Seminars
Join us for an exciting semester of seminars hosted by the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy.
Biological Design Seminars
11:30 a.m.
In-person
Note for location changes in table below
Download the 2025 spring biological design seminar schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 1/24/2025 11:30 am | Professor Marion Curtis Mayo Clinic, Arizona | Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: Advancing Immunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer: Innovations in Cellular Therapy and Antigen Discovery |
| 2/7/2025 11:30 am | Professor Danielle Benoit University of Oregon | Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: Therapeutic Biomaterials for Modulating Tissue Regeneration |
| 2/28/2025 11:30 am | Professor Jordan Peccia Yale University | Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: Controlling Microbiomes in Buildings |
| 3/7/2025 11:30 am | Professor James Carothers University of Washington | Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: Engineering Microbes to Make Molecules with Genome-wide CRISPR Programs |
| 4/4/2025 11:30 am | Shu Wang Arizona State University | Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: Nanotechnology in Chronic Disease and Food Science Applications |
| 4/18/2025 11:30 am | Ibraham Badejo Johnson & Johnson | Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: J&J MedTech and Recent Innovations |
| 4/25/2025 11:30 am | Professor Christina Chan Michigan State University | Location: TBA Title: Role of Microenvironment on Mediating Diseases, DNA Repair, and Lipid Alterations |
Chemical Engineering Seminars
10:30 a.m.
In person
Note for location changes on table below
Download the 2025 spring chemical engineering seminar schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 1/24/2025 10:00 am | Professor Jodie Lutkenhaus Texas A&M | WPCH 107 Title: Organic Batteries for a More Sustainable Future |
| 1/31/2025 10:00 am | Professor Dimitrios Papavassiliou Oklahoma University | WPCH 107 Title: Nanoparticlwes, Surfactants, and Interfaces with Computations |
| 2/28/2025 10:00 am | Professor Markita Landry UC Berkeley | WPCH 107 Title: Prediction and Discovery of Synthesizable High-Entropy Materials |
| 3/21/2025 10:00 am | Professor Zheyu Jiang Oklahoma State University | PSF 123 Title: Toward Sustainable Chemical Food Productions via Process Systems Engineering Innovations |
| 4/4/2025 10:00 am | Professor Donxia Liu University of Delaware | WPCH 107 Title: Memory Reactors: Coupling Catalysis and Separation for Light Alkane Dehydrogenation |
| 4/18/2025 10:00 am | Professor Tyler Johannes University of Tulsa | WPCH 107 Title: Synthetic Biology Approaches to Engineering Microalgae |
| 4/25/2025 10:00 am | Professor Michael Baldea University of Texas at Austin | Biodesign B Title: TBD |
Materials Science & Engineering Seminars
11:00 a.m.
In person and/or Virtual
Note for location changes on table below
Download the 2025 spring materials science and engineering seminar schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 1/24/2025 10:30 am | Professor Ahmad Islam AFRL, WPAB, Dayton | SCOB 201 Title: Electronic Device Development Using β-Ga2O3 – The Newest Melt-Grown Semiconductor |
| 2/14/2025 10:30 am | Professor Srini Raghavan University of Arizona | SCOB 201 Title: Surface Preparation Challenges in Integrated Circuit Manufacturing |
| 2/21/2025 10:30 am | Professor Izabela Szlufarska University of Wisconsin, Madison | SCOB 201 Title: Radiation Resistance and Mechanical Response of Ceramics in Extreme Environments |
| 3/7/2025 10:30 am | Professor Elizabeth Dickey Carnegie Mellon University | SCOB 201 Title: Local to Meso-scale Order in Non-Linear Dielectrics Characterized by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| 3/28/2025 10:30 am | Professor Susan McKinstry Penn State | SCOB 201 Title: Ferroelectric Thin Films for Piezoelectric MEMS and Three-Dimensional Non-volatile Memory |
| 4/11/2025 10:30 am | Professor Chao Ma Arizona State University, Polytechnic | SCOB 201 Title: Ceramic Binding Jetting Additive Manufacturing |
| 4/18/2025 10:30 am | Professor Junqiao Wu UC Berkeley | SCOB 201 Title: What One Material Can Do |
| 4/25/2025 10:30 am | Dr. Larry Aagesen Idaho National Laboratory | SCOB 201 Title: Multi-Scale Modeling of the Evolution of Structure and Properties in Materials for Nuclear Energy Applications |
Mechanical & Aerospace Seminars
10:30 a.m.
In person and/or Virtual
Note for location changes on table below
Download the 2025 spring mechanical and aerospace seminar schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 1/31/2025 10:30 am | Professor Calin Belta University of Maryland | PSF 101 Title: Formal Methods for Safety-Critical Control Using Control Barrier Functions |
| 2/7/2025 10:30 am | Professor Michael Falk John Hopkins University | PSF 101 Title: Simulation-Informed Models for Amorphous Metal Additive Manufacturing |
| 2/14/2025 10:30 am | Professor Sameh Tawfick University of Illinois Urbana Champaign | PSF 101 Title: Materials, Mechanics, and Performance of Soft Actuators in Robots |
| 2/28/2025 10:30 am | Professor Jian Wang University of Nebraska, Lincoln | PSF 101 Title: Deformation Mechanisms of FCC-phase High-Entropy Alloys |
| 3/7/2025 10:30 am | Professor Stephan Llwellyn-Smith UC San Diego | PSF 101 Title: Motion of Vortices with Buoyancy |
| 3/21/2025 10:30 am | Professor Siranth Ekkad North Carolina State University | PSF 101 Title: Heat Transfer Studies for Gas Turbine Hot Gas Path Components |
| 3/28/2025 10:30 am | Professor Perry Leo University of Minnesota | PSF 101 Title: Pattern Formation in Droplets and Smectic Liquid Crystals |
| 4/4/2025 10:30 am | Professor Sreenivas, K.R. Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, India | PSF 101 Title: Penetrative Convection Driven by Radiative Cooling of Aerosols and Occurrence of Fog |
| 4/11/2025 10:30 am | Professor Julian Rimoli UC Irvine | PSF 101 Title: Discontinuous Compression Structures: From Tensegrity Planetary Landers to Lightweight Metamaterials |
| 4/18/2025 10:30 am | Professor Sharath Girimaji Texas A&M | PSF 101 Title: TBD |
| 4/25/2025 10:30 am | Professor David Kopriva Florida State University | PSF 101: Title: Case Study: Industrial Application of a Spectral Element Method to Two-Phase Flow |