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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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its spring 2025 seminar series featuring Ankit Srivastava, professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Tech, who will present “Operator Theoretic Measure of Causality in Linear Dynamical Systems,” which is a collaborative work with Professors Scott Dawson, and Lou Cattafesta. This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, April 23, 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 presents their spring 2025 seminar series featuring guest speaker R. Jason Hearst, Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, who will present: “The Effect of Ambient Turbulence on Wingtip Vortices and the Air-Water Interface.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center (auditorium).

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering welcomes the 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Robert E. Drubka, lead program manager on the $100 million SHIELD USA program with Arizona State University, who will give a presentation on “Advancing the Revival of American Microelectronics.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Friday, March 28, from 3:30–4:30 p.m. in room 104 (auditorium) of the John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center. MMAE Departmental awards will immediately follow the seminar.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its spring 2025 seminar series featuring Laura Villafañe, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who will present “Ejecta Clouds by Plume Impingement on Granular Surfaces, a Challenge to Planetary Landings.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, April 16, 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 presents their spring 2025 seminar series featuring guest speaker Abriana Stewart-Height, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who will present: “People Helping Robots, so Robots Can Help People.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center (auditorium).

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents their spring 2025 seminar series featuring guest speaker Ersin Daş, a postdoctoral scholar in mechanical and civil engineering at California Institute of Technology, who will give a presentation on “Uncertainty-Aware Safe Autonomy for Real-World Systems.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, from 12:45 to 1:45 pm in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center (auditorium).

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its spring 2025 seminar series featuring Dan Bodony, Blue Waters Professor of Aerospace Engineering, a Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar, and associate dean for Graduate, Professional, and Online Programs in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who will present “Fluid-Structure Interactions Relevant to Hypersonic Flows.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, April 30, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.

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