What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Fanghui Shi, General Motors Powertrain When: Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Development of the piston noise analysis capability

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Zi Chen, Washington University in St. Louis When: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Nonlinear mechanics, morphology and instability of thin structures: from slap bracelets to the Venus flytrap and beyond

What: COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar Who: Prof. Jeffrey Rhoads, School of Mechanical Engineering,Birck Nanotechnology Center and Ray W. Herrick Laboratories, Purdue University When: Friday, June 7, 2013 at 3:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: On the Dynamics of Electromagnetically-Transduced Microresonators and Associated Arrays

What: COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar Who: Prof. Jimmy Hsia, University of Illinois, Dept. of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Urbana, IL When: Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 2:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Micro-Nanotechnologies to Study Mechanobiology and Cell Growth

What: Seminar Who: Prof. Tim Simpson, Penn State University When: Monday, June 24, 2013 at 3:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: The Power of Interdisciplinary Capstone Design Projects

What: Mechanical Engineering Seminar Who: Dr. Amy Lang, University of Alabama, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics When: Monday, July 8, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Bio-Inspired Flow Control Derived from Shark Skin and Butterfly Scales

What: COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar Who: Prof. Shailendra Joshi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore When: Friday, July 26, 2013 at 3:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Micromechanics of Magnesium Gleaned from Multi-scale Experiments and Modeling

What: Seminar Who: Mr. Fabrizio Scarpa, University of Bristol UK When: Monday, August 5, 2013 at 2:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 3515 Title: Auxetics in Foams and Composites: Manufacturing and Materials Aspects

What: COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar Who: Prof. Fabrizio Scarpa, University of Bristol, ACCIS, Queens School of Engineering, Bristol, UK When: Thursday, August 29, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Auxetic Materials and Structures: Mechanical and Multifuncational Performance At Different Scales and Applications

What: COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar Who: Prof. Valeria La Saponara, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Advanced Composites Research, Engineering and Science (ACRES) Research Group University of California, Davis When: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 at 3:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: An overview of durability challenges for fiber-reinforced polymer composite structures