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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.
Previous Seminars
Fall 2026
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| September 10, 2026 | Dr. Stephanie Schuckers Bank of America Distinguished Professor in Computing & Informatics UNC Charlotte | Overview of Charlotte AI Institute, Center for Identification Technology Research, and Recent Genesis Mission Grant |
| September 22, 2026 | Dr. Ronald D. Joslin NSF Program Director for Transport Phenomena | Overview of NSF, Research Funding, Fellowships, & Post-Graduate Opportunities |
| September 29, 2026 | Khayzaran Qubbaj Ph.D. candidate UNC Charlotte | Neuromodulation for Peripheral Nerve Protection During Chemotherapy |
Spring 2026
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| March 24, 2026 | Dr. Chao-Yang Wang William E. Diefenderfer Chair Professor Mechanical Engineering Pennsylvania State University (Invited) | Resilient Battery Energy Storage |
| April 14, 2026 | Dr. Yusuf Altintas Professor Mechanical Engineering University of British Columbia (Invited) | Digital Machining |
Fall 2025
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| August 28, 2025 | Rilyn Fox Ph.D. Student Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science UNC Charlotte | Data Fusion of Point Clouds from Multiple Measuring Instruments |
| September 11, 2025 | Kayla 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, 2025 | Jacob Brooks Ph.D. Candidate Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science UNC Charlotte | Interoperable Digital Calibration Certificates within the Quality Information Framework |
| September 23, 2025 | Dr. Volker Blum Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Duke University (Invited) | Advancing Inorganic and Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors by Large-Scale Hybrid DFT |
| October 3, 2025 | Dr. Nikos Vitzilaios Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering University of South Carolina (Invited) | Aerial Robotics for Advanced Sensing |
| October 16, 2025 | Dr. Jian Wang Presidential Chair Mechanical and Materials Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Invited) | Mesoscale Modeling of Deformation Twinning in Hexagonal Metals |
| October 23, 2025 | Dr. Beiwen Li Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering University of Georgia (Invited) | Superfast 3D Optical Sensing for Manufacturing and Remanufacturing Applications |
| November 3, 2025 | Dr. Hanry Yu Professor Department of Physiology National University of Singapore (Invited) | Reduced Micro-Physiological Systems (MPSs) as NAMs for Drug Development |
| November 7, 2025 | Dr. Cem Tasan Associate Professor Materials Science & Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Invited) | Solid-state steelmaking: A mechanics story |
| November 13, 2025 | Ahmed 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, 2025 | Prashant 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, 2025 | Dr. Junghoon Lee Associate Professor Radiation Oncology Johns Hopkins University (Invited) | Artificial intelligence in medical imaging and image-guided therapy |
Fall 2021
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| August 31, 2021 | Dr. 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 University | TBA |
| September 16, 2021 | Dr. Bohayra Mortazavi, Senior Researcher, Leibniz Universität Hannover | First-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 Austin | Structural and Thermal Stabilization of High Specific Energy Density Layered Oxide Cathodes through Functional Micro- and Atomic-Structures |
| October 14, 2021 | Dr. Wesley Chang, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center, Columbia University | Chemo-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 Dame | Non-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 Arbor | Forecasting Critical Transitions |
| November 18, 2021 | Dr. Srinath V. Ekkad, Department Head and RJ Reynolds Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University | Heat Transfer Studies for Gas Turbine Hot Gas Path Components |