Robert Landers from the Missouri University of Science and Technology joins our A&A Chair's Distinguished Speaker Series with his seminar on "Controlling Li Ion Batteries: Advances in Battery Management Systems."

Reception following.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Robert G. Landers is a Curators’ Distinguished
Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and
Technology (formerly University of Missouri Rolla) and served as the
department’s Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs for eight years. He is
currently a program manager at the National Science Foundation. He
received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Michigan in 1997. His research interests are in the areas of
modeling, analysis, monitoring, and control of manufacturing processes,
and in the estimation and control of lithium ion batteries and hydrogen
fuel cells. He has over 200 refereed technical publications and over $6M
in research funding. He received the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers’ Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award in 2004
and the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering’s
Best Paper Award in 2014. He is a Fellow of ASME, and a senior
member of IEEE and SME.