Research Seminars
Energy and Sustainability
What if fossil fuels had never existed? - John Gardner, CAES Energy Efficiency Research Institute (January 24, 2020)
Dream Machines: Power plants with zero exhaust (to the air) - Dr. Robert Dibble, KAUST (February 8, 2019)
Baby, it's cold outside! - Dr. L. Damon Woods, University of Idaho (January 25, 2019)
Addressing Global Challenges Related to Energy, Combustion, and Air Pollution - Dr. Jessica Tryner, Colorado State University (October 26, 2018)
Everything Under the Sun: Solar energy, desalination, and the importance of heat transfer - Dr. Todd Otanicar, University of Tulsa (October 12, 2018)
Synergistic Solar Hybrids - Dr. Kody Powell, University of Utah (September 7, 2018)
Thermal conductivity measurements of alternative energy sources - Courtney Hollar, PhD student (March 15, 2018)
New Concepts and Materials for Thermal Energy Storage in Concentrated Solar Power - Dr. Donghyun Shin, University of Texas - Arlington (October 31, 2017)
Spotlight on Selected Thermal-Hydraulic Research Activities to Support Current and Future U.S. Nuclear Energy - Dr. Amir Ali, University of New Mexico (October 20, 2017)
Sustainability and Materials Science - John Bernardo, Idaho Power (March 3, 2017)
Supporting Growth in the Wind Energy Industry - Melissa Elkinton, DNV GL-Energy (February 10, 2017)
Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies Program: An Overview of Advanced Sensors and Instrumentation - Bruce Hallbert, Idaho National Laboratory (December 9, 2016)
Hydrogen as a Clean Energy Carrier: Removing Barriers to Large-Scale Hydrogen Distribution - Dr. Robert Amaro, Colorado School of Mines (October 28, 2016)
Sunset for a CAREER grant: Short-term wind forecasting over complex terrain for grid integration - Dr. Inanc Senocak, Boise State University (October 7, 2106)
Thermoelectric Energy Conversion: materials, manufacturing and systems - Dr. Yanliang Zhang, Advanced Energy Laboratory, Boise State University (April 15, 2016)
Putting the "SMART" in Smart Grid: the role of demand side management in grid balancing - Dr. John Gardner, Center for Advanced Energy Studies, Boise State University (November 13, 2015)
Manufacturing
Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured Parts - Dr. Aref Yadollahi, Mississippi State University (November 1, 2019)
Research Opportunities in Advanced Manufacturing - Dr. Steven Schmid, National Science Foundation (September 12, 2017)
4-D Printing: design and fabrication of self-folding structure - Dr. Tsz-Ho Kwok, University of Southern California (February 25, 2016)
Manufacturing with Soft Materials: Towards High Precision Flexible Devices - Dr. Arda Gozen, Washington State University (February 19, 2016)
The Ultrasonic Scrubber: description, performance and operating mechanisms - Dr. John Saylor, Clemson University (September 18, 2015)
Automotive and Transportation
Adoption of Smart Materials in Automobile and Aircraft Design - Dr. Zhangxian (Dan) Deng, The Ohio State University (October 27, 2017)
Product Development at Ford Motor Company in the Second Machine Age - Dr. Cagri Sever, Ford Motor Company (February 26, 2016)
Introduction to Fatigue and Damage Tolerance - Dr. Chul Y. "Charles" Park, The Boeing Company (February 5, 2016)
Aerospace
Orion: an engineering adventure - Mark Baldwin, Lockheed Martin (February 24, 2017)
Protecting critical components of unmanned spacecraft from orbital debris impacts - Dr. Aleksandr Cherniaev, University of Manitoba (October 17, 2016)
Adventures in Aerospace: 5 decades of discovery - Darold Cummings, Boeing (retired) (March 11, 2016)
Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics
Characterization and Model Validation of Thermal and Flow Dynamics During Microchannel Flow Boiling - Todd Kingston, Purdue University (October 19, 2018)
Turbulence Modeling with Large-eddy Simulation: An Introduction and an Application in Wind Engineering - Rey Deleon, University of Idaho (December 2, 2016)
DeepPIV: Measuring small-scale fluid motion in the deep sea - Kakani Katija, Monterey Bay Aquarium (November 18, 2016)
Novel Smart Vibration Isolation and Flexible Micropump Systems Utilizing Magnetorheological Elastomers - Dr. Majid Behrooz, University of Nevada – Reno (October 21, 2016)
Thermo-acoustic instabilities: three case studies - Dr. Peter Schmid, Imperial College - London (April 1, 2016)
On the Control of a Canonical Separated Flow - Dr. Louis N. Cattafesta III, Florida State University (March 4, 2016)
A Journey from Coastal Currents to Evaporation Fronts - Dr. Krishna Pakala, Boise State University (January 22, 2016)
Biomedical Engineering
Applying computational models to address clinical issues in biomedical engineering - Dr. Clare Fitzpatrick, Computational Biosciences Laboratory (April 17, 2020)
Designing for Usability: Human Factors Engineering - Tressa Daniels, Teleflex Inc. (April 3, 2020)
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Quantifying Musculoskeletal Movement Pathologies - Dr. Brecca Gaffney, Washington University of Medicine (December 6, 2019)
Baby Biomechanics: Improving Safety and Progressing Innovation - Dr. Erin Mannen, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (November 22, 2019)
Engineering Patient-Specific Drug Delivery to the Brain - Dr. Bryn Martin, University of Idaho (October 25, 2019)
Integrated Solutions to Muskuloskeletal Challenges - Dr. Paul Rullkoetter, Denver Center for Orthopaedic Biomechanics (March 1, 2019)
Fighting Brain Cancer with Electricity - Dr. Christopher Arena, Virginia Tech (November 2, 2018)
How can we use exercise to maintain and promote skeletal health? - Dr. Stefan Judek, Stony Brook University (April 19, 2018)
Bioelectronic Medicine and StimDust: A Miniaturized Wireless Peripheral Nerve Stimulator - Dr. Ben Johnson, Boise State Electrical and Computer Engineering (February 22, 2018)
Emerging materials and technologies for biomedical engineering at Boise State University - Dave Estrada and Gunes Uzer, Boise State University (February 8, 2018)
Mechano-Active Materials to Direct Stem Cell Differentiation - Dr. Robert Mauck, University of Pennsylvania (September 8, 2017)
Engineering healing: how ligament injuries are benefiting - John Everingham, Boise State University (April 14, 2017)
Interaction of Angiogenic Microvessels with the Extracellular Matrix - Dr. Jeff Weiss, University of Utah (September 16, 2016)
Bio-CMOS Interface for Smaller, Cheaper and Better Biosensors - Dr. Edwin C. Kan, Cornell University (April 22, 2016)
The Application of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology to Enhance Ligament Healing - Dr. Trevor Lujan, Northwest Tissue Mechanics Laboratory, Boise State University (February 12, 2016)
Characterizing the Fatigue Life of the Bovine Meniscus - Jaremy Creechley, Northwest Tissue Mechanics Laboratory, Boise State University (December 4, 2015)
Cell Mechanosensitivity Is Enabled by the LINC Nuclear Complex - Dr. Gunes Uzer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (November 6, 2015)
Using Computer Models and Simulations to Study Animal Movement: a platform for innovation and bio-inspiration - Dr. Jeffery Rankin, University of London (November 3, 2015)
Computational Biomechanics: applications in orthopaedics - Dr. Clare Fitzpatrick, University of Denver (October 23, 2015)
Exploring the Role of Extracellular Matrix in Muscle Healing and Brain Injury - Dr. Jeffrey Wolchok, University of Arkansas (October 16, 2015)
Computing
Applying computational models to address clinical issues in biomedical engineering - Dr. Clare Fitzpatrick, Computational Biosciences Laboratory (April 17, 2020)
A Tour of Chebfun - Nick Trefethen, University of Oxford (March 17, 2017)
PARC – exploring the history of modern computing - Tim Curley, PARC (March 10, 2017)
Robotics and Control Systems
Not All Robots Are Terminators - Dr. Matthew Esmaeili, ArtCares (April 12, 2018)
Next Generation of Cyber-Physical Systems and Industrial Control Systems - Dr. Hoda Mehrpouyan, Boise State Computer Science (March 1, 2018)
Designing the Next Generation of Robots - Dr. Aykut Satici, Robot Control Laboratory (October 6, 2017)
Passivity-Based Control in Robotics - Dr. Mark Spong, University of Texas - Dallas (September 15, 2017)
Geometric Control of Multi-Agent Systems and Robotic Manipulation - Dr. Aykut C. Satici, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (October 10, 2016)
Materials Science
Materials Design for Targeted Performance - Dr. Mahmood Mamivand, Computational Materials and Design Laboratory (April 10, 2020)
Silicon as a mechanical material: revisiting a seminal paper in MEMS and NEMS - Dr. Frank DelRio, NIST (April 19, 2019)
Emerging materials and technologies for biomedical engineering at Boise State University - Dave Estrada and Gunes Uzer, Boise State University (February 8, 2018)
Adoption of Smart Materials in Automobile and Aircraft Design - Dr. Zhangxian (Dan) Deng, The Ohio State University (October 27, 2017)
Emerging Solution-Processed Thin Film Photovoltaic and Other Thin Film Devices - Dr. Morteza Eslamian, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute in Shanghai, China (October 13, 2017)
Thermoelectric materials and radiation: a promising relationship - Nick Kempf, Boise State University (April 28, 2017)
An Overview of Pulsed Laser Characterization of Materials - David Hurley, Idaho National Laboratory (April 7, 2017)
Sustainability and Materials Science - John Bernardo, Idaho Power (March 3, 2017)
Engineering Smart Elastic Interfaces - James K. Ferri, Lafayette College (January 20, 2017)
Motion Control, Planning and Manipulation of Nanowires under Electric-Fields in Fluid Suspension - Kaiyan Yu, Rutgers University (November 7, 2016)
Structural Polymer/Nanoparticle Composites: Processing, Structure, Properties, and Performance - Dr. Kenan Song, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (November 4, 2016)
Mesoscale Modeling of Microstructural Evolution - Dr. Mahmood Mamivand, University of Wisconsin – Madison (October 24, 2016)
Materials Modeling and Experiments to Extend the Applicability of Advanced Manufacturing of Materials under Extreme Environments - Dr. Jonghyun Lee, University of Massachusetts – Amherst (October 14, 2016)
Transverse Impact of Ballistic Fibers, Yarns and Composites: fiber length scale modeling and experiments - Dr. Subramani Sockalingam, University fo Delaware Center for Composite Materials (March 17, 2016)
Enabling Lightweight Sandwich Composites through Phononic Metamaterials - Dr. Bhisham Sharma, Purdue University (March 15, 2016)