Past Graduate Seminars
The department's lecture series includes several speakers each month. Most of the speakers in the series are international experts in their fields. Below are past seminars.
SPRING 2013 SEMINARS
Date | Time | Title / PDF handout | Speaker |
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Jan. 22, 2013 | 3:30 p.m. 110 Jorgensen Hall (JH) |
TBA | Arnaud Deraemaeker, FNRS Research Associate & Head of Department, Building Architecture and Town Planning (BATir), Brussels, Belgium |
April 16, 2013 | 3:30 p.m. 110 JH |
TBA | Prof. Philippe Geubelle,Department Head of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign |
FALL 2012 SEMINARS
Date | Time | Title / PDF handout | Speaker |
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Sept. 21 | 3:30 p.m. 110 Jorgensen Hall (JH) |
The MIT Hobby Shop: a model for university hands-on learning and innovation | Kenneth Stone, Ph.D., Student Development and Support, Hobby Shop, MIT |
Sept. 25 | 4 p.m. 110 Jorgensen Hall (JH) |
Development of Milli-, Micro- and Nano-scale Electrodydrodynamic (EHD) Based Thermal | Jeffrey R. Didion and Matthew Showalter, NASA Goddard Space Control Subsystems at NASA-GSFC Flight Center |
Oct. 23 | 3:30 p.m. 110 Jorgensen Hall (JH) |
Science and Technology of Organic Light-Emitting Devices (OLEDs) | Joseph Shinar, Ph.D., Senior Physicist, Ames Laboratory – USDOE, Professor & Chair, Dept of Physics & Astronomy; Professor, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames |
Oct. 23 | 3:30 p.m. 110 Jorgensen Hall (JH) |
Organic Electronics–Based Chemical & Biological Sensing Platform: Advances & Challenges | Ruth Shinar, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Microelectronics Research Center and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames |
Nov. 5 | 3:30 p.m. 105 Othmer Hall |
Beyond The Traditional Polarization Response in Polar-polymers: Some Amazing Properties of The Ferrorelaxor Polymers | Qiming Zhang, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa. |
SPRING 2012 SEMINARS
Date | Time | Title / PDF handout | Speaker |
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1/31/12 | 3:30 p.m. 110 Jorgensen Hall (JH) |
Research Ethics and Ethical Decision Making | |
2/14/12 | 3:30 p.m. 110 JH |
Vorticella convallaria: a protozoan for fluid dynamics, biophysics and biomimetics | Sangjin Ryu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, UNL |
2/21/12 | 3:30 p.m. 110 Jorgensen Hall (JH) |
Plasma Etching in Microelectronics |
Maxime Darnon, Ph.D., CNRS-LTM, Grenoble, France |
2/28/12 | 3:30 p.m. 110 JH |
Extreme Environment-Tolerant Materials via Atomic Scale Design of Interfaces | Michael Nastasi, Ph.D., Director, Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research/Elmer Koch Professor of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, UNL |
3/13/12 | 3:30 p.m. 110 JH |
Advances in designing sustainable product lifecycle | Gaurav Ameta, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA |
4/3/12 | 3:30 p.m. 110 JH |
Multiscale characterization and modeling of granular matter: a new paradigm for planetary science | Jose E. Andrade, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Civil & Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena |
4/20/12 | 3:30 p.m. 110 JH |
Metal-Oxides Hole Injection Layer in Organic Semiconductor Devices The seminar is co-sponsored by the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanosciences (NCMN) |
Yongli Gao, Ph.D., Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Rochester, N.Y. |
4/24/12 | 3:30 p.m. 110 JH |
Supercomputers in materials science: a few decades of progress | Jose Caro, Ph.D., Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M. |
FALL 2011 SEMINARS
Date | Time | Title / PDF handout | Speaker |
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8/30/11 | 3:30pm 110 Jorgensen Hall (JH) |
Neuroimmunity and neurodegenerative disease | Howard E. Gendelman, M.D. University of Nebraska Medical Center |
9/16/11 | 3:00pm 110 JH |
The disciplines of technology development and production design | Kim B. Blair, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
9/23/11 | 3:00pm 110 JH |
Personalized biomechanical modeling for analyzing low back disorder causation and control | William S. Marras, Ph.D. Ohio State University |
10/25/11 | 3:30pm 110 JH |
Human Movement Variability | Dr. Nicholas Stergiou University of Nebraska at Omaha |
11/01/11 | 3:30pm 110 JH |
Ferroelectric-Organic Photovoltaic – a Combination for High Performance and New Functions | Jinsong Huang, Ph.D. UNL Dept of Mechanical & Materials Engineering |
11/15/11 | 1:30pm Nebraska Union |
Some advances in development and validation of virtual surgery systems | Suvranu De, Sc.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
11/22/11 | 3:30pm 110 JH |
Bionic Below the Knee Prostheses: From Theory to Practice | Philip A. Voglewede, Ph.D. Marquette University |