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
Friday, October 16, 2020
University of Colorado Boulder
Time: 12:00 pm
Hosted by Pu Zhang
Friday, November 6, 2020
Distinguished Fellow, Alcon Surgical R&D
“Engineering Aspects of Cataract Surgery”
Time: 10:30 am
Hosted by Bruce Murray
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Time: 12:00 pm
Hosted by Kaiyan Yu
Friday, November 20, 2020
Binghamton University
Time: 12:00 pm
Friday, December 4, 2020
Thursday, February 20, 2020
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
Monday, October 29, 2018
Professor Neil Dasgupta
University of Michigan
Interfacial Engineering of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials using Atomic Layer
Deposition
Location: ES1337 Time: 12:00pm
Monday, October 22, 2018
Professor Teng Zhang
Syracuse University
Wrinkling, crumpling, and folding in elastic thin sheets floating on water surface
Location: ES1337 Time: 12:00pm
September 26, 2018
Ian D. Hosein, PhD
Syracuse University
Coupling Nonlinear Optical Dynamics to Polymer Systems for Light-Directed Organization
of Functional Materials
Mechanical Engineering Department, ES-1337, 12:00 p.m.
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.
Nov. 8, 2017
Shan Jiang
Iowa State University
New Dimensions of colloids and nanoparticles - from Janus Particles to Smart Materials
ES-2008E
Oct. 25, 2017
Taehun Lee
CUNY Energy Institute
Computational Study of Microparticle Effect on Breakup of Liquid Bridge and Self-propelled
Jumping of Droplet
ME Conference Room, ES-1337
Oct. 16, 2017
Mark Owkes
Montana State University
Gas-Liquid Flows: Numerical Methods through Simulations on Supercomputers
ME Conference Room, ES-1337
Oct. 6, 2017
Sotirios Mamalis
Stony Brook University
The Grant Challenges of Internal Combustion Engineers: Current Research and Future
Outlook
ME Conference Room, ES-1337
Oct. 4, 2017
Brent Fultz
California Institute of Technology
Where does the entropy of materials come from?
ES-2008E
Sept. 28, 2017
Bruce Murray
Binghamton University
Thermal and Chemical Characterization of Aerosols Produced by Electronic Cigarettes
ME Conference Room, ES-1337
Dec. 2, 2016
Sami Alkharabsheh
Binghamton University
Cooling Technologies for Data Centers
COE-2011
Nov. 18, 2016
Erik Einarsson
University of Buffalo
Graphene for Plasmonic Applications
ES-1337
Nov. 11, 2016
Pietro Valdastri
University of Leeds
Lifesaving Capsule Robots
ES-1337
Oct. 12, 2016
Chang-Hwan Choi
Stevens Institute of Technology
Nanoengineering of Bioinspired Multifunctional Superhydrophobic Surfaces
ES-1337