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ME Seminar: Joe Powers, ME & UW Medicine

We are pleased to welcome Joe Powers, assistant professor in ME and in laboratory medicine & pathology, for an ME seminar. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: IEB G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

PhD General Examination: Yifang (Gloria) Hou

Supervisory Committee Members: Per Reinhall | Committee Chair |Department of Mechanical Engineering, John Raiti | GSR | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, John Kramlich | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Junlan Wang | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: MEB front desk. Event Types: Academics. Thursday, October 29, 2026, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.

Micro:bit Experiences: Weekly research group at UW

Join CREATE faculty members Tom Ball and Paul Dietz in an international effort to build tools that empower kids (preK–12) to make highly creative experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Micro:bit. Experiences is open to all students, staff and faculty and others interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware, etc. Weekly on Fridays (Autumn quarter 2026), Feel free to bring a lunch, For more information, contact Tom Ball or Paul Dietz, We aim to empower kids (preK-12) to make wildly creative, physical experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Experiences like animatronic shows, puzzle rooms, haunted houses, mini golf courses, and all sorts of interactive, immersive environments. It's crazy fun, but with a very serious purpose. In an era of AI, it's too easy to focus on how to use these amazing tools rather than thinking about what you do with them. Creating compelling innovation comes from practice - building lots of things and seeing how people respond to them. If this… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). Campus room: 503. Accessibility Contact: phdietz@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Meetings. Student Activities. Event sponsors: A new research group at the UW, Micro:bit. Experiences. Target Audience: All students, staff & faculty interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware. Friday, October 30, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

ME Seminar: Glenn Klute, VA Medical Center

We are pleased to welcome Glenn Klute, ME affiliate associate professor and director of the VA Medical Center's Center for Limb Loss and MoBility, for an ME seminar. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: IEB G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

PhD General Examination: Sajeda Mokbel

Supervisory Committee Members: Steve Brunton | Committee Chair |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Antonino Ferrante | GSR | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Alberto Aliseda | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, John Kramlich | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: MEB front desk. Event Types: Academics. Friday, November 6, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.

Micro:bit Experiences: Weekly research group at UW

Join CREATE faculty members Tom Ball and Paul Dietz in an international effort to build tools that empower kids (preK–12) to make highly creative experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Micro:bit. Experiences is open to all students, staff and faculty and others interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware, etc. Weekly on Fridays (Autumn quarter 2026), Feel free to bring a lunch, For more information, contact Tom Ball or Paul Dietz, We aim to empower kids (preK-12) to make wildly creative, physical experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Experiences like animatronic shows, puzzle rooms, haunted houses, mini golf courses, and all sorts of interactive, immersive environments. It's crazy fun, but with a very serious purpose. In an era of AI, it's too easy to focus on how to use these amazing tools rather than thinking about what you do with them. Creating compelling innovation comes from practice - building lots of things and seeing how people respond to them. If this… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). Campus room: 503. Accessibility Contact: phdietz@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Meetings. Student Activities. Event sponsors: A new research group at the UW, Micro:bit. Experiences. Target Audience: All students, staff & faculty interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware. Friday, November 6, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

PhD Qualifying Examination: Patricia Garcia Caspuenas

Supervisory Committee Members:Steve Brunton | Faculty Advisor | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brian Polagye  | Departmental Representative | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Krithika Manohar | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ana Larrañaga | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ME front desk. Event Types: Academics. Monday, November 9, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.

A&A Monday Seminar with Philippe Spalart, Flexcompute

A philosophy of turbulence modeling, Abstract After a long career we discuss both the social and the technical aspects of turbulence modeling. Socially, the author of a successful model becomes responsible to the CFD community for writing clear and complete papers; for motivating the decisions made as much as is possible; for reporting errors; for examining critical comments and proposals of improvements; for avoiding a proliferation of versions; and for persistently thinking of improvements that could become the new "official version." Technically, we outline the many constraints a model must obey, both for the physics and the numerics. We look at the sources of ideas and the sources of data, and discuss the wisdom of having a single model, or a range of versions. Bio Philippe Spalart studied Mathematics and Engineering in Paris, and obtained an Aerospace PhD at Stanford/NASA-Ames in 1982. Still at Ames, he conducted Direct Numerical Simulations of transitional and turbulent boundary layers. Moving to… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Monday, November 9, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

PhD Qualifying Examination: Nicholas Guimond

Supervisory Committee Members:Aaron Marburg | Faculty Co-Advisor | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Monica Li Storms | Faculty Co-Advisor | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Peter Dahl | Departmental Representative | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michelle Hickner| Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vivek Hari Sridhar | Committee Member | Department of Biology. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ME front desk. Event Types: Academics. Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.

PhD Qualifying Examination: Michael Garcia

Supervisory Committee Members:Steve Brunton | Faculty Advisor | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Alberto Aliseda  | Departmental Representative | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stefania Fresca | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ana Larrañaga | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: MEB front desk. Event Types: Academics. Thursday, November 12, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.

Micro:bit Experiences: Weekly research group at UW

Join CREATE faculty members Tom Ball and Paul Dietz in an international effort to build tools that empower kids (preK–12) to make highly creative experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Micro:bit. Experiences is open to all students, staff and faculty and others interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware, etc. Weekly on Fridays (Autumn quarter 2026), Feel free to bring a lunch, For more information, contact Tom Ball or Paul Dietz, We aim to empower kids (preK-12) to make wildly creative, physical experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Experiences like animatronic shows, puzzle rooms, haunted houses, mini golf courses, and all sorts of interactive, immersive environments. It's crazy fun, but with a very serious purpose. In an era of AI, it's too easy to focus on how to use these amazing tools rather than thinking about what you do with them. Creating compelling innovation comes from practice - building lots of things and seeing how people respond to them. If this… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). Campus room: 503. Accessibility Contact: phdietz@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Meetings. Student Activities. Event sponsors: A new research group at the UW, Micro:bit. Experiences. Target Audience: All students, staff & faculty interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware. Friday, November 13, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

A&A Monday Seminar with Fiona Spencer, UW Applied Physics Lab

High-performance mixing in a novel chemical rocket engine, Abstract A conventional liquid rocket engine mixes its propellants through an injector plate, a showerhead of hundreds of small elements that is among the most complex, costly, and failure-prone parts of the engine, and whose face sits exactly where chamber acoustics couple to heat release. This talk examines a different approach: inject fuel and oxidizer as two radial wall jets near the upstream end of the chamber and let the chamber-scale counter-rotating vortex pair they spin up do the mixing. The idea is motivated by results from pulsed chemical lasers, confined transverse-jet experiments, and the UW rotating detonation engine.   Using direct numerical simulation and large-eddy simulation of inert surrogate propellants, together with confined mixing theory, I will show that the vortex pair produces a nearly uniform mixture within about one chamber diameter of the inlets, with concentration fluctuations decaying as the theory predicts and no… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Monday, November 16, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

PhD General Examination: Shunsuke Winston

Supervisory Committee Members: Duane Storti | Committee Chair |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Richard Wiebe | GSR | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mohammad Malakooti | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lucas Meza | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: MEB front desk. Event Types: Academics. Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.

ME seminar: Nate Sniadecki, UW Mechanical Engineering

We are pleased to welcome ME Professor Nate Sniadecki, also an adjunct faculty in bioengineering and lab medicine & pathology, for a seminar. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: IEB G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

PhD Final Examination: Robert Drinnan

Dissertation Title: Applications of Vector Acoustic Measurements in Characterizing Shallow Water Sound Propagation, Supervisory Committee Members:Peter Dahl | Committee Chair |Applied Physics Laboratory & Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shima Abadi | GSR | UW Bothell, Engineering and Mathematics, Brian Polagye | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, David R. Dall'Osto| Committee Member | Applied Physics Laboratory & Department of Mechanical Engineering. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: MEB front desk. Event Types: Academics. Thursday, November 19, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.

Micro:bit Experiences: Weekly research group at UW

Join CREATE faculty members Tom Ball and Paul Dietz in an international effort to build tools that empower kids (preK–12) to make highly creative experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Micro:bit. Experiences is open to all students, staff and faculty and others interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware, etc. Weekly on Fridays (Autumn quarter 2026), Feel free to bring a lunch, For more information, contact Tom Ball or Paul Dietz, We aim to empower kids (preK-12) to make wildly creative, physical experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Experiences like animatronic shows, puzzle rooms, haunted houses, mini golf courses, and all sorts of interactive, immersive environments. It's crazy fun, but with a very serious purpose. In an era of AI, it's too easy to focus on how to use these amazing tools rather than thinking about what you do with them. Creating compelling innovation comes from practice - building lots of things and seeing how people respond to them. If this… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). Campus room: 503. Accessibility Contact: phdietz@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Meetings. Student Activities. Event sponsors: A new research group at the UW, Micro:bit. Experiences. Target Audience: All students, staff & faculty interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware. Friday, November 20, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

A&A Monday Seminar

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Monday, November 23, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

Micro:bit Experiences: Weekly research group at UW

Join CREATE faculty members Tom Ball and Paul Dietz in an international effort to build tools that empower kids (preK–12) to make highly creative experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Micro:bit. Experiences is open to all students, staff and faculty and others interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware, etc. Weekly on Fridays (Autumn quarter 2026), Feel free to bring a lunch, For more information, contact Tom Ball or Paul Dietz, We aim to empower kids (preK-12) to make wildly creative, physical experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Experiences like animatronic shows, puzzle rooms, haunted houses, mini golf courses, and all sorts of interactive, immersive environments. It's crazy fun, but with a very serious purpose. In an era of AI, it's too easy to focus on how to use these amazing tools rather than thinking about what you do with them. Creating compelling innovation comes from practice - building lots of things and seeing how people respond to them. If this… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). Campus room: 503. Accessibility Contact: phdietz@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Meetings. Student Activities. Event sponsors: A new research group at the UW, Micro:bit. Experiences. Target Audience: All students, staff & faculty interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware. Friday, November 27, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

A&A Monday Seminar

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Monday, November 30, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

ME seminar: Jenny Robinson, UW Mechanical Engineering

We are pleased to welcome ME Assistant Professor Jenny Robinson, the Endowed Chair in Women’s Sports Medicine and Lifetime Fitness in the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, for an ME seminar. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: IEB G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

PhD Qualifying Examination: Nini Xing

Supervisory Committee Members:Jenny Robinson | Faculty Advisor | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Feini (Sylvia) Qu | Departmental Representative | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Joseph Powers | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cole DeForest | Committee Member | Department of Chemical Engineering. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: MEB front desk. Event Types: Academics. Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.

PhD Qualifying Examination: Wenzhao Wang

Supervisory Committee Members:Dayong Gao | Faculty Advisor | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Junlan Wang | Departmental Representative | Department of Mechanical Engineering, John Kramlich | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shen Ren | Committee Member | College of Science and Engineering, Seattle University, Zhiquan Shu | Committee Member | School of Engineering and Technology, UW Tacoma, Exam Procedure. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: MEB Front desk. Event Types: Academics. Friday, December 4, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.

Micro:bit Experiences: Weekly research group at UW

Join CREATE faculty members Tom Ball and Paul Dietz in an international effort to build tools that empower kids (preK–12) to make highly creative experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Micro:bit. Experiences is open to all students, staff and faculty and others interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware, etc. Weekly on Fridays (Autumn quarter 2026), Feel free to bring a lunch, For more information, contact Tom Ball or Paul Dietz, We aim to empower kids (preK-12) to make wildly creative, physical experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Experiences like animatronic shows, puzzle rooms, haunted houses, mini golf courses, and all sorts of interactive, immersive environments. It's crazy fun, but with a very serious purpose. In an era of AI, it's too easy to focus on how to use these amazing tools rather than thinking about what you do with them. Creating compelling innovation comes from practice - building lots of things and seeing how people respond to them. If this… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). Campus room: 503. Accessibility Contact: phdietz@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Meetings. Student Activities. Event sponsors: A new research group at the UW, Micro:bit. Experiences. Target Audience: All students, staff & faculty interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware. Friday, December 4, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

A&A Monday Seminar

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Monday, December 7, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

ME seminar: Alberto Santamaria-Pang, Microsoft

We are pleased to welcome Alberto Santamaria-Pang, principal AI data scientist at Microsoft, for an ME seminar. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: IEB G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

PhD General Examination: Zidong Liu

Supervisory Committee Members: Xu Chen | Committee Chair |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amir Taghvaei | GSR | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ashis Banerjee | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Steve Shen | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: MEB Front desk. Event Types: Academics. Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.

Instruction Ends - Autumn 2026

Instruction ends. Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics. Friday, December 11, 2026. For more info visit www.washington.edu.

Micro:bit Experiences: Weekly research group at UW

Join CREATE faculty members Tom Ball and Paul Dietz in an international effort to build tools that empower kids (preK–12) to make highly creative experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Micro:bit. Experiences is open to all students, staff and faculty and others interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware, etc. Weekly on Fridays (Autumn quarter 2026), Feel free to bring a lunch, For more information, contact Tom Ball or Paul Dietz, We aim to empower kids (preK-12) to make wildly creative, physical experiences for others using the BBC micro:bit. Experiences like animatronic shows, puzzle rooms, haunted houses, mini golf courses, and all sorts of interactive, immersive environments. It's crazy fun, but with a very serious purpose. In an era of AI, it's too easy to focus on how to use these amazing tools rather than thinking about what you do with them. Creating compelling innovation comes from practice - building lots of things and seeing how people respond to them. If this… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). Campus room: 503. Accessibility Contact: phdietz@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Meetings. Student Activities. Event sponsors: A new research group at the UW, Micro:bit. Experiences. Target Audience: All students, staff & faculty interested in education, experience design, AI, software, hardware. Friday, December 11, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

Final Examinations - Autumn 2026

Week of final examinations for autumn quarter. Event interval: Ongoing event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics. Saturday, December 12, 2026 – Friday, December 18, 2026. For more info visit www.washington.edu.