2017 Past Departmental Seminars

Research Talks

Dr. Gabor Fichtinger, from Queen's University 

Tuesday, November 28, 2017 ; Room E5 3052 - 1:30 to 2:30 PM

​Title: Rapid Prototyping of Ultrasound-Guided Interventions

Research Talks

Dr. Etienne Martin

Thursday, November 23, 2017 ; Room E5 2007 - 1:15 to 2:15 PM

​Title: Mechanical Twinning in Magnesium Alloys for the Automotive Industry

Research Talk

MMEGA Café

TITLE: A 1-D Model for Monolithic SMAs with Multiple Pseudoelastic Plateaus

Andrew Michael, PhD candidate, University of Waterloo

TITLE: Sagging resistance of warm formed aluminum brazing sheet

Michael Benoit, PhD candidate, University of Waterloo

DATE: Friday, October 5, 2017 TIME: 11:30 - 12:30 ROOM: RCH 305


Dr. Farhang Daneshmand
Adjunct Professor
McGill University
DATE: Friday, August 11, 2017 TIME: 1:00pm – 2:00pm ROOM: E5 2004


Dr. Kamyar Ghavam
Lecturer
University of Waterloo
DATE: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 TIME: 1:00pm – 2:00pm ROOM: E5 2004


Dr. Darwin LauAssistant Professor, Mechanical and Automation Engineering

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

DATE: Tuesday, August 8th, 2017, 10:00am – 11:00am, E5 2004

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Research Talk

Cyclic Deformation and Fatigue of Metals: Experimental Observations and Modeling

Dr. Yanyao Jiang , Professor University of NevadaReno, Nevada, USA

DATE: Tuesday, July 11

TIME: 3:00pm – 4:00pm

ROOM: E5 2004

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Research Seminar

Control of vehicles: cooperative and/or autonomous driving

Dr. Henk Nijmeijer Professor Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands

DATE: Monday, May 29th

TIME: 10:00am – 11:00am

ROOM: DC 1304

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Research Seminar

Neuromechanics-based Assistive Robotics

Dr. Arash Aram,

Research Associate

Imperial College London, UK

DATE: Friday, May 12, 2017

TIME: 1:30pm to 2:30pm

ROOM: E5 3052

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Research Seminar

Friday April 28th, 2017 1:00pm - 2:00pm, E5-2004

Materials Design: Design and Processing of Innovative Microstructures in Metallic Alloys

Professor Paul Sanders, Associate Professor sanders@mtu.edu

Materials Science and Engineering,

Michigan Technological University

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Research Seminar

Learning Control for Complex Mechatronic Systems Using
Model-free and Model-based Methods as Applied to Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles

Kayacan Erdal
Assistant Professor
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Date: April 10, 2017
Time: 1:30 to 2:30 PM
Location: E5 2004

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Research Seminar

Dr. Chris Morton

Assistant Professor, University of Calgary

DATE: Thursday, April 6, 2017
TIME: 1:45pm to 2:45pm
ROOM: E5 2004

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Research Seminar

MMEGA Seminar Series

Ehsan Hashemi - Distributed Robust Vehicle State Estimation

Daniel Odoh - Prediction of the hot flow stress behavior of AA6063 including Mg2Si
Date: April 6, 2017
Time: 11:30AM-12:30PM
Location: E5 3101

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Research Seminar

The Structure of turbulence in Engineering Flows

Dr. Vesselina Roussinova, Assistant Professor, University of Windsor

DATE: Friday, March 31, 2017
TIME: 1:45pm to 2:45pm
ROOM: E5 2004

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Research Seminar

Dr. George Choueiri
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
DATE: Friday, March 24, 2017
TIME: 1:15pm to 2:15pm
ROOM: E5 2004

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Research Seminar

Multiscale Characterization and Modeling of the Formability and Crashworthiness of Advanced Lightweight Materials

Dr. Julie Levesque
Research Associate
Laval University
DATE: Friday, March 10, 2017
TIME: 10:15am to 11:15am
ROOM: E5 2004

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Research Seminar

Motion Control, Planning and Manipulation of Nanowires under Electric-Fields in Fluid Suspension

Dr. Kaiyan Yu Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
DATE: Tuesday, March 7, 2017
TIME: 1:45pm to 2:45pm
ROOM: E5 2004

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Research Seminar

Robotic interaction control and human-robot collaboration

Dr. Yanan Li
Research Associate
Imperial College London
DATE: Friday, March 3rd, 2017
TIME: 1:45pm to 2:45pm
ROOM: E5 2004

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Research Seminar

Robotics for investigating human motor control, learning and neuro-rehabilitation

Dr. Felix Huang

Research Scientist

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC)

DATE: Tuesday, February 14th, 2017

TIME: 10:15 am to 11:15 pm

ROOM: E5 2004

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Research Seminar

Mechanical Twinning in Magnesium Alloys for the Automotive Industry

Dr. Etienne Martin

Materials Scientist

GE Global research

DATE: Thursday, February 9th, 2017

TIME: 12:45 pm to 1:45 pm

ROOM: E5 2004

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Research Seminar

Fatigue characterization and modeling of magnesium alloys and spot welds through cyclic plasticity modeling

Seyed Behzad Behravesh

Research Associat, University of Waterloo

DATE: Thursday, February 2nd, 2017

TIME: 10:00am to 11:00am

ROOM: E5 2004

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Research Seminar

Dr. Ramin Ghelichi
Assistant Professor
Polytechnic University of Milan

DATE: Monday, January 30, 2017

TIME: 11:00am – 11:45am

ROOM: E5 3052
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Research Seminar

Fatigue Characterization of Friction Stir Welded Dissimilar Aluminum

to Magnesium Alloys

Harish Rao

Research Scientist, Canmet MATERIALS

DATE: Thursday, January 26, 2017

TIME: 10:45 am to 11:45 am

ROOM: E5 2004