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Seminars

Date Speaker Title
03/21/2024 - 2:30pm Manaoranjan Majji Tensegrity Space Systems: Assembly, Automation, Mechanics and Manufacturing
03/28/2024 - 2:30pm Julian J. Rimoli Discontinuous compression structures: From tensegrity planetary landers to lightweight metamaterials
04/04/2024 - 2:30pm TBA TBA
04/11/2024 - 12:00am TBA TBA
04/18/2024 - 12:00am TBA TBA
04/25/2024 - 2:30pm Shelly Zhang Programmable materials and structures: design and validation

Seminars Archives

Date Speaker Title
03/14/2024 - 12:00am N/A Spring Break
03/07/2024 - 2:30pm Diana K. Grauer Harnessing Innovation: Rejuvenate, Repurpose, and Reposition for the Energy Transition
02/29/2024 - 2:30pm Bo Zhao Nanophotonic and Optoelectronic Control of Thermal Radiation for Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion
02/22/2024 - 2:30pm Timothy Fisher Scalable solar-thermal synthesis of highyield flake graphite and hydrogen via hydrocarbon decomposition
02/15/2024 - 2:30pm Rajat Mittal From Beating Hearts to Flapping Fins: Insights into Biological Flows Powered by High-Fidelity Immersed Boundary Methods
02/08/2024 - 2:30pm Ruey- Hung Chen Successive Coulombic fissions of evaporating charged water and nanofluid droplets
02/01/2024 - 2:30pm Carlos Portela Uncovering the mechanics of architected materials in dynamic conditions
01/25/2024 - 2:30pm Sanjay Govindjee Physics and Models for Liquid Crystal Elastomers
01/18/2024 - 2:30pm Soaram Kim IoT-based Portable and Wearable Sensors for Remote Health/Environmental Monitoring System
11/30/2023 - 2:30pm Andrew Alleyne A Systems Approach to Modeling, Control, and Design for Electrified Mobility
11/16/2023 - 2:30pm Xuanhe Zhao Soft Materials Mechanics for Health and Sustainability
11/09/2023 - 2:30pm Oscar Lopez-Pamies Towards a Complete Theory of Fracture: Past, Present, and Future
11/02/2023 - 2:30pm Yi-Tung Chen RECENT TRENDS ON PRINTED CIRCUIT HEAT EXCHANGER DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING AND APPLICATIONS
10/26/2023 - 2:30pm Huajian Gao Overcoming the adhesion paradox and switchability conflict on rough surfaces with shape memory polymers
10/19/2023 - 2:30pm Miguel Bessa Cooperative data-driven modeling
10/12/2023 - 2:30pm Kelly Huang Measuring, Modeling, and Mimicking Atmospheric Turbulent Processes
10/05/2023 - 2:30pm Maruthi Akella Learning and Robust Perception for Aerospace Autonomy
09/28/2023 - 2:30pm Michael Howland Modeling and uncertainty quantification for cooperative wind farms at utility-scale
09/21/2023 - 2:30pm Joseph Katz On the Interaction of Turbulent Boundary Layers with Compliant Surfaces
09/14/2023 - 2:30pm Xiaobo Tan Stalking vampires of the Great Lakes: The role of smart sensors and robots in sea lamprey control
09/07/2023 - 2:30pm Jonathan Freund Object Transport by Confined Active Fluids
08/31/2023 - 2:30pm Tal Cohen Cavitation: at interfaces, with bacterial colonies, and in our bodies
08/24/2023 - 2:30pm Li Shi Ultrahigh-Thermal Conductivity Semiconductors and Semimetals
04/27/2023 - 2:30pm William Oates Connecting Fractal Structure to Fractional Order Properties in Solid Materials
04/20/2023 - 2:30pm Sean Andersson Nonlinear Control for Real-time, Feedback-driven Single Particle Tracking
04/13/2023 - 2:30pm Gretar Tryggvason Numerical Simulations of Complex Multiphase Flows
04/06/2023 - 2:30pm Joga Rao MODELING THE MECHANICS OF SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS
03/30/2023 - 2:30pm Xiaolin Zhong Numerical Simulation Study of Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Receptivity to Freestream Disturbances and a New Transition Suppression Methodology by Surface Roughness
03/23/2023 - 2:30pm Lucy Zhang Non-intrusive Coupling Strategies for Multiphysics Simulations & NSF Funding Opportunities for Mechanics Research Community
03/09/2023 - 2:30pm Azim Eskandarian Methods for Selected Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) Safety and Mobility Challenges
03/02/2023 - 2:30pm Ares Rosakis The Seismological Wind Tunnel: From Lab-Scale Experiments to Global-Scale Seismic Events
02/23/2023 - 2:30pm Yonggang Huang Mechanics-guided 3D assembly of complex mesostructures and functional devices
02/16/2023 - 2:30pm Farzad Mashayek Simulation of Turbulent Flow with Discontinuous Spectral Element Method
02/09/2023 - 2:30pm Sundar Krishnamurty Knowledge Management & Predictive Analytics in Manufacturing
02/02/2023 - 2:30pm Nader Jalili A New Paradigm in Engineering Education, Delivery, Outreach and Research: Alabama Initiative on Manufacturing Development and Education (IMaDE)
01/26/2023 - 2:30pm Assimina A. Pelegri Leading Units with Artificial and Common Intelligence
01/19/2023 - 2:30pm H. Jerry Qi Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing toward Shape Changing Structures and 4D Printing
12/01/2022 - 2:30pm Srinath Ekkad The Key Role of Heat Transfer Analysis in Energy Systems Research
11/17/2022 - 2:30pm Jackie Chen Direct Numerical Simulation of Ammonia/Hydrogen/Nitrogen-Air Flames Towards Understanding Combustion and Emission Characteristics for Zero Carbon Power Generation
11/10/2022 - 2:30pm Sinan Keten Tailoring Molecular Topology to Control the Mechanical Properties of Polymeric and Nanoparticle Networks
11/03/2022 - 2:30pm Panagiotis Tsiotras Control of Uncertainty or Control with Uncertainty? A New Control Design Paradigm for Autonomous Stochastic Systems
10/27/2022 - 2:30pm Kok-Meng Lee Physics-based Machine Perception for Robotics and Intelligent Machines
10/20/2022 - 2:30pm Vikram Deshpande Failure of All Solid-State Li-ion Batteries
10/13/2022 - 2:30pm Nancy R. Sottos Towards Morphogenic Manufacturing: Reaction-Diffusion Driven Structure in Thermoset Polymeric Materials
10/06/2022 - 2:30pm Fazle Hussain Some Extensions of Our Vortex Dynamics and Turbulence Research Done at UH
09/29/2022 - 2:30pm Ying Sun Understanding Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems: Modeling, Experiments, and Machine Learning
09/22/2022 - 2:30pm Michele V. Manuel Designing Intermetallics for Additive Manufacturing
09/15/2022 - 2:30pm Jing Sun Prediction, Estimation, and Control of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
09/08/2022 - 2:30pm Arif Masud Chemo-Mechanical Coupling and Material Evolution in Finitely Deforming Solids Permeated with Reactive Fluids
09/01/2022 - 2:30pm Steve WaiChing Sun Data-driven Geometric Mechanics for Path-Dependent Materials
07/15/2022 - 10:00am Guoliang Huang Active Mechanical Metamaterials: Design, Theory and Applications
06/15/2022 - 11:00am Anna Tarakanova Molecular computation for bioengineering
04/28/2022 - 2:30pm Pedro Ponte Castaneda Homogenization and Applications to Nonlinear Rheological Models: Active Composite Materials, Fluid Suspensions and Sea Ice
04/21/2022 - 2:30pm Atul Kelkar Modeling and Control of Complex Building Energy Systems
04/14/2022 - 2:30pm Kerianne Hobbs Safe Autonomy
04/07/2022 - 2:30pm Petros Koumoutsakos Artificial/Natural Intelligence and Fluid Mechanics: Alloys
03/31/2022 - 2:30pm Christine Economides Applying Petroleum Technology to the Energy Transition (ET Apps)
03/24/2022 - 2:30pm Gururaj Naik Hot nanophotonics: Light with a phase transition
03/10/2022 - 2:30pm Renee Zhao Magnetic Soft Composites with Integrated Multiphysics Responses
03/03/2022 - 2:30pm Warren Dixon Assured Autonomy: Uncertainty, Optimality, and Intermittent Information
02/24/2022 - 2:30pm Shubhra Bansal Air-Stable Mixed Halide-Chalcogenide Perovskite Materials for Photovoltaic and Photocatalytic Applications
02/17/2022 - 2:30pm Birol Dindoruk Interaction of Phase Behavior and Flow Applications: EOR, CCUS/Gas Storage, ML and H2 and All …
02/10/2022 - 2:30pm Tian "Tim" Chen Spatial variations in programmable meta-materials
02/03/2022 - 2:30pm Pradeep Guduru Dynamic Strength of an Energetic Material Simulant: Experiments and Modeling
01/27/2022 - 2:30pm Juner Zhu Intelligent Data-Physics Integration for Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Systems
01/20/2022 - 2:30pm Calvin Stewart Materials at Extremes Research Group
12/02/2021 - 2:30pm Kaushik Dayal Phase-field modeling of fracture: nucleation, dissipation, large deformation, and complex stress states
11/18/2021 - 2:30pm Yaoyu Li Controls of Wind Energy Systems: from Turbine, Farm to Offshore Floating
11/11/2021 - 2:30pm Pramod Reddy Energy Transfer and Conversion in Nanoscale Gaps
11/04/2021 - 2:30pm Yuji Zhao GaN Devices in Power Electronics, Space Missions, and Quantum Photonics
10/28/2021 - 2:30pm Mory Gharib Inspiration By The Cardiovascular System
10/21/2021 - 2:30pm Sumita Pennathur MEMS-based innovations for optimized management of Type I diabetes
10/14/2021 - 2:30pm Jerrod Henderson Factors Impacting Engineering Advanced Degree Attainment Among Black Males
10/07/2021 - 2:30pm Pablo Zavattieri Material architecture and bioinspiration as a strategy to enable new mechanical behavior
09/30/2021 - 2:30pm David Go Non-Equilibrium Plasmas as the Next Frontier: Perspectives from Catalysis, Electrochemistry, and Energy
09/23/2021 - 2:30pm Pedro Reis A virtual lab tour of the Flexible Structures Laboratory at EPFL
09/16/2021 - 2:30pm Yuhang Hu Chemomechanics of Soft Hydrated Materials
09/09/2021 - 2:30pm Jonathan Freund **CANCELLED** Laser-induced breakdown for ignition and related stories in integrated predictive science
09/02/2021 - 2:30pm Fumin Zhang Motion Tomography: Converting Marine Vehicle Trajectories to Ocean Flow Map
08/26/2021 - 2:30pm Nanshu Lu Soft Electronics for Mobile Health and Human-Centered Robotics (CANCELLED)
04/22/2021 - 2:30pm Karl Berntorp System Design, Planning and Control for Autonomous Driving
04/15/2021 - 2:30pm Kam K. Leang Smart Electronic Nose in Flight
04/08/2021 - 2:30pm Ranjan Mukherjee Embracing and Escaping Instabilities: Exploring New Capabilities in Robotic Systems
04/01/2021 - 2:30pm David L. Henann Continuum modeling of flow and size-segregation
03/25/2021 - 2:30pm Henry A. Sodano Multifunctional Structures Enabled through Piezoelectric Nanowire
03/04/2021 - 2:30pm Jean-Francois Molinari Friction and Wear in Light of Elastic Interactions Between Micro Contacts
02/18/2021 - 2:30pm Qiye Zheng Extreme Thermal Materials and High-Throughput Characterization Tools
02/09/2021 - 9:30pm Cong Wang Turbulent Drag Reduction Using a Dynamic Free-Slip Boundary
02/04/2021 - 2:30pm Daniel Floryan Swimming Inspired by Biology
01/28/2021 - 2:30pm Michael A. Sutton Commonality in Polymer Adhesion
01/21/2021 - 2:30pm Tian Chen Exploring Programmability of Architected Soft Materials
12/03/2020 - 2:30pm David Murphy Flapping Flight In Air and Water: Bio-inspiration From Tiny Insects and Sea Butterflies
11/19/2020 - 2:30pm Tal Cohen Growth, instability, and failure: bringing order into the chaos of natural phenomena
11/12/2020 - 2:30pm Yaguo Wang Thermal and Electron Transport in Van der Waals Solids
11/05/2020 - 2:30pm Xu Chen Control Across Different Temporal Scales: A Mechatronic-System Perspective
10/29/2020 - 2:30pm George Malliaras Electronics On the Brain
10/22/2020 - 2:30pm Rohan Abeyaratne On the Mechanics of Surface Growth
10/15/2020 - 2:30pm David Sinton Small Fluids Technologies for the Largest Fluids Challenge: CO2 Utilization and CO2 Conversion
10/08/2020 - 2:30pm Daniel J. Inman Avian Inspired Flight
10/01/2020 - 2:30pm Manuela Veloso AI for Intelligent Financial Services: Examples and Discussion
09/24/2020 - 2:30pm Sukwon Choi Micro/Nanoscale Electro-thermal Analysis of Ultra-wide Bandgap Electronic Devices
09/17/2020 - 2:30pm Keith Julien Asymptotic Strategies for Modeling Geophysical and Astrophysical Convective Flows
09/10/2020 - 2:30pm Xiaohang Li Semiconductor UV lasers and LEDs
09/03/2020 - 2:30pm Jinsook Roh Toward Creating Novel Neurorehabilitation Strategies by Developing Newly Emerging Motor Coordination After Stroke
08/27/2020 - 2:30pm Shuman Xia Chemo-Mechanics of Advanced Rechargeable Battery Materials
04/23/2020 - 2:30pm Sumita Pennathur Nanofluidic Technologies for Biomolecule Manipulation (CANCELLED)
04/16/2020 - 2:30pm Fazle Hussain Vortex reconnection and turbulence cascade (CANCELLED)
04/09/2020 - 2:30pm Henry Sodano Multifunctional Structures Enabled through Piezoelectric Nanowire Arrays (CANCELLED)
04/02/2020 - 2:30pm Eckhard A. Groll Improving Vapor Compression System Efficiency through Advanced Vapor Compression Technologies (CANCELLED)
03/26/2020 - 2:30pm Jing Sun Integrated Power Systems for Electrified Vehicles and Ships: Real-time Energy Management and Optimization (CANCELLED)
03/19/2020 - 2:30pm Haneesh Kesari Architecture in biological materials: a template for toughness enhancement, or a siren song? (CANCELLED)
03/05/2020 - 2:30pm Karen Thole Exploiting Additive Manufacturing for Cooling Turbine Airfoils
02/27/2020 - 2:30pm Ruobing Bai Soft Active Materials towards Soft Machines: Characterization, Design, and Functionalization
02/20/2020 - 2:30pm Baoming Wang In-situ Microscopy in Micro/Nano Science and Engineering
02/13/2020 - 2:30pm Philippe Geubelle Faster, Energy-Efficient Manufacturing of Thermoset Composites Based on Frontal Polymerization
02/06/2020 - 2:30pm Xi Chen Negative Emission: Closing the Carbon Loop
01/30/2020 - 2:30pm Xin Qian Thermal Conductivity of Complex Crystals and Van der Waals Layered Materials
01/23/2020 - 2:30pm Chris Roh Fluid Mechanics by Insects
01/16/2020 - 2:30pm Siddhartha Pathak Probing Nanoscale Damage Gradients in Irradiated Metals using Nano-mechanical Test Techniques
11/21/2019 - 2:30pm Luciano Castillo The Green Energy Corridor along the US-Mexico Border: Changing the Conversation
11/14/2019 - 2:30pm J. Kelly Kissock Energy Efficiency Engineering
11/07/2019 - 2:30pm Paul Plucinsky Active and architectured sheets: From nematic elastomers to rigidly-foldable origami
10/31/2019 - 2:30pm Jordan Berg NSF Programs for Dynamics and Controls Researchers
10/24/2019 - 2:30pm Kimberly Stevens Two-Phase Interactions on Hydrophobic Surfaces
10/17/2019 - 2:30pm Xiaoyan Li Design, fabrication and mechanics of architectured micro-/nanolattices
10/03/2019 - 2:30pm Beverley McKeon Some implications of self-similarity in canonical wall turbulence
09/26/2019 - 2:30pm Marzia Cescon Toward Medically Inspired Internet-of- Things Automated Glucose Control Systems for People with Diabetes
09/19/2019 - 2:30pm Jing Sun Integrated Power Systems for Electrified Vehicles and Ships: Real-time Energy Management and Optimization
09/12/2019 - 2:30pm Katia Bertoldi Kirigami-Inspired Metamaterials - from Morphable Structures to Soft Robots
09/05/2019 - 2:30pm Surya Kalidindi Materials Innovation Driven by Data and Knowledge Systems
08/29/2019 - 2:30pm Madhavan Swaminathan System Scaling through Heterogeneous Integration
08/22/2019 - 2:30pm Junmin Wang Human-Vehicle-Roadway Harmonization towards Efficient, Safe, and Clean Mobility
04/25/2019 - 2:30pm Eckart Meiburg Settling of Cohesive Sediment: Particleresolved Simulations
04/18/2019 - 2:30pm Cynthia Hipwell Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Feasibility: An Agile Development Adventure
04/11/2019 - 2:30pm Gianluca Iaccarino Towards Exascale Simulations of Particle-Laden Turbulence in a Radiation Environment: The PSAAP Program at Stanford
04/04/2019 - 2:30pm Animesh Chakravarthy Macroscopic Modeling of Cyber-Attacks in Multi-Vehicle Systems
03/28/2019 - 2:30pm Tim Healey Two-Phase Equilibria of Lipid-Bilayer Vesicles: Existence of Symmetry-Breaking Solutions and Their Computation
03/21/2019 - 2:30pm Kaushik Bhattacharya Material is the Machine
03/07/2019 - 2:30pm R. Daniel Maynes Flow Physics and Thermal Transport at Superhydrophobic Walls
03/01/2019 - 10:00am Ellad Tadmor Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (KIM): Reliable Interatomic Models for Molecular Simulations
02/28/2019 - 2:30pm Ellad B. Tadmor Stacking 2D Materials: Bonding, Mechanics and Reconstructions
02/21/2019 - 2:30pm Sukwon Choi Electro-Thermal Analysis of Ultra-Wide Bandgap (UWBG) Electronics
02/14/2019 - 2:30pm Michael Pecht Electronics Reliability: What the Best Companies are Doing The U.S. National Academy of Science Study
02/07/2019 - 2:30pm Amit Goyal University at Buffalo's RENEW Institute
01/31/2019 - 2:30pm Shuxia Tang PDE Controls in Battery Management and Oil Production
01/24/2019 - 2:30pm Tansel Yucelen Hierarchical Control Systems for Robotic Swarms
01/17/2019 - 2:30pm Bolin Liao Development of Computational and Experimental Tools to Understand Transport and Interaction of Microscopic Energy Carriers
11/15/2018 - 2:30pm Yangying Zhu Thermal-Fluids Engineering for Nextgeneration Energy and Electronics Systems
11/08/2018 - 2:30pm Keith Hollingsworth Sliding Bubbles in Confined Rectangular Channels
11/01/2018 - 2:30pm Ye (Sarah) Sun Human-Centered Monitoring: From Enabling Technology, Human Factors to Computational Diagnosis
10/25/2018 - 2:30pm Aaron T. Becker An Inside Job: Using Tiny Robot Swarms To Heal The Body
10/18/2018 - 2:30pm Arezoo Ardekani Transport of Motile Microorganisms and Their Interactions with Surrounding Fluids
10/11/2018 - 2:30pm Pedram Hassanzadeh Data-Driven Modeling of High-Dimensional Geophysical Turbulence
09/27/2018 - 2:30pm Ghatu Subhash Deformation Mechanisms in Ultrahard Ceramics: A Comprehensive Experimental,DFT and MD Investigation
09/20/2018 - 2:30pm Ruike Zhao Mechanics-guided Design of Intelligent Material Systems
09/13/2018 - 2:30pm Mark Poliks Manufacturing of Flexible Hybrid Electronics – from Silicon Wafers to Flexible Plastic and Glass
09/06/2018 - 2:30pm Yihui Zhang Morphable 3D Mesostructures and Microelectronic Devices by Multistable Buckling Mechanics
08/30/2018 - 2:30pm Karim Alamgir Soft-Confinement Pattern-Induced Nanoparticle Segregation in Thin Films (SCPINS)
08/23/2018 - 2:30pm Masayoshi Tomizuka Safe and Efficient Robot Collaboration System
04/26/2018 - 2:30pm Lallit Anand Gel Mechanics: A Coupled Theory of Fluid Permeation and Large Deformations of Elastomeric Materials
04/19/2018 - 2:30pm Kenneth T. Christensen Turbulent Flow Interactions with Complex Topography: From Multi- Scale Roughness to Barchan Dunes
04/12/2018 - 2:30pm Kon-Well Wang Learning from Muscle – Nature Inspired Multifunctional Adaptive Metastructures
04/05/2018 - 2:30pm Rafael Verduzco Achieving Flexibility and Programmable Shape Changes in Polymeric Networks and Devices
03/29/2018 - 2:30pm Ping Liu Electrochemical Reactions: Energy Storage and Beyond
03/22/2018 - 2:30pm Yuri Bazilevs Isogeometric Methods in Solids, Structures, and Fluid-Structure Interaction
03/08/2018 - 2:30pm Kyung-Suk Kim Graphene Atomic-lattice Interferometry for Molecular Bio-Informatics: The Graphene Moleculography
03/01/2018 - 2:30pm Laura Schaefer Creating Better Energy System
02/22/2018 - 2:30pm Yuwen Zhang Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Selective Laser Sintering
02/15/2018 - 2:30pm Narayanan M. Komerath “IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!” The “Urj Svavalambi” Roadmap To Rural Energy Self-Reliance
02/08/2018 - 2:30pm Mauro Ferrari Twenty-Five Years of Failures
02/01/2018 - 2:30pm George M. Pharr Measurement of Power Law Creep Parameters by Nanoindentation
01/25/2018 - 2:30pm Ken Gall Implementation of New Materials into Orthopedic Implants
01/18/2018 - 2:30pm Zheng Chen Bio-inspired Underwater Robots Enabled by Electroactive Polymer Artificial Muscles
11/30/2017 - 2:30pm Diego Donzis Extreme Events and Turbulence: Scaling, Universality and Direct Numerical Simulations
11/16/2017 - 2:30pm James Watkins Devices for Electronic, Optical and Energy Applications via Additive Driven Self- Assembly and Nanoimprint Lithography: Towards Solution- Based Nanomanufacturing
11/09/2017 - 2:30pm Jan Lammerding Squish and squeeze – Nuclear mechanics and mechanotransduction in physiology and disease
11/03/2017 - 10:30am Eliot Fried The Shape, Energy, and Stability of Graphene Mobius Bands
11/02/2017 - 2:30pm Robert Skelton Integrating the Design of Structure, Control, and Signal Processing
10/26/2017 - 2:30pm Andreas A. Polycarpou Advanced Sliding Contact Interactions in Micro/ Nanoscale Systems
10/19/2017 - 2:30pm Brij Agrawal Imaging Satellites Challenge in Dynamics and Control
10/12/2017 - 2:30pm Yue Fan The Hidden Orders in Disordered Materials: Expedition in Potential Energy Landscape
10/05/2017 - 2:30pm Jacopo Buongiorno Can Nuclear Energy Thrive in a Carbon- Constrained World? Findings from a new MIT study
09/28/2017 - 2:30pm Thomas Siegmund Mechanics of Phonation
09/21/2017 - 2:30pm Dennice F. Gayme Wind Farms Modeling and Control for Power Grid Support
09/14/2017 - 2:30pm Mark G. Allen Deterministic Microfabrication of Macro-Scale Engineered Materials Based on Lower- Dimensional Subcomponents: Mechanical and Electromagnetic Properties
08/24/2017 - 2:30pm Yong Zhu In-situ Nanomechanics of Crystalline Nanowires
04/27/2017 - 2:30pm Siegfried Bauer A Soft Future: From Sensor Skin and Robots to Energy Harvesters
04/20/2017 - 2:30pm Narayana R. Alluru Nanoscale Hydrodynamics
04/13/2017 - 2:30pm Kenny Breuer Vortex Wake Dynamics the Surprising Connections Between Bat Flight and Tidal Energy Harvesting
04/06/2017 - 2:30pm Glaucio H. Paulino Origami engineering: from deployable structures to configurational metamaterials
03/30/2017 - 2:30pm Hadi Ghasemi Energy Transport Phenomena Governed by Interfaces
03/23/2017 - 2:30pm S.V. Sreenivasan Wafer-Scale and Roll-to-Roll Nanofabrication Enabled by UV Nanoimprint Lithography
03/09/2017 - 2:30pm Andrea Prosperetti Fully Resolved Simulation of Particulate Flows
03/02/2017 - 2:30pm John A. Rogers Soft Electronics for the Human Body
02/23/2017 - 2:30pm Shailendra Joshi Slip, Twins and Voids: The Micromechanics of Anisotropic Ductile Damage
02/16/2017 - 2:30pm Yongxin Chen The Art and Science of Densities and Density Flows: When Densities Meet Control
02/09/2017 - 2:30pm Raktim Bhattacharya Integrated Design of System Architecture and Control Law
02/02/2017 - 2:30pm Parisa Pour Shahid Saeed Abadi Carbon Nanotube Forests and Yarns: Mechanical Behavior and Engineering Applications
01/26/2017 - 2:30pm Rodolfo Ostilla Direct Numerical Simulations of Head-On Vortex Ring Collisions
01/19/2017 - 2:30pm Hassan Masoud Fluid-Structure Interactions: From Controlled Drug Release to Micro-Robotics
12/01/2016 - 2:30pm Lydia Bourouiba Understanding fundamental fluid fragmentation to control disease transmission
11/17/2016 - 2:30pm Seth M. Hubbard Novel Materials and Nanostructures for Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
11/10/2016 - 2:30pm Mario A. Rotea Modeling and Control of Wind Energy Systems
11/03/2016 - 2:30pm Massoud Kaviany Resonant phonon harvesting
10/27/2016 - 2:30pm Megan Leftwich The hydrodynamics of sea lion locomotion
10/20/2016 - 2:30pm G. Jeffrey Snyder The Use of Zintl Chemistry for Understanding Thermoelectric Half Heusler Materials
10/13/2016 - 2:30pm Giacomo Valerio Iungo Proactive monitoring of wind farms for maximization of power harvesting: lidar measurements and data-driven reduced order models
10/06/2016 - 2:30pm Chih-Ming Ho Phenotypic Personalized Medicine (PPM)
09/29/2016 - 2:30pm Rui Huang Rippling, Wrinkling, and Folding of Substrate-Supported Graphene
09/22/2016 - 2:30pm H. Jerry Qi Active Composites Design for 4D Printing
09/15/2016 - 2:30pm Raktim Bhattacharya A New Framework for Robust Control
09/08/2016 - 2:30pm Yonggang Huang Mechanics-guided, deterministic 3D assemby: A method to form complex shapes of any materials
09/01/2016 - 2:30pm Daniel Abraham Designing High-Energy Lithium-ion Cells
08/25/2016 - 2:30pm Greg Voth, Wesleyan University Measurements of alignment and rotation of anisotropic particles by turbulent fluid flow
04/28/2016 - 2:30pm Gabriel G. Katul, Duke University Co-spectral budgets link energy distributions in eddies to bulk flow properties
04/21/2016 - 2:30pm Arun Srinivasa, Texas A&M University Modeling in the time of Uncertainty
04/14/2016 - 2:30pm Pedro Miguel Reis, MIT From Buckliphobia to Buckliphilia: Embracing the mechanical instabilities of slender structures for function
04/07/2016 - 2:30pm Placid M. Ferreira, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Manufacturing At Small Dimensional Scales
03/31/2016 - 2:30pm Norman M. Wereley, University of Maryland, College Park Oh, My Aching Back! - Protective Aircraft Seat Design Using Magnetorheological Energy Absorbers
03/24/2016 - 2:30pm Jennifer R. Lukes, University of Pennsylvania Modeling the Physical Properties of Nanocrystal Superlattices
03/10/2016 - 2:30pm Robert L. Wood, University of Texas at Arlington Formula SAE Technology and Its Significance for Engineering Education
03/03/2016 - 2:30pm Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, University of Illinois at Chicago In Situ Studies of Electrochemical Reactions at Atomic Resolutions
02/25/2016 - 2:30pm JUAN SANTIAGO, Stanford University Life in the shock wave: Controlling DNA reactions with electric fields
02/18/2016 - 2:30pm ELLEN ARRUDA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Anterior Cruciate Ligament and Tibiofemoral Cartilages Characterizations and Modeling, and the Role of Constitutive Model Assumptions on Whole Knee Biomechanics
02/11/2016 - 2:30pm JUNUTHULA N. REDDY, Texas A&M University Computational Mechanics: The Third Scientific Methodology
02/04/2016 - 2:30pm BRUCE R. GNADE, University of Texas at Dallas Large Area Radiation Detectors For Security Applications
01/28/2016 - 2:30pm JOHN M. PFOTENHAUER, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Recent Progress in Pulsating Heat Pipe Technology for Cryogenic and Superconducting Systems
01/21/2016 - 2:30pm WILLIAM ANDERSON, University of Texas at Dallas Large-eddy simulation of rough wall turbulence: effects of complex topography, evidence of inner-outer effects, and the role of turbulence in aeolian systems
12/03/2015 - 2:30pm Nikhil A. Koratkar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Graphene Electrodes for Next Generation Lithium-Ion Batteries
11/19/2015 - 2:30pm Helen L. Reed, Texas A&M University Stability and Transition on Flight Vehicles
11/12/2015 - 2:30pm Beibei Ren, Texas Tech University Model-Free control theory and application based on the uncertainty and disturbance estimator
11/05/2015 - 2:30pm Satish G. Kandlikar, Rochester Institute of Technology Flow Boiling in Microchannels – New Pathways to High Heat Flux Dissipation
10/29/2015 - 2:30pm Martin Corless, Purdue University Collaboration and Control in Networked Systems
10/22/2015 - 2:30pm Richard B. Dickinson, University of Florida How do cells find their centers, push out their boundaries, and spin their nuclei?: Answers to these mysteries revealed by multi-scale modeling
10/15/2015 - 2:30pm Jun Chen, Purdue University Pathway to model oceanic overflow: experimental study of stratified flows
10/08/2015 - 2:30pm Ting Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology In Situ Nanomechanics
10/01/2015 - 2:30pm Xiaolin Zheng, Stanford University Bridging Combustion and Nanotechnology
09/24/2015 - 2:30pm Bongtae Han, University of Maryland Design Domain of LED-based Solid State Lighting Considering Cost, Energy Consumption and Reliability
09/17/2015 - 2:30pm John Wagner, Clemson University Vehicle Run-Off-Road and Recovery - Development of Laboratory Training Tools and Nonlinear Control Algorithms for On- Board Systems
09/10/2015 - 2:30pm Joseph Hereman, Ohio State University The spin degree of freedom in thermoelectrics
09/03/2015 - 2:30pm Diana Grauer, OneSubsea Subsea Engineering: Challenging the next generation of engineers
08/27/2015 - 2:30pm Ken Kamrin, MIT Constitutive modeling of particle flows
04/30/2015 - 2:30pm Jose A. Gutierrez, University of Houston Open Innovation in the Oil and Gas Drilling Industry
04/23/2015 - 2:30pm Yong X. Tao, University of North Texas Analytics on Sustainable Human Building Ecosystem – A New Approach to Understand Barriers to Energy Efficient Buildings
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04/09/2015 - 2:30pm Moon J. Kim, The University of Texas at Dallas Atomic Resolution Microscopy of Low Dimensional and Emerging Materials
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02/26/2015 - 2:30pm Dimitris C. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University Advances in Aerospace Morphing Structures with Shape Memory Alloy Actuators
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02/05/2015 - 2:30pm Hamid Garmestani, Georgia Tech. Inverse Methods in Materials Design and Processing
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12/04/2014 - 2:30pm Douglas E. Adams, Vanderbilt University Computers Are Talking and the Machines Are Listening: How Cyberphysical Systems Are Changing the Way We Capture Wind Energy
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10/30/2014 - 2:30pm Frederic Sansoz, University of Vermont Plasticity and Heat Conduction in Nanotwinned Materials by Atomistic Simulation
10/23/2014 - 2:30pm Philip Leduc, Carnegie Mellon University Planes, Trains, Automobiles....and Cells?
10/16/2014 - 2:30pm Xuanhe Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Multi-Scale Multi-Mechanism Design of Tough and Bioactive Hydrogels: Theory, Experiment and Application
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10/02/2014 - 2:30pm Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania Harnessing Mechanical Instabilities in Soft Metamaterials for Responsive, Bendable and Foldable Devices
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09/11/2014 - 2:30pm Shan Shi, Manager of Riser Systems - Houston Offshore Enrineering LLC. Current Development of an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) System
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04/03/2014 - 2:30pm Orlando Auciello, University of Texas at Dallas Science and Technology of Multifunctional Oxide and Ultrananocrystalline Diamond (UNCD) Films
03/27/2014 - 2:30pm Reginald M. Penner, University of California Irvine Biosensors for Early Cancer Detection Based Upon Electrical Interfaces to Virus Particles
03/20/2014 - 2:30pm Julian Andrzej Domaradzki, University of Southern California Simulations of Separated Flows at Reynolds Numbers Typical of Turbine Blades and Unmanned Aero Vehicles
03/06/2014 - 2:30pm Jeffrey W. Kysar, Columbia University Two-Dimensional Materials: Mechanical Stiffness, Strength and Reliability
02/27/2014 - 2:30pm Feng Zhang, R & D Director, Envision Energy Challenges in Real World Control Systems Development: Perspectives of UH Graduate
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01/23/2014 - 2:30pm Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma, University of Wisconsin-Madison Transferrable Single-Crystalline Semiconductor Nanomembranes and Their Versatile Applications
01/16/2014 - 2:30pm Cunjiang Yu, University of Houston Flexible, Adaptive Camouflage Skins Using Concepts Inspired by Cephalopods
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11/21/2013 - 2:30pm Rouzbeh Shahsavari, Rice University Load Transfer In Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials Across Scales
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11/07/2013 - 2:30pm David A. Willis, Southern Methodist University Time-Resolved Imaging of Nanosecond Laser Ablation Processes
10/31/2013 - 2:30pm Nanshu Lu, The University of Texas at Austin Materials Science of Bio-integrated Elecronics
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09/05/2013 - 2:30pm Bonnie J. Dunbar, University of Houston The Journey to Mars: What are the Engineering Challenges for Continued Human Space Exploration
08/29/2013 - 2:30pm Antonia Antoniou, Georgia Institute of Technology Nanoporous metals: Synthesis, mechanical properties and applications
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05/29/2013 - 1:30pm Dr. Cunjiang Yu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Transfer Printing: A Versatile Manufacturing Approach for High Performance Flexible Electronics and Energy Storage
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11/29/2012 - 2:30pm Jae-Hyun Ryou, University of Houston Photonic and Electronic Materials and Devices Based on III-V Compound Semiconductors: Critical Elements in Next-Generation Green Technology
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09/27/2012 - 2:30pm Jinsong Leng, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Smart Composite Structures and Their Applications in Aerospace Engineering
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