Spring 2018 Semester

Date

Speaker

Title

February 2, 2018Gun Udomsawat
United States Postal Service		The Industrial Engineering and Lean Six Sigma Journey at the United States Postal Service
February 9, 2018Alan Needleman
Texas A&M University		Distinguished Lecture: Roughness, Toughness and the Possibility of Crack Path Engineering
February 16, 2018Lakshana Hudar
ARPA-E		Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E): Accelerating U.S. Energy Innovation
February 23, 2018Allen Robinson
Carnegie Mellon		Engineering Leadership Lecture: The shale gas revolution: green energy or a bridge to nowhere?
March 2, 2018Jean-Francois Cordeau
HEC Montreal		A Unified Decomposition Matheuristic for Assembly, Production and Inventory Routing
March 16, 2018Karen Zheng
MIT		MEIE Spring Seminar Series (General)
March 23, 2018TBDMEIE Spring Seminar Series (General)
March 30, 2018TBDMEIE Spring Seminar Series (General)
April 6, 2018Barry L. Nelson
Northwestern University		TBD
April 13, 2018Joseph Hartman
Dean UMass Lowell		Engineering Leadership Lecture: TBD
April 20, 2018Cagdas Onal
WPI		TBD

 

Spring 2017 Semester

Date

Speaker

Title

January 20, 2017James R. Rice
Harvard University		Resistance to Sliding, from Atomic to Tectonic
January 27, 2017Kathryn Wahl
Naval Research Laboratory		Barnacle Adhesion: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Mechanics of a Complex Biointerface
February 3, 2017Research Misconduct Presentation
February 10, 2017Department Research Overview
February 17, 2017Dr. Chih-Ming Ho
University of California, Los Angeles		Redefining the Drug Discovery Pathway – From Drug Candidate Search to Phenotypic Personalized Medicine (PPM)
February 24, 2017Michael Pettes
University of Connecticut		Engineering thermal conduction in 2D materials
March 3, 2017Yanfeng Ouyang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 17, 2017Magnus Egerstedt
Georgia Tech		Control of Multi-Robot Systems: From Formations to Human-Swarm Interactions
March 24, 2017John Bassani
University of Pennsylvania
March 31, 2017Jianmin Qu
Tufts University
April 7, 2017Shabbir Ahmed
Georgia Tech
April 14, 2017John W. Hutchinson
Harvard University
April 21, 2017Brian Denton
University of Michigan

 

Fall 2016 Semester

Date

Speaker

Title

September 30, 2016Dimitris Bertsimas
MIT		Machine Learning and Statistics via a modern optimization lens
October 7, 2016Sarah Bergbreiter
University of Maryland		Tiny leaps for robot kind: mixing microfabrication and robotics
October 14, 2016Jian Wang
University of Nebraska – Lincoln		Deformation Twinning in Hexagonal Metals
October 21, 2016Kenneth Liechti
University of Texas at Austin		Preparing for roll-to-roll dry transfer of graphene
October 28, 2016James (Jacy) Bird
Boston University		Jets and droplets from bursting bubbles
November 4, 2016Sebastian Pokutta
Georgia Tech		Efficient Learning over Discrete Decisions
November 18, 2016William Messner
Tufts		TBD
December 2, 2016Christine Furstoss
GE Global Research		TBD
December 9, 2016Tapas Das
University of South Florida		TBD

 

Spring 2015 Semester

Date

Speaker

Title

January 16, 2015Mr. Anh Ninh
Rutgers University		Recruitment Stocking Problems
January 20, 2015Tugce Martagan
University of Wisconsin-Madison		Stochastic Models to Optimize Biomanufacturing Operations
January 23, 2015Hoda 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, 2015Prof. Nader Jalili
MIE/NEU		Graduate Student Conduct Overview
February 13, 2015Various Profs.
MIE/NEU		Departmental Research Area Overview

 

Fall 2014 Semester

Date

Speaker

Title

September 5, 2014Prof. Nader Jalili
MIE/NEU		Graduate Student Conduct Overview
September 12, 2014Various Profs.
MIE/NEU		Departmental Research Area Overview
September 19, 2014Michael 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, 2014C. 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, 2014Prof. 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, 2014Randolph KirchainLeveraging uncertainty to realize sustainable Engineering Systems: Case Studies across three Industries

 

Spring 2014 Semester

Date

Speaker

Title

February 24, 2014Craig Maloney
Carnegie Mellon University		Breakdown of elasticity: from nano-indentation in metals to rigidity loss in soft-particle suspensions
February 28, 2014Karel Matous
University of Notre Dame		High-performance Computational Science and Engineering: A Path Towards Virtual Materials Testing
March 10, 2014Long-Qing Chen
Pennsylvania State University		Strain Engineering of Phase Transitions, Domain Structures, Properties of Nanoscale Ferroelectric Thin Films
March 14, 2014Huajian Gao
Brown University		Mechanics of Cellular Uptake of One- and Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials
March 18, 2014Paul J. Atzberger
University of California, Santa Barbara		Mesoscale Methods for the Hydrodynamics of Microstructures: Applications in Soft Materials and Microfluidics
March 18, 2014Mohammad Elahinia
University of Toledo		Additively Manufacturing NiTi Shape Memory and Superelastic Devices: A New Paradigm for Biomimetic Control
March 19, 2014Bryan Wong
Drexel University		Predictive and Fast: First-Principles Calculations on Energy Transfer in Molecular Photovoltaics, Carbon Nanotubes, and Nanowires
March 20, 2014Samantha Brunhaver
Stanford		Early Career Outcomes of Engineering Alumni: Understanding Their Connection to the Undergraduate Experience
March 21, 2014Dayna Martinez
HSyE		Non-Pharmaceutical Intervention Strategies for Pandemic Influenza Outbreaks
March 24, 2014Sudarsan RachuriManufacturing Systems: From Sustainable to Smart
March 25, 2014Richard Wiebe
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory		Nonlinearities in Structural Engineering Applications: Challenges and Opportunities
March 26, 2014Zhangli Peng
MIT		Biomechanics of Red Blood Cells and Related Diseases
March 27, 2014Shiren Wang
Texas Tech University		Sustainable Manufacturing: A Pathway to the Sustainable World
March 28, 2014Zeynep Gozde Icten
GNS Healthcare		An Application of Markov Decision Processes in Healthcare: Mitigating Inequities in Organ Allocation via Revised Health Reporting Frequencies
April 1, 2014Sarang Supekar
University of Michigan		Recovery of Carbon Dioxide for Sustainable Manufacturiing Applications
April 2, 2014Jennifer Pazour
University of Central Florida		Logistics System Design in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
April 3, 2014Janet M. Twomey
Wichita State University		Industrial Engineering’s Role in Advancing Industrial Sustainability
April 3, 2014Susan Sinnott
University of Florida		Expanding the Toolbox: Design and Discovery using Material Modeling Methods
April 7, 2014Alireza Karimi
University of Notre Dame		Interplay of Fluid Dynamics and Collective Behavior of Microorganisms
April 8, 2014James A. Warren
NIST		The Materials Genome Initiative, Data, and Open Science
April 8, 2014Amir A. Zadpoor
Delft University of Technology		Tackling skeletal diseases: an integrated approach
April 9, 2014Denny Yu
University of Michigan		Improving patient and surgeon safety: Application of human factors and ergonomics in the operating room
April 11, 2014Suvranu De
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute		Virtual Surgery
April 14, 2014Luis Zepeda-Ruiz
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory		Computational Materials Science – Applications at a National Laboratory
April 17, 2014A.D. (Tony) Rollett
Carnegie Mellon University		Distinguished Lecture: Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Microstructure, with an Emphasis on 3D Aspects
April 18, 2014Jaydeep P. Bardhan
Northeastern University		Multiscale Models for Proteins: Biological Water as a Nanostructured Material
April 24, 2014Anirban Chaudhuri
Los Alamos National Laboratory		Smart Materials for Actuation and Sensing
April 25, 2014Reza Olfati-Saber
AbbVie		Information-Driven Control of Networked Robotic Systems

 

Fall 2013 Semester

Date

Speaker

Title

October 11, 2013Allan Davidd
Auburn University		Surface Modification of Nanomaterials to Improve Drug Delivery
October 25, 2013Jeff Hoytt
McMaster University		Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Grain and Interphase Boundary Mobility
November 1, 2013Dylan Shephardson
Mount Holyoke College		An Individual-based Model of Tuberculosis Transmission in the US Population
November 15, 2013Chuanhua Duan
Boston Universityy		Enhanced Ion and Molecule Transport in 2-D Nanofluidic Channels
November 22, 2013Jennifer Pazour
University of Central Florida		Analytical Modeling of Logistics System Design
December 4, 2013Nanoplatforms for Precision Medicine
December 6, 2013Baki M. Cetegan
University of Connecticut		Engineering Leadership Lecture: Physics of flame extinction behavior in bluff-body stabilized premixed and partially premixed turbulent combustion