Seminars

Fall semester has been one of the best ever for seminars,with speakers addressing topics as varied as fog chemistry and air pollution to automotive interior design to the use of engineered tissues to replace damaged bladders and ears. 

This year,seven academic programs implemented a regular seminar series -- Electrical and Computer, Mechanical, Industrial and Systems, Wireless, Chemical, Civil and Electrical. These and other departmental seminars have attracted speakers from both industry and academia.  Some highlights include:

Kalliat Valsaraj

Kalliat T. Valsaraj

Kalliat T. Valsaraj, Roddey Distinguished Professor and chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University: Fog chemistry and air pollution along the Gulf Coast between Houston and Baton Rouge.

Randy Griffin, manager, instrumentation and audio products, Chrysler LLC (formerly DaimlerChrysler): Design for manufacturability of the automotive interiors.                                                                                                                            

D. James Guzy, co-founder and chairman, SRC Computers, Inc.: Thoughts of Seymour Cray, the father of supercomputer who partnered with Guzy to found SRC. 

Yihan Li, postdoctoral fellow, AU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: The use of remotely guided animals, outfitted with sensor laden backpacks, for search and rescue operations.

Benjamin Lok

Benjamin Lok

Benjamin Lok, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Florida: The use of a virtual human system that allows students in the health professions to interact via speech and gestures with life-sized virtual humans, allowing them to practice and learn interpersonal skills.

Warren O. Haggard, professor and Herff Chair of Excellence in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Memphis: The use of polymers to replace damaged tissue.

William A. Massey, Edwin S. Wilsey, Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University: Response time for a processor-sharing queing model of a Webservers subjected to surges in traffic.

Shabbir Ahmed, Coca-Cola Associate Professor of the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology: Algorithmic techniques in stochastic programming that solve distribution-robust models and their application in finance and the supply chain.

Wade Trappe

Wade Trappe

Wade Trappe, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers University and associate director of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB). Trapp will cover the securing of wireless networks without cryptology.

Charles Perkins, research fellow with Nokia-Siemens Networks: Ways to discussing ways to improve routing protocol performance.