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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

Teer 106

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, […]

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MEMS Seminar – 2025 George W. Pearsall Distinguished Lecture: Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side B, room 1466

Duke's Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science welcomes Yonggang Huang of Northwestern University to deliver the 2025 George W. Pearsall Distinguished Lecture-noon, March 5, 2025, in Schiciano Auditorium. Reception to follow. Title: Bioelastic State Recovery for Haptic Sensory Substitution Abstract: The rich set of mechanoreceptors found in human skin offers a versatile […]

From Gambits to Assurances: Game-Theoretic Integration of Safety and Learning for Human-Centered Robotics

Wilkinson Building, room 130

From autonomous vehicles navigating busy intersections to quadrupeds deployed in household environments, robots must operate safely and efficiently around people in uncertain and unstructured situations. However, today's robots still struggle to robustly handle low-probability events without becoming overly conservative. In this talk, I will discuss how planning in the joint space of physical and information […]

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 […]

Experimental and analytical methods for movement rehabilitation and assessment in the community

Hudson Hall 125

Preventing injury and restoring mobility following injury, both musculoskeletal and neuromuscular, is challenging. In recent years, the fields of biomechanics and clinical rehabilitation have informed the development of wearable devices and assessment tools that aid in rehabilitation and in maintaining mobility. Wearable exosystems are assistive devices that can target weakness in a specific joint or […]

DMI Seminar Presented by Arrelaine Dameron

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TITLE: Manufacturing-Scale Atomic Layer Deposition for Batteries... and Other Applications Historically Atomic layer deposition (ALD) has been regarded as a lab-only process, disregarded as too expensive and an unrealistic process for commercial adoption outside of semiconductor manufacturing. However, several methods for high volume manufacturing have been developed over the last decade, making ALD on powders […]

Robots that Evolve on Demand

LSRC B101 Love Auditorium

Robots are traditionally designed with fixed physical hardware and control policies that make them specialized for repetitive tasks and structured environments. This talk discusses foundational work toward robots that "evolve on demand," morphing their bodies and adapting their behaviors to accommodate multiple tasks in diverse environments. First, I will introduce robotic structures made from stiffness-changing […]

DMI/MEMS Seminar Presented by Prof Mariana Rossi

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side B, room 1466

TITLE: The quantum properties of molecular interfaces Abstract: Weakly bonded interfaces composed by molecular and solid-state inorganic materials give rise to a rich variety of nuclear motion and tunable nuclear structure that is tightly connected to diverse electronic properties in these systems. In my talk, I will discuss how we push the limits of density-functional […]