The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its fall 2025 seminar series featuring guest speaker Myoungkyu Lee, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston, who will present “Inverse Energy Transfer in Wall-Bounded Turbulence: Insights from Direct Numerical Simulations.” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, October 8, from 12:45–1:45 p.m in room 104 of the Stuart Building.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Bharath Ganapathisubramani, professor of experimental fluid mechanics in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Southampton, who will present “Vortex Dominated Flows: Can’t Live with Them…Can’t Live Without Them…” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, December 3, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Stuart Building.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its fall 2025 seminar series featuring Samuel Grauer, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State, who will present “What Can Particle Tracks Tell Us About Turbulence?” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, October 1, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Stuart Building.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its fall 2025 seminar series featuring Debolina Dasgupta, Senior Research Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, who will present “Accelerating Next-Generation Technologies for Transportation, Electric Power and Industrial Applications.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, September 24, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Stuart Building.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its fall 2025 seminar series featuring Stephanie Stockar, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at Ohio State University, who will present “Optimal Control and Energy Minimization in Large-Scale Systems: A PDE-Based Approach with Applications to Traffic Systems.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, September 10, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Stuart Building.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its fall 2025 seminar series featuring José Pons, scientific chair of the Legs and Walking AbilityLab at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, who will present “Witnessing a Wearables Transition for Rehabilitation of Neurological Conditions.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, August 27, 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 welcomes Alessandro Talamelli, coordinator of the master’s program in nautical engineering at University of Bologna, Italy, who will present, “Ten Years of Activities of CICLoPEInfrastructure: Lessons Learnt and Future Directions” on Friday, June 13, from 11 a.m.–noon in room 241 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.

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