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Engineering Oral Presentations and Section Meeting

Saturday, April 30th, 2005
Shaw in Commons


Time Primary Presenter Title

Medical Applications

8:30 Sreedevi Krishnan Peristaltic Transport and Mixing of Particles in the GI Tract
8:45 Shan Bao Factors influencing mental rotation performance
9:00 Tian-Shah Hardware and Software Platforms for Cochlear Implant Research
9:15 Kyle Thureen

System to Extend the Hearing Capabilities of Cochlear Implant Patients

9:30 Break
Industrial Engineering
9:45 John Hill

Assessing the Relative Risk of Severe Injury in Automotive Crashes for Older Female Occupants

10:00 Birsen Donmez Driver Acceptance of Distraction Mitigation Strategies: Focus Group and Simulator Studies
10:15 Bobbie Seppelt Driver Distraction and Reliance: Adaptive Cruise Control in the Context of Sensor Reliability and Algorithm Limits
10:30 Alaa Elwany Condition Based Replacement Models
10:45 Break
11:00 General Session III
12:00 Lunch
Mechanical Modeling
1:00 Wenyi Hou Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes and their Reinforced Aluminum-Based Composites
1:15 Justin Garvin Multiscale modeling of particle-solidification front dynamics
1:30 Yi Yang Dendrite-Particle Interaction Numerical Simulation
1:45 Weixuan Yang A Nanoscale Meshfree Particle Method
2:00 Yongli Zhao Modeling Effect of Surface Heterogeneity on Thin Films using a Disjoining-Pressure Precursor-Film Approach
2:15 Engineering Section Meeting - Geb Thomas
2:30 Break
Hydrolics and Environmental Science
2:45 Ramon Lawrence Unlocking the Scientific Value of NEXRAD Weather Radar Data
3:00 Cancelled
3:15 Brett Woods Fate of Antibiotics and Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater Treatment Plants
3:30 Xiongbin Liu Interaction of a Pump Impeller and an Intake Vortex
3:45 Brett Bathel Prediction of maximum spread ratio for droplet impact on a solid, smooth surface



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