PhD General Examination: Lijun Zhou
Dissertation Title: Inverse Design of Soft Multifunctional Composites Using Machine Learning, Supervisory Committee Members: Mohammad Malakooti | Committee Chair |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lilo Pozzo| GSR | Department of Chemical Engineering Krithika Manohar| Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jie Xiao | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: MEB front desk. Event Types: Academics.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
🧸 HuskyADAPT Toy Adaptation Workshop
HuskyADAPT club members get together to modify switch toys to be more accessible by adding universal jacks.
Registration opens soon. Check HuskyADAPT's Instagram for updates. Learn more about the HuskyADAPT Toy Adaptation program, Subscribe to HuskyADAPT email list to get updates, Become a HuskyADAPT student club member.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thaddeus and Lois Spratlen Hall (MDR). Campus room: 311. Accessibility Contact: adaptuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Student Activities. Workshops. Target Audience: UW HuskyADAPT members.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit www.huskyadapt.me.uw.edu. PhD General Examination: Kendall Johnson
Committee Members: Navid Zobeiry | Committee Chair | Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Marco Salviato| GSR | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Corie Cobb | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aniruddh Vashisth |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.
Friday, October 23, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
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.
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.
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.
A&A Monday Seminar with Fiona Spencer, UW Applied Physics Lab
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.
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.
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: 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.
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. 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.