Seminars /Workshops / Events
Electron Microscopy Workshop
New Capabilities at BNC
November 14th @ 10am – 1pm in BRK 1001 (see attached announcement)
Registration: https://forms.gle/KKQJTEHn4HxJAprZ7
The Electron Microscopy Team is presenting the newly acquired instrumentation at Birck Nanotechnology Center. The workshop will be located at BNC 1001 on Thursday, Nov. 14th at 10 a.m. The presentations will be divided in a morning session
and a lunch session. The morning session will consist of a presentation from each member of the EM team introducing the instruments and the different imaging and chemical analysis capabilities related to the instruments. During the lunch session, current super-users
will present a brief summary of what they have been able to achieve with these new capabilities during the last 6 months. Please join us to learn more about these new capabilities and ask questions on how Electron Microscopy can help your research. For more
information, please find the attached poster announcement.
Lundstrom-Datta Lecture Dr. Arun Majumdar
Thermoelectric Energy Conversion: Science and Engineering Challenges and Opportunities
November 21st, 2019 @ 11:00am in MRGN 121
Microfluidics course announcement – Spring 2020 (see attached announcement for more details)
Microscopic flows are everywhere these days. In fact they’ve always been all around us but we haven’t noticed. Despite their prevalence in science and engineering fields, they are not well understood—in large part because the fluid mechanics intuition developed
in the study of macroscale flows frequently does not apply to microscopic flows. This class will prepare engineers and scientists to address problems they will encounter when studying the behavior of fluid flows in microscopic domains. The course will concentrate
on behaviors not typically important at large length scales that become very important at small length scales, such as Van der Waals forces, surface tension, and electrostatic forces. The course will take a largely analytical approach to studying these flow
phenomena although some computational modeling will also performed and several lab demos and visits are planned. Previous experience with graduate level fluid mechanics (i.e. Navier-Stokes solutions) or continuum mechanics will be helpful. Some computational
analysis of model problems may be performed using commercial software (ANSYS/Fluent/COMSOL or related).
Instructor: Steve Wereley, Mechanical Engineering (wereley@purdue.edu)
Course Objectives:
1. To learn how fluids behave in microscopic domains that are still large enough for continuum flow approximations to hold.
2. To learn where the continuum assumptions are no longer valid.
3. To learn how to treat sub-continuum fluid flows.
Prerequisites by Topic: The student should be of graduate standing. The student should have had some previous experience with graduate level fluid mechanics, in particular solving the Navier-Stokes equations.
Computer Usage: The students may need to use ANSYS, Matlab, Fluent, COMSOL or a comparable package, to perform some of the computations necessary for the course.
Assessment Methods: Grades will be based on homework assignments, two projects, and a final exam. The relative weight of these components is 25%, 50%, and 25%, respectively.
Jischke Drive Repairs – April – August, 2020
Project Overview
South Martin Jischke Drive from State Street to Harrison Street will be repaired next year, and utility work in the area will also occur. This section of South Martin Jischke Drive will be closed in phases while work is ongoing, and
some adjacent sidewalk and ramps will be unavailable. We will be constructing a pedestrian “bump out” on the east and west side where the cross walks are located. The bump out will improve pedestrian safety. We will also be adding a short section of bike
lane that will connect the existing bike lane that dead ends at the south end of Burton Morgan Dr. with bike lane at the corner of State and Jischke.
Project Schedule
While we are still in the design phase and the schedule is not yet final, we anticipate sidewalk repairs and utility work will begin in April 2020 with road closures beginning in May. Road work will be completed in two phases after spring
commencement and before Boiler Gold Rush in August. The first phase will close northern half of the road from State Street to just south of the TERY parking lot entrance. This section will be reopened after repairs are complete, and then the remaining portion
of South Jischke Drive from south of the TERY parking lot to Harrison Street will close for repairs. Access to TERY will be maintained throughout the project. Parking along Jischke will not be available during construction.
Our Request for Your Participation
To streamline feedback, occupants should communicate needs and concerns for April-August 2020 with their assigned building deputy. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Vehicular / pedestrian access from South Jischke Drive
- Parking – temporary accommodations during construction
- Operational needs such as deliveries (provide truck size and frequency)
- Visitors or summer conferences – access and communications that are needed for visitors
- Trash / recycle pick up, including current locations and potential summer options
Please communicate any needs and concerns with the appropriate assigned building deputy, see below.
- Steve Rudolph – MRGN, MANN
sgrudolph@purdue.edu
- Phil Austin – BIND
pjaustin@purdue.edu
- Mary Jo Totten - BRK
tottenm@purdue.edu
- Eric Ridgley – DLR
ewridgley@purdue.edu
- Stu Michael – DRUG
michaesd@purdue.edu
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