Graduate Seminars
E SC/E MCH 514 Seminar Schedule
121 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building | 3:35 - 4:25 p.m.
Hear from innovators across the country in our weekly fall and spring seminars. Presenting modern research, industry insight, and Q&A.
Spring 2026
January 21
- Presentation: Community-Based Approaches to Mitigate the Effects of Substance Use Disorder
- Speaker: Paul Griffin
- Affiliation: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
January 28
- Presentation: Physics of nanoscale spectral imaging beyond diffraction limit
- Speaker: Slava Rotkin
- Affiliation: Engineering Science and Mechanics
February 4
- Presentation: Engineering Design Strategies for Safe and Resilient Housing
- Speaker: Esther Obonyo
- Affiliation: School of Engineering Design and Innovation
February 11
- Presentation: Threading the Innovation Chain: Scaling and Manufacturing Deep Tech in the United States
- Speaker: Melik Demirel
- Affiliation: Engineering Science and Mechanics
February 18
- Presentation: Walking and swimming and flying, oh my: the multimodal biomechanics and fluid dynamics of freshwater insects
- Speaker: Margaret Byron
- Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering
February 25
- Presentation: Locating Refueling Stations for Alternative-Fuel Vehicles in a Multi-Class Vehicle Transportation Network and Its Impact on the Environment
- Speaker: Jose Ventura
- Affiliation: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
March 4
- Presentation: Waste to Resource: Sustainable Plastic Management for a Circular Global Economy
- Speaker: Hilal Ezgi Toramann
- Affiliation: Chemical, Energy & Mineral Engineering
March 25
- Presentation: Computational Electromagnetics; past, present and future
- Speaker: Balasubramaniam Shanker
- Affiliation: Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University
April 1
- Presentation: Millimeter Wave Antennas and Beamforming for Wireless Communication and Imaging Systems
- Speaker: Abdel Sebak
- Affiliation: Millimeter-wave Antennas and Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University
April 8
- Presentation: Designing Soft Materials to Study Impact Mitigation
- Speaker: Edwin Chan
- Affiliation: NIST
April 15
- Presentation: Boiled Frog or Adaptive Leader?
- Speaker: Susan Schall
- Affiliation: Founder and Operations Leader of SOS Consulting LLC
April 22
- Presentation: Beyond Equilibrium: Modeling Structurally and Chemically Complex Materials via Energy Landscape Navigation
- Speaker: Yue Fan
- Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
April 29
- Presentation: Biomedical Impedance Matching, Time-Varying Waveguides, Asymmetrical Transmission with Chiral Medium and Beyond: Research Experiences at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution
- Speaker: Atilla Ozgur Cakmak
- Affiliation: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Grand Valley State University
