Faculty Lecture Series
The 2026 lecture series features faculty members who are using their engineering expertise to make our world safer, from the water we drink and the air we breathe to the buildings we occupy and the technology that powers our lives.
Past Lectures
Since 2020, our Faculty Lecture Series has featured talks by a wide range of experts on topics like AI ethics, clean water, renewable energy systems, advanced manufacturing, and more. Examples of some of the lectures include:
"Revealing nature's secrets: a chemical forensics approach to decode the information stored in water"
Gerrard Jones, Assistant Professor, Biological and Ecological Engineering
"What it takes to take down a dam"
Desiree Tullos, professor of biological and ecological engineering
"Earthquake resilience of the electrical grid"
Ted Brekken, professor of electrical and computer engineering
"Doing inclusive design: From GenderMag to InclusiveMag"
Margaret Burnett, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
"From brine to mineral: Extracting minerals and clean water from brines using a thermal cycle and machine learning-based design"
Bahman Abbasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering and Welty Faculty Fellow
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