Guest Seminar Series (ME 600)

The following seminars count towards the seminar requirement for ME 600 graduate students.

Upcoming Speakers


Tuesday, January 23rd
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: John Evans
University of Colorado Boulder
Host: Ming-Chen Hsu
Pletcher Seminar


Tuesday, January 30th
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Keith Moored
Lehigh University
Host: Qiang Zhong


Tuesday, February 6th
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Naira Hovakimyan
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Host: Cody Fleming


Tuesday, February 13th
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Dion Khodagholy
Columbia University
Host: Reza Montazami


Tuesday, February 20th
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Shelley Minteer
University of Utah
Host: Jonathan Claussen


Tuesday, February 27th
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: James (Jim) Gilchrist
Lehigh University
Host: Jamie Juarez


Tuesday, March 5th
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Hector Gomez
Purdue University
Host: Ming-Chen Hsu
Pletcher Seminar


Friday, March 8th
12:00 – 1:00 pm
SICTR 2206

Speaker: Lucy Zhang
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
National Science Foundation, Program Manager
Host: Anwesha Sarkar
Pletcher Seminar cohosted with TrAC


Tuesday, March 19th
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Stephen Berkebile
Army Research Laboratory
Host: Sougata Roy


Wednesday, March 20th
1:00 – 2:00 pm
SICTR 2206

Speaker: Yue Yu
Lehigh University
Host: Ming-Chen Hsu
Pletcher Seminar cohosted with TrAC


Tuesday, March 26th
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Chao-Yang Wang
Pennsylvania State University
Host: Todd Kingston


Tuesday, April 2nd
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Dianne Eldridge
Amazon Web Services
Host: Paul Schafbuch


Tuesday, April 9th
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Debkalpa Goswami
Cleveland Clinic
Host: Soumik Sarkar


Tuesday, April 16th
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Robert Landers
University of Notre Dame
Host: Juan Ren


Tuesday, April 23rd
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Nenad Miljkovic
University of Urbana-Champaign
Host: Todd Kingston

Tailoring Surface Chemistry and Surface Roughness to enable the Long-Term Stable Dropwise Condensation of Steam and Refrigerant Working Fluids

Previous Speakers

Tuesday, November 28th
11:00 – 11:45 pm
Black 2004

Speaker: Lei Zuo
Host: Shan Hu


Tuesday, November 7th
11:00 – 11:45 pm
Black 2004

Speaker: Ellen Mazumdar
Host: James Michael


Tuesday, October 31st
11:00 – 11:45 pm
Black 2004

Speaker: Juan Carlos Dominguez Toribio
Host: Mark Mba-Wright


Tuesday, October 24th
11:00 – 11:45 pm
Black 2004

Speaker: Philip Metzger
Host: Jim Heise


Tuesday, October 17th
11:00 – 11:45 pm
Black 2004

Speaker: Rahul Panat
Carnegie Mellon University
Host: Ethan Secor


Tuesday, October 10th
11:00 – 11:45 pm
Black 2004

Speaker: Xuejun Pan
University of Wisconson-Madison
Host: Xianglan Bai


Tuesday, October 3rd
11:00 – 11:45 pm
Black 2004

Speaker: David Erickson
Cornell University
Host: Nicole Hashemi


Friday, September 22nd
12:00 – 12:45 pm
Black 2004

Speaker: Dr. Abhishek Halder


Thursday, August 31st
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Dr. Yang Du
Princeton University


Friday, August 25th
12:00 – 12:45 pm
Black 2004

Speaker: Yuri Bazilevs


Tuesday, April 18
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Charles Meneveau
Johns Hopkins University


Tuesday, April 11
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Greg Young
Virginia Tech


Tuesday, April 4
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Chen Li
University of South Carolina


Tuesday, March 28
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Shaurya Prakash
Ohio State University


Tuesday, March 21
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Scott Ferguson
North Carolina State University


Wednesday, March 8
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Stuart J. Williams
University of Louisville


Tuesday, March 7
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Yong Chen
University of Southern California


Tuesday, February 28
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Zhenhua Tian
Virginia Tech


Tuesday, February 21
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Melissa Green
University of Minnesota


Tuesday, February 14
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Aaron M. Lattanzi
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


Tuesday, February 7
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Rachel Carter
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory


Tuesday, January 31
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Jonas Baltrusaitis
Lehigh University


Tuesday, January 24
11:00 – 11:45 am
Black 2004

Speaker: Albert Shih
University of Michigan

A special thank you to the Pletcher family

The Richard and Carol Pletcher Seminar Series was established in 2016 with support from the Pletcher family. Richard “Dick” Pletcher served on the ME faculty at Iowa State from 1967 to 2007. During his tenure, Dr. Pletcher made countless research contributions to the fields of fluid dynamics and heat transfer, including co-authoring the popular textbook, Computation Fluid Mechanic and Heat Transfer.  

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