The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents their spring 2025 seminar series featuring guest speaker R. Jason Hearst, Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, who will present: “The Effect of Ambient Turbulence on Wingtip Vortices and the Air-Water Interface.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center (auditorium).

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering welcomes the 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Robert E. Drubka, lead program manager on the $100 million SHIELD USA program with Arizona State University, who will give a presentation on “Advancing the Revival of American Microelectronics.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Friday, March 28, from 3:30–4:30 p.m. in room 104 (auditorium) of the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center. MMAE Departmental awards will immediately follow the seminar.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its spring 2025 seminar series featuring Laura Villafañe, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who will present “Ejecta Clouds by Plume Impingement on Granular Surfaces, a Challenge to Planetary Landings.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, April 16, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents their spring 2025 seminar series featuring guest speaker Abriana Stewart-Height, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who will present: “People Helping Robots, so Robots Can Help People.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center (auditorium).

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents their spring 2025 seminar series featuring guest speaker Ersin Daş, a postdoctoral scholar in mechanical and civil engineering at California Institute of Technology, who will give a presentation on “Uncertainty-Aware Safe Autonomy for Real-World Systems.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, from 12:45 to 1:45 pm in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center (auditorium).

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