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SUMMARY:BME Seminar Series: Sara McBride-Gagyi\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Failing Fabulously: Vogue Challenging Niche Large-Scale Bone Repair Research Missteps into Broad Impact Innovations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSara McBride-Gagyi\, PhDAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Biomedical EngineeringThe Ohio State University \n\n\n\nAbstract:Research rarely unfolds exactly as planned. Despite careful preparation and well-designed protocols\, unexpected outcomes — and outright failures — are an inevitable part of experimental science and engineering. Yet these challenges are seldom shared publicly\, leaving many trainees and early-career researchers feeling isolated or discouraged when things go awry. \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Dr. Sara McBride-Gagyi will share two recent projects from her lab related to her larger research on bone regeneration that faced significant\, unforeseen setbacks — challenges that could easily have been dismissed as fatal failures that wasted valuable time and resources. Instead\, through creative problem-solving and critical re-evaluation\, her team turned these obstacles into opportunities\, ultimately generating results and innovations more impactful than the original aims. \n\n\n\nDr. McBride-Gagyi will walk through each project chronologically\, highlighting the engineering design pivots\, decision-making processes\, and lessons learned along the way. She will conclude with a discussion of how these experiences are being reframed for publication and dissemination — underscoring the value of transparency\, adaptability\, and perseverance in the scientific process. \n\n\n\nPrint PDF
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/bme-seminar-series-sara-mcbride-gagyi-phd/
LOCATION:1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building\, 1550 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:ISyE - AprilAire Info Session
DESCRIPTION:1163 Mechanical Engineering \n\n\n\nAprilAire is coming to UW-Madison! Join the IISE student chapter to learn more about one of their sponsors and also participate in a case study competition.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/isye-april-aire-info-session/
LOCATION:1163 Mechanical Engineering\, 1513 Engineering Dr.\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Departments,Industrial & Systems Engineering,Student Org Event
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SUMMARY:CBE Seminar Series: Moon Jeong Park
DESCRIPTION:Moon Jeong ParkPohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)Korea \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPolymer Chain-End Chemistry: Unlocking Next-Generation Functional Materials\n\n\n\nEnd-group functionalization has become a powerful and versatile strategy in polymer science\, enabling precise control over physical properties\, nanoscale self-assembly\, and interfacial functionality without modifying the polymer backbone. In our group’s research\, we have investigated how tailored end groups affect intrinsic polymer characteristics such as thermal transitions\, solubility\, and crystallization behavior\, and how end-group interactions direct polymer self-assembly\, particularly by modulating chain packing\, interfacial curvature\, and phase behavior in block copolymer systems\, including the formation of complex network morphologies. Our goal is to develop synthetic methodologies for polymers with rationally designed end-functional groups\, allowing systematic study of their thermodynamic phase-transition behavior through precise control of molecular interactions. By identifying and tuning key variables\, our work aims to deepen fundamental understanding of polymer science. These insights highlight the transformative potential of end-group chemistry for next-generation polymer materials and provide a foundation for designing functional nanomaterials for emerging applications\, including solid-state battery electrolytes\, mechanical metamaterials\, and optical metamaterials.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/cbe-seminar-series-carl-laird/
LOCATION:Wisconsin
CATEGORIES:Chemical & Biological Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:ECE Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series: Professor Zetian Mi
DESCRIPTION:Nanoscale and Polarization Engineering: Unlocking New Frontiers with III-Nitrides\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: Wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconductors offer unprecedented opportunities to address some of the most critical challenges we face in the next decades: energy efficiency\, clean energy\, environmental sustainability\, and quantum information. In this talk\, I will present some recent advances of nanoscale and polarization engineering of (ultra)wide bandgap III-nitride semiconductors and their emerging applications in next-generation microelectronics and photonics. By exploiting the strong excitonic effect in extreme quantum-confined nanostructures\, conventional low-efficiency AlGaN can be turned into high-brightness deep-ultraviolet emitters\, which offer the only alternative technology to replace mercury lamps for water purification/disinfection. The strong excitonic effect can be further exploited to achieve ultrahigh efficiency nano-LEDs to power future virtual/augmented reality. I will also discuss the recent discovery of ferroelectricity in III-nitride semiconductors\, which leads to dramatically enhanced linear and nonlinear optical properties\, piezoelectric response\, and reconfigurability\, that are urgently needed for integrated quantum photonics for information processing\, acousto-electronics for 5G/6G technologies\, memory-in-computing in harsh environments\, and light-driven artificial photosynthesis for clean energy. \n\n\n\nProfessor Zetian Mi\n\n\n\nBio: Zetian Mi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Pallab K. Bhattacharya Collegiate Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of semiconductor nanotechnology\, optoelectronics\, and photonics. He is a recipient of Optica’s Nick Holonyak\, Jr. Award (2025)\, AVS NSTD Nanotechnology Recognition Award (2025)\, ISCS Quantum Devices Award (2024)\, Science and Engineering Award from W. M. Keck Foundation (2020)\, IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award (2021)\, and IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Lecturer Award (2020). At the University of Michigan\, he received the David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award (2021)\, Rexford E. Hall Innovation Excellence Award (2024)\, and Wise-Najafi Prize for Engineering Excellence in the Miniature World (2025). He is a fellow of IEEE\, APS\, Optica\, and SPIE. He is a co-founder of NS Nanotech Inc. and NX Fuels Inc.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/ece-distinguished-speaker-seminar-series-professor-zetian-mi/
LOCATION:2305 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Electrical & Computer Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:ISyE- Letters of Love
DESCRIPTION:1163 Mechanical Engineering \n\n\n\nBe a part of this wonderful outreach event! Back by popular demand\, the students of IISE will be making hand-crafted cards for children battling serious illnesses. These cards will be sent to hospitals around the Madison area to provide emotional support to these youngest of patients.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/isye-letters-of-love/
LOCATION:Mechanical Engineering Building\, Room 1163\, 1513 University Avenue\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Departments,Industrial & Systems Engineering,Social Event,Student Org Event
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SUMMARY:NEEP Seminar Series: Guanyu Su\, University of California\, Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:“ \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, November 2012:00 – 1:00pm106 Engineering Research BuildingPlease contact office@neep.wisc.edu for assistance with remote participation. \n\n\n\nEfficient Tritium Extractor Design Enabled by High-Fidelity Simulation Tritium is the essential fuel in D-T fusion reactions\, which underpin both inertial confinement and magnetic confinement fusion concepts. Given the extremely limited natural supply\, in-situ breeding is the only viable pathway to sustain commercial fusion power. Liquid blankets containing ⁶Li\, such as molten salts FLiBe and FLiNaK\, are particularly promising because they enable both tritium breeding and efficient thermal management. Molten fluoride salts are especially attractive as coolants due to their excellent thermal and neutronic properties\, as well as their inherently low tritium solubility. While significant research has been devoted to breeding mechanisms\, tritium extraction remains relatively understudied\, which creates a critical bottleneck in the D-T fuel cycle.  \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, I will present two ongoing efforts to design efficient tritium extractor concepts\, i.e.\, both permeator against vacuum (PAV) and gas-liquid contactor (GLC)\, using high-fidelity simulations. I will demonstrate that advanced extractor design requires resolving a coupled multidimensional\, multiphase transport problem. High-fidelity modeling provides detailed insights into local transport phenomena that are otherwise difficult to probe experimentally. With the added transport physics incorporated into existing CFD tools\, we are well-positioned to perform refined parametric studies and optimize extractor geometries to advance tritium management strategies for fusion systems.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuanyu Su is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California\, Berkeley. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from MIT. At Berkeley\, Dr. Su’s research focuses on addressing critical scientific and engineering challenges in nuclear thermal-hydraulics and clean energy systems. His interests span four main areas: (1) heat and mass transfer in high-temperature molten salt technologies\, (2) advanced diagnostic tool development for fission and fusion systems\, (3) high-temperature thermal storage for advanced energy systems\, and (4) applications of machine learning in nuclear reactor simulation\, experimentation\, and maintenance. He also serves as the faculty lead for the Master of Engineering program in the Nuclear Engineering Department.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/neep-seminar-series-guanyu-su-university-of-california-berkeley/
LOCATION:Wisconsin
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics
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SUMMARY:MS&E Seminar Series: Professor Zetian Mi\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor
DESCRIPTION:UW-Madison Department of Materials Science and Engineering welcomes Professor Zetian Mi. His seminar\, “The Soft Side of Hard Materials: Ferroelectricity in (Ultra)wide-Bandgap Nitrides”\, will take place on Thursday\, November 20 from 1-2 p.m. in MSE 265. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio \n\n\n\nZetian Mi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of semiconductor nanotechnology\, optoelectronics\, and photonics. He is a recipient of the Optica’s Nick Holonyak\, Jr. Award (2025)\, the AVS NSTD Nanotechnology Recognition Award (2025)\, the ISCS Quantum Devices Award (2024)\, the Science and Engineering Award from W. M. Keck Foundation (2020)\, the IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award (2021)\, the IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Lecturer Award (2020)\, and the David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award (2021)\, the Rexford E. Hall Innovation Excellence Award (2024)\, and the Wise-Najafi Prize for Engineering Excellence in the Miniature World (2025) from the University of Michigan. He is a fellow of IEEE\, APS\, Optica\, and SPIE. He is a co-founder of NS Nanotech Inc. and NX Fuels Inc. \n\n\n\nAbstract \n\n\n\nSince the first discovery of ferroelectricity by Joseph Valasek in 1920\, the field of ferroelectrics has been largely focused on oxide-based materials and devices. Recently\, it has been shown that\, the incorporation of group IIIB elements\, e.g.\, Sc and Y\, can transform conventional III-nitride semiconductors to be ferroelectric\, with significantly enhanced electrical\, dielectric\, piezoelectric\, catalytic\, and linear and nonlinear optical properties. As such\, ferroelectric nitride semiconductors have garnered significant attention for a wide range of applications in high power\, high frequency\, and high temperature electronics\, optoelectronics\, ferroelectrics\, acoustoelectric\, photocatalysis\, and quantum photonic devices and systems. In this presentation\, I will discuss the underlying physics and mechanisms of significantly enhanced piezoelectric response\, ferroelectric switching\, domain wall kinetics\, and polarization dynamics. Additionally\, the obstacles currently faced by nitride ferroelectrics in practical applications will be presented\, followed by in-depth discussions of potential solutions\, future research directions\, and the prospects for further developments in this emerging field.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mse-seminar-series-professor-zetian-mi-university-of-michigan-ann-arbor/
LOCATION:Wisconsin
CATEGORIES:Materials Science & Engineering
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SUMMARY:ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Sherif Mohamed
DESCRIPTION:The ME 903: Graduate Student Lecture Series features campus and visiting speakers who present on a variety of research topics in the field of mechanical engineering. Sherif Mohamed (PhD ’03) is the Executive Leader for Decarbonization Technologies at GE.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/me-903-graduate-seminar-sherif-mohamed-2/
LOCATION:3M Auditorium\, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building\, 1513 University Ave\, Madison\, 53711
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:UW-Madison CEE Alumni Night in Minnesota
DESCRIPTION:Badger engineers are gathering and you are invited! \n\n\n\nCatch up with local civil\, environmental\, and geological engineering alumni during our first alumni night in Minnesota. \n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHave a colleague or friend who might be interested? Feel free to bring a plus one. \n\n\n\nGreg Harrington\, chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department\, will share news and updates at 6:00 pm\, and appetizers and refreshments will be provided by Mortenson. There is no cost to attend and free parking is available onsite. Come join us! \n\n\n\nThank you to our event sponsor!
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/uw-madison-cee-alumni-night-in-minnesota/
LOCATION:Mortenson HQ\, 700 Meadow Ln N\, Golden Valley\, MN\, 55422\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni events,Civil & Environmental Engineering,Social Event
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SUMMARY:Closing the Loop on Machine Learning: A Perturbation Analysis Approach to Decision-Dependent Distribution Shift
DESCRIPTION:UW-ISyE looks forward to welcoming Roy Dong Assistant Professor in the Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. \n\n\n\nRoy Dong – research assistant professor\, electrical and computer engineering\n\n\n\nAs data-driven methods are deployed in real-world settings\, the processes that generate the observed data will often react to the decisions of the learner. For example\, a data source may have some incentive for the algorithm to provide a particular label (e.g. approve a bank loan)\, and manipulate their features accordingly. In this talk\, I will present our recent work on analyzing this decision-dependent distribution shift through the lens of perturbation analysis in control theory. This framework allows us to consider settings with multiple equilibria and characterize the regions of attraction for each equilibrium\, which is observed in practice: learning algorithms can settle into echo chambers\, and characterizes the set of initial conditions which leads to each ultimate outcome. Additionally\, I will discuss how these methods can be computationally calculated using integral quadratic constraints\, how they can be made distributionally robust\, and how it can be used for trajectory predictions for robotic crowd navigation. \n\n\n\n\n\nBio: Roy Dong is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a BS Honors in Computer Engineering and a BS Honors in Economics from Michigan State University in 2010. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California\, Berkeley in 2017\, where he was funded in part by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Prior to his current position\, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Berkeley Energy & Climate Institute\, a visiting lecturer in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department at UC Berkeley\, and a Research Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research uses tools from control theory\, economics\, statistics\, and optimization to understand the closed-loop effects of machine learning\, with applications in cyber-physical systems such as the smart grid\, modern transportation networks\, and autonomous vehicles.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/closing-the-loop-on-machine-learning-a-perturbation-analysis-approach-to-decision-dependent-distribution-shift/
LOCATION:1163 Mechanical Engineering\, 1513 Engineering Dr.\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Industrial & Systems Engineering
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SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor Wayne Chen
DESCRIPTION:The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids\, fluids\, and dynamics). Professor Wayne Chen is a professor at Iowa State University.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-wayne-chen/
LOCATION:Engineering Hall\, RM 1610\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, 53711
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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