Past Seminars
Speaker Invitation for SPRING 2023 ME Seminar Series
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 01/17/2023 | Dr. Nader Jalili and Dr. SteveShepard (University of Alabama) |
Research Ethics and ME Research Overview |
| 01/24/2023 | Dr. Kam Leang (University of Utah) | Smart Electronic Nose in Flight |
| 01/31/2023 | Dr. Yongho Sohn (University of Central Florida) | Alloy Design and Development for Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing |
| 02/16/2023 | Dr. Sen Liu (Stanford University) | AI-Powered Laser Additive Manufacturing and Energy Materials Design |
| 02/20/2023 | Dr. Ziyu Wang (Princeton University) | Towards Carbon Neutral Energy Future: Next Generation Fuelsand Novel High Pressure Combustion Technology |
| 02/21/2023 | Dr. Sadie Beck (The University of West Alabama) | Process-Structure-Property-Performance Relationships of Precipitate and Strain-Hardened Aluminum Alloys Processed via Additive Friction Stir Deposition |
| 02/23/2023 | Dr.Kumar Shanmugam (University of Glasgow, UK) | Multifunctional and Multiscale Materials Enabled by Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering |
| 02/27/2023 | Dr. Gowtham Mohan (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque) | Solar Energy Technology Lab |
| 03/03/2023 | Dr. Qiang Zhang (University of North Carolina) | Biological signals-driven neuromuscular system modelingand advanced nonlinear control/adaptive optimal control for wearable robotic assistive devices |
| 03/06/2023 | Dr. Rajavasanth Rajasegar | A Highlight of Recent Efforts in Low Greenhouse Gas Combustion Research at Sandia |
| 03/09/2023 | Dr. Fariborz Tavangarian (Penn State Harrisburg) | Achieving Resilience in Brittle Materials Through Bio-inspired Nested Cylindrical Structures |
| 04/18/2023 | Dr. Jean-CharlesStinville (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) | A Statistical View of Deformation Events in Metallic Material |
| 04/28/2023 | Dr. Masoud Agah (Virginia Tech) | My Journey Through the Semiconductor and Chip World |
Speaker Invitation for FALL 2022 ME Seminar Series
| Date | Time | Speaker | Host | Title | Venue |
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09/14/2022 |
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Dr. Sung Hoon Kang (Johns Hopkins University) | Dr. Dan Fonseca | Bio-inspired materials with self-adaptable mechanical behaviors and architected materials with extreme energy absorption & deep subwavelength sound absorption | SERC 3030 |
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09/20/2022 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dr. Chang-Dong Yeo (Texas Tech University) | Dr. Keivan Davami | Impacts of Structural Vibration and Electrode’ Surface Roughness on Electrical Contact Resistance | SERC 1059 |
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10/04/2022 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dr. W. Hong Yeo (Georgia Institute of Technology) | Dr. Kasra Momeni | Nanomanufacturing and Soft Packaging Technologies for Flexible Biosensors and Bioelectronics | SERC 1059 |
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10/11/2022 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dr. Beomjin Kwon (Arizona State University) | Dr. Hyun Jin Kim | Opportunities in Heat Transfer Systems: 3D Printing & Machine Learning | SERC 1059 |
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10/18/2022 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dr. David Blunck (Oregon State University) | Dr. Ajay Agrawal | TBA | SERC 1059 |
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10/25/2022 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dr. Dan Preston (Rice University) | Dr. Sree Kalyan Patiballa | Fluidic Control and Energy Harvesting in Textile-Based Wearable Robots | SERC 1059 |
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11/01/2022 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dr. Chad Rose (Auburn University) | Dr. Christian Cousin | SERC 1059 | |
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11/08/2022 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Student Presentations | SERC 1059 | ||
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11/15/2022 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dr. Myunghee Kim (University of Illinois Chicago) | TBD | SERC 1059 | |
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11/29/2022 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dr. Mark Obstalecki (USAF AFMC) | Dr. Matthew Kasemer | SERC 1059 |
Speaker Invitation for FALL 2021 ME Seminar Series
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Venue |
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09/02/2021 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Nader Jalili and Steve Shepard, ME UA | Research Ethics; Research in Mechanical Engineering at UA | Zoom (ONLINE) |
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09/14/2021 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Ron Creel, Former NASA | Lunar Roving Adventures: Dust, Dust, Everywhere – What Are We Going To Do? | Zoom (ONLINE) |
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09/21/2021 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Ian Walker, Clemson | Continuum Robot Trunks and Tentacles | SHELBY 1093 |
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09/28/2021 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Loyld Hackel, Curtiss-Wright’s Metal Improvement Company | The Laser Wave Equation and a Career Working its Variables | Zoom (ONLINE) |
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10/12/2021 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Lance Simpson, Research and Instructional Service Librarian, UA | Research Strategies and Library Resources for Mechanical Engineering | SHELBY 1093 |
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11/09/2021 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dr. Daniel Gibson, Capstone College of Nursing, UA | Developing the Tools & Models for Tissue Fate Determination | Shelby 1093 |
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11/17/2021 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dr. Jun Zhang, University of Nevada, Reno | Twisted String Artificial Muscles for Compliant and Versatile Robots | Zoom (ONLINE) |
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11/30/2021 |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Dr. Siddharth Goyal, Divisions Maintenance Group | Advanced Controls in Smart Buildings with Business Perspective | Zoom (ONLINE) |
Speaker Invitation for SPRING 2021 ME Seminar Series
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title |
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01/21/2021 |
2:00 PM | Zhi Liang, Assistant Professor, CSU Fresno State | Improvement of cooling efficiency in microelectronic devices |
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01/26/2021 |
2:00 PM | Yu She, Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT | Towards Safe and High-Performing Robots |
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02/02/2021 |
2:00 PM | Nestor Perez-Arancibia, Assistant Professor, USC | |
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02/09/2021 |
2:00 PM | Peng Zhang, Postdoctoral Associate, NYU | An information-theoretic approach to unveil fluid-structure interactions in coordinated fish swimming |
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02/16/2021 |
2:00 PM | TBD | |
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02/23/2021 |
2:00 PM | Jun Li, Postdoc, UIUC | |
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03/02/2021 |
2:00 PM | Gokul Viswanathan, Director of Research and Sustainability at Propane Education and Research Council (PERC) |
Speaker Invitation for FALL 2020 ME Seminar Series
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/01/2020 | 2:00 PM | Nader Jalili, ME UA | Research Ethics |
| 09/08/2020 | 2:00 PM | Lance Simpson, Research and Instructional Service Librarian, UA |
Research Strategies and Library Resources for Mechanical Engineering |
| 09/15/2020 | 2:00 PM | Steve Shepard, ME UA | Research in Mechanical Engineering at UA |
| 09/22/2020 | 2:00 PM | Lee Redden, Chief Scientist and co- founder of Blue River Technology |
Entrepreneurship, AI and Agriculture |
| 09/29/2020 | 2:00 PM | Graduate Student Presentation | |
| 10/06/2020 | 2:00 PM | Patricia Weisensee, Washington University in St. Louis | Let droplets drop the temperature: Fluid-based thermal management |