Seminars and Distinguished Lectures
Friday, November 21st, 2025 at 1:00 PM, Light Engineering, Room 173, Making Advances in Optical Microscopic Imaging Accessible to Our Community: The Mission of the Optical Imaging Research Laboratory, Ana Doblas, Ph.D, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Friday, November 14th, 2025 at 12:30 PM, Light Engineering, Room 173, Evaluating Infotaxis Search with Robot Experiments, John R. Buck, Ph.D, Chancellor Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineerring, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Friday, November 7th, 2025 at 2:00 PM, Light Engineering, Room 173, Physical AI, Adam Vaughan, Ph.D, Founder and CEO, Dauntless.io
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Friday, November 15th, 2024 at 1:00 PM, Light Engineering Building, Room 173, Towards Seamless Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC): Interfaces, Algorithms, and Workflows for Enabling Robots to Learn from Humans, Yunbo Zhang, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology.
Friday, October 25th, 2024 at 1:00 PM, Light Engineering Building, Room 173, Two-player zero-sum differential games with one-sided information and state constraints, aka Football, Yi Ren, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace, Arizona State University.
Friday, September 27th, 2024, 1:00 PM, Light Engineering Building, Room 173, Mechanobiological Systems: Multiscale Signaling and Biofabrication, Michael Mak, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University.
Friday, November 17th, 2023 at 1:00 PM, Light Engineering Building, Room 173, Process Innovation, Understanding, and Control in Advanced Manufacturing, Rajiv Malhotra, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
Rutgers University
Friday, October 20th, 2023 at 12:00 PM, Light Engineering Building, Room 173, Noninvasive Tissue Characterization and Monitoring with Diffuse Optical Imaging, Ulas Sunar, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University
Friday, April 14th, 2023 at 11:00 AM, Light Engineering Building, Room 173, Integrated Perception, Learning, and Control for Super Autonomous Robots, Giuseppe Loianno, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, New York University
Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 at 1:30PM, Light Engineering Building, Room 173, Adaptive Morphology facilitates Embodied Intelligence, Van Anh Ho, Ph.D., Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 12:00PM on Zoom, A Computational Analysis Framework to Understand Shrouded Wind Turbines Performance, Economic Viability and Environmental Impact, Mahmoud Koraïem, Graduate Student at Stony Brook University, Member of the Advanced Combustion & Energy Systems Laboratory
Thursday, November 10, 2022, at 2:00 PM, Light Engineering Building, Room 173, Probabilistic Design of Cyber-Physical-Social Systems, Professor Yan Wang, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Stony Brook University.
Friday, October 28th, 2022 at 10:30AM, Light Engineering, Room 173, Electrohydrodynamic Inkjet Printing For In-Space Manufacturing: Current Progress and Efforts, Hantang Qin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Stony Brook University.
Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 1:30PM, Light Engineering Building, Room 173, Toward Biped Robots Walking Like Humans: Stability and Efficiency Perspectives, Professor Joo H. Kim, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University (NYU), Stony Brook University.
Friday, September 16, 2022 at 1:00PM, Frey Hall, Room 201, When Zebrafish Met Engineering, Dr. Maurizio Porfiri, Institute Professor, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Stony Brook University.
Friday, April 15, 2022 at 1:00PM, Light Engineering Building, Room 173, Capturing the Fire: Modeling Combustion in Astrophysics, Dr. Alan C. Calder, Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University.
Monday, November 22, 2021 at 1:00PM, Frey Hall 309, Nanomaterial-Enabled Soft Electronics towards Healthcare, Activity Tracking, and Human-Machine Interaction, Dr. Shanshan Yao, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University.
Monday, October 4, 2021 at 1:00PM, Frey Hall 309, Mechanism Based Modeling of Fracture in Quasibrittle Composites: Challenges, Applications, and Limitations, Dr. Kedar Kirane, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University.
Friday, October 1, 2021 at 12:00PM on Zoom, The role of first principles in problem solving in the “AI” era, Dr. Yi Ren, Assistant Professor with the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University.
Friday, November 20, 2020 at 2:00PM on Zoom, From Patterened Sheets to Functional Morphing Structures, Dr. Paolo Celli, Ph.D., Department of Civil Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.
Friday, October 25, 2019 at 1:30PM Light Engineering Building, Uncertainty Quantification Methods for Stochastic Microstructure Characterization, Reconstruction, and Modeling, Hongyi Xu, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Additive Manufacturing of Bio-inspired Structures via Nanocomposite 3D Printing, Yong Chen, Ph.D., Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Friday, May 10, 2019 at 11:30AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Machine Learning Meets Machine Design: Data-Driven Approach to Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms and Robots, Anurag Purwar, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 2:00PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Thermal Transport Phenomena in Nanomaterials: Applications of Quantum Kinetic Theory and Electrodynamics, Richard Z. Zhang, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical & Energy Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Friday, March 8, 2019 at 11:00AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, A Path Towards Innovative Flow Field Imaging, Jiarong Hong, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Friday, February 8, 2019 at 11:00AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Failure-resistant Interfaces and Their Applications, Xinrui Niu, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Cong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Monday, December 17, 2018 at 11:00AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Design and Manufacturing in Industry 4.0, Tsz-Ho Kwok, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Monday, December 10, 2018 at 10:30AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, E-Logo: Embroidered Wearable Electronics, Sarah Sun, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
Friday, December 7, 2018 at 2:00PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Synchrotron-based Hard X-Ray Microscopy: A Tool for 3-D Spectroscopic Imaging at the Nanoscale, Wilson K. S. Chiu, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Friday, November 9, 2018 at 10:00AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Kinematic Redundancy in Parallel Mechanisms: A design perspective, Clement Gosselin, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Université Laval, Québec, Qc, Canada
Friday, October 5, 2018 at 11:00AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Toward Understanding and Predicting Human Behavior in Video, Minh Hoai Nguyen, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Friday, April 27, 2018 at 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Merging Human and Machines via Soft-Matter Technology, Xuanhe Zhao, Ph.D., Soft Active Materials Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, March 30, 2018 at 11:00AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, High-fidelity two-phase flow large eddy simulations for tackling turbulent fluid flows in nature, Dionysios Angelidis, Ph.D., Department of Civil Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Friday, March 9, 2018 at 1:00PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Highly versatile CIGS thin film solar modules for transparent and flexible applications, Dr. Jeung-hyun Jeong, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, Korea
Friday, January 19, 2018 at 11:00AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Shearography and Laser-speckle 3D Vision from Academic Research to Real-World Applications, Michael Y. Y. Hung, John F Doge Professor Emeritus, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Friday, December 8, 2017 at 2:00PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Applications of Smart Materials in Robotic, Aerospace and Energy Conversion Systems, Onur Bilgen, PhD, Rutgers University
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 3:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Avian Inspired Morphing UAVs (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), Daniel J. Inman, PhD, The University of Michigan
Friday, November 10, 2017 at 11:00AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Research in the Integration of Nanotechnology, Sensors, Actuators and Controls, Xun Yu, PhD, New York Institute of Technology, Westbury
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Some Frontiers of Optimization Technology in Research and Application, Ming Zhou, PhD, Altair Engineering
Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Design of Smart Drug Delivery Platform Guided by Multiscale Computational Modeling, Ying Li, PhD, University of Connecticut
Friday, August 11, 2017 at 11:00AM, Room 173 Light Engineering, Thermal Properties of 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D Materials, Tae-Youl Choi, PhD, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, University of North Texas
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering, A Career at Scaled Composites: Pioneering the Next Generation of Aerospace and Space Flight, Jake Riley, Propulsion & Pneumatics Engineer, Scaled Composites
Monday, June 26, 2017 at 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering, Rapid 3D Printing of Functional Scaffolds and Precision Medicine Applications, Dr. Shaochen Chen, PhD, Department of NanoEngineering and Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego
Friday, March 3rd, 2017 at 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering, Triboelectric Nanogenerators, Dr. Jun Chen, Post-doc Scholar, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Friday, Nov 4th, 2016 at 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering, Multifunctional Materials and Tomographic Methods for Structural Damage Characterization, Ken Loh, PhD, Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Friday, January 29, 2016, 1:30 PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Bringing Structural Design Exploration Closer to Realization, Julian A. Norato, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connetiquot
Wednesday, March 23, 2016, 11:00 AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Design of Emerging Engineered Materials System (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), Wei Chen, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Friday, April 1, 2016, 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Extracting Human Intelligence from Complex Operations with Demonstration in Intelligent Welding, YuMing Zhang, Phd, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky
Monday, April 18, 2016, 11:30AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, High-Pressure Thermo-Chemical Recuperation for Waste Heat Recovery in Internal Combustion Engines, Leonid Tartarkovsky, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Monday, April 18, 2016, 2:00PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Transverse Impact of Ballistic Fibers, Yarns, and Composites - Fiber Length Scale Modeling and Experiments, Subramani Sockalingam, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Univeresity of Delaware
Monday, April 25, 2016, 2:00PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Failure in Quasibrittle Fiber Composites: Size Effect Testing and Microplane Triad Model, Kedar Kirane, PhD, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Friday, April 29, 2016, 2:00PM, Room 104 AERTC Building, Challenges in Energy Technology Transition from Lab to Market at ARPA-E, US Department of Energy, Jason Wible, US Department of Energy
Monday, May 2, 2016, 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering, High Fidelity Simulation and Multi-Scale Modeling Strategies for Investigation of Turbulent Flows: From Canonical to Practical Configurations, Reetesh Ranjan, PhD, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, May 6, 2016, 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering, High-Fidelity Simulation of Wind Turbines and Flow Control, Sang Lee, PhD, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Wednesday, May 11, 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering, A Locally Stabilized Higher-Order Immersed Boundary Method and its Application to NASA Relevant Flow Problems, Christoph Brehm, PhD, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona
Wednesday, May 12, 2016, 10:45AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Highly Efficient Nanostructured "Smart Coatings" by Self-Assembly Fabrication, Antonio Checco, PhD, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Thursday, May 12, 2016, 1:30PM, Room 250 Light Engineering Building, Architected Materials for Tunable Elastic Wave Propagation and Reversible Energy Absorption, Sung Hoon Kang, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, John Hopkins University
Monday, May 23, 2016, 10:30AM, Room 250 Light Engineering Building, Link Mechanobiology to Potential Clinical Application - Exploring NIH Supporting Mechanisim and Collaboration, Yi-Xian Qin, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University
Thursday, August 11, 2016, 1:20PM, Simon Center Auditorium, Mechanics of Cell-Matrix Interactions in Three-Dimensions, Guruswami Ravichandran, PhD, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology
Friday, August 12, 2016, 10:20AM, Simon Center Auditorium, Integrity Assessment of Multi-Material Structures and Evaluation of Interfacial Strength, Kikuo Kishimoto, PhD, School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Thursday, September 8, 2016, 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering, High-throughput 3D Printing of Functional Biomedical Devices, Cheng Sun, PhD, Mechanical Engineering Department, Northwestern University
Friday, October 7, 2016, 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Wearable Tattoo Electronics Capable of Dissolving in the Human Body, Huanyu Chen, PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Thursday, October 20, 2016, 1:30pm, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Research Opportunities at the Cross-Roads Design, Manufacturing and High-Performance Computing, Krishnan Suresh, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Friday, March 6, 2015, 11AM in Student Activities Center, Ballroom B, Recent Advances in Adaptive Metastructures for Structural Dynamics Enhancement (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series) Dr. Kon-Well Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Friday, March 13, 2015 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Microchannel Deformation for Lab-on-a- Chip Applications, Chia-Hung Tsai, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering at Osake University
Friday, April 3, 2015, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Wolfram Technologies in Education and Research, Michael Remolona, Academic Initiative Wolfram Research
Friday, April 17, 2015, 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Building System Control Research in Tsinghua University-Some Recent Progress, Qianchuan Zhao, Ph.D Department of Automation, Tsinghua University
Friday, April 24, 2015, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Beyond Robotics by Makoto Kaneko, Ph.D Department of Mechanical Engineering at Osaka University
Friday, April 24, 2015 , 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, 3D Printing for Mass Custominization, Chi Zhou, Ph.D Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Buffalo University
Friday, July 31, 2015, 2PM, Lighting Engineering, Room 173, Multifunctional Materials & Structures: Topology Optimization & Additive Manufacturing (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), Dr. Michael Yu Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore
Friday, August 14, 2015, 11:00AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Spectrally, Spratially, and Temporally Controlled Laser Processing and Characterization of Functional Materials, Yongfeng Lu, Ph.D, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Wednesday, September 9, 2015, 11:00 AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Intelligentized Technologies for Welding Manufacturing Process, Shanben Chen, PhD., Department of Mechanical Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Friday, September 18, 2015, 1:30 PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Ocean Wave Energy Conversion, Jie Yu, PhD, Department of Civil Engineering, Stony Brook University
Friday, September 25, 2015, 1:30 PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Mechanics of Stretchable and Smart Electronics, Jianliang Xiao, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Friday, November 10, 2015, 10:30 AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Bias-Flip Interface Circuits for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Enhancement: Their Structural Effects, Practical Implementations, and Maximum Harvesting Capability, Junrui Liang, PhD, School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University
Friday, November 20, 2015, 1:30 PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Designing Composite Architectures via 3D Printing and Colloidal Assembly, Randall Erb, PhD, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
Monday, November 30, 2015, 11:00 AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Smart Sensor System and Functional Metal Surfaces, Si-Hyung Shawn Lim, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kookmin University
Tuesday, December 5, 2014, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Can Robots help Retrain Functions of Neural Impaired Adults and Children, Sunil K Agrawal, Ph.D., Columbia University
Friday, October 24, 2014, 10AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Opportunities in Energy Efficiency R&D at the Department of Energy Building Technologies Office, Patrick Phelan, Ph.D., Emerging Technologies Program, Building Technologies, US Department of Energy
Friday, April 7, 2014, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Friction control in snakes and snake robots, Hamidreza Marvi, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Monday, April 9, 2014, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Design and control of biologically inspired meso-scale jumping robots, Jianguo Zhao, Ph.D. candidate, Michigan State University
Friday, April 11, 2014, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Multiscale implications of hetereogeneity in solids, Zubaer Hossain, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Monday, April 14, 2014, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, It's all connected: relating structure, material, and function in musculoskeletal tissues, Mariana Kersh, Ph.D., University of Melbourne
Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Versatile computationally efficient combustion trajectory model for diesel combustion, Joshua Bittle, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Friday, April 18, 2014, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Current and future trends in automotive combustion research to meet the upcoming fuel economy targets, Benjamin Lawler, Ph.D., CH2M HILL Inc
Monday, April 21, 2014, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Characterization and Modeling of Time and Temperature Dependent Polymer Membranes, Jun Li, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Friday, April 25, 2014, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Multi-functional Field Robotic Devices: Vehicles and Sensors, Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado, Ph.D., Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Optimization-based Algorithms for Dynamic Simulation and Kinodynamic Motion Planning, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 11AM in Student Activities Center, Ballroom B, Applications of Energy Harvesting (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), Dr. Daniel Inman, Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
Thusday, February 20, 2014, 11:30AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building by Bismark Agbelie
Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Applications of Imaging in Geotechnical Engineering, Hyon-Sohk Ohm, PhD, University of Michigan
Monday, February 10, 2014, 12PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, AThermo-Active Geosystems, Sherif Abdelaziz, Ph.D., CH2M HILL Inc.
Friday, February 7, 2014, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Characterizing gas-bearing soils with geophysical inverse methods, Eugene Morgan, PhD, Duke University
Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Non-Contract Air-Coupled Sensing for NDT of Concrete Infrastructure, Jinying Zhu, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Friday, May 3, 2013, 2:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, 3D Periodic Polymer Composites: Mechanics and Multifunctional Applications by Dr. Lifeng Wang, Clarkson University Abstract
Monday, April 29, 2013, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, In Plane Response and Mode I Fracture Response of Z-Pin Shaven Composites by Dr. Sam Huang, Universal Technology Corporation Abstract
Thursday, May 2, 2013, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Transport Phenomena over Patterned Surfaces by Dr. Ilenia Battiato, Clemson University Abstract
Friday, April 23, 2013, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Multiscale Strategies for Transport Processes: Challenges and Opportunities for Novel Thermo-Fluid Systems by Dr. Carlos Colosqui, City College of New York (CUNY) Abstract
Friday, April 19, 2013, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Simutaneous Energy Harvesting and Vibration Control via Piezoelectric Materials: From Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to Spacecraft Skin by Dr. Ya Wang, Virginia Tech Abstract
Monday, April 15, 2013, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Enhancing Performance and Functionality of Robotic and Microfluidic Devices Through Technology Crossoversby Dr. Ronjana Sahai, Harvard University Abstract
Friday, April 5, 2013, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Modeling functionally graded and laminated plates by radial basis functions by Dr. Antonio Ferreira, University of Porto Abstract
Friday, March 1, 2013, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Disperse Multiphase Flow Modeling: From Environment to Industrial Applications by Dr. Orlando Ayala, University of Delaware Abstract
Friday, February 22, 2013, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Biofabrication: Unique manufacturing challenge for the 21st centruy by Dr. Pranav Soman, University of California, San Diego Abstract
Friday, February 8, 2013, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Structural Shape & Topology Optimization: A Level Set Approachby Dr. Shikui Chen of Altair Engineering INC, Irvine, California Abstract
Friday, February 1, 2013, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, A Laptop-Based Regional Climate Model Based on an Exact Solution of the 3D Navier-Stokes Equation by Dr. Amador Muriel of Harvard University Abstract
Dr.Alan Needleman (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Friday, October 25, 2013, 2PM in SAC Auditorium
Dr. Masayoshi Tomizuka (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), Cheryl and John Neerhout, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Friday, March 8, 2013, 2PM in Engineering 145
Friday, December 7, 2012, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Soft Multifunctional Composites: FromBio-inspired Armor to Artificial Muscles by Dr. Stephan Rudykh of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract
Monday, December 3, 2012, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Physics-based Progressive Damage and Failure Modeling Tool for Composite Structures Including Uncertainties in Material and Geometrical Properties by Dr. Wooseok Ji, University of Michigan Ann Arbor Abstract
Monday, November 19, 2012, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Failure Mechanics and Damage Tolerance Designs of Advanced Composite/Hybrid Materials and Structuresby Dr. L. Roy Xu, University of Texas at El Paso Abstract
Friday, November 16, 2012, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Improving Engine Emissions and Efficiency with Premixed Compression Ignition Combustion by Dr. William Northrop, University of Minnesota Abstract
Friday, October 5, 2012, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Experimental Nanomechanics of Low Dimensional Nanostructures by Dr. Changhong Ke, State University of New York at Binghamton Abstract
Friday, September 28, 2012, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Mystery of Vehicle Brake Judder Vibration by Dr. R. Singh, The Ohio State University Abstract
Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 1PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Nano-characterization and Nano-patterning for Graphene Device by Dr. Yongho Seo, Sejong University, South Korea Abstract
Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Measurement of Fugitive Emissions in the Atmosphere: Particulate Matter and Ammonia by Dr. Koloutsou-Vakakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract
Friday, May, 11, 2012, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Decomposition-Based Design of Complex Engineering Systems by Dr. Michael Kokkolaras, University of MichiganAbstract
Friday, May 11, 2012, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Mechanics of Localized Slippage in Haptic Perception by Dr. Shinichi Hirai, Department of Robotics, Ritsumeikan University
Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Structural Health Monitoring for Bridges by Dr. Sreenivas Alampalli, New York State Department of Transportation Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2012, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Low Damage Seismic Force-Resisting Systems by Dr. Andre` Filiatrault, State University of New York at BuffaloAbstract
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, ICT-induced Integration and Globalization in Construction by Dr. Irtishad Ahmad, Florida International University Abstract
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Fate of Manufactured Nanomaterials and Naturally Occurring Cyanotoxins in Natural and Engineered Systems by Dr. Harold Walker, The Ohio State University and Director, Ohio Water Resources Center Abstract
Friday, March 16, 2012, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Technology Chain for CNC-EDM of Shrouded Turbine Blisk by Dr. Wansheng Zhao, Associate Dean for Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Abstract
Friday, February 10, 2012, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Investigation of Nano-Particle Transport in Non-Isothermal Internal Turbulent Flows by Dr. Mehdi Abarham, Research Engineer-Ford Motor Company Abstract
Dr. Alexander H. Slocum (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), Pappalardo Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Friday, November 30, 2012, 2PM in Student Activities Center Ballroom B
Dr. Satya N. Atluri (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Irvine, Friday, April 27, 2012, 11AM in SAC Ballroom B
Dr. Alexander F. Vakakis (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Friday, March 9, 2012, 2PM in Wang Center Theater
Friday, November 18, 2011, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Fuels and Advanced Combustion: The Future of Internal Combustion Engines by Dr. Timothy Jacobs, Texas A&M University Abstract
Friday, October 21, 2011, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Reverse Engineering: Technology of Reinvention by Dr. Wego Wang, University of Massachusetts Lowell Abstract
Friday, September 30, 2011, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Integrating Efficient Kinematics in Biomechanics of Human Motion by Andres Kecskemethy, University of Duisburg-Essen Abstract
Friday, September 23, 2011, 11:30AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Multi-Physics Modeling of Advanced Powertrains by Dr. Aris Babajimopoulos, University of MichiganAbstract
2010-2011
Friday, August 19, 2011, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Energy Conversion Devices with High Efficiency for Actuation and Harvesting by Dr. Tian-Bing Xu, National Institute of Aerospace Abstract
Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 3:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Future Trends on Low Cost Silicon-based Photovoltaic Production by Hui Zhang, Professor, Tsinghua University Abstract
Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Real-Time Decision Support for Factory Control by Qing (Cindy) Chang, Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology Abstract
Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Micromechanics and Structural Behavior of Cellular Solids by Maen Alkhader, Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology Abstract
Monday, June 20, 2011, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Determination of Single Crystal Elastic Moduli Using Measured Lattice Strain Tensors and Computed Mechanical Response by Christos Efstathious, Ph.D., Cornell University Abstract
Friday, June 17, 2011, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Photothermally-assisted Self-assembly of Ordered Nanopatterns for Solar-cells by Yun Young Kim, Postdoc Research Fellow, Northwestern University Abstract
Friday, May 13, 2011, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Overview of the Fukushima Daiichi Reactors, by John D. Metzger, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Abstract
Friday, May 6, 2011, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Soft, Squishy and Fibrous: a Cellular-Level Injury Criterion for Traumatic Brain Injury in Humans, by K.T. Ramesh, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University Abstract
Thursday, March 31 at 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Real-Time Decision Support for Factory Control, Dr. Qing (Cindy) Chang, New York Institute of TechnologyAbstract
February 18, 2011, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Estimation, Sensing and Control of Tire/Road Interactions by Jingang Yi, Ph.D., Rutgers University Abstract
February 4, 2011, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Challenges for Gregorian-level Robot Intelligence by Il Hong Suh, Ph.D., Hanyang University Abstract
Dr. Emmanuel Gdoutos (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), Professor and Chair, Laboratory of Applied Mechanics of the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, Friday, November 4, 2011, 2PM in Room 102, Simons Center
Dr. Robert Parker (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), Distinguished Professor Chair and Executive Dean, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Friday, September 2, 2011, 2PM in Room 173 Light Engineering
October 22, 2010, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building. The Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series: Experimental Stress Analysis in Fracture Mechnics by Emeritus Professor Albert Kobayashi, University of Washington Abstract
October 8, 2010, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Compliant Mechanism Synthesis and Virtual Reality Simulation by Haijun Su, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore County Abstract
September 24, 2010, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Self-Sensing of Laminated CFRP Structures Using Electrical Resistance Change by Akira Todoroki, Ph.D., Tokyo Institute of Technology Abstract
September 24, 2010, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Managing Aging Transportation Infrastructure by Sreenivas Alampalli, Ph.D., New York State Department of Transportation, Director of Structures Evaluation Services Bureau Abstract
September 3, 2010, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Where Future Robots Should Go and Should Not Go? by Makoto Kaneko, Ph.D., Osaka University Abstract
July 16, 2010, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Dimensionality Reduction in Control and Coordination of the Human Hand by Zhi-Hong Mao, Ph.D., Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Abstract
July 2, 2010, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Modelling Size Effects and Dislocation Climb in Single Crystals with Discrete Dislocation Dynamics and Strain-Gradient Plasticity Theories by Kostas Danas, Ph.D., LMS, Ecole Polytechnique Abstract
Dr. Albert Kobayashi (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), Emeritus Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Friday, October 22, 2010, 2PM in Room 173 Light Engineering
Dr. John Hutchinson (Frank W. Otto Distinguished Lecture Series), Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Friday, February 26, 2010, 2:30PM in Room 301 Engineering
May 11, 2010, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Building Health Monitoring and Vibration Control Based on Earthquake Records by Chi-Chang Lin, Ph.D., PE, National Chung Hsing University Abstract
May 3, 2010, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: The Shear-Induced Jamming Transition in Dilatant Suspensions by Ryan J. Larsen, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract
April 29, 2010, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Multifunctional Fibers via Manipulation of Nanoscale Phenomena by Juan P. Hinestroza, Ph.D., Cornell UniversityAbstract
April 26, 2010, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Lasers as Versatile Heat Sources for Renewable Energy Applications in Micro/Nano Scale by David Jen Hwang, Ph.D., University of California Berkeley Abstract
April 23, 2010, 10AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Spiral Counterflow Heat-Recirculating Combustors and Applications to Power Generation Utilizing a Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells by Jeongmin Ahn, Ph.D. Candidate, Washington State University Abstract
October 30, 2010, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Mechanics of Polyelectrolyte Gels by Wei Hong, Ph.D., Iowa State University Abstract
October 9, 2010, 11AM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Negative Stiffness and Negative Mass in Modeling Essential Constraints by Sinniah Ilanko, Ph.D., The University of Waikato, New Zeland Abstract
September 25, 2010, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Piezoelectric Nanofibers and Nanotubes and their Applications in Energy Scavenging by Yong Shi, Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology Abstract
April 24, 2009, 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: High Speed Camera and Glaucoma by Yoshiaki Kiuchi, Ph.D., Hiroshima University Abstract
April 17, 2009, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Mechanical and Chemical Effects in the Adhesion of Thin Shells by John L. Bassani, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Abstract
March 30, 2009, 11AM, Room 301 Engineering Building: Processing and Mechanical Behavior of Nano Composite Thin Films by Robert C. Cammarata, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Abstract
March 2, 2009, 11AM, Room 301 Engineering Building: Non-Contact Non-Invasive Stiffness Sensing Toward Medical Diagnosis by Makoto Kaneko, Ph.D., Osaka University Abstract
November 10, 2008, 1:30PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building: Vibration and Stability of Distributed Structural Systems by Weidong Zhu, Ph.D., University of Maryland Abstract
October 29, 2008, 1:00PM, Room 231 Engineering Building. The Second Stewart Harris Memorial Lecture on Environmental Issues: Global Climate Change: the Human Driver, the Knowns and Unknowns by Minghua Zhang, Ph.D., Stony Brook University Announcement
October 24, 2008, 2:30PM, Room 231 Engineering Building: Research at the Optomechatronics Lab., Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan by Yukitoshi Otani, Dr.Eng., Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Abstract
August 7, 2008, 11:00AM, Room 301 Engineering Building: Synthesis of Carbon Nanocoilsby Shuo-Hung Chang, Ph.D., National Taiwan University Abstract
August 6, 2008, 11:00AM, Room 301 Engineering Building: Fabrication and Applications of Micro Lens Array by Jhy-Cherng Tsai, Ph.D., National Chung-Hsing University Abstract
May 9, 2008, 2:00PM, Room 301 Engineering Building: Infinite-rank Laminates and the Quest for a Constitutive Model for Viscoplastic Porous Media by Martin I. Idiart, Ph.D., University of Cambridge Abstract
April 25, 2008, 2:00PM, Room 301 of the Engineering Building: Atomistic Molding of Martensitic Transformation in Shape Memory Alloys: Theoretical and Computational Techniques by Ryan S. Elliott, Ph.D., University of Minnesota Abstract
April 24, 2008, 2:00PM, Room 231 of the Engineering Building: The Deformation and Fracture of Nacre and Other Hard Biological Materials by François Barthelat, Ph.D., McGill University
April 11, 2008, 11:30AM, Room 301 of the Engineering Building: Computing with Geometryby Horea T. Ilies, Ph.D., University of Connecticut Abstract
April 4, 2008, 11AM, Room 301 of the Engineering Building: Electro-Mechanical Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes and their Composites by Tsu-Wei Chou, Ph.D, University of DelawareAbstract
March 14, 2008, 11AM, Room 301 of the Engineering Building: The Evolution of Contact Mechanics by Leon Keer, Ph.D, Northwestern University Abstract
March 6, 2008, 2:30PM, Room 301 of the Engineering Building: Heritage and Early History of Boundary Method by Alex Cheng, Ph.D., University of Mississippi Abstract
March 3, 2008, 11AM, Room 301 of the Engineering Building: High Speed Hyper Human Technology Opens a New World by Makoto Kaneko, Ph.D., Osaka University Abstract
Dr. Tsu-Wei Chou (CEAS Distinguished Lecturers), Pierre S. duPont Chair of Engineering, Center for Composite Materials, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Friday, April 4, 2008, 11AM in Room 301 Engineering
Dr. Leon Keer (CEAS Distinguished Lecturers), Walter P. Murphy Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Friday, March 14, 2008, 11AM in Room 301 Engineering
November 30, 2007, 2PM, Room 301 of the Engineering Building: Behavior and Modeling of Nanocomposites by C.T. Sun, Ph.D., Purdue University Abstract
March 22, 2007, 11:00AM room 301 of the Engineering Building: An Embedded Microfluidic Self-Pumping Structure for Micro Direct Methanol Fuel Cells. Abstrac
March 15, 2007, 11:00AM room 301 of the Engineering Building: Modeling and Simulation Strategy for Fuel Cell Performance Improvements Abstract
Dr. C.T. Sun (CEAS Distinguished Lecturers), Neil Armstrong Distinuguished Professor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, Friday, November 30, 2007, 2PM in Room 301 Engineering
Dr. Ares J. Rosakis (CEAS Distinguished Lecturers), to Present a Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Lecture Friday, January 26, 2007 11:00AM room 301 of Engineering
October 27, 2006 11AM (Old Engineering 301): Directing a Biological Complex System to a Desired Destiny by Chih-Ming Ho, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Abstract
May 5, 2006 11AM (Old Engineering 231): Electromechanical Coupling of the Heart by Shien-Fong Lin, Ph.D., UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Abstract
April 27, 2006 11AM (Light Engineering 250): The Power of the Atom: A Nuclear Engineering Perspective in 45 Minutes by Christopher Astefanous, Stony Brook University
April 20, 2006 11AM (Light Engineering 250): Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Nanocomposites by Frank T. Fisher, Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology Abstract
March 24, 2006 11AM (Light Engineering 250): Digital Resource Management within the Scottish Manufacturing Institute (SMI) by Theodore Lim, Ph.D. and James Ritchie, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus Abstract
Febrauary 24, 2006 11AM (Light Engineering 250): Some Recent Studies on the Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes by Xi Chen, Ph.D., Columbia University Abstract
Dr. J. Michael McCarthy (CEAS Distinguished Lecturers) to Present a Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, November 8, 2006 2PM room 250 of LE
November 18, 2005 11AM (Light Engineering 250): Nanoscale Radiation Transport in Emerging Bio-Applications by Zhixiong "James" Guo, Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Abstract
November 11, 2005 11AM (Light Engineering 250): Viscoelastic Characterization of Polymers Using Nanoindentation by Mark R. VanLandingham, Ph.D., U. S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground Abstract
October 27, 2005 11AM (Light Engineering 250): Optomechatronics Research in the Center for Automation Technologiesand Systems (CATS) at RPI: from Motion Control to Integrated Design by John T. Wen, Ph.D., Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Abstract
October 25, 2005 2PM (Light Engineering 250): Biological Production of Mineralized Nanostructures and Its Implication to Bio-Inspired Material Design and Effective Therapies for Human Diseases by Roger Qiu, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryAbstract
CEAS Distinguished Lecture October 19, 2005 11AM: UNIVERSITY AND FEDERAL FUNDING – UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL by Craig S. Hartley, Ph.D., P.E. Abstract
September 30, 2005 11AM (Light Engineering 250): Nanomaterial Synthesis by Chemical Vapor Deposition by Wilson Chiu, Ph.D., University of Connecticut Abstract
Friday, February 8, 2013, 2PM, Room 173 Light Engineering Building, Structural Shape & Topology Optimization: A Level Set Approachby Dr. Shikui Chen of Altair Engineering INC, Irvine, California Abstract
Dr. Craig Hartley (CEAS Distinguished Lecturers), Emeritus Program Manager, AFOSR
Dr. Jim Chang (CEAS Distinguished Lecturers), Army Research Lab, Innovations and Army Research
Dr. Sia Nemat Nasser (CEAS Distinguished Lecturers), Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials, UCl, San Diego, LaJolla
Dr. John W. Hutchinson (CEAS Distinguished Lecturers), Harvard University
Dr. Sheldon Weinbaum (CEAS Distinguished Lecturers), Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, City College of City University, New York
Dr. Rodney Clifton (CEAS Distinguished Lecturers), Hawkins University Professor and Dean, Brown University
Dr. Genichi Taguchi (CEAS Distinguished Lecturers), Executive Director of American Supplier Institute