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Department of Chemical Engineering Seminars

Location and Time*: A.W. Smith Building, Room 329, Thursdays, 11:30 a.m.
Refreshments: A.W. Smith Building, Lobby, 11:00 a.m.
*Unless otherwise noted.

Information: (216) 368-4182, or chemeng@po.cwru.edu

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Fall 2006 Schedule


September 14, 2006
Dr. Heidi B. Martin
Department of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
Graduate Educational Guidelines

September 21, 2006
Department of Occupational and Environmental Safety, Case
Safety Lecture and Exam

September 28, 2006
John Lewandowski
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
Flow and Fracture Studies on Bulk Metallic Glasses and Composites

October 5, 2006
Peter Strasser
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston
Electrocatalysis of PEM Fuel Cell Cathodes: Structure-property relations of Pt nanoparticle with high lattice strain

October 19, 2006
Mike Paulitis
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Ohio State University
Protein Micorarrays for Characterizing Diverse T-Cell Populations

November 8, 2006
Ed Maginn
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Using Atomistic Simulations to Understand Structure-Property Relationships: Applications to Ionic Liquieds and Crystalline Nanoporous Materials

November 30, 2006
Gideon Samid
Towards a Universal Theory of Innvoation

December 7, 2006 - Phil Morrison Memorial Lecture
Dan Hammer
University of Pennsylvannia
Multifunctional Polymer Vesicles

Spring 2006 Schedule


January 19, 2006
Dr. Dorothy Miller
Director Flora Stone Mather Center for Women &
Clinical Associate Professor, Mandel School for Applied Behavioral and Social Sciences,
Case Western Reserve University
"ACES Student Gender Awareness Training: Highlights on Research and Theory from Psychology and Social Science"

January 26, 2006
Professor Clemens Burda
Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University
"Nanostructures for Photochemical Applications"

February 2, 2006
Dr. Caroline Whitbeck
Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor of Ethics &
Director of the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at CASE,
Case Western Reserve University
"Ethical Issues Related to Copying, Benchmarking and Reverse Engineering"

February 9, 2006
Professor Brian Korgel
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
"Semiconductor Nanowires"

February 16, 2006
Professor Niel Forbes
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts
"Using Chemical Engineering to Develop Cancer Therapeutics"

February 23, 2006
Professor Robert Edwards
Department of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
"Processing Random Data"

March 2, 2006
Professor Mike Cheung
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Akron
"Sonochemical Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate and Styrene in Near-Critical Carbon Dioxide"

March 9, 2006
Professor Gary Eden
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering &
Director, Laboratory for Optical Physics and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"New Opportunities for Plasma Science in Nonequilibrium, Low Temperature Plasmas Confined to Microcavities: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"

March 16, 2006
No Seminar due to Spring Break

March 23, 2006
Professor Ed Lightfoot
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin
"Emergence and the Evolution of Novel Models and Designs"

March 30, 2006
Dr. Mike Harold
Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston
"Multi-Functional Reactors for NOx Reduction and Hydrogen Generation"

April 6, 2006
Professor Carol Hall
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, North Carolina State University
"Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Protein Aggregation"

April 13, 2006
Dr. Eric Kaler
Dean, College of Engineering, University of Delaware
"Polymerization in Complex Fluids"

Fall 2005 Seminars


September 15, 2005
Department of Occupational and Environmental Safefy, Case
Laboratory Safety

September 22, 2005
Dr. Dorothy C. Miller
Director, Flora Stone Mather Center for Women
Clinical Associate Professor, Mandel School for Applied Behavioral and Social Sciences, Case
ACES Student Gender Training Awareness

October 20, 2005
Andre Francis Palmer
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Improved oxygen delivery to hepatic hollow fiber bioreactors

October 27, 2005 - Phil Morrison Lecture
Professor Michael R. Zachariah
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park
Director, UMCP/NIST Center for NanoManufacturing and Metrology
Tools for Studying the Reactivity of NanoAerosols

November 10, 2005
Mark Mathias
Manager - Material Development, General Motors - Fuel Cell Activites, Honeoye Falls, NY
Two Fuel Cell Cars in Every Garage? Materials Status/Needs for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

November 17, 2005
Dan Schwartz
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado, Bolder, CO
A Thermodynamic Perspective on Self-Assembled Monolayer Formation

December 1, 2005
Michael Cheung
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Akron
Title: TBA

December 8, 2005
Gerogio Rizzoni
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Center for Automotive Research and Intelligent Transporation, Ohio State University
A Control-Oriented Model for an Automotive PEM Fuel Cell Systems with Imbedded 1+1D Membrane Water Transport