Graduate Seminars
MIME seminars are scheduled weekly in the fall and spring semesters.
Also, check out our Theo Keith Distinguished Lecture series
Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule
January 17 - AMGS Sound Bites
January 24 - TBA
January 31 - Dr. Ehsan Tarkesh, University of Buffalo
February 7 - Dr. Pooiya Nezhadfar, GE
February 14 - Dr. Ram Iyer, Arcelor Mittal
February 21 - Dr. Nesrin Ozalp, Illinois State
February 28 - Dr. Moji Edalatpour, Hanon Systems
March 7 - Spring Break, no seminar
March 14 - Dr. Yunzhi Wang, The Ohio State University
March 21 - Dr. Mohamed Trabia, University of Las Vegas
March 28 - Dr. Farnaz Lorestani, Penn State
April 4 - TBA
April 11 - TBA
April 18 - Dr. Tom Brady
April 25 - TBA
Select recordings of previous seminars
Spring 2024 seminars
March 22 - Theo Keith Distinguished Lecture
Fall 2023 Seminars
Mehdi Ahmadian, Virginia Tech Intelligent Transportation: From Model T to Autonomous Vehicles
Spring 2023 Seminars
Brian J. Wisener, Ohio University, Nondestructive Evaluation in Manufacturing, Energy Storage and Damage Detection
John Napp and Wade Lee-Smith, University of Toledo Libraries, Using Information Resources and EndNote
Azadeh Haghighi, University of Illinois Chicago, Advanced Computational Tools for Smart Additive Manufacturing: Model-based, Data-driven and Beyond
Stavros Tavoularis, University of Ottawa, On the Dissipation Rate of the Kinetic Energy of Turbulence
Fall 2022 Seminars
Jutima Simsiriwong, University of North Florida, Fatigue Resistance of Laser-Based Additively-Manufactured Metallic Materials
Zhiliang Zhang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Nanomechanical Lab, Promoting Macroscopic Crack Initiators for Drastically Lowering Ice Adhesion
Danielle Koch, NASA Glenn Research Center, NASA's Bio-Inspired Broadband Acoustic Absorber: Technology for a Quieter World
Parisa Mirbod, University of Illinois-Chicago, From Particle Migration over Porous Structures to Flow Transitions and Instability in Non-Colloidal Suspensions
Spring 2022 Seminars
Dr. William Mars, Endurica, Approaches for aligning an engineering budget with durability requirements in rubber part design
Li Xi, McMaster University, Multistage transitions in viscoelastic Turbulent Channel Flow
Dr. Olga Ivanova, Mechnano - Discrete Carbon Nanotube (D-CNT) Dispersions to Enhance Performance of AM Materials
Corey Grice, University of Toledo - Introduction to the Center for Materials and Sensor Characterization (CMSC)
Dr. Wesley Brewer, DoD HPCMO, AI for Science and Engineering
Fall 2021 Seminars
Adam Schroeder, University of Toledo, Swarm Robotics Applications and Folding Robot Gaits
Ahmed Hassen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, How Advanced Manufacturing can Support and Accelerate the Tooling Industry in the United States
Jason Carrol, Eaton, Additive Manufacturing in Industrial Companies
Jordan Weaver, NIST, Applied Metrology in Additive Manufacturing
Christina Vanderwel, University of Southampton, Simulating Urban Flows and Air Pollution in the Lab
Bertrand Jodoin, University of Ottawa, Cold Gas Dynamic Spraying: How a Deceptively Simple Process has Changed Manufacturing Paradigm
Muaz Kemerli, Sakarya University, Design and Application of a Magnetorheological Damper to Mitigate Seismic Vibrations
Spring 2021 Seminars
Hamed Seyyedhosseinzadeh, University of Wisconsin, Computational Manufacturing and Cyber-Enabled Design in Metal Additive Manufacturing to Accelerate Innovations
Abbas Amini, University of Western Sydney, Biomedical NiTi Shape Memory Alloys with Displacive Solid-State Phase Transformation
Mahmoud Ghannam, Ford Motor Company, Sensing Systems and Data Fusion
Konrad Rykaczewski, Arizona State University, Soft Thermal Materials and Systems: From Microscale Engineering to Wearable Systems
FALL 2020 Seminars
MIME Faculty, Introduction to MIME Research
Prof. Miljkovic Nenad, Associate Professor, UIUC; Advancing Energy and Water Technologies via Micro/Nanoengineered Surfaces
Moataz Attalla, University of Birmingham, Additive Manufacturing of Tungsten for Nuclear Fusion
Spring 2020 MIME Seminars
George Bibel, Ph.D.; University of North Dakota; Beyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplane Crashes
Amir Hadadzadeh, Ph.D.; University of Memphis; Evolution of Hierarchical Microstructures in Additive Manufactured Metallic Materials and its Role on Mechanical Properties