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MECON 2024
Stanford Mechanical Engineering Conference
May 9, 2024, 8:30am-6:00pm
Mackenzie Room (Huang 300) and Huang Foyer (Basement) & Amphitheater
Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center
475 Via Ortega
Stanford, CA 94305-4121
MECON 2024 Agenda
Thursday, May 9, 2024
| Event | Speaker | Title | Time | Location |
Welcome, Check in and Breakfast | 8:30-9:00 | Mackenzie Room, 3rd Floor, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | ||
Morning 1st session | Ben Alessio | Complex granular rheologies from microfluctuations | 9:00-9:15 | |
| Stanley Wang | ReachBot Lite: A Miniature Robotic Platform with Exceptional Reach for Lunar Application | 9:15-9:30 | ||
| Savannah Cofer | A flat-foldable, transformable metamaterial from octahedral origami unit cells | 9:30-9:45 | ||
| Sophie Leanza | Elephant Trunk Inspired Multimodal Deformations and Movements of Soft Robotic Arms | 9:45-10:00 | ||
| Gowri Subedar | Modeling 'Gut-Skin' Axis in the Immunopathogenesis of Psoriasis | 10:00-10:15 | ||
| Benyamin Krisna | Effects of turbulence on the generation of indirect noise in an advanced gas-turbine combustor | 10:15-10:30 | ||
Coffee and Tea Break | 10:30-11:00 | |||
Morning 2nd session | Raj Paul | Role of cytoskeletal mechanics in wound resistance in the giant ciliate protozoa Stentor coeruleus | 11:00-11:15 | |
| Shuai Wu | Magnetic milli-spinner for robotic interventional surgery | 11:15-11:30 | ||
| Giannka Picache | Drag Reduction and Stability Analysis of Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish Mounts | 11:30-11:45 | ||
| Jay Sim | Magneto-Mechanical Bilayer Metasurface with Global Area-Preserving Density Tunability for Acoustic Wave Regulation | 11:45-12:00 | ||
| Salvador Gomez | Resolvent Amplification of Large Scale Structures in Adverse Pressure Gradient Turbulent Boundary Layers | 12:00-12:15 | ||
Poster Session with Lunch | 12:30-14:30 | Huang Foyer (Basement) & Amphitheater, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | ||
Afternoon session | Jianyu Wang | Application of an Immersed Boundary Method to Generate Boundary Layer Turbulence and Non-uniform Wind Fields | 14:30-14:45 | Mackenzie Room, 3rd Floor, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center |
| Yilong Chang | Mechanical Clot Debulking through Integrated Compression and Shear" | 14:45-15:00 | ||
| Xintong Xu | Revealing fluidic transport under extreme confinement at the nanoscale | 15:00-15:15 | ||
| Kuan Liu | Predictive Mechanics and Photochemical Degradation Kinetics Modeling for Polymeric Encapsulants | 15:15-15:30 | ||
| Paul de La Sayette | Advancing Human-Robot Collaboration: Achieving Compliance through Variable Impedance Actuators in Lightweight Cable-Driven Robots | 15:30-15:45 | ||
| Lu Lu | Multiple Equilibrium States of a Curved-Sided Hexagram: Elastic Stability and State Transitions | 15:45-16:00 | ||
Voting and Award | 16:00-16:30 | |||
Happy Hour | 16:30-18:00 | |||
Event Registration and Abstract Submission
Showcase your hard work, or come to support and engage with the broader ME community! All undergraduates, graduates, and post-doctoral scholars are encouraged to submit an abstract by April 4.
Important Dates:
- 04/04 Deadline for abstract submission
- 04/08 Notification of acceptance
- 04/08 Registration Deadline (to guarantee a t-shirt)
- 05/09 4th Mechanical Engineering Conference (all day)