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Seminar Series

The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science hosts outstanding researchers in the field through our Seminar Series. Seminars are free and open to the public and take place in Duke Centennial Hall Room 345, unless noted otherwise. If you have questions about our seminar series or would like to set up an appointment with a speaker, please contact Sierra Roe at sroe1@charlotte.edu.

Sep
17

Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science Seminar Series: Towfiqur Rahaman

11:30AM — 12:30PM
Duke Centennial Hall, 345

Towfiqur Rahaman, Mechanical Engineering and Enginering Science Ph.D. student, will present "Toward Functional Surface Texture Specification of Laser Powder Bed…

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Sep
17

Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science Seminar Series: Towfiqur Rahaman

11:30AM — 12:30PM
Duke Centennial Hall, 345

Towfiqur Rahaman, Mechanical Engineering and Enginering Science Ph.D. student, will present "Toward Functional Surface Texture Specification of Laser Powder Bed…

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Sep
22

Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science Seminar Series: Dr. Ronald D….

11:30AM — 12:30PM
Duke Centennial Hall, 345

Dr. Ronald D. Joslin, NSF Program Director for Transport Phenomena, will present "Overview of NSF, Research Funding, Fellowships, & Post-Graduate…

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Sep
22

Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science Seminar Series: Dr. Ronald D….

11:30AM — 12:30PM
Duke Centennial Hall, 345

Dr. Ronald D. Joslin, NSF Program Director for Transport Phenomena, will present "Overview of NSF, Research Funding, Fellowships, & Post-Graduate…

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Previous Seminars

Spring 2026
DATESPEAKERTITLE
March 24, 2026
Dr. Chao-Yang Wang
William E. Diefenderfer
Chair Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
(Invited)		Resilient Battery Energy Storage
April 14, 2026Dr. Yusuf Altintas
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of British Columbia
(Invited)		Digital Machining
Fall 2025
DATESPEAKERTITLE
August 28, 2025Rilyn Fox
Ph.D. Student
Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science
UNC Charlotte		Data Fusion of Point Clouds from Multiple Measuring Instruments
September 11, 2025Kayla Lenz
Ph.D. Candidate
Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science
UNC Charlotte		Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(aminophenylboronic acid) Nanorods for Reversible Capture of Glycoproteins with Sub-Picomolar Affinity Under Physiological Conditions
September 16, 2025Jacob Brooks
Ph.D. Candidate
Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science
UNC Charlotte		Interoperable Digital Calibration Certificates within the Quality Information Framework
September 23, 2025Dr. Volker Blum
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Duke University
(Invited)
Advancing Inorganic and Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors by Large-Scale Hybrid DFT
October 3, 2025Dr. Nikos Vitzilaios
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of South Carolina (Invited)		Aerial Robotics for Advanced Sensing
October 16, 2025Dr. Jian Wang
Presidential Chair
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Invited)		Mesoscale Modeling of Deformation Twinning in Hexagonal Metals
October 23, 2025Dr. Beiwen Li
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of Georgia
(Invited)		Superfast 3D Optical Sensing for Manufacturing and Remanufacturing Applications
November 3, 2025Dr. Hanry Yu
Professor
Department of Physiology
National University of Singapore
(Invited)		Reduced Micro-Physiological Systems (MPSs) as NAMs for Drug Development
November 7, 2025Dr. Cem Tasan
Associate Professor
Materials Science & Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Invited)		Solid-state steelmaking: A mechanics story
November 13, 2025Ahmed Asif Razin
Ph.D. Student
Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science
UNC Charlotte		Surface Integrity Improvement of Metal Additive Manufactured Parts using an
Intelligent Robot-Assisted Finishing System
November 20, 2025Prashant Adhikari
Ph.D. Candidate
Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science
UNC Charlotte		Deep Learning Based Analysis of Organelle Dynamics in Neurons under Cancer Drug Treatment
November 25, 2025Dr. Junghoon Lee
Associate Professor
Radiation Oncology
Johns Hopkins University (Invited)		Artificial intelligence in medical imaging and image-guided therapy
Fall 2021
DATESPEAKERTITLE
August 31, 2021Dr. Ali Karimoddini, Director of NC-CAV Center of Excellence on Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology and the Autonomous Cooperative Control of Emergent Systems of Systems (ACCESS) Lab, NC State UniversityTBA
September 16, 2021 Dr. Bohayra Mortazavi, Senior Researcher, Leibniz Universität HannoverFirst-Principles ultiscale Modeling Enabled by Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials
October 12, 2021 Dr. H. Hohyun Sun, Postdoctoral Researcher, C. Buddie Mullins Group, University of Texas at AustinStructural and Thermal Stabilization of High Specific Energy Density Layered Oxide Cathodes through Functional Micro- and Atomic-Structures
October 14, 2021Dr. Wesley Chang, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center, Columbia UniversityChemo-Mechanics of High Energy Density Batteries for Electric Vehicles
October 26, 2021 Dr. David B. Go, Professor and Department Chair, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering/Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre DameNon-Equilibrium Plasmas as the Next Frontier: Perspectives from Catalysis, Electrochemistry, and Advanced Manufacturing
November 16, 2021 Dr. Bogdan I. Epureanu, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director, Automotive Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann ArborForecasting Critical Transitions
November 18, 2021Dr. Srinath V. Ekkad, Department Head and RJ Reynolds Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State UniversityHeat Transfer Studies for Gas Turbine Hot Gas Path Components