2016 – 2017 Archive

Date

Speaker

From

Colloquium

Spring 2017

(in 3-270 at 4:00pm unless otherwise noted)

February 17, 2017 Dr. Caitlyn Antrim
Executive Director
Rule of Law Committee for the Oceans
American University Washington College of Law
An Engineer in the World of International Diplomacy and Ocean Politics (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Ocean Sciences and Engineering)
April 14, 2017 Prof. Manoj Srinivasan
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The Ohio State University
Human locomotion: How humans move efficiently and stably (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Robotics)

Fall 2016

(in 3-270 at 4:00pm unless otherwise noted)

September 9, 2016 Prof. Amos Winter
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engineering Global Development: Using Emerging Markets Constraints to Drive the Innovation of Global Technologies (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Design and Manufacturing)
September 30, 2016 Prof. Alexie Kolpak
Assistant Professor
Rockwell International Career Development Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computational materials design and interface engineering for renewable energy applications (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Energy Science and Engineering)
October 14, 2016 Prof. Evelyn Wang
Gail E. Kendall Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From Nanoscale Surface Engineering to Macroscale Thermal Energy Systems (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Energy Science and Engineering)
October 21, 2016 Prof. Adrian Bejan
J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke University
Life and Evolution as Physics (Rohsenow Lecture in Heat and Mass Transfer))
October 28, 2016 Prof. Pierre Lermusiaux
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marine Science of Autonomy: From Theory to Practice (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Ocean Science and Engineering)
November 4, 2016 Prof. Cullen Buie
Associate Professor
Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Chair
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Microfluidic Genetic Transformation for the Next Generation of Synthetic Biology (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Energy Science and Engineering)
November 17, 2016 Prof. Eleni Chatzi
Assistant Professor
Institute of Structural Engineering
ETH Zurich
Re-powering Infrastructure via Monitoring & Simulation (TF Ogilvie Young Investigator Lecture in Ocean Sciences and Engineering)
November 18, 2016 Prof. A. John Hart
Associate Professor
Mitsui Career Development Professor in Contemporary Technology
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Additive Manufacturing Across Scales (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Design and Manufacturing)
December 2, 2016 Prof. Xuanhe Zhao
Associate Professor
Noyce Career Development Chair
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Soft Living Materials and Machines: From Theory to Design (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Mechanics)
December 9, 2016 Prof. Pedro Reis
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
‘Eggstreme’ Mechanics of Shells: From buckliphobia to buckliphilia in soft structures (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Mechanics)