Past Seminars
Speaker Invitation for FALL 2024 ME Seminar Series
| Dates | Speaker | Location | Seminar Title | Comments |
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| Wednesday, August 21, 2024 | Krishnan, Kasemer, Srinivasan | BE 0009 | ME Graduate Students Welcome 2024-2025 | Introduction, ME Dept Head, GPD, Graduate Program |
| Wednesday, August 28, 2024 | Richard Adkins | BE 0009 | Using UA’s HPC Resources: A Brief Introduction to UAHPC/CHPC | UA High Performance Computing Solutions Architect |
| Wednesday, September 4, 2024 | Gabe Mansfield | NL 1013 | Navigating Engineering Research: Essential Library Strategies for Graduate Students | Assistant Professor at Rogers Library |
| Wednesday, September 11, 2024 | Tom Ackerson | NL 1015 | Materials Challenges for Reusable Hardware and Sustainable Processes for Space Travel in the Mid-21st Century | Technical Fellow, Blue Origin |
| Friday, September 13, 2024 | Dr. George Nelson | NL 1013 | Multimodal X-ray and Neutron Imaging of Lithium Batteries | UAH Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department Chair |
| Thursday, September 26 | John Crane | NL 1013 | Department of Energy Zero Carbon Energy : Progress to Net Zero | DOE NETL Gas turbine technology manager |
| Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | Dr. Judy Schneider | NL 1013 | Advanced Manufacturing to Support Extraterrestrial Development and Habitation | Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Co-Director of Material Science Program, UAH |
| Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Dr. Sibendu Som | NL 1013 | Accelerating Decarbonization of Transportation and Power Generation Sectors: Leveraging Leadership Computing & High-Fidelity Experiments | Director Advanced Propulsion and Power Department / Director, AI Applications Initiative at Argonne National Laboratory |
| Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | Dr. Kevin Cole | NL 1013 | Something old and something new: Green’s functions and thermal modeling | Emeritus Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Wednesday, October 23, 2024 | Dr. Michael Tonks | NL 1013 | Multiscale Modeling of Ablative Thermal Protection Systems | UF, Materials Science and Engineering, Assoc. Dept. Chair |
| Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | NL 1013 | Dr. Brian Lattimer | Material Design and Evaluation for Extreme Environments | Department Head and Nicholas and Rebecca Des Champs Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech. |
| Wednesday, November 6, 2024 | Dr. Arvind Thiruvengadam | NL 1013 | Diesel Engines – Past, Present, and Future Directions | Principal Engineer, PACCAR Technical Center |
| Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | Dr. Gregory S. Chirikjian | NL 1013 | From State Estimation on Lie Groups to Robot Imagination | Willis F. Harrington Professor, Department Chair, University of Delaware |
| Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | Dr. Pierre Larochelle | NL 1013 | Synthesis of Spherical and Spatial Mechanisms for Pick and Place Tasks with Guiding Locations | Department Head and Professor, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology |
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 |