MechSE Master Calendar

Friday, March 6, 2026

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  MiV Seminar: Suyi Li, Virginia Tech - "Folding Intelligent Machines: Exploiting Geometry and Mechanics of Origami to Build Intelligence in the Mechanical Domain"

  3:00 pm

  2005 Mechanical Engineering Lab - MEL (John Deere Pavilion)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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  Talbot Distinguished Lecture: Towards certification by analysis: Enabling technologies for industry ready large eddy simulation of complex turbulent flows

  4:00 pm

  National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Auditorium

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

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  Decision & Control Seminar: Prof. Zhe Xu

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2026

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  Thermofluids and Nanoengineering for Grand Challenges within Water, Air and Energy

  4:00 pm

  119 Material Science Engineering Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 14, 2026

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  Spring Vacation Begins

  1:00 pm

  • Other

Monday, March 23, 2026

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  Instruction resumes

  7:00 am

  • Other

Friday, March 27, 2026

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  MiV Seminar: Vickie Webster-Wood, Carnegie-Mellon University - "Understanding and implementing biological intelligence through bioinspired and biohybrid robotics"

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • 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

Friday, April 10, 2026

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  Woodrow Shew, University of Arkansas

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • 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

• 

  Rob Wood, Harvard University

  4:15 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

• 

  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

• 

  Final Exams Begin

  All Day

  • Other
• 

  Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania

  4:15 pm

  4100 LuMEB

  • Ceremony/Service

Saturday, May 16, 2026

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  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

• 

  Final Exams Begin

  8:30 am

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, December 18, 2026

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  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

• 

  Instruction resumes

  7:00 am

  • Other

Wednesday, May 5, 2027

• 

  Instruction Ends

  All Day

  Swanlund Administration Building

  • Other

Thursday, May 6, 2027

• 

  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  All Day

  Swanlund Administration Building

  • Other

Friday, May 7, 2027

• 

  Final Exams Begin

  All Day

  • Other

Saturday, May 15, 2027

• 

  Commencement

  8:30 am

  Memorial Stadium

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 17, 2027

• 

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  All Day

  • Other

Monday, June 14, 2027

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  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  All Day

  • Other