MMAE Seminar Archive

  • MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Bio-Inspired Passive Drag Reduction for Single and Multiple Vehicles’

    MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Bio-Inspired Passive Drag Reduction for Single and Multiple Vehicles’

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents their spring 2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker Shabnam Raayai-Ardakani, a Rowland Fellow and principal investigator at Rowland Institute at Harvard University, who will give a presentation on “Bio-Inspired Passive Drag Reduction for Single and Multiple Vehicles.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, from 3:30–4:30 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 Seminar Series: ‘Deformation Mechanisms at the Mesoscale: From 2D Materials to High Entropy Alloys,’ Featuring Matthew Daly

    MMAE Seminar Series: ‘Deformation Mechanisms at the Mesoscale: From 2D Materials to High Entropy Alloys,’ Featuring Matthew Daly

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the 2023–2024 seminar series featuring guest speaker, Matthew Daly, who will give a presentation on “Deformation Mechanisms at the Mesoscale: From 2D Materials to High Entropy Alloys.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, November 1, 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: ‘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 Hosts Dr. Partha S. Dutta (United Semiconductors LLC)

    MMAE Seminar Series Hosts Dr. Partha S. Dutta (United Semiconductors LLC)

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents a 2023–2024 Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Partha S. Dutta who will give a presentation on “Bulk Crystal Growth of Ternary III-V Compound Semiconductors.”  This seminar will take place on Wednesday, August 30, 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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  • Nagib and Kalpakjian Annual Lecture on Turbulence by Ivan Marusic: Scale-Interactions and Energy-Efficient Drag Reduction in Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows

    Nagib and Kalpakjian Annual Lecture on Turbulence by Ivan Marusic: Scale-Interactions and Energy-Efficient Drag Reduction in Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the Nagib and Kalpakjian Annual Lecture on Turbulence. This year's speaker is Ivan Marusic, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at The University of Melbourne, who will present a lecture titled, "Scale-Interactions and Energy-Efficient Drag Reduction in Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows" November 18 from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in Rettaliata 104.

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  • MMAE Seminar: A Modular Approach to Materials Design

    MMAE Seminar: A Modular Approach to Materials Design

    Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering welcomes Dmitri Talapin, the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, to present a lecture, titled “A Modular Approach to Materials Design,” on Wednesday, October 26, from 3:30–4:30 p.m. in Room 104 of the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center. 

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  • MMAE Seminar by Dr. Damena Agonafer: Bioinspired Evaporative Cooling for High Heat Flux Applications

    MMAE Seminar by Dr. Damena Agonafer: Bioinspired Evaporative Cooling for High Heat Flux Applications

    Armour College of Engineering will welcome Dr. Damena Agonafer, an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department at Washington University, to present a lecture, “Bioinspired Evaporative Cooling for High Heat Flux Applications.” The virtual seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 29, 2021, from 3:30–4:30 p.m

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  • MMAE Seminar by Dr. Amy S. Fleischer: Making a Difference in the World Using a Learn by Doing Approach

    MMAE Seminar by Dr. Amy S. Fleischer: Making a Difference in the World Using a Learn by Doing Approach

    Armour College of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering will welcome Dr. Amy S. Fleischer, the Dean of Engineering at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obsipo, CA, to present a lecture, “Making a Difference in the World Using a Learn by Doing Approach.” The virtual seminar will take place on Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2021, from 3:30–4:30 p.m.

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