In This Series

1. A Gentle Introduction to Uncertainty Quantification

   19 Aug 2016 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ilias Bilionis

2. Solar Energy: Some Challenges and Opportunities

   01 Sep 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rakesh Agrawal

   Rakesh Agrawal is Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University. Previously, he was an Air Products Fellow at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., where he worked until 2004.A major thrust of his research is related to energy issues and includes novel...

3. High-Speed Flow and its Control Through Plasma Technology

   06 Oct 2016 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jonathan Poggie

   To support the design of high-speed air vehicles, a number of scientific challenges must be addressed in the prediction and control of supersonic and hypersonic flow. The present talk focuses on two main themes: large-scale unsteadiness and plasma-based flow control.

4. Introduction to Visualization

   19 Oct 2016 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vetria L. Byrd

5. Designing Architectured Materials: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design

   01 Nov 2016 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Pablo Daniel Zavattieri

   There is a strong demand for new paradigms of design and development of advanced high-performance structural materials with high strength and durability that are low-cost and renewable with novel combinations of properties. Yet, most of these applications require high-performance materials that...

6. Making the Most of Your Summer Research Experience

   13 Jun 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Janelle P Wharry

   Students will first work in small groups and will consider an invention that has impacted their lives.  They will trace back to the genesis of these inventions as a means of self-realizing the scientific method.  Students will learn about the importance of incorporating the scientific...

7. Batteries - Challenges and Solutions

   15 Jun 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vilas Pol

8. Questioning in Research: A Practical Guide to Have Cooperative and Constructive Argumentative Dialogue

   27 Jun 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Pablo Daniel Zavattieri

   In this Lunch and Learn Session we are going to discuss ways to have collaborative and respectful dialogues in academic/scientific research. In particular, we will try to focus on how to question and challenge ideas while respecting our colleagues.

9. Communicating Your Message to Engage a Lay Audience

   06 Jul 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Linda J. Mason

10. High-Resolution, High-Speed 3D Imaging and Applications

    20 Jul 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Song Zhang

11. The Plastic Waste Crisis and Potential Solutions

    20 Jul 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nien-Hwa Linda Wang

12. Quantifying Uncertainties in Physical Models

    28 Aug 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ilias Bilionis

    Increasing modeling detail is not necessarily correlated with increasing predictive ability. Setting modeling and numerical discretization errors aside, the more detailed a model gets, the larger the number of parameters required to accurately specify its initial/boundary conditions, constitutive...

13. Communicating Science

    01 Sep 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Becky Wolfe

    In this active workshop, you will participate in several activities developed by the Portal to the Public that will help you develop and hone your communication skills.

14. High-throughput Phenotyping of Crop Plants in Field Trials Using RGB, LiDAR, and Hyperspectral Imaging

    31 Aug 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mitch Tunstra

15. How to Write a Journal Paper

    13 Dec 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

16. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Research at Purdue University

    28 Jun 2018 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Carl Wassgren

    In this talk I will present an overview of some of the pharmaceutical manufacturing research at Purdue University.  The talk will focus primarily on solid dosage form drug product manufacturing, including various unit operations and continuous manufacturing.  The talk will also...

17. Nanotechnology & Internet of Things

    28 Jun 2018 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ali Shakouri

18. Your Career Choices: A Perspective from 24 years in Industry, National Laboratory, and Academia and The Most-Neglected Item in your Career Development

    02 Jul 2018 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

    What are your career choices with a BS, MS, or PhD? Will you develop technology yourself? Will you work in a team? Will you guide people? Where will you work: in industry, research lab, or academia?

19. nanoHUB in a Nutshell: Delivering New Paradigms in Education and Research

    09 Jul 2018 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

    Gordon Moore’s 1965 prediction of continued semiconductor device down-scaling and circuit up-scaling has become a self-fulfilling prophesy in the past 50 years. Open source code development and sharing of the process modeling software SUPREM and the circuit modeling software SPICE were two...

20. Designing Functional Polymers for Water Purification and Flexible Electronic Applications

    09 Jul 2018 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Bryan W. Boudouris