ME Seminar: Lin Han, Drexel University
We are pleased to welcome Lin Han, professor at Drexel University, for an ME seminar.
Title: Type V Collagen Regulates Initial Matrix Templating in Developing Articular Cartilage and Meniscus
About the talk:
Functional regeneration of articular cartilage and meniscus remains challenging due to limited understanding of how their extracellular matrix (ECM) templates are established. Primitive ECM templates rapidly specialize and stiffen during embryogenesis, guiding tissue maturation. Here, we identify a crucial role for collagen V, a minor fibril-forming collagen, in establishing the initial ECM template. In a joint-specific collagen V-knockout murine model, we showed that as early as postnatal day 0 (P0), joints exhibited reduced meniscus size, increased collagen fibril diameter, and reduced micromodulus without directly impacting cell heterogeneity or signaling, indicating a primary defect in matrix templating. By P28, menisci exhibited persistently distorted morphology, modulus reduction, and loss of…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, May 26, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
MS Thesis Presentation: Chinmay Ratnaparkhe
Thesis Title: Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Single-Frequency Ultrasonic Wrinkle Characterization in Aerospace Composites, Supervisory Committee Members:Krithika Manohar| Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Xu Chen| Committee Member| Department of Mechanical Engineering, Agnes Blom-Schieber | Committee Member | Advanced Composites Center.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: megrad@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, May 26, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
MS Thesis Presentation: Alvin Liu
Thesis Title: J-Integral Method for Determining the Fracture Toughness of Ti-6Al-4V Produced by Electron Beam Melting, Supervisory Committee Members:Ramulu Mamidala| Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, John Kramlich| Committee Member| Department of Mechanical Engineering, Daniel G. Sanders | Committee Member | Sugino Corporation.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: megrad@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM.
CREATE Community Day
CREATE Community Day is an annual half-day forum for discussing the concerns about and approaches to sustainable accessibility research and a showcase of research led by CREATE and HuskyADAPT. Student researchers highlight their work and showcase a variety of individual and team projects. Directions and Parking , Zoom link to be provided , Accessibility: Building FAQs | Email, Panel topics and speakers are being finalized and will be announced soon.
1:15–2:30 p.m. - Community Day panel discussion #1 (hybrid)
2:45–4:00 p.m. - Community Day panel discussion #2 (hybrid)
4:00–5:00 p.m. - Research Showcase co-hosted with HuskyADAPT (in-person only).
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2). Campus room: Zillow Commons. Accessibility Contact: oliviapb@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Exhibits. Information Sessions. Meetings. Special Events. Target Audience: Anyone interested in research on accessible technology & making the world accessible through tech.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit create.uw.edu. CREATE & HuskyADAPT Research Showcase
The closing event for CREATE’s Community Day, this Research Showcase is co-sponsored by HuskyADAPT. Approximately 30 undergraduate and graduate student teams from at least eight majors/programs and all three UW campuses share their projects, covering a wide range of research.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2). Campus room: Zillow Commons. Accessibility Contact: oliviapb@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Exhibits. Special Events. Student Activities. Target Audience: Anyone interested in research on accessible technology and making the world accessible through tech.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit create.uw.edu. PhD Final Examination: Changwoo Lee
Dissertation Title: Wearable Nano-Capacitive Sensor Systems for Sleep and Fatigue Monitoring, Supervisory Committee Members: Jaehyun Chung | Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Anant Anantram | GSR | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Dayong Gao |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Jong-Hoon Kim |Committee Member |Washington State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Changwoo Lee. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, May 28, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Pengcheng (Pearson) Chen
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Pengcheng Chen. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, May 29, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
PhD General Examination: Anmol Purohit
Supervisory Committee Members:Igor Novosselov | Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Avin Vijay| GSR | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics John Kramlich | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brian Pinkard | Committee Member | Aquagga, Inc.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Anmol Purohit. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, May 29, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
PhD General Examination: Zachary Taylor
Supervisory Committee Members:Jaehyun Chung | Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Guozhong Cao | GSR | Department of Materials Science and Engineering Junlan Wang |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anuscheh Nawaz |Committee Member |UW Applied Physics Laboratory.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Zachary Taylor. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, May 29, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
Mechanical Engineering Capstone Exposition
We are pleased to invite you to the Mechanical Engineering Department's Capstone Exposition!
Mechanical engineering undergraduates will showcase their capstone design projects through posters, prototypes, exhibits, and demos. Join students, industry mentors and sponsors, and the ME community in celebrating their hard work and achievements.
Students have been working on their projects for the past two quarters. There is a wide range of projects, including ones sponsored by companies, hosted by faculty, and proposed by students. Many of the teams are interdisciplinary.
The event will include awards and prizes, including the results of an image contest and exhibit judging by experienced engineers. Refreshments will be provided. For parking information or to request accessibility accommodations, please register for the event and then email Prof. Sirine Maalej.
We look forward to sharing our students' progress and the amazing work they have done over the year!
For more information about our capstone program,…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 211: North Ballroom. Accessibility Contact: smaalej@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities. Target Audience: Broader ME community, including students, faculty, industry mentors and sponsors, friends & family.
Friday, May 29, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
MS Thesis Presentation: Jianya Wei
Thesis Title: A Study of the Portable and Fully Automated Artificial Kidney, Supervisory Committee Members:Dayong Gao| Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jae Hyun Chung| Committee Member| Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ruidong Ma | Committee Member | Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: megrad@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 1, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Kelli Shimazu
Dissertation Title: Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing for Point-of-Care Diagnostics of Bloodborne Viruses, Supervisory Committee Members:Jonathan Posner | Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Barry Lutz | GSR | Department of Bioengineering, Jaehyun Chung |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Paul Drain |Committee Member | Department of Global Health.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Kelli Shimazu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 1, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
NASA's Howard Hu ('91, MS '94) on Artemis
Howard Hu (A&A '91, '94) comes back to the UW to talk to us about Artemis. Hu is the director of NASA's Orion Program.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/95191191623. Campus room: 250. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, June 1, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
ME Seminar: Paul Fasolo, Sonomotion
We are pleased to welcome Paul Fasolo from Sonomotion, Inc. for an ME seminar.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Satria Ardianuari
Dissertation Title: Influence of Prosthetic Ankle-Foot Properties on Intact Limb Biomechanical Demands in Transtibial Amputees During Simulated Functional Tasks, Supervisory Committee Members: Glenn Klute| Committee Chair | VA CLiMB & Department of Mechanical Engineering , Christopher Neils | GSR | Department of Bioengineering , Katherine Steele |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Jenny Robinson |Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Stefania Fatone |Committee Member |Department of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Satria Ardianuari. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Yu-Jen (Howard) Cheng
Dissertation Title: Nanocomposite Single-Electrode Capacitive Sensors for Intelligent and Wearable Cardiovascular Health Monitoring, Supervisory Committee Members: Jaehyun Chung | Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Xiaohu Gao | GSR | Department of Bioengineering , Dayong Gao |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Jonathan Posner |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Younghoon Kwon | Committee Member | UW Medicine, Division of Cardiology.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Yu-Jen Cheng. Event Types: Academics.
Wednesday, June 3, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
PhD Qualifying Examination: Saveer Yogita Sharda
Supervisory Committee Members: Juan Carlos del Alamo | Faculty Advisor | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Dayong Gao | Departmental Representative | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Alberto Aliseda | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Ashish Manohar | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Saveer Sharda. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, June 5, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
PhD General Examination: Gautam Jalori
Supervisory Committee Members:Alberto Aliseda |Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ying Zheng | Departmental Representative | Department of Bioengineering, Juan Carlos del Alamo | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, John Palmore Jr. | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michael Barbour |Committee Member | Seattle Children's, and Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Gautam Jalori. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, June 5, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Youngshang Han
Dissertation Title: Printing and Recycling of Liquid Metal Composites for 3D Architected Thermoelectric Wearables, Supervisory Committee Members: Mohammad Malakooti | Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Karl Bohringer | GSR | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Junlan Wang |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Jie Xiao |Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Youngshang Han. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 8, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
PhD General Examination: Abdulaziz Alrashed
Supervisory Committee Members:Lucas Meza | Committee Co-Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eleftheria Roumeli |GSR | Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Aniruddh Vashisth |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Marco Salviato | Committee Member | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Abdulaziz Alrashed. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 8, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
PhD General Examination: Benjamin Estroff
Supervisory Committee Members:Dayong Gao | Committee Co-Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wei-Chih Wang | Committee Co-Chair | National Tsinghua University, UW Department of Mechanical Engineering, Payman Arabshahi | GSR | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Santosh Devasia | Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Joseph Garbini | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Ben Estroff. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 8, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Jan Williams
Dissertation Title: Data-driven recurrent models to forecast and control high-dimensional dynamical systems, Supervisory Committee Members: Krithika Manohar | Committee Co-Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Jose Nathan Kutz |Committee Co-Chair | Department of Applied Mathematics , Marine Denolle | GSR | Department of Earth and Space Sciences , Stefania Fresca | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Jan Williams. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 8, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Marina Ruediger
Dissertation Title: Approaches for Autonomous Multi-Vehicle Underwater Inspections, Supervisory Committee Members: Ashis Banerjee | Committee Chair |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Abhishek Gupta | GSR | Department of Computer Science and Engineering , Santosh Devasia |Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Aaron Marburg | Committee Member | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Marina Ruediger. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
PhD General Examination: Ivan Stepanov
Supervisory Committee Members: Albert Folch | Committee Chair | Department of Bioengineering , Miqin Zhang | GSR | Department of Materials Science & Engineering , Eric Seibel | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Nathan Sniadecki | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Ivan Stepanov. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM.
PhD General Examination: Vinh Nguyen
Supervisory Committee Members:Corie Cobb| Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lilo Pozzo | GSR | Department of Chemical Engineering Jie Xiao| Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nadya Peek| Committee Member | Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Vinh Nguyen. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Xiaohai (Bob) Hu
Dissertation Title: Learning-Based Control and Tactile Perception for Robotic Systems, Supervisory Committee Members: Xu Chen | Committee Chair |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Amir Taghvaei | GSR | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics , Santosh Devasia |Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Steve Shen | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Bob Hu. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
PhD General Examination: Emilee Armstrong
Supervisory Committee Members: Corie Cobb| Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Daniel Schwartz | GSR | Department of Chemical Engineering , John Kramlich | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Lucas Meza | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Emilee Armstrong. Event Types: Academics.
Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
PhD General Examination: Kush Dwivedi
Supervisory Committee Members:Lucas Meza | Committee Co-Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Marco Salviato | Committee Co-Chair | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Dwayne Arola | GSR | Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Aniruddh Vashisth |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Charles Dorn | Committee Member | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Kush Dwivedi. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, June 12, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Yushu Lin
Dissertation Title: Learning-Based Control and Tactile Perception for Robotic Systems, Supervisory Committee Members: John Palmore Jr. | Committee Chair |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Jingwei Hu | GSR | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics , Alberto Aliseda |Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Antonino Ferrante | Committee Member | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Yushu Lin. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.