BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison - ECPv6.17.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250926T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250927T180000 DTSTAMP:20250923T132350Z CREATED:20250904T215240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250923T132350Z UID:10001313-1758904200-1758996000@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:College of Engineering Hackathon/Makerthon DESCRIPTION:The inaugural IoT Hacker-and-Makerthon at UW–Madison is here! In just 24 hours\, you and your team will tackle real-world challenges provided by industry partners Plexus and Accuray. Use your skills from class\, connect with their engineers\, and bring your creativity to life – whether it’s in IoT\, robotics\, or beyond. There are no limits to what you can build! Mentors will be available around the clock to support you. \n\n\n\nIn addition to developing your solution\, you will also have the opportunity to sharpen your presentation skills. By the end of the event\, you will be ready to showcase your project – and maybe even take home a cash prize! \n\n\n\nAnd don’t worry about food or drinks: we’ve got you covered throughout the entire event. Come hungry\, be curious\, and stay inspired! \n\n\n\nBrought to you by the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Laboratory. \n\n\n\nALL students are welcome and encouraged to participate! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now!\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n What does “around the clock” mean? Is this a 24-hour event? \n \n \n \n \n\n\nThe event space will close around 9pm and we will start around 9am in the morning. But you are free to work on the challenges throughout the night.\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n When is the deadline to sign up? \n \n \n \n The deadline to sign up is Friday\, Septebmer 26th\, 10:00 am. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How many meals are served throughout the event? \n \n \n \n There will be 4 meals: dinner on Friday\, and breakfast\, lunch and dinner on Saturday. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Who are the judges\, and will they (or any other professional engineers for on hand throught the event for feedback? \n \n \n \n Judges will be UW researchers as well as professional engineers from Accuray and Plexus\, who will be available either on-site of remotely throughout the event. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Is the cash prize only for 1st place? \n \n \n \n Cash prizes are avilable for up to 10 teams. URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/hackathon/ LOCATION:UW-Madison Design Innovation Lab\, Wendt Commons\, 215 N. Randall Ave\, Madison\, 53715 CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Chemical & Biological Engineering,Civil & Environmental Engineering,Departments,Electrical & Computer Engineering,Industrial & Systems Engineering,Materials Science & Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Makerspace-students-working-on-project-18_8103-copy-825w-jpeg-webp.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250926T120500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250926T125500 DTSTAMP:20250915T162031Z CREATED:20250825T193745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T162031Z UID:10001274-1758888300-1758891300@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:Midwest Mechanics Seminar: Professor Daniel Chung 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 Daniel Chung is an Associate Professor at The University of Melbourne. \n\n\n\nPresentation Title: Fluid mechanics of riblets drag reduction \n\n\n\nAbstract: Riblets are a surface texture composed of tiny ribs applied on aircraft skin to reduce drag\, which saves on fuel\, increases the payload and extends the range. To the fast-moving turbulent air that flows over it\, riblets turn out to be smoother\, generating less skin friction\, than a perfectly flat surface. However\, riblet performance is highly sensitive to their cross-sectional shape and features\, which is bad news because the micron-sized ribs\, imperceptible to the naked eye and challenging to measure even with precision instruments\, are impossible to manufacture and maintain perfectly. Thus\, accurate tolerancing\, not only for manufacture but also for lifetime wear planning and monitoring\, is key to this technology\, requiring predictive capability of the kind that derives from advances in basic understanding. In this regard\, I will present some of the progress we have made in the last few years\, building on decades of research\, on the fluid mechanics of turbulence over riblet surfaces. \n\n\n\nThe support of the Australian Research Council\, Cooperative Research Australia and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research FA2386-23-1-4071 is gratefully acknowledged. \n\n\n\nBio: Daniel is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in engineering and computer science from the University of Melbourne in 2003\, and his PhD in aeronautics from Caltech in 2009. He was a postdoc at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory before joining the University of Melbourne in 2012. Daniel’s research uses computational fluid dynamics\, where he tries to distil turbulent flows into simplified problems and to build physics-based models for prediction. Recently\, he has been interested in understanding and controlling turbulent flow and thermal convection over rough surfaces\, riblets and moving wavy surfaces. URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/midwest-mechanics-seminar-professor-daniel-chung/ LOCATION:3M Auditorium\, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building\, 1513 University Ave\, Madison\, 53711 CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Event-Graphics-for-Calendar-11-jpg.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250926T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250926T130000 DTSTAMP:20250918T163656Z CREATED:20250903T155005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T163656Z UID:10001309-1758888000-1758891600@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:Optimization\, ML and AI in Operations Management  DESCRIPTION:UW-ISyE looks forward to welcoming Dr. Georgia Perakis\, Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData-driven decision-making has garnered a growing interest due to the increase in data availability in recent years. With that growth many opportunities as well as challenges arise. Optimization\, Machine Learning (ML) and more generally\, AI play and can play even more an important role to address important challenges in a variety of Operations Management applications. In this talk\, we will discuss some of these applications and will highlight the importance and challenges of integrating optimization with ML in data-driven decision-making. We will also discuss some concrete examples of these synergies in pricing and healthcare. As a result\, we will also discuss how we can optimize over already trained objective functions that arise from neural network models in order to recommend better decisions. \n\n\n\n\n\nBio: Georgia Perakis is the William F. Pounds Professor and a Professor of Operations Management\, Operations Research & Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also serving as co-director of the Operations Research Center. On July 1 she started her sabbatical at Harvard Business School where she is spending the year as a Visiting Scholar. For the past year and a half\, she served as the John C Head III Dean (Interim) at MIT Sloan and before that\, she served as an Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibility in Computing (SERC) in the Schwarzman College of Computing and MIT Sloan. Her research has received many awards and focuses on analytics/AI\, in particular\, in the intersection of optimization and machine learning with applications in pricing\, revenue management\, supply chain\, sustainability and healthcare among others. She received the PECASE Award from the Office of the President on Science and Technology. In 2016\, she was elected as an INFORMS Fellow\, and in 2021 as Distinguished MSOM Fellow.  \n\n\n\nPerakis has passion for supervising PhD\, masters\, and undergraduate students\, having graduated 34 PhD and 63 master’s students. She has received numerous awards for teaching including the Graduate Student Council Teaching Award (2002)\, the Samuel M. Seegal Award (2012)\, the Jamieson Prize for excellence in Teaching (2014)\, the Teacher of the Year Award (2017) and the Outstanding Teaching Award (2024) at MIT Sloan. Perakis is currently the Editor in Chief of the M&SOM journal and has served on the editorial board at a number of other journals. She holds a BS in mathematics from the University of Athens as well as an MS in applied mathematics and a PhD in applied mathematics from Brown University. URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/optimization-ml-and-ai-in-operations-management/ LOCATION:1163 Mechanical Engineering\, 1513 Engineering Dr.\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Industrial & Systems Engineering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/perakisgraphic.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250925T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250925T170000 DTSTAMP:20250922T141117Z CREATED:20250811T150514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T141117Z UID:10001260-1758816000-1758819600@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:ME 150th Celebration: Distinguished Alumni\, Jim Berbee DESCRIPTION:To celebrate 150 years of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison\, the Department of Mechanical Engineering will feature distinguished alumni in mechanical engineering and engineering mechanics who have made a lasting impact on the field. Jim Berbee\, who received his bachelor’s (’85) and his master’s (’87) in mechanical engineering\, started his career as an IBM system engineer and then founded Berbee Information Networks Corporation. After selling his company\, Dr. Berbee earned his doctor of medicine and now serves as a clinical assistant professor at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. To learn more about Jim Berbee’s experience\, please join us for this installment of our ME 903: Graduate Student Lecture series. \n\n\n\nPresentation title: Is it a good thing\, or a bad thing? \n\n\n\nBio: After graduating from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with degrees in mechanical engineering and business\, Dr. Berbee started his career as an IBM system engineer where he specialized in system interoperability. He then founded Berbee Information Networks Corporation\, which he sold to the public company CDW. He went on to earn his medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine. \n\n\n\nDr. Berbee joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health after completing his emergency medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. He served as an attending physician at the UW\, the VA and on MedFlight\, the UW critical transport helicopter service. He also attended patients at the Rice Lake emergency department in northern Wisconsin. \n\n\n\nDr. Berbee serves as a Trustee of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Association (WARF\, known for the medication Warfarin) and is on the board of directors of Madison Gas and Electric (MGEE). He was the Chair of WARF from 2018-2024. He is an active venture investor in medicine and technology and holds patents related to digital otoscopy. He is the founder and chair of WiscMed\, a company that designs and markets the Wispr digital otoscope. \n\n\n\nHe supports human health and welfare projects through the BerbeeWalsh Foundation. He is the event founder of the Berbee Derby Thanksgiving Day 10k RUN & 5k RUN/WALK whose proceeds support technology education. He holds an airline transport pilot (ATP) license\, and type ratings in Cessna Citation jets. In addition\, he has rotor and float plane endorsements. \n\n\n\nHis primary home is in British Columbia\, Canada which he shares with Maple\, his spaniel. URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/me-150th-celebration-distinguished-alumni-jim-berbee/ LOCATION:3M Auditorium\, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building\, 1513 University Ave\, Madison\, 53711 CATEGORIES:Alumni events,Featured Guest Speaker,Mechanical Engineering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Event-Graphics-for-Calendar.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250925T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250925T130000 DTSTAMP:20250905T133221Z CREATED:20250904T203653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250905T133221Z UID:10001311-1758801600-1758805200@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:NEEP Seminar Series: Todd Allen\, University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 2512:00 – 1:00pm106 Engineering Research BuildingPlease contact office@neep.wisc.edu for assistance with remote participation. \n\n\n\nNet zero economy: What’s Up With That (and Nuclear)?Transitioning to a net-zero economy is complex and involves developing new technologies (including nuclear energy)\, determining pathways to expand into wider use of these technologies\, and determining the decision-making processes and policy choices to optimize success.  This talk will frame this transition for nuclear energy within three concepts\, Energy Technology Complexity\, System-informed Decision-Making\, and Community-appropriate Capacity Expansion\, that are the key considerations through which optimal transitions can be made. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTodd AllenDr. Todd Allen is Professor at the University of Michigan and a Senior Fellow at Third Way\, a DC base Think Tank\, supporting their Climate & Energy Portfolio.  He is the Founding Director of the Fastest Path to Zero Initiative\, aimed at identifying the combined technologies and social acceptance that moves towards decarbonized systems.   He is also the Co-Director of the University of Michigan’s hydrogen initiative\, MI Hydrogen.  He was the Deputy Director for Science and Technology at the Idaho National Laboratory from January 2013 through January 2016. Prior to INL he was a Professor in the Engineering Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin\, a position held from September 2003 through December 2012 and again from January 2016-December 2018.  From March 2008-December 2012\, he was concurrently the Scientific Director of the Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility at INL. Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin\, he was a Nuclear Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory-West in Idaho Falls. His Doctoral Degree is in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan (1997) and his Bachelor’s Degree in Nuclear Engineering is from Northwestern University (1984).  Prior to graduate work\, he was an officer in the United States Navy Nuclear Power Program. URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/neep-seminar-series-todd-allen-university-of-michigan/ CATEGORIES:Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/NEEP-Seminar-Series_Events-Page-Feature-Image.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250924T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250924T200000 DTSTAMP:20250822T163947Z CREATED:20250822T163945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250822T163947Z UID:10001271-1758736800-1758744000@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:The Next Era: A Reception with Dean Ranjan DESCRIPTION:—- \n\n\n\nYou’re invited to join us for a special evening as we welcome Devesh Ranjan (MS ’05\, PhD ’07)\, the new Grainger Dean of the College of Engineering\, for a casual reception with fellow alumni in the Twin Cities area.  \n\n\n\nThis is a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with the College\, engage in meaningful conversations with Dean Ranjan\, and network with fellow engineering alumni living and working in the region. Come celebrate the exciting future of the College of Engineering and be part of this growing community of innovators and leaders.Date: September 24\, 2025Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (featuring brief remarks and Q+A)Location: The Hewing Hotel(300 N Washington Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN 55401) \n\n\n\nHeavy appetizers and refreshments will be served. Street parking available. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe look forward to extending a warm Wisconsin welcome to Dean Ranjan and help shape the future of engineering—together. \n\n\n\nThis event is free to attend. URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/the-next-era-a-reception-with-dean-ranjan-3/ LOCATION:300 N Washington Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN 55401\, 300 N Washington Ave\,\, Minneapolis\, Wisconsin\, 55401\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250923T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250923T170000 DTSTAMP:20250827T163458Z CREATED:20250827T163455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250827T163458Z UID:10001287-1758643200-1758646800@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:CBE Seminar Series: David Schaffer DESCRIPTION:David SchafferDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of California-Berkeley Berkeley\, CA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDirected Evolution of New AAV Vectors for Clinical Gene Therapy\n\n\n\nGene therapy has experienced an increasing number of successful human clinical trials\, leading to 6 FDA approved products using delivery vectors based on adeno-associated viruses (AAV). These successes were possible due to the identification of specific disease targets for which natural variants of AAV were sufficient. However\, vectors face a number of barriers and shortcomings that preclude their extension to most human diseases\, including limited delivery efficiency to target cells\, pre-existing antibodies against AAVs\, suboptimal biodistribution\, limited spread within tissues\, and/or an inability to target delivery to specific cells. These barriers are not surprising\, since the parent viruses upon which vectors are based were not evolved by nature for our convenience to use as human therapeutics. Unfortunately\, for most applications\, there is insufficient mechanistic knowledge of underlying virus structure-function relationships to empower rational design improvements. As an alternative\, for over two decades we have been implementing directed evolution–the iterative genetic diversification of the viral genome and functional selection for desired properties–to engineer highly optimized\, next generation AAV variants for efficient and targeted delivery to any cell or tissue target. We have genetically diversified AAV using a broad range of approaches from fully random (e.g. error prone PCR) to computationally guided (e.g. by machine learning). The resulting large (~109) libraries are then functionally selected for substantially enhanced delivery\, yielding AAVs capable of highly efficient therapeutic gene delivery. Our variants have been effective in both animal models and in 6 human clinical trials to date\, and results from both will be discussed. URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/cbe-seminar-series-david-schaffer/ CATEGORIES:Chemical & Biological Engineering,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023_CBE-sem-series-web-header-scaled.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250922T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250922T130000 DTSTAMP:20250910T203228Z CREATED:20250827T170410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T203228Z UID:10001292-1758542400-1758546000@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:BME Seminar Series: Marty Pagel\, PhD DESCRIPTION:Molecular Imaging of the Tumor Microenvironment\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarty Pagel\, PhDProfessorDepartment of Medical PhysicsDepartment of RadiologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison \n\n\n\nAbstract:Tumor acidosis\, hypoxia\, and vascular perfusion are well-known characteristics of the tumor microenvironment. We have developed MRI\, MR Fingerprinting\, PET/MRI\, electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI)\, and photoacoustic imaging (PAI) to quantitatively measure extracellular pH\, oxygenation\, and pharmacokinetic transport rates in solid tumors. We apply these molecular imaging methods to preclinical tumor models\, and we have translated some of our methods to evaluate patients who have cancer. We are especially focused on employing molecular imaging to predict treatment effect before starting therapy\, and to evaluate the early response to treatment\, during evaluations of chemotherapy\, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. This presentation will discuss a variety of molecular imaging methods and research applications\, and also discuss a value proposition for molecular imaging. \n\n\n\nPrint PDF URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/bme-seminar-series-marty-pagel-phd/ LOCATION:1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building\, 1550 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Seminar-Graphic-Fall2024-1.avif ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Biomedical Engineering":MAILTO:bmehelp@bme.wisc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250922T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250922T235959 DTSTAMP:20250916T194726Z CREATED:20250916T194724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T194726Z UID:10001330-1758499200-1758585599@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:ISyE - AI in Industrial Engineering DESCRIPTION:Join IISE for a crash course on AI and how it relates to our major in the workforce. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMore info to come soon! URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/isye-ai-in-industrial-engineering/ CATEGORIES:Industrial & Systems Engineering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Student-Org-EVent-scaled.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250919T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250919T220000 DTSTAMP:20250916T195821Z CREATED:20250916T195625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T195821Z UID:10001331-1758301200-1758319200@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:ISyE - Terrace Hangout! DESCRIPTION:Join the graduate student orgs from ISyE for a night on the Terrace. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nStudents from across ISyE are encouraged to join their peers from INFORMS\, HFES and SME for an evening on the terrace. This is a chance to catch up\, meet old and new faces\, and simply relax by the lake. URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/isye-terrace-hangout/ LOCATION:Memorial Union Terrace\, 800 Langdon St\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53706 CATEGORIES:Industrial & Systems Engineering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/terrace2.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250919T120500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250919T125500 DTSTAMP:20250915T161922Z CREATED:20250825T193504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T161922Z UID:10001273-1758283500-1758286500@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor Matthew Brake 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 Matthew Brake is an Associate Professor at Rice University. \n\n\n\nPresentation Title: Videographic Modal Analysis \n\n\n\nAbstract: Experimental modal analysis is a classical tool that has formed the basis of modern vibration testing and qualification. Despite this\, the process of experimental modal analysis is largely reliant upon techniques from over 60 years ago. Typical experiments of large structures can take months of planning and setup\, and require thousands of channels of accelerometer data. To lower the cost and time associated with vibration testing\, Videographic Modal Analysis (VMA) combines recent advances in data science\, image processing\, and traditional modal analysis concepts. First\, natural frequencies are identified from videos of an experiment using a deep learning algorithm. Once these frequencies are identified\, optical flow\, phase-based motion magnification\, and edge detection techniques are automatically applied to quantitatively characterize the mode shapes of the structure. Without instrumentation\, we can now identify mode shapes and natural frequencies of arbitrary structures in real-world settings (not just beams vibrating in labs!). This talk will present the science behind VMA and demonstrate its applicability. \n\n\n\nBio: Prof. Brake started at Rice University in 2016 after working at Sandia National Laboratories for nine years. Prior to Sandia\, Prof. Brake graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007. Prof. Brake has been elected to several leadership positions\, including as the director of the International Committee on Joint Mechanics\, the chair of the Nonlinear Dynamics Technical Division of SEM\, and the chair of the ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound. He is a recipient of the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers\, the 2018 C.D. Mote Jr Early Career Award\, and the National Science Foundation Career Award. His primary research interests are in data-driven experimentation\, multi-scale and multi-physics modeling\, vibration\, tribology\, uncertainty propagation\, structural health monitoring\, and nonlinear dynamics. URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-matthew-brake/ LOCATION:3M Auditorium\, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building\, 1513 University Ave\, Madison\, 53711 CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Event-Graphics-for-Calendar-11-jpg.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250918T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250918T200000 DTSTAMP:20250827T171524Z CREATED:20250827T171522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250827T171524Z UID:10001296-1758218400-1758225600@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:Public Town Hall on National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing DESCRIPTION:This town hall will gather information from the advanced manufacturing community in the Wisconsin area for the 2026 – 2030 National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing\, which guides Federal efforts to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing. The plan is revised every four years to provide new federal priorities in advanced manufacturing research and development\, aiming to create jobs\, boost economic growth across various sectors\, and strengthen national security. This town hall session augments an online Request for Information (RFI)\, enabling participants to voice their views and help identify priority areas. URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/public-town-hall-on-national-strategic-plan-for-advanced-manufacturing/ CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250918T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250918T170000 DTSTAMP:20250827T163141Z CREATED:20250827T163139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250827T163141Z UID:10001286-1758211200-1758214800@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:CBE Seminar Series: Pramod Wangikar DESCRIPTION:Seminar 9-10am at Union South Landmark Room \n\n\n\nPramod WangikarChair Professor for Green Chemistry and Industrial BiotechnologyDepartment of Chemical EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology BombayMumbai\, India \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHarnessing Metabolomics for Precision Medicine and Fermentation\n\n\n\nMetabolomics is an emerging tool in bioengineering research\, based on profiling hundreds of metabolites in biological systems to provide a detailed view of cellular metabolism. In this evolving field\, success hinges on advanced data acquisition methods\, particularly mass spectrometry coupled with liquid chromatography (LC–MS) or gas chromatography (GC–MS). We present specific use cases from our research that demonstrate the transformative potential of metabolomics in understanding and manipulating biological systems for healthcare and industrial applications: \n\n\n\n\nBiomarker Discovery in Metabolic Disorders: We used untargeted metabolomics to discover novel biomarkers for chronic metabolic disorders. In patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D)\, we identified distinct panels of metabolites associated with the risk of kidney and cardiovascular complications. These biomarkers hold potential for diagnostic tools offering greater predictive power and clinical efficacy than the standard glucose test.\n\n\n\nFermentation Optimization via Spent Media Analysis: Metabolomic analysis of spent culture media reveals critical insights into cellular metabolism in fermentation processes. By integrating these data with genome-scale metabolic models through constraint-based modeling\, we optimized nutrient supplementation strategies\, achieving substantial improvements in product yield with minimal experimental trials. \n\n\n\n\nHandling large\, complex datasets from untargeted metabolomics presents a significant challenge due to data complexity and noise. To streamline the analysis of such large metabolomics datasets\, we developed MSOne\, an AI-based platform that automates and accelerates data processing. Additionally\, we leverage MetaMine\, a repository derived from thousands of public-domain metabolomics studies that supports comparative analysis and meta-level insights. Together\, these tools serve as essential resources for addressing challenges in large-scale metabolomics data handling and interpretation\, reinforcing the promise of metabolomics in precision medicine and industrial biotechnology URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/cbe-seminar-series-pramod-wangikar/ CATEGORIES:Chemical & Biological Engineering,Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250918T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250918T170000 DTSTAMP:20250915T161826Z CREATED:20250811T163746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T161826Z UID:10001263-1758211200-1758214800@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Mike Molnar 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. Michael Molnar (BSME ’85) is the founding director of the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office at NIST. \n\n\n\nPresentation Title: The Federal Role in Accelerating Technology and Manufacturing Innovation \n\n\n\nAbstract: The development of critical and emerging technologies plays a key role in U.S. national and economic security. Since the founding of our nation the role of the federal government has been clear on national security but a matter of considerable debate on the broader economic security. Beginning with Alexander Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures through Vannevar Bush’s Science\, the Endless Frontier\, to today – the principles of an innovation policy are clear. What though is the federal role in industrial policy with a free market system? \n\n\n\nSeveral successful models have emerged\, all having elements of partnership to support industry and academia. Manufacturing USA is an example of industry-led public private partnerships. Established as a program just ten years ago as applied research institutes on emerging technologies\, these institutes feature mass collaboration of industry and academia on projects of technology acceleration\, supply chain and workforce development. Some 18 institutes are currently in the national network with a new institute on Artificial Intelligence for Resilient Manufacturing planned this year. The talk concludes with briefly contrasting other engagement models\, such as Operation Warp Speed\, for accelerating technology. \n\n\n\nBio: Mike is the founding director of the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office\, the interagency team responsible for the Manufacturing USA network of applied research manufacturing innovation institutes. He also leads the NIST Office of Advanced Manufacturing and serves as co-chair of the National Science and Technology Council\, Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing – the White House team responsible for the National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing. Prior to joining federal service in 2011 Mike had a successful industry career\, including 25 years leading manufacturing and technology development at Cummins\, a U.S. based global company that designs and manufactures engines and power generation products. Mike is a proud Badger\, with two of his degrees from the University of Wisconsin – a Mechanical Engineering B.S. and one of the first graduates of the Manufacturing Systems Engineering Masters program. URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/me-903-graduate-seminar-mike-molnar/ LOCATION:3M Auditorium\, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building\, 1513 University Ave\, Madison\, 53711 CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Event-Graphics-for-Calendar-12-jpg.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250918T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250918T130000 DTSTAMP:20250904T194330Z CREATED:20250904T193912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250904T194330Z UID:10001310-1758196800-1758200400@engineering.wisc.edu SUMMARY:NEEP Seminar Series: Brelon J. May\, Idaho National Laboratory DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 1812:00 – 1:00pm106 Engineering Research BuildingPlease contact office@neep.wisc.edu for assistance with remote participation. \n\n\n\nEpitaxial Nitrides: Bringing Squares and Triangles TogetherThe world of nitride materials is vast; it is comprised of extremely stable materials and yet remains relatively underexplored. Individual nitride materials display exceptional properties and are used in a wide variety of structural\, electrochemical\, photochemical\, and plasmonic applications. The hexagonal wurtzite-structured group III-Nitride materials are nearly ubiquitous in optoelectronic\, photonic\, and high-power devices due to many factors\, including the large variation in bandgap spanning from the infrared to the deep ultraviolet. Recent research has pursued the combination of this well-established material system with other transition-metal nitrides for the creation of complex heterostructures which display interesting optical\, electronic\, and quantum effects. The metastable cubic zincblende phase of GaN provides an attractive alternative as a wide bandgap cubic material direct gap of 3.2 eV and the increased symmetry of cubic structures could resolve issues with internal polarization fields and simplify interfacing with other cubic materials. Transition metal\, rare earth\, and actinide nitrides often share a stable rocksalt structure\, and many have been employed in applications requiring mechanical or thermal stability in harsh environments. Additionally\, many of these materials have notable\, magnetic\, superconducting\, or plasmonic properties\, and precise integration could facilitate wide ranging investigations. \n\n\n\nThis work will discuss how molecular beam epitaxy is used to synthesize and dope hexagonal and cubic nitrides and integrate them into precise heterostructures. Reflection high energy electron diffraction\, X-ray diffraction\, and transmission electron microscopy reveal the epitaxial quality of single layer films and superlattices. The electrical transport properties of superconducting\, metallic\, and insulating epitaxial cubic and hexagonal nitrides will be discussed. The properties show strong dependence on growth parameters\, but similar growth windows were found for GaN and some metal nitrides\, which allows for fabrication of metal-dielectric multilayers which could be used for optical metamaterials. These results provide new platforms for epitaxial superconductor-semiconductor-magnetic systems comprised of group-III\, transition metal\, rare earth\, and actinide elements expanding possibilities of band engineering\, spintronics\, quantum science and heavy element systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrelon J. MayBrelon May is an applied physicist at Idaho National Laboratory using molecular beam epitaxy to synthesize single-crystalline thin films based on actinides\, lanthanides\, and transition metals. His research aims to facilitate the understanding and enable utilization of the unique physics that arise in highly correlated materials and to leverage single crystals as platforms for investigating relationships between complex systems. His interests include superconductivity\, magnetism\, and epitaxial integration of dissimilar material systems for the creation of multi-functional hierarchical matter. \n\n\n\nHis fascination for thin film deposition started when he was at Clarkson University\, where he received his bachelor’s in chemical engineering (2013) and helped with deposition of polycrystalline solar cells using a Crayola airbrush and a hotplate. He earned his doctorate at The Ohio State University in materials science and engineering where he received the Presidential Fellowship. There\, he worked on the vacuum deposition of several material systems including wide bandgap oxides and 2D selenide-based materials\, but his focus was on the growth of nitride nanowires and fabrication of ultraviolet LEDs. Before joining Idaho National Laboratory\, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden\, Colorado\, where he developed a method to reduce the cost of high efficiency solar cells\, through combining traditional III-V material deposition techniques with water soluble alkali halides. URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/neep-seminar-series-brelon-j-may-idaho-national-laboratory/ CATEGORIES:Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://engineering.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/NEEP-Seminar-Series_Events-Page-Feature-Image.avif END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR