MIE’s Distinguished Seminar Series features top international researchers and leading experts across major areas of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering. The speakers present about their latest research and offer their perspectives on the current state of their field. The Distinguished Seminar Series is coordinated by Assistant Professor Merve Bodur.
The seminars are part of the program requirements for MIE Master of Applied Science and PhD students.
View all upcoming MIE Distinguished Seminars below or go to main Events Calendar
Interested alumni and members of the U of T community who would like to attend the seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca
March 2023
In-Person: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Peter Glynn: "Statistics for Service Operations"
Friday, March 31, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building
Networking Reception with Prof. Peter Glynn
Friday, March 31, 3:00pm-4:00pm
MC331
March 2023
CANCELLED: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Seeram Ramakrishna: "Advancing Materials Science and Engineering with Future in Mind: Sustainable Materials and Intelligent Materials"
Friday, March 17, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
Networking Reception with Prof. Michael McAlpine
Friday, March 3, 3:00pm-4:00pm
MC331
In-Person: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Michael McAlpine: "3D Printing Active Electronic Devices"
Friday, March 3, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
February 2023
Networking Reception with Prof. Kristen Miller
Friday, February 10, 3:00pm-4:00pm
MC331
In-Person: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Kristen Miller: "Re-engineering the Future of Diagnostic Safety: A Human Factors Engineering Approach"
Friday, February 10, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
December 2022
Networking Reception with Prof. David Pui
Friday, December 2, 3:00pm-4:00pm
MC331
NEW DATE In-Person: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor David Pui: "Green Technologies for Sustainable Environment"
Friday, December 2, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
November 2022
Networking Reception with Dr. Jesse Zhu
Friday, November 25, 3:00pm-4:00pm
MC331
In-Person: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Dr. Jesse Zhu: "Small Particles Hoisting Gigantic Industrial Processes - the I2I (Idea-to-Industrialization) road of Particle Technology"
Friday, November 25, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
October 2022
Networking Reception with Professor Emeritus Christopher Macosko
Friday, October 28, 3:00pm-4:00pm
MC331
In-Person: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Emeritus Christopher Macosko: "Applying Rheology to Solve Engineering Problems"
Friday, October 28, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
September 2022
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series Reception with Professor Ann Bisantz
Friday, September 16, 3:00pm-3:30pm
MC331
In-Person: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Ann Bisantz: "Cognitive Systems Engineering and Health Informatics: A Work-Centered Design Approach"
Friday, September 16, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
April 2022
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Ashok Goel: "Biologically Inspired Design: Information-Processing Models and Computational Methods"
Friday, April 1, 2:00pm-3:00pm
March 2022
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Aydin Nabovati: "Thermal Management of Self Driving Systems: From Silicon to Vehicle to Supercomputers"
Friday, March 25, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Philomena Bluyssen: "The Need for Understanding the Indoor Environment and its Occupants"
Friday, March 11, 2:00pm-3:00pm
November 2021
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor John Hooker: "Balancing Fairness and Efficiency in a Optimization Model"
Friday, November 19, 2:00pm-3:00pm
October 2021
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Fan Yuan: “Overcoming and Establishing Transport Barriers to Improve Delivery of Molecular Cargo”
Friday, October 22, 2:00pm-3:00pm
March 2021
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Dr. Robert Bixby: "Optimization: Past, Present, Future"
Friday, March 19, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Garud Iyengar: “Shapley Meets Uniform: An Axiomatic Framework for Attribution in Online Advertising”
Friday, March 5, 2:00pm-3:00pm
February 2021
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Albrecht Schmidt: “Interactive Human Centered Artificial Intelligence–A Definition and Research Challenges”
Friday, February 26, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Jock D. Mackinlay: “Analytical Conversation"
Friday, February 5, 2:00pm-3:00pm
November 2020
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Peer Fischer: "Microsystems and Nanorobots Actuated by Light, Magnetic Fields, and 3D Ultrasound"
Friday, November 13, 2:00pm-3:00pm
October 2020
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor John A. Rogers: "Soft Electronic and Microfluidic Systems for the Human Body"
Friday, October 16, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Cynthia Rudin: "Current Approaches in Interpretable Machine Learning"
Friday, October 2, 2:00pm-3:00pm
September 2020
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Douglas Thomson: "Single Cell Dielectric Analysis–High Throughput Using Optical Transit Dielectrophoresis Flow Cytometry"
Friday, September 25, 2:00pm-3:00pm
March 2020
CANCELLED: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Friday, March 27, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
CANCELLED: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Anna Nagurney, Virtual Center for Supernetworks, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Friday, March 13, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Peter Hancock, MIT2 Laboratory, University of Central Florida
Friday, March 6, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
November 2019
CANCELLED: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Robert Bixby, Gurobi Optimization
Friday, November 8, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
October 2019
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Materials Science with Two-dimensional Atomic Layers with Pulickel Ajayan, Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University
Friday, October 11, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
September 2019
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Smart Infrastructure for Future Urban Mobility with Stephen F. Smith, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, September 27, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
April 2019
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series in association with PsychEng Seminars: Karon Maclean, University of British Columbia | Making Haptics and its Design Accessible
Friday, April 12, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
March 2019
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Edward Guo, Columbia University | Bone Bioengineering: Microstructure, Mechanics, Mechanobiology, and Beyond
Friday, March 15, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
February 2019
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Jerome Lynch, University of Michigan | Advances in IoT and cloud technologies for the monitoring and control of large-scale infrastructure systems
Friday, February 15, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
January 2019
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Utkan Demirci, Stanford University | Assembling 3D tissue constructs using label-free magnetic additive biomanufacturing technologies
Friday, January 25, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
November 2018
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems | Small-Scale Soft Robotics*
Friday, November 30, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Warren Powell, Princeton University | A Unified Framework for Sequential Decision Analytics*
Friday, November 16, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
October 2018
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Susan Dumais, Microsoft | The Potential for Personalization in Web Search
Friday, October 26, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Robert Carpick, University of Pennsylvania | Nanoscale Factors Controlling Friction and Lubrication: From 2D Materials to Engine Oil*
Friday, October 12, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
March 2018
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Climate change, energy and the comfort of home
Friday, March 23, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Dynamic liquid water transport in the Gas Diffusion Layers of PEM fuel cells
Friday, March 16, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Hybrid aerosol deposition - development of new ceramic coating process between thermal spray and aerosol deposition
Friday, March 9, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Advances in Mobile Robotics, Tele-surgical Robotics and Industrial Robotics
Friday, March 2, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
February 2018
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Lifesaving Capsule Robots
Friday, February 16, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Exploring New Fundamentals and Applications of Nanoporous Media and Membranes: A Nanofluidic Approach
Friday, February 9, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MC 102
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Decentralized Generation Scheduling in Energy Networks
Friday, February 2, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
January 2018
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Bacteria-Based Autonomous Drug Delivery Agents for Cancer Therapy
Friday, January 26, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Human Systems Integration and its Role in Solving Big Societal Problems
Friday, January 19, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MC 102
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Explaining Markov Decision Processes
Friday, January 12, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MC 102
