Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science Seminar Series

The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science hosts outstanding researchers in the field through our Seminar Series. Seminars are free and open to the public and take place in Duke Centennial Hall Room 345, unless noted otherwise. If you have questions about our seminar series or would like to set up an appointment with a speaker, please contact Sierra Roe at sroe1@charlotte.edu.

SEMINARS – Fall 2026

DATE & TIMESPEAKERTITLEHOST/ ADVISOR
August 27, 2026

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Dr. Li Yang
Assistant Professor
Department of Machine Learning
UNC Charlotte
Toward Adaptive, LLM-Enabled Local Intelligence: From Efficient Inference to On-Device LearningDr. Qiang Zhu
September 22, 2026

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Dr. Ronald D. Joslin
NSF Program Director for Transport Phenomena
Dr. Ying Sun
October 22, 2026

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Dr. Krishna Suresh
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Alireza Tabarraei
November 12, 2026

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Dr. Ricardo de Castro
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Merced
Dr. Mesbah Uddin
November 19, 2026
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Dr. John Liu
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Jose Outeiro