Fall Semester 2021

Seminars take place in White Hall, Room 411, from 4-5:15 p.m unless otherwise noted.

Contact Professor Bud Baeslack with questions. 

This semester's speakers are:

August 24
Professor Frank Ernst, CWRU - Introduction to Department

August 31
MSE Open House Celebration

September 7
Professor Jennifer Carter, CWRU - EMSE Laboratory Safety

September 14
Daniela Solomon, CWRU - “Is a Literature Review in Your Future? Get Ready for It!”

September 21
TBD

September 28
Professor Jennifer Carter, CWRU - Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis and Microscopy

October 5
Professor Glenn Daehn, Ohio State University - Intentional Design of Materials-Aware Manufacturing Processes: Why and Examples

October 11 (held in White 326)
Professor Tony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University - 3D Printing, Synchrotron Experiments and Machine Learning

October 26
Dr. Badri Narayanan, Lincoln Electric Co. - Additive Manufacturing Technology at Lincoln Electric Co.

November 2
Dr. David Ellis, NASA Glenn - AM GRCop Alloys for Rocket Engine Applications

November 9
Professor Desmond Bourgeous, Ohio State University - Modeling ultrasonic wave propagation in anisotropic materials with varying degrees of surface roughness using Abaqu

November 16
CWRU Distinguished University Professor John Lewandowski

November 23
Dr. Michael Gorelik, FAA - Additive Manufacturing at the FAA

November 30
Professor Jerome Delhommelle, University of North Dakota - Assembly, Cooperativity, and Emergence: From the AI-Guided Formation of Materials To the Onset of Soft Matter Robotics

Van Horn Lecture Archives

2015 - Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge

• Extremely Complex Problems 

• Evolution of Solutions 

• The First Bulk-Nanostructural Metal 

 

2016 - Wayne Kaplan, Technion, Haifa, Israel Institute of Technology

• High Temperature Wetting and Materials Engineering 

• Interfacial States and Thermodynamic Transitions at Interfaces 

• The Influence of Fields and Dopants on Grain Boundary Mobility
   

2017 - Chris Schuh, MIT

• Harder, Cheaper, Greener: The Materials Science of Nanostructured Metal Coatings

• Materials Entrepreneurship: Nanostructured Metal Coatings as a "Platform Technology"

• Materials Scale-Up Science: How Thermodynamics Enables Mass Manufacturing

 

2018 - Harry Atwater, Caltech

• Fueling Human Progress With Sunlight

• Turnable Light-Matter Interactions in Two-Dimensional Materials & Metasurfaces

• Trip the Light Fantastic: Photonic Materials Challenges for Interstellar Travel

 

2019 - Gerbrand Ceder, UC Berkeley

• Materials Issues for the Growing Electrochemical Energy Storage Market

• The Materials Genome and the Transformation of Materials Science Through Ab-initio Computing

• Machine Learning of Material Structure and Synthesis