The School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks (MSN) holds weekly academic seminars. These seminars are open to the public and feature speakers who are at the forefront of a variety of manufacturing disciplines and applications.
About Karen Lozano is a trustee professor and chair of the materials science and nanoengineering department at Rice University. From 2000 to 2025, she served as the Julia Beecherl Endowed Professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where she founded the Nanotechnology Center and launched the college’s first doctoral degree…
About Ryan Spencer is an associate research and development staff member in the Composite Innovation Group at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is also a Fellow with the University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge Innovation Institute, contributing to the Circular Bioeconomy Systems Convergent Research Initiative. Spencer earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees…
About Robert Gao is the Cady Staley Professor and chair of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Since earning his doctoral degree from the Technical University of Berlin in 1991, he has conducted research in physics-based signal transduction mechanisms, multiresolution signal processing, stochastic modeling, and artificial intelligence and machine…
Join the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks for the Overview of Idaho National Laboratory and Advanced Manufacturing Capabilities seminar.
In this talk, the speaker focuses on mesoscale modeling of deformation twinning in hexagonal metals by developing a coupled crystal plasticity finite element-phase field model.
Join the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks for the microstructure analytics of Ni-based superalloys using computer vision techniques seminar.