2014 Past MASc Seminars

Sirui Song - Friday, December 19, 2014; E5 3006 - 10:00 - 11:00 AM
Title:  Towards Autonomous Driving at the Limit of Friction.
Supervisors:  Jan Huissoon, Steven Waslander

David Sommer - Thursday, December 18, 2014; E5 3052 - 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Title: Development of a coupled numerical-experimental facility to model the fluid-structure interactions of the human vocal folds
Supervisor:  Sean Peterson

Dan Kraehling - Tuesday, December 16, 2014; Room E5 3052  - 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Title: Effect of Stress Triaxiality on the Constitutive Response of Super Vacuum Die Cast AM60B Magnesium Alloy
Supervisor:  Michael Worswick

Liliana Zdravkova - Monday, December 15, 2014; Room E3X 4117 - 11:30 - 12:30
Title: Fiber Optic Sensor for In-Situ State-of-Change Monitoring for Lithium-Ion Battery
Supervisor:  Patricia Neiva

Dilaver Singh - Monday, December 15, 2014; Room E5 3006 - 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Title: Investigation of Primary Blast Injury and Protection using Sagittal and Transverse Finite Element Head Models
Supervisor: Duane Cronin

Jennifer Book - Tuesday, December 16, 2014; Room ERC 3012 - 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Title:Investigating the Impact of External Passive Compression on Central and Peripheral Hemodynamics
Supervisor:  Sean Peterson

Alexander Bruckson - Friday, December 12, 2014; Room E5 3052 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Title: Multiple Droplet Merging for the Control of Reactions on a Microfluidic Chip
Supervisor:  Carolyn Ren

Colin Tadgell - Thursday, December 11, 2014; Room E5 3052 - 12:00 - 1:00
Title: Investigation of Plating Process Variability and Mechanism for Oxide Disruption in a Ni-Modified Fluxless Brazing Process for Aluminum Alloys.
Supervisor:  Mary Wells

Manpreet Bansal - Monday, December 8, 2014; Room E5 2007 - 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Title:  Experimental and numerical investigation of three equispaced cylinders in cross-flow
Supervisor:  Serhiy Yarusevych

Hasan Toplar - Monday, December 8, 2014; Room E3X 4117 - 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Title: Experimental Analysis of Smart Tires
Supervisor:  Amir Khajepour

Kaab Omer - Monday, December 8, 2014; E5 3006 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Title:  Development and Testing of a Hot Stamped Axial Crush Member with Tailored Properties
Supervisor:  Michael Worswick

Ryan Bakker - Friday, December 5, 2014; Room E5 3006 - 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Title:  The Effect of Sagittal Plane Mechanics on Anterior Cruciate Ligament Strain During Jump Landing
Supervisor:  Naveen Chandrashekar

Savas Ozdemir - Friday, November 14, 2014; Room E5 3052 - 2:30 to 4:00 PM
Title: Measurement of the Quality Factor for the Micro Electromechanical system Cantilever Devices by using Non-Destructive Test Methodology
Supervisor:  Mustafa Yavuz

Sogol Roohparvaradeh, Monday, October 6, 2014; E3X 4117 - 10:00 AM -11:00 AM
Title:  Measurement and Characterization of the Compressive Behaviour of Gas Diffusion Layer in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell
Supervisor: Xianguo Li

Timothy Sipkens, Wednesday, September 24, 2014; ERC 3012
Title: Sizing of Non-Carbonaceous Nanoparticles by Time-Resolved Laser-Induced Incandescence
Supervisor: Kyle Daun

Kevin Ling, Friday, September 12, 2014; Room E3X 4117 at 2:00 PM
Title:  Precision Landing of a Quadrotor UAV on a Moving Target Using Low-Cost Sensors
Supervisor: Steven Waslander

Mohammad H. Farshidianfar, Wednesday, September 10 2014; Room E3X 4117 at 9:00 AM
Title: Control of Microstructure in Laser Additive Manufacturing
Supervisor: Amir Khajepour

Saman Sahraeinejad, Wednesday, September 10, 2014: Room E3X 4117 at 2:00 PM
Title: Fabrication of Surface Metal Matrix Composites Using Friction Stir Processing
Supervisor:  Adrian Gerlich

Nhat Ly, Wednesday, September 10, 2014; Room E5 3052 at 2:00 PM
Title: LaserMicrowelding of Ultra-fine Wires using Femtosecond Pulses
Supervisor: Michael Mayer

Tong Liu, Friday, September 5, 2014; Room E5 3006 at 9:30 AM
Title: Developing Applications of Atomic Force Microscopy in Cellular Imaging and Mechanical Property Measurement
Supervisor: H.J. Kwon

Mohammad Al Mashagbeh, Thursday, August 28, 2014; Room E5 3006 at 10:00 AM
Title: Force Control of a Unilateral Master-Slave System Using a SCARA Robot Arm
Supervisor: Behrad Khamesee

Harry Zheng, Wednesday, August 27, 2014; Room E5 3052 at 4:00 PM
Title: Design Study of a Three-Wheeled Urban Electric Vehicle
Supervisor:  Amir Khajepour

James Servos - Monday, August 18, 2014; Room E5 3006 at 10:00 AM
Title: Improving Scan Registration Methods Using Additional Point Dada Channels
Supervisor: Steven Waslander

Man (Dominic) Ma - Monday, August 18, 2014; Room E3 4117 at 2:00 PM
Title: Investigation of differential Diffusion Effects in Turbulent Hydrogen Jet Flame using Conditional Moment Closure Method
Supervisor: Cecile Devaud

Waqas Muhammad - Friday, August 15, 2014; Room E5 3006 at 10:00 AM
Title: Experimental Characterization and Constitutive Modeling of AZ31B and ZEK100 Magnesium Alloys from Monotonic & Reverse Loading Paths
Supervisor:  Kaan Inal

Patrick Mulherin - Friday, August 8, 2014; Room E5 3052 at 12:30 PM
Title:  Burning Behaviour of Heavy Gas Oil from the Canadian Oil Sands
Supervisor:  Elizabeth Weckman

Leila Ahmadi - Thursday, July 24, 2014; Room E6 2022 from 11:30 - 12:30
Title: Cascaded use and sustainable management of Lithium-ion batteries in mobility and stationary power.
Supervisor:  Dr. Roydon Fraser

Michael Binder - Wednesday, June 18, 2014; Room E5 3052 at 11:00 AM.
Title: Coordinated Control of Ground VehicleDynamics via Optimal Control Allocation
Supervisor: Amir Khajepour

Mariusz Boba, - Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 2:00 in E5 3052
Title: Warm Forming Behavoiur of ZEK100 and AZ31B Magnesium Alloy Sheet
Supervisor: Michael Worswick

Tim Pollock - Friday, May 9, 2014 at 5:00 PM in E3 4117
Title: Design, Modeling, Fabrication & Testing of a Miniature Piezoelectric-based EMF Energy Harvester
Supervisor:  Armaghan Salehian

Andrew Michael - Friday, May 9, 2014 at 10:00 in E5 3006
Title: Enhancing Corrosion Performance of Laser Processed NiTi Shape Memory Alloy
Supervisor: Norman Zhou

Nigel Swytink-Binnema - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 10:00 in E3 4117
Title: Digital Tuft Flow Visualisation at an Outdoor Wind Turbine Test Site
Supervisor: David Johnson

Satyam Panchal - Thursday, April 24 at 2:30 PM  in E3 4117
Title: Impact of Vehicle Charge and Discharge Cycles on the Thermal Characteristics of Lithium-ion Batteries
Supervisor:  Roydon Fraser

Scott Mathewson - Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at 1:00 PM in E5 3052
Title: Experimental Measurements of LiFEPO4  Battery Thermal Characteristics
Supervisor: Richard Culham

Chi Shing (Tom) Li - Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 1:00 PM in ERC 3012
Title:Computational Acoustic Beamforming of Noise Source on Wind turbine Airfoil
Supervisors: Fue-Sang Lien and Armaghan Salehian

Khanh Nguyen - Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 3:00 PM in E3 4117
Title: Model Reduction for Vehicle Systems Modelling
Supervisor: Amir Khajepour

Nasrettin Koksal - Thursday, April 3, 2014 at 6:00 PM in E3 4117
Title: Implementation of Decentralized Formation Control on Multi-Quadrotor Systems
Supervisor:  Baris Fidan

Kai Mikkelsen - Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 1:00 in E5 3052
Title: An Experimental Investigation of Ignition Propensity of Hot Work Process in the Nuclear Industry|
Supervisor: E.J. Weckman

Andy Wong - February 7, 2014; room E5 3006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00AM
Title: Integrated Vehicle Stability and Energy Management Controls for Electric Vehicles
Supervisor: Amir Khajepour

Thomas Kirk - February 6, 2014; Room E3 4117 - 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Title: The Later Stages of Transition over a NACA0018 Airfoil at a Low Reynolds Number
Supervisor: Serhiy Yarusevych

Mohammed Ibrahim - January 10, 2014, at 3:00 P.M. Room E3X 4117
Title: Design, Modelling and Fabrication of a Hybrid Energy Harvester
Supervisor: Dr. A. Salehian

Wen Yen Chan - January 7, 2014, at 1:30 P.M. Room E5 3006
Title: Mixed Phase Compression High Efficiency Heat Pump
Supervisor: Dr. R. Fraser

Huixiu Qi - January 6, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. Room E5 3006
Title: Catalytic Combustion and NO Formation of Natural Gas
Supervisor: Dr. J. Wen