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MEEM Seminars in 2009/2010


Seminar No. Date Venue (Time) Title Speaker
032 06 MAY 2010 (Thr) Room B6619
(10:30am / Tea Reception at 10:15am)
Wear Mechanism in Dry Conformed Sliding Contact (PDF - 17KB) Dr ZHOU Xiao-Bo
(Focus Area Expert, SKF Engineering Research Centre, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands)
031 24 MAR 2010 (Wed) Lecture Theatre 18 (LT-18)
(10:30am - 11:30am / Tea Reception at 10:00am)
Control, Biomedical Engineering, and Systems Biology (PDF - 22KB) Dr Lu LIU
(Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
030 24 FEB 2010 (Wed) Room Y4701
(4:30pm - 5:30pm / Tea Reception at 4:00pm)
Biologically Inspired Micro and Nano Engineering – Present and the Future (PDF - 21KB) Dr Tak Sing WONG
(NSF Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department University of California, USA)
029 24 FEB 2010 (Wed) Room Y5202
(3:00pm - 4:00pm / Tea Reception at 2:45pm)
Discrete Event Modeling and Analysis for Production and Service Systems (PDF - 19KB) Mr Nan CHEN
(PhD Student, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
028 02 MAR 2010 (Tue) Room B6619
(2:00pm / Tea Reception at 3:00pm)
Signature-Driven Fault Management Methodologies for Complex Engineering Systems (PDF - 38KB) Professor Shiyu ZHOU
(Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
027 05 FEB 2010 (Fri) Lecture Theatre 7 (LT-7)
(4:30pm - 5:20pm)
Enhancing the Ability of Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition in Machine Fault Diagnosis (PDF - 38KB) Ms GUO Wei
(PhD Student)
026 29 JAN 2010 (Fri) Lecture Theatre 7 (LT-7)
(4:30pm - 5:20pm)
Current Issues in Robot-Based Handling on the Nanoscale (PDF - 37KB) Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. Sergej Fatikow
(Division for Microrobotics and Control Engineering (AMiR), University of Oldenburg, Germany)
025 26 JAN 2010 (Tue) Room B6619
(2:00pm - 3:00pm / Refreshment at 1:40pm)
Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Transistors as Building Block for Sensors (PDF - 21KB) Professor Christofer HIEROLD
(Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland)
024 09 JAN 2010 (Sat) Lecture Theatre 11 (LT-11)
(3:00pm - 4:30pm / Refreshment at 2:30pm)
Recent Advance in Industrial Engineering - from Manufacturing to Service and Engineering Science (PDF - 36KB) Professor K.L. TSUI
(Chair Professor, Department of Manufacturing Engineering & Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong)
023 13 JAN 2010 (Wed) Room B6619
(11:00am / Tea Reception at 10:45am)
Online Learning Design of Optimal Control Systems (PDF - 20KB)

Jointly organized by Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks
Professor F.L. LEWIS
(Fellow IEEE, Fellow IFAC, Fellow U.K. Inst. MC, Head, Advanced Controls & Sensors Group, Automation & Robotics Research Institute, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
022 07 JAN 2010 (Thr) Room B5308
(10:30am) / Tea Reception at 10:00am
Ultra Automation: Challenges and Opportunities (PDF - 37KB) Professor Ning XI
(Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, USA)
021 11 JAN 2010 (Mon) Room B6605
(11:00am - 12:00noon) / Tea Reception at 10:45am
Some extended Weibull distributions and its applications in reliability (PDF - 36KB) Professor Min XIE
(Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
020 29 DEC 2009 (Tue) Room B6619
(4:00pm - 5:00pm) / Tea Reception at 3:30pm
Computational Intelligence in Machine Vision for Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (MV-RAM) (PDF - 62KB) Dr Kok-Meng LEE
(Professor of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Editor-in Chief, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics)
019 27 NOV 2009 (Fri) Room B5307
(1:30pm - 2:20pm)
Automatic manipulation of biological cells with holographic optical tweezers (PDF - 19KB) Songyu HU
(PhD Student)
018 08 DEC 2009 (Tue) Room B5308
(10:00am) / Tea Reception at 9:30am
Using Non-linearity to Improve the Performance of Vibrating Systems (PDF - 20KB) Professor Mike BRENNAN
(University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
017 17 NOV 2009 (Tue) Room B6619
(4:00pm - 5:00pm) / Tea Reception at 3:30pm
Micro-scale Manufacturing Automation (PDF - 19KB) Professor James K. MILLS
(University of Toronto, Canada)
016 13 NOV 2009 (Fri) Room B5307
(1:30pm)
Slippage effects of liquid lubricants on squeeze film flow (PDF - 17KB) YIP Lee Kei
(MPhil Student, Department of MEEM, City University of Hong Kong)
015 07 DEC 2009 (Mon) Room B6605 (CSE Conference Room)
(2:00pm)
Optimal Discrete Choice Experiments Design over Model Uncertainty (PDF - 22KB) Dr William LI
(Operations and Management Science Department, University of Minnesota)
014 25 NOV 2009 (Wed) Room B6605 (CSE Conference Room)
(1:30pm)
Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Simulation: From Fixture Design to Production Planning (PDF - 22KB) Professor Yiming (Kevin) RONG
(Director of Computer-aided Manufacturing Laboratory, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
013 30 OCT 2009 (Fri) Room B5307
(1:30pm - 2:20pm)
Entrained collective rhythms of multi-cellular systems (PDF - 17KB) Yonghui SUN
(PhD Student, Department of MEEM, City University of Hong Kong)
012 12 NOV 2009 (Thr) Room B6619
(2:00pm)
Feasibility and potential benefits of a population-wide passive immunotherapy program during an influenza pandemic (PDF - 21KB) Dr Joseph WU
(Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, The University of Hong Kong)
011 29 OCT 2009 (Thr) Room B6605 (CSE Conference Room)
(2:00pm)
Recommendation as Link Prediction: A Graph Kernel-based Machine Learning Approach (PDF - 18KB) Dr Xin LI
(Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong)
010 16 OCT 2009 (Fri) Room B5307
(1:30pm)
Facilitator: the Lubricant and Catalyst for Organizational Learning (PDF - 20KB) Chris CAO
(MPhil Student)
009 23 OCT 2009 (Fri) Room B1667 (CAD Lab)
(5:30pm - 7:00pm) / Tea Reception at 5:00pm
Design, Electodynamics and Demonstration of Ultrasonic Spherical Motors (PDF - 23KB) Professor Hornsen TZOU
(National Scholar (Thousand-man), Professor, ASME Fellow, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Struc Tronics and Design Lab, Zhejiang University)
008 08 OCT 2009 (Thr) Room B6619
(1:30pm)
Advantages of Model-based Bayesian Meta-Analysis (PDF - 20KB) Dr Xiaodan FAN
(Department of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
007 02 OCT 2009 (Fri) Room B5307
(1:30pm)
Spatial stimulus-response compatibility for hand and foot controls with visual signals in the vertical plane (PDF - 20KB) Mr Ken CHAN
(PhD Student)
006 25 AUG 2009 (Tue) Room B6619
(3:15pm / Tea Reception at 3:00pm)
The Exhilarating Journey from Industrial Electronics to Industrial Informatics and Mechatronics Education (PDF - 23KB) Dr Okyay Kaynak
(UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey)
005 17 AUG 2009 (Mon) Room Y4701
(9:30am)
Magnetic Tweezers: Actuation, Measurement, and Control at Nanometer Scale (PDF - 19KB) Dr Zhipeng ZHANG
(The Ohio State University, USA)
004 21 JUL 2009 (Tue) Room Y5202
(4:00pm)
3D Model Search for Design Reuse (PDF - 21KB) Dr ZHU Kunpeng
(Research Fellow, Lab of Concurrent Engineering and Logistics (LCEL), National University of Singapore)
003 06 JUL 2009 (Mon) Room B6619
(4:00pm - 4:30pm)
On Estimating the Exponential Decay Rate for Linear Systems With Interval Time-Varying Delay Mr HUANG He
(PhD Student)
002 06 JUL 2009 (Mon) Room B6619
(3:30pm - 4:00pm)
To prepare hydrophobic surface by laser ablation processing Mr LUO Binhui
(Research Associate)
001 06 JUL 2009 (Mon) Room B6619
(2:30pm - 3:30pm)
High-energy carbon ion implantation to Ti–Al–Si–N coatings by metal vapour vacuum arc Mr XU Yufeng
(MPhil Student)

Last modified on 5 May, 2010