Distinguished Lectures

CME Distinguished Lecture Series

Spring 2020

Dr. Darrin Pochan
Professor and Chair Department of Materials and Engineering, University of Delaware
February 17, 2020
Biomolecules for Non-Biological Things: Materials Construction through Peptide Design and Solution Assembly

Fall 2019

Dr. Susan Sinnott
Department Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University
September 23, 2019
Computational Approaches for Material Design and Discovery

Dr. Daniel Frisbie
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
October 28, 2019
New Materials & Printing Processes for Flexible Electronics

Dr. Amit Misra
Professor and Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
November 18, 2019
Interface- Microstructure- Enabled High Strength and Damage Tolerance in Metallic Materials

Spring 2019

Dr. Douglass Kalika
Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky
February 4, 2019
Elucidation of Structure-Property-Performance Relationships in Gas Separation Membrane Polymers

Dr. Eric Luijten
Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
February 18, 2019
The Striking Geometries of Self-assembled Hierarchical Structures

Dr. Vasan Venugopalan
Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine
April 29, 2019
Laser-Generated Microtsunamis for Targeted Cell Lysis, Molecular Delivery and Mechanotransduction

Fall 2018

Dr. Daryl Chrzan
University of California, Berkeley
September 17, 2018
Mechanical Exfoliation as a Route to Nanomanufacturing of 2D van der Waals Bonded Heterostructures

Dr. Donald Morelli
Michigan State University
October 1, 2018
Structure, Bonding and Anharmonicity in Tetraherite-based Thermoelectrics

Dr. Karen Winey
TowerBrook Foundation Faculty Fellow and Department Chair
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
November 19, 2018
Precise Polymers that Control Nanoscale Morphologies & Properties