ME395 Seminar guest Babak Ziaie

Hello everyone.

 

Please be aware of the ME395 seminar this Thursday (April 16^th), and plan to attend.  Also, please note location is different from last quarter.

 

Thank you!

 

Mechanics & Computation ME395 Seminar In Solid Mechanics

Spring 2008-09

 

Low Cost Fun at Microscsale

 

 

 

Babak Ziaie, Ph.D.

Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering (by Courtesy)

Birck Nanotechnology Center

Purdue University

 

4:15 PM April 16, 2009

Building 300 Room 300

 

 

 

In addition to my main research thrust in biomedical microdevices, my lab frequently dabbles in performing low cost experiments to investigate simple phenomena at microscale.  These experiments usually require a single mask (or sometimes no mask at all) and frequent travels to local hardware stores.  In spite of their apparent simplicity, the theoretical explanations for some of these experiments are not trivial.  In this seminar, I will talk about several such adventures using simple materials and test set ups in areas such as dynamic ferrofluid platforms, vibrating ratchet-shaped microchannels for droplet manipulation, ferropaper actuators, frequency controlled micromotion of soft-bodied cylinders with ratchet-shaped legs, and stretchable electrodes for recording and stimulation.