Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE) Archive

  • MMAE Seminar: Carlo Segre ‘Tuning Li-ion Anode Performance with High Entropy Oxides’

    MMAE Seminar: Carlo Segre ‘Tuning Li-ion Anode Performance with High Entropy Oxides’

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a special seminar given by Carlo Segre, Duchossois Leadership Professor, professor of physics, deputy director of Materials Research Collaborative Access Team (MRCAT), director of Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation (CSRRI), deputy Director of BioCAT, and professor of materials science and engineering at Illinois Tech titled “Tuning Li-ion Anode Performance with High Entropy Oxides,” on Wednesday, October 9, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.

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  • Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series: ‘Dissecting the Causality of Pressure Forces in Vortex Dominated Flows,’ Featuring Rajat Mittal

    Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series: ‘Dissecting the Causality of Pressure Forces in Vortex Dominated Flows,’ Featuring Rajat Mittal

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering present the Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Rajat Mittal, professor of mechanical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, who will give a presentation on “Dissecting the Causality of Pressure Forces in Vortex Dominated Flows—From Fish Schools to Noisy Drones.” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, September 11, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.

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  • Special MMAE Seminar: ‘The Progress of Turing Plan for AI-Driven Materials Design,’ Featuring Hao Li

    Special MMAE Seminar: ‘The Progress of Turing Plan for AI-Driven Materials Design,’ Featuring Hao Li

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a special seminar given by Hao Li, associate professor at Tohoku University in Japan, titled “The Progress of ‘Turing Plan’ for AI-Driven Materials Design.” This seminar will take place on Friday, August 16, from 2–4 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.

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  • DEI Seminar: Working Toward Socially Just Data Practices by Dr. Scott Tharp

    DEI Seminar: Working Toward Socially Just Data Practices by Dr. Scott Tharp

    The Armour College of Engineering and Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents “Working Towards Socially Just Data Practices,” a lecture presented by Scott Tharp, Associate Director for Academic Program Review and Assessment at the University of Illinois Chicago. This lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center. This event is in-person only and open to the public.

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  • MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Mechanistic Interactions at Scale in Energy Storage,’ Featuring Partha Mukherjee

    MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Mechanistic Interactions at Scale in Energy Storage,’ Featuring Partha Mukherjee

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the 2024–25 Seminar Series featuring Partha Mukherjee, Professor and University Faculty Scholar at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University. Dr. Mukherjee will present: "Mechanistic Interactions at Scale in Energy Storage." This event will take place on Wednesday, September 4, at 12:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.

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  • MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Advancing the Versatility of Legged Robots and Assistive Devices,’ Presented by Dr. Patrick Wensing

    MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Advancing the Versatility of Legged Robots and Assistive Devices,’ Presented by Dr. Patrick Wensing

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the Spring 2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker, Dr. Patrick Wensing, who will give a presentation on “Advancing the Versatility of Legged Robots and Assistive Devices.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 in the auditorium (room 104) of the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center from 3:30–4:30 p.m. This event is open to all graduate students and faculty.

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  • MMAE Faculty Emeriti Will Be Honored Friday, November 17

    MMAE Faculty Emeriti Will Be Honored Friday, November 17

    Directly following the 2023 Annual Nagib-Kalpakjian Lecture featuring guest speaker Scott Smith, the Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Chair Lou Cattafesta will honor the department’s faculty emeriti. A reception will be held in the first-floor atrium following the event. The Nagib-Kalpakjian Lecture will take place on Friday, November 17, from 1:45–2:45 p.m. in room 104 (auditorium) of the Rettaliata Engineering Center. The recognition of faculty emeriti will also take place in room 104 and will run from 2:45–3:15 p.m.

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  • Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series: ‘Multi-Physics Modeling of Flow and Cardiac Function in Pediatric Cardiology,’ Featuring Alison Marsden

    Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series: ‘Multi-Physics Modeling of Flow and Cardiac Function in Pediatric Cardiology,’ Featuring Alison Marsden

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering present the Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Alison Marsden, the Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Disease in the Departments of Pediatrics, Bioengineering, and Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, who will give a presentation on “Multi-Physics Modeling of Flow and Cardiac Function in Pediatric Cardiology.” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, November 8, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 111 of the Pritzker Science Center.

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  • Experiments in Fluids Seminar Series: ‘Applications of Conditional Spectral Analysis to Fluid Dynamics,’ Featuring Lou Cattafesta

    Experiments in Fluids Seminar Series: ‘Applications of Conditional Spectral Analysis to Fluid Dynamics,’ Featuring Lou Cattafesta

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering and Springer Nature present the Experiments in Fluids Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Lou Cattafesta, the John G. and Jane E. Olin Endowed Department Chair in Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, who will give a presentation on “Applications of Conditional Spectral Analysis to Fluid Dynamics.” This event is open to the public and will take place online on Tuesday, November 7, from 9–10 a.m.

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  • King Ankobea-Ansah (MSc. MAE ’22) Awarded Yanmar/SAE Scholarship

    King Ankobea-Ansah (MSc. MAE ’22) Awarded Yanmar/SAE Scholarship

    Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate King Ankobea-Ansah (MSc. MAE ‘22), who is the 2023/24 recipient of the Yanmar/SAE Scholarship. Yanmar America Corporation is the world's largest manufacturer of non-vehicle-use diesel engines. Given the urgency of limited fuel supplies and environmental concerns over continued use of fossil fuel, Yanmar established this scholarship to help promote their motto: "to conserve energy is to serve mankind.”

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