Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE) Archive

  • 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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  • MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Tellurene Electronics and Beyond’ Featuring Wenzhuo Wu

    MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Tellurene Electronics and Beyond’ Featuring Wenzhuo Wu

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a 2023–2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker Wenzhuo Wu of the School of Industrial Engineering, Flex Laboratory at Purdue University. Wu will give a presentation on “Tellurene Electronics and Beyond.” This event will take place on Wednesday, October 18, in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center (Auditorium) from 3:30–4:30 p.m. This event is open to the public. 

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  • MMAE Seminar Series: Rebecca Glaudell

    MMAE Seminar Series: Rebecca Glaudell

    Dr. Rebecca Glaudell will speak at the MMAE 2023/24 Seminar Series on Wednesday, October 11, at 3:30 pm in the Rettaliata Engineering Center Auditorium (RE-104). Dr. Glaudell will present "From the Lab to the Sky: Manufacturing High-Performance Solar Cells."

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  • MMAE Seminar Series: Chris Vermillion on “Motion in the Ocean”

    MMAE Seminar Series: Chris Vermillion on “Motion in the Ocean”

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a 2023–2024 seminar series featuring speaker Chris Vermillion, associate professor at University of Michigan, who will give a presentation on “Motion in the Ocean—Revolutionizing Marine Hydrokinetic Energy Harvesting Through the Optimal Periodic Motion Control of Underwater Kites.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 in the auditorium (room 104) of the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center from 3:30–4:30 p.m. This event is open to the public.

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  • MMAE Seminar Series: Heng Wang

    MMAE Seminar Series: Heng Wang

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a 2023–2024 Seminar Series featuring Heng Wang, assistant professor in materials engineering at IIT, who will give a presentation on “Thermoelectric Research from New Materials to New Phenomena.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 6, 2023 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 Seminar Series: Theresa Saxton-Fox

    MMAE Seminar Series: Theresa Saxton-Fox

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a 2023–2024 Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Theresa Saxton-Fox, who will give a presentation on “History effects in turbulent boundary layers: spatially and temporally varying pressure gradients.”  This seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 13, 2023 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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