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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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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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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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a 2023–2024 Seminar Series featuring speaker Hassan M. Nagib, who will give a presentation on “Wall-Bounded Turbulence: Recent Lessons from Experiments-Asymptotics-Computation.”  This seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 20, 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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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents Illinois Institute of Technology Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering Esma Karagoz for a seminar titled, “A Data-Driven Approach to Systems Engineering-Enabled Complex System Design.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center from 3:30–4:30 p.m.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering will welcome Jon Zeman, principal engineer and application team lead for vehicle systems integration at Gamma Technologies, for a lecture titled “Introduction to System Engineering and GT-SUITE” on Wednesday, March 8, from 3:30–4:30 p.m. in Room 104 of the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center. 

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