Spring 2018 Semester
Date | Speaker | Title |
February 2, 2018 | Gun Udomsawat United States Postal Service | The Industrial Engineering and Lean Six Sigma Journey at the United States Postal Service |
February 9, 2018 | Alan Needleman Texas A&M University | Distinguished Lecture: Roughness, Toughness and the Possibility of Crack Path Engineering |
February 16, 2018 | Lakshana Hudar ARPA-E | Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E): Accelerating U.S. Energy Innovation |
February 23, 2018 | Allen Robinson Carnegie Mellon | Engineering Leadership Lecture: The shale gas revolution: green energy or a bridge to nowhere? |
March 2, 2018 | Jean-Francois Cordeau HEC Montreal | A Unified Decomposition Matheuristic for Assembly, Production and Inventory Routing |
March 16, 2018 | Karen Zheng MIT | MEIE Spring Seminar Series (General) |
March 23, 2018 | TBD | MEIE Spring Seminar Series (General) |
March 30, 2018 | TBD | MEIE Spring Seminar Series (General) |
April 6, 2018 | Barry L. Nelson Northwestern University | TBD |
April 13, 2018 | Joseph Hartman Dean UMass Lowell | Engineering Leadership Lecture: TBD |
April 20, 2018 | Cagdas Onal WPI | TBD |
Spring 2017 Semester
Date | Speaker | Title |
January 20, 2017 | James R. Rice Harvard University | Resistance to Sliding, from Atomic to Tectonic |
January 27, 2017 | Kathryn Wahl Naval Research Laboratory | Barnacle Adhesion: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Mechanics of a Complex Biointerface |
February 3, 2017 | Research Misconduct Presentation | |
February 10, 2017 | Department Research Overview | |
February 17, 2017 | Dr. Chih-Ming Ho University of California, Los Angeles | Redefining the Drug Discovery Pathway – From Drug Candidate Search to Phenotypic Personalized Medicine (PPM) |
February 24, 2017 | Michael Pettes University of Connecticut | Engineering thermal conduction in 2D materials |
March 3, 2017 | Yanfeng Ouyang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
March 17, 2017 | Magnus Egerstedt Georgia Tech | Control of Multi-Robot Systems: From Formations to Human-Swarm Interactions |
March 24, 2017 | John Bassani University of Pennsylvania | |
March 31, 2017 | Jianmin Qu Tufts University | |
April 7, 2017 | Shabbir Ahmed Georgia Tech | |
April 14, 2017 | John W. Hutchinson Harvard University | |
April 21, 2017 | Brian Denton University of Michigan |
Fall 2016 Semester
Date | Speaker | Title |
September 30, 2016 | Dimitris Bertsimas MIT | Machine Learning and Statistics via a modern optimization lens |
October 7, 2016 | Sarah Bergbreiter University of Maryland | Tiny leaps for robot kind: mixing microfabrication and robotics |
October 14, 2016 | Jian Wang University of Nebraska – Lincoln | Deformation Twinning in Hexagonal Metals |
October 21, 2016 | Kenneth Liechti University of Texas at Austin | Preparing for roll-to-roll dry transfer of graphene |
October 28, 2016 | James (Jacy) Bird Boston University | Jets and droplets from bursting bubbles |
November 4, 2016 | Sebastian Pokutta Georgia Tech | Efficient Learning over Discrete Decisions |
November 18, 2016 | William Messner Tufts | TBD |
December 2, 2016 | Christine Furstoss GE Global Research | TBD |
December 9, 2016 | Tapas Das University of South Florida | TBD |
Spring 2015 Semester
Date | Speaker | Title |
January 16, 2015 | Mr. Anh Ninh Rutgers University | Recruitment Stocking Problems |
January 20, 2015 | Tugce Martagan University of Wisconsin-Madison | Stochastic Models to Optimize Biomanufacturing Operations |
January 23, 2015 | Hoda Bidkhori MIT | Flexibility, Adaptability and Pareto Efficiently in Manufacturing Operations |
January 30, 2015 Host: Nader Jalili | Prof. Vincent Manno Olin College of Engineering | Distinguished Lecture: Catalyzing Change in Undergraduate Engineering Education |
February 6, 2015 | Prof. Nader Jalili MIE/NEU | Graduate Student Conduct Overview |
February 13, 2015 | Various Profs. MIE/NEU | Departmental Research Area Overview |
Fall 2014 Semester
Date | Speaker | Title |
September 5, 2014 | Prof. Nader Jalili MIE/NEU | Graduate Student Conduct Overview |
September 12, 2014 | Various Profs. MIE/NEU | Departmental Research Area Overview |
September 19, 2014 | Michael C. Tringides Iowa State University | Controlled 3-d metal island growth on graphene and Pb/Si(111) |
September 19, 2014 Host: Rifat Sipahi | Prof. Joo H. Kim New York University | Modeling and Identification of Human Metabolic Energy Expenditure: Multibody Dynamic Systems Approach and Implications in Robotic Walking. |
September 26, 2014 Host: Hanchen Huang | Prof. Frederic Sansoz Mechanical Engineering Program | Engineering Leadership Lecture: Nanotwinned Materials: Weird Kinks and Strength at the Nanoscale |
October 3, 2014 | C. H. Woo Hong Kong CityU | Spin-lattice dynamics investigation of magnetic effects on vacancy formation and migration in bcc iron |
October 3, 2014 Host: Sagar Kamarthi | Prof. Wei Ding UMASS Boston | Data Mining with Big Data |
October 10, 2014 Host: Hanchen Huang | Prof. Timothy Wei University of Nebraska Lincoln | Engineering Leadership Lecture: Fundamental Fluid Dynamics and The Olympic Swimming Movement |
October 17, 2014 | Prof. Ozlem Ergun MIE/NEU | A Case Study on post-disaster debris operations and solving multi-period network capacity expansion problems |
October 24, 2014 Host: Hameed Metghalchi | Prof. Gian Paolo Beretta Universita degli Studi di Brescia via Branze | A quantitative outlook at the future of energy |
October 31, 2014 Host: Marilyn Minus | Prof. Bassam Shakhasiri University of Wisconsin | Advancing Graduate Education and Research in the Chemical Sciences |
November 14, 2014 Host: Hanchen Huang | Prof. Zdenek P. Bazant Northwestern University | Distinguished Lecture: Why Fracking Works and How to Optimize it |
November 21, 2014 Host: Sandra Shefelbine | Prof. Jason Rife Tufts University | TBD |
December 5, 2014 Host: Yung Joon Jung | Dr. Jeremy Robinson Office of Naval Research | TBD |
Summer 2014 Semester
Date | Speaker | Title |
May 12, 2014 | Randolph Kirchain | Leveraging uncertainty to realize sustainable Engineering Systems: Case Studies across three Industries |
Spring 2014 Semester
Fall 2013 Semester
Date | Speaker | Title |
October 11, 2013 | Allan Davidd Auburn University | Surface Modification of Nanomaterials to Improve Drug Delivery |
October 25, 2013 | Jeff Hoytt McMaster University | Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Grain and Interphase Boundary Mobility |
November 1, 2013 | Dylan Shephardson Mount Holyoke College | An Individual-based Model of Tuberculosis Transmission in the US Population |
November 15, 2013 | Chuanhua Duan Boston Universityy | Enhanced Ion and Molecule Transport in 2-D Nanofluidic Channels |
November 22, 2013 | Jennifer Pazour University of Central Florida | Analytical Modeling of Logistics System Design |
December 4, 2013 | Nanoplatforms for Precision Medicine | |
December 6, 2013 | Baki M. Cetegan University of Connecticut | Engineering Leadership Lecture: Physics of flame extinction behavior in bluff-body stabilized premixed and partially premixed turbulent combustion |