MechSE Master Calendar

Thursday, April 2, 2026

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  Diagnostics-Guided Investigations of Fuel-Flexible Next-Generation Propulsion and Power Systems

  4:00 pm

  119 Material Science Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 3, 2026

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  MiV Seminar: Kon-Well Wang, University of Michigan - "Embodying Programmability and Mechano-Intelligence in Adaptive Metastructures"

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

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  Midwest Mechanics Seminar: Fluid mechanics of riblets drag reduction

  4:00 pm

  100 Material Science Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

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  Decision & Control Seminar: Prof. Zahra Aminzare

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

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  MiV Seminar: Woodrow Shew, University of Arkansas - "Origins and functions of the cortical timescale repertoire: a temporal RG approach" - April 10, 2026

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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  Engineering Biointerfaces in Three Dimensions: Mechanics-driven Manufacturing for Complex Biological Geometrics

  4:00 pm

  100 Material Science Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 17, 2026

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  MiV Seminar: Hyun Youk, UIUC, "When dynamics compute the future: predictability in a generalized cellular automaton of communicating cells"

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 24, 2026

• 

  Boxuan Zhao, UIUC

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

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  Rob Wood, Harvard University

  4:15 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

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  Instruction Ends

  All Day

  • Other

Thursday, May 7, 2026

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  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  All Day

  • Other

Friday, May 8, 2026

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  Final Exams Begin

  All Day

  • Other
• 

  Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Ceremony/Service

Saturday, May 16, 2026

• 

  Commencement

  8:30 am

  Memorial Stadium

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 18, 2026

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  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  All Day

  • Other

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  All Day

  • Other

Monday, August 24, 2026

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  First Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  All Day

  your class

  • Other

Friday, August 28, 2026

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  Orit Peleg, University of Colorado Boulder

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 2, 2026

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  Abhishek Battacharjee, Yale University

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 16, 2026

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  Jason MacLean, University of Chicago

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 23, 2026

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  Rhonda Dzakpasu, Georgetown

  4:15 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, November 21, 2026

• 

  Fall break begins

  8:30 am

  Swanlund Administration Building

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, November 30, 2026

• 

  Instruction resumes

  All Day

  I-Hotel

  • Other

Wednesday, December 9, 2026

• 

  Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  All Day

  • Other

Friday, December 11, 2026

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  Final Exams Begin

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, December 18, 2026

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

  All Day

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 15, 2027

• 

  Winter Session Final Exams Begin

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, January 19, 2027

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  All Day

  • Other

Saturday, March 13, 2027

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  Spring Vacation Begins

  1:00 pm

  • Other

Monday, March 22, 2027

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  Instruction resumes

  7:00 am

  • Other