Events
Past Event
Midwest Workshop on Multiscale Surface Characterization: Nanoscale and Materials Behavior
McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
9:15 AM
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Midwest Workshop on Multiscale Surface Characterization
Northwestern University in collaboration with Anton Paar USA will hold a 1-day webinar on October 14th 2020 from 9:20 am to 12:45 pm via Webex. The theme of the webinar is Nanoscience and Materials Behavior. The ultimate goal of this summit is to inform and inspire present and future leaders while recognizing excellence across the fields of applied sciences, engineering, and physical sciences.
Speakers:
Prof. Jane Q. Wang, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
“Surface topography at different scales for different contact interfaces”
Prof. Alison C. Dunn, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“The slippery subject of hydrogel surface characterization”
Prof. Ange-Therese Akono, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University
“Fracture at the Microscopic Length Scale”
Dr. Kathy Walsh, Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Putting Pencil to Paper: Multiscale Imaging”
Mr. Brandon Frye, Anton Paar
“Advanced Nanoindentation Techniques”
Student Presentation Contest: There will be a student presentation contest. To be considered for the contest, students must submit an abstract for a 5-min presentation when they register. The presentations will be judged by a panel of scientists from both industry and academia. The presentations will be based on the clarity and the soundness of the content and on the quality of the delivery. The prizes will be announced by email after the workshop.
Registration details: Registration is required to attend. The deadline to register is September 21st, 2020. To register, please complete the form at following URL https://sites.northwestern.edu/mscworkshop/registration/
Time
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 9:15 AM - 12:45 PM
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McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
ME Alumni Seminar Series- Apostolos Karafillis
McCormick - Mechanical Engineering (ME)
2:00 PM
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1.350, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
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On the Design and Manufacture of Structures for Flightworthy Gas Turbines
by Apostolos Karafillis
Chief Consulting Engineer
Structures and Additive Design
GE Aerospace
Abstract
The design and manufacture of gas turbine components presents unique technical challenges that highlight the relevance and importance of the disciplines of mechanical and aerospace engineering. In this presentation, we will focus on describing the fundamental technical requirements for parts of flightworthy gas turbines and will then share examples of designs and innovations to meet these requirements. The talk will include the description of typical loading conditions and operating environments, and the description of how these requirements guide the selection of design features, materials, and manufacturing methods. We will discuss three specific examples: The selection of features and architecture of a bearing housing, the design of a turbine frame with a mix of metallic and composite materials, and the development of methods for characterizing the performance of components manufactured with non-traditional methods. Through these examples, it will be shown that successful hardware design requires the combination of robust design methods, rigorous implementation of the principles of mechanics of materials, and the development of design and manufacturing innovation.
Time
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location
1.350, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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McCormick - Mechanical Engineering (ME)
Russ Tedrake, MIT and Toyota Research Institute, "Dexterous Manipulation with Diffusion Policies"
Center for Robotics and Biosystems (CRB)
11:30 AM
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M416, Technological Institute
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Speaker: Russ Tedrake, Toyota Professor of EECS, Aero/Astro, ME at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and VP of Research at Toyota Research Institute
Title: Dexterous Manipulation with Diffusion Policies
Date and Time: Friday, May 3 at 11:30 AM CT
Location: Tech ESAM M416 and Zoom
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/CRBSeminar
• NU-authenticated attendees will be automatically admitted. Others, please email amy.nedoss@northwestern.edu to be admitted from the waiting room.
Abstract:
At the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), we've been working on behavior cloning for dexterous manipulation. Building on the Diffusion Policy framework that we've recently developed in collaboration with Shuran Song, we now have a very solid pipeline for taking ~50-100 bimanual haptic teleop demonstrations and turning that into a surprisingly effective visuomotor (+tactile) policy. Because there is no explicit state representation required, these skills work equally well manipulating deformable, liquid, or other difficult to model tasks as they do for more traditional rigid-object manipulation. We're actively scaling this up into the multi-task setting and now see a plausible path towards "Large Behavior Models". This behavior cloning pipeline is working incredibly well, and must be understood deeply in the broader context of output-feedback control. Time permitting, I'll also tell you a bit about some new results in optimization-based planning and control, and where they might fit in the age of foundation models.
Bio:
Russ Tedrake is the Toyota Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Aero/Astro, and he is a member of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). He is also the Vice President of Robotics Research at Toyota Research Institute (TRI). He received a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2004. Dr. Tedrake is the Director of the MIT CSAIL Center for Robotics and was the leader of MIT’s entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the MIT Jerome Saltzer Award for undergraduate teaching, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in Mathematics, the 2012 Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award, and was named a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow. His research has been recognized with numerous conference best paper awards, including ICRA, Robotics: Science and Systems, Humanoids, Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, as well as the inaugural best paper award from the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Whole-Body Control.
Time
Friday, May 3, 2024 at 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location
M416, Technological Institute Map
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Center for Robotics and Biosystems (CRB)