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

2022 Fall Seminar Series

DATE	TIME/PLACE	SPEAKER	TOPIC
Aug 25	11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101	Prof. Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University	Control of Autonomous Systems
Sep 1	11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101	Prof. Emily Allen, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University	Design and Modeling of a PneuSMA Soft Robotic Catheter Using Resistance-Based Modeling of Nitinol Springs
Sep 15	11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101	Prof. Andres Goza, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Feather-inspired flaps for unsteady aerodynamic flow control: physics and reinforcement learning-based control
Sep 21	2:00-3:00 pm ETRL 101	Prof. Kamal Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Idaho	Autoignition and Speciation Studies on Alternative Fuels
Sep 22	11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101	Derek Rotz Director of Advance Engineering, Daimler Truck North America	Saving Fuel, Saving Lives and Saving Money at Daimler Truck
Sep 29	11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101	Prof. Sandip Roy, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Washington State University	Network-Wide Autonomy in Cyber-Physical Infrastructures
Oct 6	11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101	Prof. Shreyes N. Melkote, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech	Building Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: From Industrial Robotics to Cyber Manufacturing Services
Oct 13	11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101	Prof. Eric Wolbrecht, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Idaho	Robotics for Assessment and Rehabilitation after Stroke
Oct 20	11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101	Prof. John McCloy, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University	Cultural Brokers and Interdisciplinary Research in Engineering: the Case Study of Vitrified Hillforts
Oct 27	11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101	Dr. Scott Rewinkel, Stroke Medical Director, St. Charles Health System, OHSU Department of Neurology	Engineering Advances in Neurology and Interventional Neuroradiology
Dec 1	11:00 am-Noon ETRL 101	Prof. Néstor Pérez-Arancibia, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University	Challenges and Progress on Insect-Scale Aerial Robotics

2021 Fall Seminar Series

DATE	TIME/PLACE	SPEAKER	TOPIC
Aug 26	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom (Meeting ID: 912 6276 7552)	Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania	Is Cost Effective Robotics Interesting?
Sep 9	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	J. Edward Colgate, Professor, Northwestern University; NAE Member	Growing the Tactile Gamut
Sep 23	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Fritz Prinz, Leonardo Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy	The need for storage in a renewable energy world
Oct 7	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	David Hu, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Biology, Georgia Tech	Mechanics of the elephant trunk and skin
Nov 4	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Wenzhen Yuan, Assistant Professor and Director of the CMU RoboTouch Lab, Carnegie Mellon University	Making sense of the physical world with high-resolution tactile sensing
Nov 18	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Lin Shao, Stanford University	Towards Building Intelligent Systems for Robots to Interact With the World
Dec 2	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Jeffrey I. Lipton, Mechanical Engineering, Assistant Professor, University of Washington	Fabrication via Mobile Robotics and Digital Manufacturing

2021 Spring Seminar Series

DATE	TIME/PLACE	SPEAKER	TOPIC
Feb 4	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. John Rogers, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University	Distinguished Seminar: Soft Electronic and Microfluidic Systems for the Skin
Feb 18	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Girish Krishnan, Associate Professor, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign	Soft Robotics and Architectured Materials: A Designer's Perspective
Feb 19	11:00 am-12:15 pm using Zoom	Dr. Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California	The Challenging Path to Creating Fully Autonomous and Controllable Microrobots
Feb 23	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Seyede Fatemeh Ghoreishi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Maryland Robotics Center, University of Maryland	Bayesian Decision Making and Learning in Complex Uncertain Systems
Feb 25	11:00 am-12:30 pm using Zoom	Dr. Ilya Kovalenko, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan	Intelligent Product Agents for Multi-Agent Control of Manufacturing Systems
Mar 2	11:00 am-noon using Zoom	Dr. Gina Olson, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Soft Machines Lab, Carnegie Mellon University	Soft Robots and Soft Structures
Mar 4	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr.Michael C. McAlpine, Kuhrmeyer Family Chair Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota	Distinguished Seminar: 3D Printing Functional Materials & Devices
Mar 9	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Yiannis Kantaros, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania	Safe Robot Autonomy in Unknown Environments
Mar 18	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Anil Netravali, Cornell University	Advanced Green Composites
Mar 25	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Jessi Hall, Senior Director – Vertical Integration Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.	Manufacturing Printed Circuit Boards on the Palouse
Apr 1	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Robert Shepherd, Associate Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University	Optoelectronic Sensing of the Deformation of Soft Robots, and their Electrohydraulic Power
Apr 8	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Tamas Havar, Sr. Manager for Additive Manufacturing, Blue Origin LLC	Innovation in Aerospace: Advanced Composites and Additive Manufacturing Process
Apr 14	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Raman Goyal, TEES Post-Doctoral Researcher, Texas A&M University	A System Design Approach for Intelligent Tensegrity Robots
Apr 15	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Bradley Camburn, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University	Prototyping in the Design of Complex Systems
Apr 22	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Zhenan Bao, Department Chair and K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University	Distinguished Seminar: Skin-Inspired Organic Electronics
Apr 22	1:30 pm to 2:30 pm using Zoom	Dr. Anthony Fragoso, Staff Scientist at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at the California Institute of Technology	Environment-Driven Autonomy: Field Robots and Their Statistics

2020 Fall Seminar Series

DATE	TIME/PLACE	SPEAKER	TOPIC
Aug 27	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Ming Luo, Assistant Professor, Washington State University, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering	Soft pneumatic robots: Designing for more dexterity
Sep 10	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Kaiyan Qiu, Assistant Professor, Washington State University School of Mechanical and Materials Science	3D Printed Artificial Organs and Smart electronics for Biomedical and Healthcare Application
Sep 24	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Shawn Ringo, Safety Seminar	COVID - Best Practice
Oct 8	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Samrat Choudhury, Assistant Professor, University of Idaho, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering	Computational Design of Alloy Chemistry in Uranium-based Metallic Fuels
Oct 22	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Sreekant Narumanchi, Manager of Advanced Power Electronics and Electric Machines Group, National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Advanced Power Electronics and Electric Machines – Thermal, Electro-Thermal and Reliability Research
Nov 5	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Seyed Hooman Ghasemi, Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, WSU Pullman	Target Reliability Analysis for Structures
Nov 19	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Joseph Iannelli, Associate Dean for International Programs for VCEA and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, WSU	Orbital Mechanics of the Stanford Torus Conceptual Space Station
Dec 3	11:00 am-Noon using Zoom	Dr. Vikas Praskash, Associate Director, Institute for Shock Physics, WSU Pullman	Investigations of Dynamic Material Strength and Interface Friction using Combined Compression and Shear Plate Impact Loading