Academic Year 2025-2026
Fall 2025
Week | Date | Speaker | Seminar Topic | Host |
1 | 8/26 | Dr. Jiangyu Li Head and Chair Professor Department of Materials and Science and Engineering Southern University of Science and Technology | Engineering Electromechanical Coupling for Active Materials, Structures, and Devices | Dr. Jeffrey Shield |
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| 9/1 (Mon.) | Labor Day (Student and Staff Holiday – UNL offices closed) | ||
9/2 | MME GSAC Introduction to department and class expectations. | Introduction to the Graduate Student Advisory Committee | Attendance is mandatory for all students in the MEAM-MS, MEAM-PHD programs, and all students whose advisor is a MME faculty member. This includes PHD-Materials Engineering students and PHD-BIOE students who are advised by MME faculty. | |
3 | 9/9 | Dr. Jae Sung Park Associate Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Professional Development Series What is Research? | |
4 | 9/16 | Dr. Jared Butler Assistant Professor Penn State University | From Surgery to Space: Folding, Flexures, and Fabrication in the Additive Age | Dr. Carl Nelson |
5 | 9/23 | Dr. Jun Sheng Assistant Professor University of California, Riverside | Multiscale Flexible and Soft Robots for Challenging Biomedical Operations | Dr. Eric Markvicka |
6 | 9/30 | Dr. Devahdhanush VS Assistant Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Advancing Thermal Management: Two-Phase Flow & Heat Transfer for Next -Generation Space and Energy Systems | Dr. Jae Sung Park |
7 | 10/7 | Dr. Greg Mckenna Research Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering NC State University | Composites, rubber, glasses and DNA: 50+ years of interrogating materials physics with thermal analysis and viscoelastic measurements | Dr. Mehrdad Negahban |
8 | 10/14 | Dr. Beomjin Kwon Associate Professor Arizona State University | Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Flow and Heat Transport | Dr. Jae Sung Park |
9 | October 20 (Monday) – 21 (Tuesday) = Fall Semester Break (Student Holiday – UNL offices open). No seminars are to be scheduled for October 22. | |||
10 | 10/28 | Dr. Janghoon Ock Assistant Professor Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Computational catalysis/materials discovery with large language model and multimodal learning | Dr. Jae Sung Park |
11 | 11/4 | NO SEMINAR | ||
12 | 11/11 | Dr. Abdelghani Laraoui Associate Professor University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Quantum Defects in Diamond and Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Quantum Sensing and Photonic Technologies | Dr. Jae Sung Park |
13 | 11/18 | Dr. Solomon Adera Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering University of Michigan | Enhancing two-phase flow using engineered surfaces | Dr. George Gogos |
14 | Student Thanksgiving Holiday is Wednesday, November 27 – Friday, November 29, 2023. | |||
11/25 | NO SEMINAR | |||
15 | 12/2 | Two graduate students in MME |
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The last week of classes is December 8 – 13 (Monday – Saturday), 2025. No seminars will be scheduled after December 2, 2025. | ||||
16 | 12/9 | NO SEMINAR |
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Fall Semester Final Examinations are Monday December 15 – Friday December 19, 2025 | ||||
Fall Semester Graduate Commencement and Doctoral Hooding is Friday December 19, 2025 | ||||
Fall Semester Undergraduate Commencement is Saturday December 20, 2025 | ||||
Spring 2026
Week | Date | Speaker (title, address, email, phone, fax, web) | Seminar Topic | Co-Sponsor |
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1 | 1/13 | Dr. Daejong Yang Kongu National University, South Korea | Fabrication of Large-Area, High Performance SERS Substrate and Its Application as Gas Sensor | Dr. Jae Sung Park |
| 1/13 | Dr. Dongkyoung Lee Kongu National University, South Korea | Application of Laser Aided Manufacturing for Secondary Batteries | Dr. Jae Sung Park | |
2 | 1/19 | Martin Luther King Day | ||
| 1/20 | Dr. Sangamesh G. Kumbar Professor & Associate Dean for Research College of Dentistry, UNMC | Polymer Platforms for Regenerative Medicine: Integrating Materials Science with Biology | Dr. Jae Sung Park | |
3 | 1/27 | Dr. H. Ronald Clements MME | ||
4 | 2/3 | TBA | ||
National Engineer’s Week is scheduled from Sunday February 16 through Saturday February 22, 2025. | ||||
5 | 2/10 | TBA |
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6 | 2/17 | Dr. Luke E. Riexinger Insurance Institute for Highway Safety | ||
7 | 2/24 | TBA | ||
8 | 3/3 | TBA | ||
9 | 3/10 | Dr. Mark Petersen Los Alamos National Lab | ||
Student Spring 2025 Vacation is Sunday, March 15 through Sunday, March 22. | ||||
10 | 3/24 | Dr. Yiquan Wu Alfred University |
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11 | 3/31 | Dr. Asaf Dana MME | ||
12 | 4/7 | Dr. Francois Barthelat University of Colorado, Boulder | ||
13 | 4/14 | Dr. Geraldine Gooding ASME | ||
14 | 4/21 | Dr. Anish Tuteja University of Michigan | ||
15 | 4/28 | Dr. K.P. Rajurkar MME | ||
The last week of classes is April 26 – May 2 (Sunday – Saturday), 2026. | ||||
Spring Semester Final Exams May 4 – May 8, 2026 (Monday – Friday) | ||||
Spring Semester Graduate Commencement and Doctoral Hooding is Friday, May 8, 2026. | ||||
Spring Semester Undergraduate Commencement is Saturday, May 9, 2026. | ||||
