of a research university consortium that has received the US Department of Transportation’s (USDoT) first multi-million grant to a University Transportation Center focused solely on rail transportation. The University of lllinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will lead the consortium. Read More about it
Civil Engineering CE 5990 Graduate Seminar
Thursday, February 2
Time: 4-5pm,
Dow 642
Presenter: Dr. Gregory M. Odegard, Associate Professor, ME-EM, Michigan Tech
Abstract: Polymer-based composites and nanocomposite materials have the potential to provide significant increases in specific stiffness and specific strength relative to current Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Structures and Materials Technical Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.significant increases in specific stiffness and specific strength relative to current materials used for many engineering structural applications. To facilitate the design and development of polymer nanocomposite materials, structure-property relationships must be established that predict the bulk mechanical response of these materials as a function of the molecular- and micro-structure. The objective of this research is to establish an accurate and efficient approach for using computational modeling to develop structure-property relationships for polymer-based systems. A combination of molecular dynamics and micromechanical modeling methods has been used to predict the mechanical response of high-performance polymers, nanoparticle/polymer composites, SWNT/polymer composites, and SWNT arrays. An overview of this research will be presented along with the results from specific material systems.
Environmental Engineering CE 5992 Graduate Seminar
Presenter: Drs. Watkins, Griffis, Mayer (MTU CEE Dept.), Katelyn Watson, Ali Mirchi, Rabi Gyawali, Meredith Ballard – doctoral candidates
Location: 642 Dow
Date: Monday, April 16th, 2012
Environmental Engineering CE 5992 Graduate Seminar
S-STEM 4: Great Lakes P monitoring & Pilgrim River Watershed Plan
Location: 101 Rekhi Hall
Date: Monday, April 9th, 2012
Environmental Engineering CE 5992 Graduate Seminar
Presenter: Dr. Alan Weidemann, Office of Naval Research
Location:
Date: Monday, April 2nd, 2012