Events

MEMS Seminar: Carmel Majidi, “Soft-Matter Engineering for Robotics and Wearables”

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side B, room 1466

Thomas Lord Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science welcomes Carmel Majidi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, who will give the talk, "Soft-Matter Engineering for Robotics and Wearables." Abstract: Progress in soft lithography and soft materials integration has led to extraordinary new classes of soft-matter sensors, circuits, and transducers. These material technologies […]

Medical Robotics Seminar: Miniature Multi-modal Medical Robots

Manual manipulation of traditional minimally invasive devices for life-saving surgery is time consuming with uncertain results. Steerable robotic micro-catheters and miniature endoscopes are essential to the operating room of the future, but lack the dexterity needed to navigate tortuous human anatomy. This talk introduces the design of three unique miniature robots: 1) A robotic catheter […]

MEMS Seminar: Wilbur Lam, “Engineering microsystems to investigate the cellular mechanics of blood in health and disease”

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side B, room 1466

Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Spring 2025 Seminar Series, welcomes Wilbur Lam, Professor at Emory University, who will give the talk, "Engineering microsystems to investigate the cellular mechanics of blood in health and disease." ABSTRACT: Hematologic processes are frequently comprised of cellular and biomolecular interactions that are biophysical in nature and […]

Multi-Scale Biomechanics of Blood Flow for Vascular Development, Repair, and Rejuvenation

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Abstract: During cardiovascular development, peristaltic contraction of the embryonic heart tube produces time-varying hemodynamic forces and pressure gradients across the atrioventricular canal. However, the relative importance of myocardial contraction and hemodynamic force to modulate cardiovascular morphogenesis in the non-Newtonian flow regime remains poorly understood. By developing the 4-D light-sheet fluorescent microscope and post-imaging machine-learning algorithms, […]

MEMS Seminar: Bobby Noble (EPRI), “Decarbonization Pathways – How Dispatchable Gas Turbines Are Critical for Our Energy Trilemma.”

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side B, room 1466

Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Spring 2025 Seminar Series, welcomes Bobby Noble, Senior Program Manager Gas Turbine R&D at EPRI, who will be presenting a lecture entitled, "Decarbonization Pathways - How Dispatchable Gas Turbines Are Critical for Our Energy Trilemma." ABSTRACT: Most countries and areas worldwide have decarbonization goals with major […]