Joint Mechanical Engineering (MNE) and Engineering Applied Science (EAS) Seminar
When: Friday,
April 10, 2015
2:00 PM
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3:00 PM
Where: Textiles Building 101E
Description: We are pleased to announce the following SEMINAR:
Joint Mechanical Engineering (MNE) and Engineering Applied Science (EAS) Seminar
Friday, April 10th 2015
2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
Textile Building, Room 101E
SPEAKER:
Dr. Allan Pierce, Adjunct Professor at UMD Mechanical Engineering and Professor Emeritus of ME at Boston University
TOPIC:
Slow Deaths of Vibrations and Waves
ABSTRACT:
Vibrations are the most fundamental of dynamical process, and they affect a vast range of technologies and science. While there is considerable understanding concerning the nature of vibrations and waves (which are vibrations that move), there is not much of a fundamental understanding of the processes (typically small-scale phenomena, nano-scale and smaller) that cause such vibrations to die out. The speaker and others have been involved in several NSF-sponsored workshops to discuss possible future interdisciplinary research efforts that will concentrate on the science and technology of vibrational energy transport and dissipation at small scales. The grand challenge is whether we can advance the technologies associated with vibrations so that a fundamental understanding of small-scale phenomena associated with vibrations can be fully utilized. Present talk will review the past heuristic techniques for dealing with the damping of vibrations, then review what is currently known in terms of fundamentals, including those intrinsically quantum mechanical, and will then suggest the nature of future interdisciplinary research that can meet this challenge.
BIO:
Allan D. Pierce is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University, having retired from teaching in 2012. His long academic career began in 1966 with Assistant- and Associate-Professor positions at MIT, and continued with appointments as a Regents Professor at Georgia Tech, as the Holder of the Leonhard Chair in Engineering at Penn State, and as Chair of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. Between 1999 and 2014, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Honors received over the years include the Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics and the Gold Medal from the ASA, the Per Bruel Gold Medal in Noise Control and Acoustics from the ASME, the Gold Medal of the Acoustical Foundation of India, and the Rossing Prize for Education in Acoustics from the ASA. His textbook "Acoustics: an Introduction to its Fundamental Principles and Applications" has been in print since 1981 and is a leading reference work in acoustics.
For more information please contact Dr. Mehdi Raessi, MNE Seminar Coordinator (mraessi@umassd.edu, 508-999-8496).
All are welcome.
First year MNE Graduate (MS) students are required to attend. All other MNE and EAS students are encouraged to attend.
Light refreshments will be served.
Thank you, Sue Cunha (scunha@umassd.edu, 508-999-8492)
Joint Mechanical Engineering (MNE) and Engineering Applied Science (EAS) Seminar
Friday, April 10th 2015
2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
Textile Building, Room 101E
SPEAKER:
Dr. Allan Pierce, Adjunct Professor at UMD Mechanical Engineering and Professor Emeritus of ME at Boston University
TOPIC:
Slow Deaths of Vibrations and Waves
ABSTRACT:
Vibrations are the most fundamental of dynamical process, and they affect a vast range of technologies and science. While there is considerable understanding concerning the nature of vibrations and waves (which are vibrations that move), there is not much of a fundamental understanding of the processes (typically small-scale phenomena, nano-scale and smaller) that cause such vibrations to die out. The speaker and others have been involved in several NSF-sponsored workshops to discuss possible future interdisciplinary research efforts that will concentrate on the science and technology of vibrational energy transport and dissipation at small scales. The grand challenge is whether we can advance the technologies associated with vibrations so that a fundamental understanding of small-scale phenomena associated with vibrations can be fully utilized. Present talk will review the past heuristic techniques for dealing with the damping of vibrations, then review what is currently known in terms of fundamentals, including those intrinsically quantum mechanical, and will then suggest the nature of future interdisciplinary research that can meet this challenge.
BIO:
Allan D. Pierce is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University, having retired from teaching in 2012. His long academic career began in 1966 with Assistant- and Associate-Professor positions at MIT, and continued with appointments as a Regents Professor at Georgia Tech, as the Holder of the Leonhard Chair in Engineering at Penn State, and as Chair of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. Between 1999 and 2014, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Honors received over the years include the Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics and the Gold Medal from the ASA, the Per Bruel Gold Medal in Noise Control and Acoustics from the ASME, the Gold Medal of the Acoustical Foundation of India, and the Rossing Prize for Education in Acoustics from the ASA. His textbook "Acoustics: an Introduction to its Fundamental Principles and Applications" has been in print since 1981 and is a leading reference work in acoustics.
For more information please contact Dr. Mehdi Raessi, MNE Seminar Coordinator (mraessi@umassd.edu, 508-999-8496).
All are welcome.
First year MNE Graduate (MS) students are required to attend. All other MNE and EAS students are encouraged to attend.
Light refreshments will be served.
Thank you, Sue Cunha (scunha@umassd.edu, 508-999-8492)
Topical Areas: University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering