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 Associate Professor Tobin Filleter.
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
Interest alumni and members of the U of T community who would like to attend the online seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca for the Zoom link.
February 2021
Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Jock D. Mackinlay: “Analytical Conversation"
Friday, February 5, 2:00pm-3:00pm
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
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
December 2017
**TIME CHANGE** MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Cognitive Mechanisms in Creative Thinking
Friday, December 8, 10:30am-11:30am
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching in Fluid Mechanics: Blood Flow, Wiffle Ball, Novels & Art
Friday, December 1, 2:00pm-3:00pm
November 2017
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Court Cases - A Catalyst for Human Factors Research
Friday, November 24, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Linear Optimization: The Interplay between Theory and Practice
Friday, November 17, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: From Photoelasticity to Nanospeckle Photography, From 2D to 3D - The Evolution of Full-Field Optical Stress/Strain Analysis Techniques
Friday, November 3, 11:00am-12:00pm
October 2017
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Deformability based Cell Sorting using Microfluidic Ratchets
Friday, October 27, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Risk Assessment - Biomechanics or Geometry-based Criterion?
Friday, October 20, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Using AI for Social Good - Key Research Challenges, Applications, and Results
Friday, October 13, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: The Mechanical Side of AI
Friday, October 6, 2:00pm-3:00pm
September 2017
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Generative and Discriminative Learnings - A Fuzzy Restricted Boltzmann Machine and a Novel Broad Learning System
Friday, September 29, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Advances in High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Development
Friday, September 22, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Seminar Information Session
Friday, September 15, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
April 2017
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Cell Surgery Robotics: New Frontiers in Microrobotics for Medical Applications
Friday, April 7, 2:00pm-3:00pm
March 2017
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Aerial Robots
Friday, March 31, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Building Trust in Decision Support Systems for Aerospace
Friday, March 24, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Splat formation issue in thermal spray process
Friday, March 17, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: The Science of Lithium-Ion Battery Safety
Friday, March 10, 2:00pm-3:00pm
CANCELLED: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Bacteria-Based Autonomous Drug Delivery Agents for Cancer Therapy
Friday, March 3, 2:00pm-3:00pm
February 2017
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Village Drill: A Case Study in Engineering for Global Development
Friday, February 24, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: The role of analytics in improving the efficiency of Cancer Treatment Facilities
Friday, February 10, 2:00pm-3:00pm
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Surface Nanotexturing with Metallized Nanofibers and Silver Nanowires for Electronics Applications
Friday, February 3, 2:00pm-3:00pm
January 2017
MIE Distinguished Seminar Series: Examining cellular signaling in complex environments with microscale systems
Friday, January 20, 2:00pm-3:00pm
