Previous Speakers
Spring 2024 Speakers
Melissa Cefkin - The Social Lives of Robots on Roads: Designing Autonomous Vehicle Behavior Abstract
Fall 2023 Speakers
Hal Alper, Kenneth A. Kobe Professor of Chemical Engineering and Executive Director, Center for Biomedical Research Support at The University of Texas at Austin - Engineering biology to develop 鈥渁 taste for waste鈥�
Dominic Bednar - Assistant Professor of Infrastructure Equity Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy at UC Irvine
Dr. Roberto C. Andresen Eguiluz - Revealing biomolecular mechanism for controlling aqueous adhesion and lubrication
Spring 2023 Speakers
Ahoura Zandiatashbar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, San Jos茅 State University - Introduction to Spatial Analytics and Visualization Institute (SAVI) at 91猎奇; Mapping the public health and economic outcomes of the built environment
Colleen Josephson, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz - Enabling sustainable sensor networks with RF backscatter
Venkattraman Ayyaswamy, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Merced - Versatility of low-temperature plasmas: From tunable electronics to agriculture
Alex Mejia, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies - Latino/a/x engineering students鈥� Conocimiento: La facultad and seeing deeper realities of surface phenomena
Fall 2022 Speakers
Dr. Bruk Berhane, Ph.D. - Untapped Potential: Leveraging the Diversity of Community Colleges to Broaden Participation in Engineering
Dr. Eric Pop - What Are 2D Materials Good For?
Anita D. Bhappu, Ph.D. - Organization-Sponsored Sharing Platforms: Designing Technology-Enabled Service Systems That Engage Employees
Spring 2022 Speakers
Dr. Idalis Villanueva - University of Florida: Race re-imaging academic mentoring: An exploration of the complex identities and experiences of womxn scientists and engineers
Dr. Sam Markolf - UC Merced: Toward Resilient Social-Ecological-Technological Systems in a Changing World
Dr. Adrian Sescu - Mississippi State University: Computational Studies of High-Speed Shear Flows
Fall 2021 Speakers
Alonso Vera - Chief, Human Systems Integration Division, NASA Ames Research Center - Engineering Systems Around Human Capabilities
Haruko Wainwright - Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory -
Gavin Jones, PhD - Manager, Research Staff Member, Quantum Applications, IBM Quantum -
Spring 2021 Speakers
Deb Banerjee, Mechanical Engineering Professor, Texas A&M University: Meanderings of a Mechanical Nano-technologist: from Engineering-Ethics to Engineering-Medicine
Dr. Min Hwan Lee, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UC Merced: Atomic/Nano-scale Surface and Interfacial Engineering for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Dr. Naira Hovakimyan, Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC: Robotics: Safe Learning and Control with L1 Adaptation
Kevin Fogarty, Astrophysicist, Space Science and Astrobiology Division, NASA Ames Research Center: Directly Imaging Exoplanets with Coronagraphy
Spring 2020 Speakers
Dr. Jennifer Lu, UC Merced - Cutting Edge Research in Nanomaterials for Energy and Sensing and Student Research Opportunities
Dr. Kacey Beddoes, 91猎奇 - Promoting Successful Teamwork through Interdisciplinary Teamwork Artifacts and Shared Mental Models
Fall 2019 Speakers
Dr. Tarek Zohdi, UC Berkeley - Modeling and Simulation of Tools for Advanced Manufacturing
