Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

PRESENTATION: This seminar introduces the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division and its role in advancing maritime engineering across the full life cycle of Navy ships, submarines, combatant craft, and unmanned systems. It highlights core disciplines—including fluid dynamics, propulsion, structural mechanics, materials and manufacturing, energy systems, computational modeling, acoustics, and systems engineering—and their application...

Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

PRESENTATION: High-speed flows are challenging to predict due to their multi-physics nature. Simulations are the tool of choice for predicting the operational capabilities of high-speed vehicles, but ground-test experiments are needed for verification and validation. In particular, non-intrusive off-body measurements of the velocity field in proximity to the vehicle are valuable for comparison to simulations. In this talk I will discuss the...

Join us to celebrate the interdisciplinary work of University of Iowa choreographer and assistant professor of dance Stephanie Miracle, recipient of the 2026 Obermann Interdisciplinary Achievement Award.

Miracle will bring together dance, engineering, and the humanities in a brief improvisational performance featuring dancers Bea Beaman and Trinity Woody performing alongside robots built by the University of Iowa College of Engineering, with narration by Eric Gidal and music by Jean-François...