MAE Graduate Seminars

The MAE Seminar Series aims, not only to broaden the exposure of our students and faculty to new ideas and technical matters outside of their specific research focus, but also to foster a culture of open discussion among members of the Department. Our objective is to host speakers from both inside and outside of the Department, with a portion of the talks delivered by our graduate students. Speakers will be encouraged to make their presentations interesting and accessible to a relatively broad audience.

Attendance at M&AE seminars is a program requirement for all M&AE thesis-based graduate students. Attendance will be recorded at all seminars. Ph.D. students must satisfy this requirement within 6 terms of initial registration.

• M.A.Sc candidates must attend 10 seminars to satisfy this requirement.
• Ph.D candidates must attend 15 seminars and complete 1 seminar presentation to satisfy this requirement.

Visitors: Click here for a campus map of Carleton.
For more information about the series, to suggest a speaker, or to volunteer as a speaker, please contact Professor Andrew Speirs.

The current seminar schedule is posted below and is updated as needed. Schedule updated regularly. All seminars will be in the afternoon. Abstract to be added when ready.

Seminar Dates and Abstracts
Seminars are held in-person.
uOttawa Graduate seminar schedule can be found here: http://bit.ly/2cRV8vY 
For uOttawa students, attendance will be counted towards your program requirements.  To record your attendance, please email Janet Perras, the Graduate Administrator, with your “Name”, “Student ID” and “Program” within two-hours after the webinar.

• November 20, 2025, 1:00 pm. ETD ME 3235 (Mackenzie Building) – Unmanned Solar Aircraft – Piotr Lichota (Warsaw University of Technology)
• November 27, 2025, 1:00 pm. ETD ME 3235 (Mackenzie Building) – Changes of Hydrogen Gas Turbines – Anne Bastin

• November 13, 2025, 1:00 pm. ETD ME 3235 (Mackenzie Building) – Development of a Nanosatellite Electrospray Propulsion System Towards Protoflight – Ivan Savytskyy (Aerospace Engineer, National Capital Region)
• November 6, 2025, 1:00 pm. ETD ME 3235 (Mackenzie Building) – Koopman Expectation-Based Optimization for Offline Spacecraft Rendezvous Guidance Under Parametric Uncertainties – Lakshay Arora
• October 30, 2025, 1:00 pm. ETD ME 3235 (Mackenzie Building) – Airborne Measurements of Lightning Locations During Flights in Coastal Thunderstorm Conditions – Zach Milani
• October 14, 2025, 1:00pm. ETD ME 4342 (Mackenzie Building) – Digitally Driven Approach to Vertically Integrated Processing and Engineer Repair/Remanufacturing (VIPER) – Terrestrial and Non-terrestrial Manufacturing at the Point-of-Need – Dr. Paul G. Allison
• October 2, 2025, 1:00pm. ETD ME 3235 (Mackenzie Building) – TSO-DSO Integration in Modern Power Grids – Luis Lopez Diaz
• September 25, 2025, 1:00 p.m. ETD ME 3235 (Mackenzie Building) – Integrating Hybrid Models and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems for Enhancing Last-Mile Delivery Logistics – Armin Mahmoodi
• September 18, 2025, 1:00pm. ETD ME 3235 (Mackenzie Building) – Thermal Performance Evaluation of Lattice Topologies for Aerospace Heat Sink Applications – Ossama Hafeez
• September 4, 2025, 1:00pm. ETD ME 3190 (Mackenzie Building) – Building Trust on the Road: Driving Accident Risk Assessment and Reduction Through Machine Learning, Optimal Planning and Shared Control – Arash Abarghooei
• April 3, 2025, 2:00 p.m. ETD ME 3356 (Mackenzie Building) – Shape morphing untethered ferromagnetic soft robots – Javad Javadi Sigaroudi March 27, 2025 – 2:00 p.m. ETD ME 3356 (Mackenzie Building) – Investigation of Transient Dynamic Behaviour of Small-scale Horizontal Axis Wind – Saeid Fadaei Naeini 
• March 20, 2025- 2:00 p.m. ETD in ME 3356 (Mackenzie Building) – New Perspectives on Impedance and Admittance Control for Physical Robotic Interaction – Nicholas Berezny
• March 13, 2025 – 5:45 p.m. ETD ONLINE (contact JeremyLaliberte@cunet.carleton.ca for Zoom link) – Crossing the ‘Valley of Death’: The Benefits of Collaborative Research Across Industry, Government, and Academia –  Dr. Philip A. Ferguson
• March 13, 2025 – 2:00 p.m. ETD in ME 3356 (Mackenzie Building) – Towards Lunar Mining: Bench-scale Demonstration of Aluminum Extraction from Lunar Regolith – Xavier Walls Perez
• March 6, 2025  – 2:00pm ETD in ME 3356 (Mackenzie Building) – Adaptive Elbow Exoskeletons: The iLeAD Framework for Real-Time Human Power Augmentation – Masoud Karimi 
• February 27, 2025 – 2:00 p.m. ETD in ME 3356 (Mackenzie Building) – Fault-Tolerant Multi-Robot Multi-modal Localization on Matrix Lie Groups – Mahboubeh Jalalabadi
• February 6, 2025 – 2:00 p.m. ETD in ME 3356 (Mackenzie Building)- One giant leap, for you!  Setting up for success in the space sector – Adam Vigneron
• January 30, 2025 – 2:00 p.m. ETD in ME 3356 (Mackenzie Building) –  Next-Generation Aircraft: Design and Optimization – Dr. Mohsen Hamedi
• January 16, 2025 – 2:00 p.m. EDT in ME 3356 (Mackenzie Building)- This colloquium addresses several modelling aspects of such conventional launchers and their relation with stability and control – Dr. Erwin Mooij
• December 12, 2024 – 1:00 p.m. EDT 3269 ME (Mackenzie Building) –Black Carbon Emissions from Turbulent Buoyant Non-Premixed Flames Representative of Flares in The Upstream Oil and Gas Sector and The Effects of Crosswind – Alexis Tanner 
  December 10, 2024 – 1:00 p.m. EDT 2104 CB (Canal Building) –Autonomous Systems: The Future is Here, But Are We Ready?– Umair Siddique
  December 5, 2024 – 1:00 p.m. EDT 3269 ME (Mackenzie Building) – Application of enhanced Gurson-like ductile damage models to simulate cracking in pipeline steels under wide range of constraint conditions – Arnav Rana
  CANCELLED November 28, 2024 – 1:00 p.m. EDT 3269 ME (Mackenzie Building) – Investigation of transient dynamic behaviour of small-scale horizontal axis wind turbines – Saeid Fadaei Naeini
  November 22, 2024 – 1:00 p.m. EDT 1301 HS (Health Science) – Capstone Systems Engineering Past, Present and Future – Dr. Paul Gorton
  October 17, 2024 – 1:00 p.m. EDT 3174 ME (Mackenzie Building) – Nonlinear Kalman filtering-based data-driven digital twin: Damage and uncertainty quantification in large-scale systems with missing data – Esmaeil Ghorbani, Ph.D., P.Eng
  October 10, 2024 – 1:00 p.m. EDT 3174 ME (Mackenzie Building) – Fast, Modular, and Singularity-Free Whole-Body Dynamical Equations of Multi-Legged Robots – Sahand Farghdani 
  July 9, 2024 – 1:00 p.m. EDT Location via Zoom – A Geometric Approach for Safe Control of Orbital Manipulators for Non-Cooperative Debris Mitigation – Borna Monazzah Moghaddam 
  June 13, 2024-June 14, 2024- 9:00-12:00PM EDT Location 3101 CB (Canal Building)– Carleton-Cranfield Student Aerospace Seminars 
  March 22, 2024 – 1:00-2:00PM EDT Location 3356 ME (Mackenzie Building) – Simulating Vibration of Neonatal Patient Transport Environments in Laboratory Settings – Keely Gibb 
  February 16, 2024 – 1:00-2:00PM EDT Location 2000 MC (Minto Case Building) – An Introduction to Innovation – Brad Wallace
  February 2, 2024 – 1:00-2:30PM EDT Location 2000 MC (Minto Case Building) – Bring Your Creations to Life. Learn Why Intellectual Property Matters.
  January 19. 2024 – 1:00-2:00PM EDT Location 3356 ME (Mackenzie Building) – Planetary Sciences and Mission Design: Entry into the Known Unknown – Erwin Mooij 
  December 8, 2023 – 1:00-2:00PM EDT Location 1301 HS (Health Sciences Building) – Development of a Real – Time Physics – Based Digital Twin of a Marine Towed Cable – Body System – Cassidy Westin 
  December 1, 2023 – 1:0-2:00PM EDT Location 1301 HS (Health Sciences Building) – Optimizing the Integration of Direct Air Capture Technologies of CO2 into the Canadian Energy System – Erick Arwa
  November 16, 2023 – 1:00-2:00PM EDT via Zoom – Between data and physics: Modelling and optimization of energy systems in 2023 – Dr. Gerald Schwieger – Zoom Link – https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/92504349645
  November 13, 2023 – 1:00-2:00PM EDT via Zoom – Models to advance renewable energy deployment – Kristen Schell – Zoom Link – https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/91741350540
  November 7, 2023 – 3:45-4:45PM EDT 360 Tory Building – Guest Lecture – Mr. Clint Crosier Director Aerospace & Satellite – Amazon Web Services
  November 2, 2023 – 1:00-2:00PM EDT via Zoom – Resilient by Design- Multi-Objective Optimization in the Net-Zero Era – Scott Bucking – Zoom Link – https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/93737411300
  November 2, 2023 – 6:00-8:00PM EDT Location 5050 Minto Case – The Story of Testbed 80 – Anna Delorme, Stuart Fowler and Manoj Sarangapani – MDS Aero Support Corp.
  October 30, 2023 – 2:30-4:00PM EDT Location Southam Hall Theatre B – Ribbit – a case study on the technical, operational and commercial aspects of Canada’s first autonomous fixed-wing aircraft demonstrator – Dr. Jeremy C.H. Wang 
  October 20, 2023 1:00-2:30PM EDT Location 1301 HS (Health Sciences Bldg.) – The Future of Transportation – Dr. Nick Tepylo
  October 13, 2023 1:30-2:30PM EDT Location 2104CB (Canal Building) – Enhancing Resistance to Solidification Cracking and Mitigation in TIG Welding of AI7075 Alloy – Alireza Abdollahi 
  October 6, 2023 – 1:00-2:30PM EDT – Effective Presentation and Communication
  September 29, 2023 – 830-11:30 AM EDT – Project Management
  July 26, 2023 – 10:30AM EDT Nanostructured Hard Coatings Deposited by Physical Vapour Deposition Technology and their Tribological Applications Dr. Yang
  May 9, 2023 – 3:00PM EDT Multiple solutions of direct kinematics of 3-RPR parallel manipulators – Dr. Manfred Husty
  April 28, 2023 – 1:00PM EDT Modelling and Experimental Evaluation of a Sand-based Seasonal Storage System – Rebecca Pinto
  April 21, 2023 – 1:00PM EDT WUFI Model Validation of a Panelized Exterior Retrofit for Ottawa Community Housing PEER Project – Jordan McNally
  March 31, 2023 – 1:00PM EDT Use Of AI Methods For Autonomous Geological Rock Classification Through Visual Texture Analysis –Alex Tettenborn
  March 17, 2023 – 1:00PM EDT Experimental and Modelling Characterization of Building Integrated Phase Change Materials for Cold Climate Locations – Calene Baylis 
  March 10, 2023 – 1:00PM EDT Intricacies of 3D printing in u-gravity – Prashant Waghmare
  February 17, 2023 – 1:00PM EDT Building Integrated Sub-Slab Thermal Storage System for Coupling to a Heat Pump: Modelling, Optimization, and Thermal Performances – Lumi Dumitrascu 
  February 10, 2023 – 1:00PM EDT Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents
  January 27, 2023 – 1:00PM EDT Real-Time Autonomous Model Predictive Control of Spacecraft Rendezvous and Docking with Moving Obstacles – Courtney Bashnick
  January 20, 2023 – 1:00PM EDT  A Direct approach for Measuring Hydrogen in Candu Pressure Tube Materials – James Corrigall
  January 17, 2023 – 1:00PM EDT. Debris or not debris – Dr. Erwin Mooij
  December 9th, 2022 – 1:00PM EDT. Development of a Dynamic PV/T-Driven Combined Cooling, Heating and Power System Model for Use in the Canadian Residential Sector – Cem Kalkan
  November 23, 2022 – 1:00PM EDT. “Eddy-resolving simulations of hydrodynamic and phase instabilities in engineering and biological systems” presented by Dr. Joshua Brinkerhoff 
  November 18, 2022 – 1:00PM EDT.  Naval Engineering Test Establishment with Mila Kanevsky and Trever Middleton
  November 4, 2022 – 11:30AM EDT. BCW Engineering Overview – Boeing Canada
  Located in Southam Hall Theatre B
  November 4th, 2022 – 1:00PM EDT. Urban Air Mobility Propulsion (Air Taxis) – Mihir Shirke 
  October 28, 2022 – 12:00PM EDT Public Perception of Advanced Aviation Technologies in Canada – Nick Tepylo 
  October 21st, 2022 – 1:00PM EDT. Challenges & Advancements in additive manufacturing of high strength aluminum alloys – Dolly Clement 
  October 14th, 2022 – 1:00PM EDT. “How to approve autonomous aircraft operations” presented by Dr. Jeremy C. H. Wang
  September 30th, 2022 – 1:00PM EDT. “Effective Presentations” presented by Megg Blackwell.
  September 23rd, 2022 – 1:00PM EDT. Fast and Robust Inverse Kinematics of Serial Roots using Halley’s Method– Steffan Lloyd
  September 16th, 2022 – 1:00PM EDT. Development of a Novel Cobalt High-Entrophy Alloy for Wear/Corrosion Resistance – Xueyao Wu
  September 9th, 2022 – 1:00PM EDT. Location: NI 1020 (Nicol Building) Algebraic Input output Angle Equation Derivation Algorithm for the Six Distinct Angle Pairings in Arbitrary Planar 4R Linkages – Mirja Rotzoll
  July 20th, 2022 – 1:00PM EDT. Dr. Puneet Singh will give a talk entitled “The role of redundancy in human motor learning.” Dr. Puneet Singh is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Moncton.
  June 2nd, 2022 – 2:00PM EDT. The talk will be given by Divya Rao Ashok Kumar, a PhD student in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University.
  May 12, 2022 – 2:00PM EDT. First talk (from 2:00 to 2:30 pm) will be given by Ms. Anika Terbuch, a PhD candidate at the Chair of Automation at the University of Leoben, Austria. Title of the talk: Hybrid Machine Learning for Real-Time Machine Data and Physical Systems.
  Second talk (from 2:30 to 3:00 pm) will be given by Mr. Johannes Handler, also a PhD candidate at the Chair of Automation at the University of Leoben, Austria. Title of the talk: Periodic-Aperiodic Signal Separation using the Method of Variable Projection.
  February 09, 2022  – 1:00PM-2:00PM EDT. Presenter: Mr. Iain Martin, a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University. Title of the talk: Real-Time Operator-in-the-Loop Anti-Sway Control for Shipboard Cranes
  February 02, 2022 – 1:00PM EDT. Presenter: Mr. Stephen Edge, Senior Materials Engineer at Mercedes High Performance Powertrains Title of the talk: Materials Engineering the Mercedes F1 Power-Unit “The Devil’s in the Details”
  Thursday December 2nd, 2021 – 4:00PM-5:30PM EDT. Presenter: Mr. Bill Zwolinski, Senior Application Engineer and Dan Ozgen, Application Engineer, both with Kistler Instrument Corp. Canada. Title of the talk: Practical Considerations of Multi-Component Force Measurement: Space Applications – click the link for a PowerPoint presentation
  Tuesday November 16th, 2021 – 1:00PM-2:00PM EDT. Presenter: Ms. Ariane Parisien, a research assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University. Title of the talk: Characterization and Design Optimization of Periodic Cellular Solids for Optimal Bone Ingrowth in Osseointegration Implants
  Tuesday November 2nd, 2021 – 1:00PM-2:00PM EDT. Presenter: Mr. Peter Walker, a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University. Title of the talk: Effect of Ultrasonic Impact Treatment on the Fatigue Life of Ti-6Al-4V
  Thursday October 21st, 2021 – 3:00PM-4:00PM EDT. Presenter: Professor Kazem Fayazbakhsh, an Assistant Professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department at Ryerson University, ON, Canada. Title of the talk: Addressing Current Challenges in 3D Printing for Industrial Applications
  Tuesday October 12th, 2021 – 1:00PM EST. Presenter: Professor Hamid Dalir, an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Purdue University Indianapolis, USA / the CEO and Co-Founder of Multiscale Integrated Technology Solutions (MITS) LLC. Title of the Talk: NanoScaffold – Enhanced Composites for Next Generation Light Aircrafts
  Friday May 21st, 2021 – 3:00PM-3:00PMEST. “Multi-layered Fibre-Matrix Interphases for Ceramic Matrix Composites” by Mr. Taylor Robertson, a research officer with the high temperature materials group at the Aerospace Research Centre of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).
  Wednesday May 5, 2021 – 1:00PM EDT. “Nuclear Fusion, Wall Loading and Materials: The Difficult Life of a Material in Close Proximity of a Thermonuclear Plasma” by Dr. Greg De Temmerman, the managing director of Zenon Research, France.