2025 Fall Seminar Series
| DATE | TIME/PLACE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Tom Ebeling, WSU | Laboratory Safety: Creating and Maintaining an Effective Lab Safety Program |
| Aug 28 | 10:35-11:50am Spark building, room G45 | Dr. Jacob Leachman, WSU | HYPER-Safe: An integrated design and safety-planning process |
| Sep 4 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Chelsea Leachman, WSU | Using WSU Libraries to Strengthen Your Research Strategy |
| Sep 11 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Dr. Nilanjan Mitra | Naval Sandwich composites & Underwater Explosions |
| Sep 18 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Interlune presentation | |
| Sep 25 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Jing Shang, WSU PhD candidate | Beyond p-Type: The Potential of n-Type CdTe and CdSeTe for Next-Generation Solar Cells |
| Oct 2 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Dr. Dan Hooks, LANL | Microstructure, composition, and property changes on demand through electrochemistry |
| Oct 9 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Dr. Shreyas Balachandran, FSU | Understanding physical metallurgy of high-purity Niobium to high-quality factor superconducting radio frequency resonators |
| Oct 16 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Dr. Michael Dickey, North Carolina State University | |
| Oct 23 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Matthew Shenton, WSU PhD candidate | |
| Oct 30 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Dr. Emrullah Korkmaz, University of Pittsburgh | |
| Nov 6 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Aditi Dahiya, WSU PhD candidate | |
| Nov 13 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Dr. ChangKyu Yoon, WSU Visiting Scholar | |
| Nov 20 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Yefeng Mei, WSU Physics | |
| Nov 28 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| Dec 4 | 10:35-11:50am EME B46 | Azmain Islam, WSU PhD candidate |
2025 Spring Seminar Series
| DATE | TIME/PLACE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Boaming Zhao, WSU | Advancing the Sustainability of Thermosets: Recycling and Redesign |
| Jan 17 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Student presentations | |
| Jan 24 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Student presentations | |
| Jan 31 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Bokinala Moses Abraham, Drexel University | Data-driven discovery of materials for sustainable energy generation |
| Feb 7 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Gabriel Potirniche | Creep-fatigue crack growth modeling using a strip-yield technique |
| Feb 14 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Kevin Kittilstved, WSU | Emergent Phenomena in Old Materials |
| Feb 21 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Prahalada Rao, Virginia Tech | Smart Additive Manufacturing |
| Feb 28 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Javiar Garay, Associate Dean of Research, UCSD | High energy lasers for material development and processing |
| Mar 7 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Chrisman Frank | What is the future of education? |
| Mar 14 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | *no seminar, spring break* | |
| Mar 21 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Mariya Zhuravleva | Crystal growth of inorganic scintillators |
| Mar 28 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Ram Devanathan, Director, Energy Processes & Materials Division, Pacific Northwest National Lab | Advancing materials innovation with artificial intelligence |
| Apr 4 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Mingwei Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA | Developing Strong and Tough Multiple Principal Element Alloys for Structural Applications at Elevated Temperatures |
| Apr 11 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Hojung Choi, Stanford University | Safe and Robust Robot Interaction through Compliance and Tactile Perception |
| Apr 18 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Dimitris Giovanis, John Hopkins University | Generative Learning and Uncertainty Quantification on Manifolds for Scientific Discovery |
| Apr 25 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Jian Chao, Northwestern University | Physics-based AI-assisted Design and Control of Manufacturing Processes |
2024 Fall Seminar Series
| DATE | TIME/PLACE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Shawn Ringo & Jason Sampson, Environmental Health and Safety, WSU | Laboratory Hazards and Controls |
| Aug 29 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Joel C. Perry, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Idaho | Assistive Robotics for Assessment, Training, and Recovery of Function in Arms and Hands after Neurological Injury |
| Sep 5 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Felix Löwenstein, Organic Farmer and Author, Food Crash | Where is the intersection of Tech and Organic Farming? |
| Sep 12 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Benjamin J. Gronemeyer, Director of Engineering, Sumitomo (SHI) Cryogenics of America, Inc. | Market Trends in Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Challenges to Low Cryogen Superconducting Magnets & Energy Efficient Gifford-McMahon Cryocoolers |
| Sep 19 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Sihui Li, Assistant Professor, WSU Tri-Cities, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Computer Science | Infeasibility Proofs in Robot Planning |
| Sep 26 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Jiecai Luo, Southern University and A&M College | |
| Oct 3 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Hatem Zeine, Ossia | The Future of Sustainably Powering IoT |
| Oct 10 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | John Finley, Collins Aerospace | Manufacture of Carbon-Carbon Brakes at Collins Aerospace |
| Oct 17 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Kshitiz Upadhyay, LSU | Constitutive Modeling of Soft Materials: Past, Present, and Future |
| Oct 24 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Arun Devaraj, PNNL | Atomic Scale Understanding of Material Synthesis and Degradation Mechanisms: Two Sides of the Same Coin |
| Oct 31 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Melanie Thongs, WSU Writing Program | Writing tips for MME Graduate Students |
| Nov 7 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Osman El Atwani, PNNL | Design and manufacturing of innovative high entropy alloys for extreme environment |
| Nov 14 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dan Clingman | Introduction to NiTinol. A Tutorial and Design Guide |
| Nov 21 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Aman Haque, Penn State | Mechanistic Insights into Ultra-Low Wear Dry Sliding of Tribological Polymer Composites |
| Nov 28 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Thanksgiving Break, no seminar. | |
| Dec 5 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Amanda Howard, PNNL | Multifidelity, domain decomposition, and stacking for improving training for physics-informed networks |
2024 Spring Seminar Series
| DATE | TIME/PLACE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Shawn Ringo WSU Environmental Health and Safety | |
| Jan 19 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Daniel Velazquez Avalanche Energy - cancelled due to weather | |
| Jan 26 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Kyle Yoshida WSU | |
| Feb 2 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | RESERVED- Faculty candidate | |
| Feb 9 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Daniel Velazquez Avalanche Energy- rescheduled | |
| Feb 16 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Kyle Ramos Los Alamos National Lab | |
| Feb 23 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Cindy Powell PNNL | |
| Mar 1 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Sam Crumley Zap Energy (Zoom) | |
| Mar 8 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Alex Greaney | |
| Mar 15 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | NO SEMINAR Spring Break | |
| Mar 22 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Chao (Chris) Qin WSU | |
| Mar 29 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Reza Montazami Iowa State University Department of ME | |
| Apr 5 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Laiyan Bawadeen WSU (virtual) | |
| Apr 12 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Scott Broderick | |
| Apr 19 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Brian J. Jensen ISP | |
| Apr 26 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. John Vienna PNNL |
2023 Fall Seminar Series
| DATE | TIME/PLACE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Tom Ebeling, Industrial Hygienist with Occupational Health & Safety in the Environmental Health & Safety Department (EH&S). | Laboratory Safety: Creating and Maintaining an Effective Lab Safety Program |
| Aug 31 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Arezoo Zare, Assistant Professor, WSU School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering | High-throughput characterization of dynamic tensile failure in pure niobium and niobium-titanium alloy |
| Sep 7 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Michael R. Maughan, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Idaho | Developing the First Cold-Setting Wood 3D-Printing System for Building Construction |
| Sep 14 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Choong-Shik Yoo, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Institute of Schock Physics, WSU | Chemistry under Extreme Conditions (XCHEM): Evolution of Chemical Bonding and Crystal Structure of Hot-Dense Solids at Advanced Light Sources |
| Sep 21 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Johnny Li, Assistant Professor, UI | Advance Robotics Sensing, Control and Computing for Smart Agriculture |
| Sep 28 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Brent Pomeroy, computational aerodynamicist, NASA Langley Research Center | Baseball Aerodynamics with Unsteady, High-Fidelity CFD |
| Sep 29 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Anastassia Makarieva, Researcher, Theoretical Physics Division, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute | Re-appraisal of the global role of natural forests for improved climate projections and policies |
| Oct 12 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Santosh Swain, Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Materials Research, WSU | Cadmium telluride and related semiconductor materials for room temperature radiation detection and solar cells |
| Oct 19 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Manoj Karkee, Professor & Director, Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems, Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University | Automation and robots in tree fruit orchards |
| Oct 26 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Shicheng (John) Xu, CEO & President, Jinetics Inc | Electrocatalysts and Electrodes with Atomic Layer Deposition |
| Nov 2 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Shahrzad Rahmani, Postdoctoral Researcher, WSU | Designed Polymer nanoComposites for Electrochemical applications |
| Nov 9 | 11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101 | Dr. Xianming Shi, Chair and Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, WSU | Nanotechnology enables sustainable and durable concrete infrastructure |