ME Seminars
Spring 2025 Schedule
April 1 - Mr. Zachary Karg, PhD Student, "Integrating Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy with Emerging Technologies to Advance Soil Health Indicator (SHI) Analysis"
Fall 2024 Schedule
September 17 - Dr. Micah Lande & Beth Lambeth, "Unlocking Your Innovation: How the NSF I-Corps Program Can Empower Your Technical Research for Market Impact" (
October 1 - Dr. Mauricio Santillana, Northeastern University, "Monitoring and forecasting the dynamics of disease outbreaks using multiple mathematical approaches, and novel Internet-based data sources. Lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic." ()
November 12 - Dr. Jim Brenner, Florida Tech, "From Nanotechnology to Entrepreneurial Maker Engineering: Crafting the 'Making You a Better Maker' Textbook." ()
Spring 2024 Schedule
February 23 - Dr. Richard Goldberg, UNC Chapel Hill, "Empowering Your Students: Building a Foundation of Skillset+Mindset for a successful engineer" ( or view the )
October 31 - Student presentations from Dr. Joseph John Thalakkottor's Laboratory of Interfacial Transport
November 7 - Sonya Dick, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, "Using LaserDriven Shocks to Probe Material Viscosity at High Pressures" ()
April 11 - Dr. Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, "Cultivating Entrepreneurial Mindset in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Educational Contexts" ()
January 17 - Dr. Kevin Hart, Milwaukee School of Engineering, "Improving Interlaminar Toughness of Additively Manufactured Polymers Using Novel
Dual-Material Filaments" ()
November 4 - Dr. Ken Bloemer, University of Dayton, "EM Case Studies"
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April 14 - Jessica Fick, University of Wisconsin - Platteville, "How EM Transformed Senior Design"
October 7 - Terrence Kuca, PhD Student, "Microstructure & Mechanical Properties of Cold Spray Deposited GRCop-42 & HR-1 Alloys"
October 14 - Nana Adoo, PhD Student, "Microstructural Processing & Phase Stabilization Analysis of Off-Stoichiometric Fe-Mn-Ga
Shape Memory Alloy"
October 21 - Andrea Surovek, "The Three C鈥檚 of Engineering: Calculus, Communication & Creativity"
October 28 - Joseph Thalakkottor, "At the continuum limit: Capturing the internal dynamics of flow discontinuities"
November 4 - Zhuoyuan Song, University of Hawaii, "Navigation in Ocean Flows"
March 25 - Dr. William (Bill) Oakes, Purdue University "Using Community-Engaged Learning to Prepare 21st Century Leaders"
April 8 - Sita Syal, PhD Candidate, Stanford University "Embedding Equity in Sustainable Energy Systems Models"
April 22 - Eric Reynolds Brubaker, PhD Candidate, Stanford University "Belonging & Access to Help in Engineering: Results from a Network Analysis, Field Experiment, & Interview Study"
September 3 - Weibing Xing "Beyond Li-ion: Lithium-Sulfur Battery Research"
September 10 - Pierre Larochelle "Deploying Robotics for Spatial Free Form Additive Manufacturing"
September 17 - Hadi Fekrmandi "Multi-Agent Autonomous Guidance Navigation & Control Using SVGS Vision Sensor for
Lunar Surface Mobility Applications"
September 24 - Wendy Ju, Cornell Tech "Theatre of the Autonomous Car"
October 1 - Nick Bruno "An Improved Performance Metric for Comparing Magnetocaloric Solid Refrigerants Undergoing
First-Order Magnetostructural Transitions"
October 8 - Prasoon Diwakar "Hot and Cold Plasmas: A Journey from Analytical Instrumentation to Therapeutics"
October 15 - Micah Lande "Tinkering to Learn Mechanical Engineering"
October 22 - Martha Grady, University of Kentucky "A Mechanical Engineer's Approach to Bacterial Infections"
October 29 - Daniel Boe, PhD Student, 国产福利 "High Order Positivity Preserving Finite Difference Scheme for Compressible Two Fluid/Phase
Flow Model"
November 5 - Krishnendu Haldar, IIT Bombay "Magnetomechanics Modeling of Magneto-Active Polymers"
Have Questions?
For more information, contact Dr. Micah Lande.