Seminar Series

Seminar Series

The Mechanical Engineering Department invites students, staff and faculty to hear about exciting research developments and proposals from various professionals and academics. 

Fall 2024

Wednesday, November 14, 2024 
Howard Tu, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology
Hosted by Guangwen Zhou (cohosted with MSE)

Friday, November 8, 2024 
Adnan Akay, PhD, Carnegie Mellon

Hosted by Mohammad Younis

Friday, November 1, 2024 
Catalin Picu, PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Hosted by Pu Zhang

Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, PhD, University of Windsor
Hosted by Paul Chiarot 

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 
Ting Zhu, PhD, Georgia Tech

Hosted by Guangwen Zhou (cohosted with MSE) 

Friday, September 27, 2024
Abdullah Ramini, PhD, IBM

Hosted by Mohammad Younis


Past Seminars

Thursday, May 16, 2024
Elaine M. Petro, PhD, Cornell University 

Hosted by Paul Chiarot 

Friday, March 29, 2024 
Atieh Moridi, PhD, Cornell University
Hosted by Dehao Liu 

Thursday, March 21, 2024
Jia Zhao, PhD, ý


Hosted by Pu Zhang

Friday, December 1, 2023 
Baoxing Xu, PhD, University of Virginia

Hosted by Scott Schiffres 
 
Friday, November 3, 2023 
Arvind Santhanakrishnan, PhD, Oklahoma State University

Hostedy by Paul Chiarot 
 
Friday, October 13, 2023 
Xiang Cheng, PhD, University of Minnesota


Hosted by Xin Yong
 
Friday, April 14, 2023
Prosenjit Bagchi, PhD, Rutgers University
Cell-resolved modeling of capillary network-scale blood flow
Hosted by Xin Yong
 
Friday, April 2, 2022
Lucy Zhang, PhD, NSF Program Officer 
Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS) and Biomechanics & Mechanobiology (BMMB) programs
Hosted by Pu Zhang
 
Friday, November 5, 2021
Juan M. Vanegas, PhD, Department of Physics
University of Vermont
Hosted by Xin Yong
 
Friday, October 9, 2020
Willie Padilla, PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Duke University
Hosted by Sherry Towfighian
 
Friday, October 16, 2020
Jianliang Xiao, PhD 
University of Colorado Boulder
Hosted by Pu Zhang 
 
Friday, November 6, 2020 
George H. Pettit, MD, PhD
Distinguished Fellow, Alcon Surgical R&D
“Engineering Aspects of Cataract Surgery”
Hosted by Bruce Murray
 
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Minghui Zheng, PhD, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University at Buffalo
Hosted by Kaiyan Yu
 
Friday, November 20, 2020
Scott Schiffres, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Friday, December 4, 2020
Wei Wang, PhD, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering
The University of Tennessee
Hosted by Peter Huang
 
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Dr. Ke Du, Rochester Institute of Technology
Combating Deadly Infectious Diseases with Miniaturized Systems: From Single MoleculeBlinking” to “Bacterial Immunology”
 
Monday, February 10, 2020
Dr. Johannes Weickenmeier, Stevens Institute of Technology
 
Monday, November 18, 2019
Howon Lee
Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University
 
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Edmund Webb lll
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University
 
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Friday, October 11, 2019
Gary Fedder, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
 
Monday, September 30, 2019 
Vasudevan Rajamohan, PhD
Dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering
Ramesh Kumar, Professor of Thermofluids
 
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Alexei Tkachenko, PhD
Brookhaven National Laboratory 
 
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Professor Kourosh Shoele
Florida State University 
 
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Professor Mir Jalil Razavi
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Thursday, April 18, 2019
Professor Paulo Arratia
University of Pennsylvania
 
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Zhiting Tian 09'
Cornell University
 
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Professor Alan Zehnder
Cornell University
 
Friday, November 30, 2018
Kwame Amponsah PhD, CEO & Founder of Xallent LLC
 
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Professor Sherry Towfighian
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Monday, October 29, 2018
Professor Neil Dasgupta
University of Michigan
 
Monday, October 22, 2018
Professor Teng Zhang
Syracuse University
 
September 26, 2018
Ian D. Hosein, PhD
Syracuse University 
 
May 4, 2018
David Salac, PhD
University at Buffalo, SUNY
 
April 18, 2018
Bret P. Van Poppel, Ph.D.
Colonel, U.S. Army
Deputy Department Head
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
U.S. Military Academy at West Point
 
March 22, 2018 
James E. Warner, PhD 
Computational Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center
 
 
Nov. 8, 2017
Shan Jiang
Shan Jiang
Iowa State University
 
Oct. 25, 2017
Taehun Lee
Taehun Lee
CUNY Energy Institute
 
Oct. 16, 2017
Mark Owkes
Mark Owkes
Montana State University
 
Oct. 6, 2017
Sotirios Mamalis
Sotirios Mamalis
Stony Brook University
 
Oct. 4, 2017
Brent Fultz
Brent Fultz
California Institute of Technology
 
Sept. 28, 2017
Bruce Murray
Bruce Murray
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Dec. 2, 2016
Sami Alkharabsheh
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Nov. 18, 2016
Erik Einarsson
University of Buffalo
 
Nov. 11, 2016
Pietro Valdastri
University of Leeds
 
Oct. 12, 2016
Chang-Hwan Choi
Stevens Institute of Technology