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 2023 Seminars

Friday, December 1, 2023

Baoxing Xu, PhD, University of Virginia
Eco-friendly Nanomanufacturing Technology for Flexible Structures and Devices
Hosted by Scott Schiffres

Friday, November 3, 2023

Arvind Santhanakrishnan, PhD, Oklahoma State University
Hydrodynamics of Metachronal Rowing with Multiple Appendages
Hostedy by Paul Chiarot

Friday, October 13, 2023

Xiang Cheng, PhD, University of Minnesota
Locomotion of flagellated bacteria: the influence of complex fluids
and the role of multiflagellarity
Hosted by Xin Yong

Past Seminars

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
Time: 11:00 am
Hosted by Pu Zhang

Friday, November 5, 2021

Juan M. Vanegas, PhD, Department of Physics
University of Vermont
Time: 12:30 pm
Hosted by Xin Yong

Friday, October 9, 2020

Willie Padilla, PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Duke University

Time: 12:00 pm

Hosted by Sherry Towfighian

Friday, October 16, 2020

Jianliang Xiao, PhD
University of Colorado Boulder
Time: 12:00 pm
Hosted by Pu Zhang

Friday, November 6, 2020

George H. Pettit, MD, PhD
Distinguished Fellow, Alcon Surgical R&D
“Engineering Aspects of Cataract Surgery”
Time: 10:30 am
Hosted by Bruce Murray

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Minghui Zheng, PhD, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

University at Buffalo
Time: 12:00 pm
Hosted by Kaiyan Yu

Friday, November 20, 2020

Scott Schiffres, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Binghamton University
Time: 12:00 pm

Friday, December 4, 2020

Wei Wang, PhD, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering

The University of Tennessee

Time: 12:00 pm

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”
Location: ES1304, Time: 12:00pm

Monday, February 10, 2020

Dr. Johannes Weickenmeier, Stevens Institute of Technology
NEUROMECHANICS- A Mechanobiological Perspective On Understanding Our Brain
Location: COE2011, Time: 12:00pm

Monday, November 18, 2019

Howon Lee
Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University
Digital 4D Printing for Engineered Living Materials
Location: Center of Excellence, Room CE2011
Time: 12 p.m.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Edmund Webb lll
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University
Multiscale modeling of the human blood protein von Willebrand Factor
Location: ME Conference Room, ES1337, Time: 12 p.m.

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Friday, October 11, 2019

Monday, September 30, 2019

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Alexei Tkachenko, PhD
Brookhaven National Laboratory
How To Build A Diamond
Location: ES1337, Time: 12 p.m.

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Professor Kourosh Shoele
Florida State University
Fluttering Response of a Flexible Piezo-electromechanical Smart Structure: Energy Harvesting
Location: ES2008 Time: 12:00pm

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Professor Mir Jalil Razavi
Binghamton University
Mechanics of Soft Biological Tissues
Location: ES1304 Time: 12:00pm

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Professor Paulo Arratia
University of Pennsylvania
Life in Complex Fluids
Location: ES2008 Time: 12:00pm

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Zhiting Tian 09'
Cornell University
Fundamental understanding of nanoscale thermal transport for thermal conductivity manipulation
Location: ES1304 Time: 12:00pm

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Professor Alan Zehnder
Cornell University
Thermo-Optical MEMS Limit Cycle Oscillators
Location: ES2008 Time: 12:00pm

Friday, November 30, 2018

Kwame Amponsah PhD, CEO & Founder of Xallent LLC
Nanomachines for Characterizing Thin Film Materials and Semiconductor Devices
Location: ES1337 Time: 12:00pm

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Professor Sherry Towfighian
Binghamton University
Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications in MEMS and Energy Harvesting
Location: ES1337 Time: 12:00pm

May 4, 2018

David Salac, PhD
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Three-Dimensional Multicomponent Vesicles: Methods and Influence of Material Properties
Mechanical Engineering Department, ES-1304, 12:00 p.m.

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
Engineering at West Point and Simulating Electrohydrodynamic Atomization
Mechanical Engineering Department, ES-1304, 12:00 p.m.

March 22, 2018

James E. Warner, PhD
Computational Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center
Rapid Uncertainty Quantification for Aerospace Applications
Mechanical Engineering Department, ES-1304, 12:00 p.m.