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2025-2026

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2024-2025

2023-2024

2022-2023

2021-2022

Yong Chen

Yong Chen

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Southern California

October 3, 2021

Additive Manufacturing of Bio-inspired Structures via Multi-scale, Multi- material, and Multi-functional 3D Printing

Haibo Dong

Haibo Dong

Director, Aerospace Engineering Program
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Virginia

September 23, 2021

Bio-inspired Underwater Propulsion for Fast, Efficient Swimming: A Computational Approach

Ranga Pitchumani

Ranga Pitchumani

George R. Goodson Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Virginia Tech

April 15, 2021

Textured Nonwetting Surfaces for Power Plant Condensers

Blane Harding

Blane Harding

Director of Diversity Engagement
Office for Inclusion and Diversity
Virginia Tech

April 1, 2021

Cultural Humility: Becoming a Culturally Humble Professional

Hadi Ghasemi

Hadi Ghasemi

Cullen Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Houston

March 18, 2021

Nano/molecular scale interfacial science: Fundamentals to real world applications

Ju Li

Ju Li

Department of Nuclear Science and Engineeering, MIT

March 4, 2021

Title of talk: "Radiation-materials interactions at the nanoscale"

2020-2021


Pablo Zavattieri

Pablo Zavattieri

Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University

March 5, 2020

Title of talk: "Enabling unusual mechanism behavior through material architecture and bio-inspiration."

Joost Vlassak

Joost Vlassak

Harvard University

February 6, 2020

Title of talk: "Nano-calorimetry: A New Tool for Materials Development."

2019-2020


Roger Kamm

Roger D. Kamm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sept. 5, 2019

Title of talk: "Models of Neurological Disease."

Yu Sun

Yu Sun

University of Toronto

May 2, 2019

Title of talk: "Medical Robotics: Manipulation of Cells and Intracellular Structures."

Daniel J. Inman

Daniel J. Inman

University of Michigan

Distinguished Speaker Series: April 4, 2019

Title of talk: "Mechanical Metamaterials for Vibration Suppression."

Marc De Graef

Marc De Graef

Carnegie Mellon University 

Feb. 7, 2019

Title of talk: "Recent Advances in Quantitative Materials Characterization by Means of Electron Back-Scatter Diffraction."

2018-2019


Thomas Zawodzinski

Thomas A. Zawodzinski

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Dec. 6, 2018

Title of talk: "Making use of renewable electrons with redox flow batteries and related ‘open’ systems."

Robert Ritchie

Robert O. Ritchie

University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 

Nov. 1, 2018

Title of talk: "Damage-tolerance in engineering and biological materials."

Ronald K. Hanson

Ronald K. Hanson

Stanford University 

Oct. 4, 2018

Title of talk: "Evolution of tunable laser absorption sensors for combustion and propulsion."