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There is a safety minute at the beginning of each period. Students are encouraged to select a topic from on-the-job or off-the-job activities. There are online materials to assist in preparation for the safety minute discussion.
Speakers should plan to end at 4:40 to allow at least 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
Students may make up seminars by attending seminars by watching recorded sessions online or attending other relevant seminars at BYU. The Mechanical Engineering department holds seminars on Monday at 4 PM in 381 CB. Below is a link to the current schedule of seminar speakers.
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar
Another opportunity is the Modeling and Optimization Symposium that is conducted via Webinar on most Tuesdays (typically 9 AM). Some of the sessions are cross-listed with the graduate seminar while others are hosted from remote locations.
Modeling and Optimization Symposium
Many of these lectures will also be of interest to chemical engineering students and faculty. The events are cross-listed to raise awareness of the opportunity to attend these lectures as well as the chemical engineering graduate seminar.
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BYU Graduate Seminars - Fall 2014
Graduate Seminar Schedule
Graduate seminars are held every week on Thursday at 4 PM Mountain Time. Seminars consist of industrial topics and academic research in chemical engineering and related disciplines. The seminar speakers include professors, graduate students, industrial collaborators, and other guests. A schedule of the seminars is provided below. Certain speakers are coming to BYU specifically for a graduate seminar. Those required seminars have a star (
) listed next to the speaker name.
| Presenter | Date | Time | Topic | Host |
| John Hedengren | 4 Sept | 4 PM | Graduate Seminar Introduction | |
| No Seminar | 11 Sept | 4 PM | ||
| Ali Cinar | 16 Sept | 9 AM | Control of Artificial Pancreas Systems (Webinar) | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Dane Parker, Dell | 18 Sept | 3 PM | College Leadership Lecture | |
 Ashley Haase
| 18 Sept | 4 PM W140 BNSN | HIV Reservoirs and the Quest for Better Treatment and Cure Member of the National Academy of Sciences and The Institute of Medicine | CPMS |
| Opening Social | 18 Sept | 5:30 PM MDT | Graduate Student BBQ at Rock Canyon Park | |
| Career Fair | 25 Sept | --- | No Graduate Seminar | |
| Tom Gilbert
| 2 Oct | 11 AM 256 CB | VP of Research at Acell | ADC |
| No Seminar | 9 Oct | 4 PM | ||
| Pieter Schmal | 14 Oct | 9 AM | Dynamic Modeling and Optimization Advances with gPROMS (Webinar) | PSE |
| Larry Baxter | 15 Oct | 12 PM | CCUS Pathways to Synergistic Fossil and Renewable Energy In-frastructure (Webinar) | AIChE (Requires Pre-registration) |
| No Seminar | 16 Oct | |||
| Tien Duong
| 23 Oct | 4 PM | US DOE | DRW |
| 30 Oct | 4 PM | UC Riverside | |
| College Lecture | 6 Nov | 3 PM 140 JSB | ||
| Farhad FazlollahiJoe HoggeTroy Holland
| 6 Nov | 4 PM | Graduate Research Update | |
| Marc Killpack
| 13 Nov | 4 PM | Operating Robots in Cluttered Environments Using Model Predictive Control | JDH |
| No Seminar | 20 Nov | 4 PM | JDH | |
| Thanksgiving Holiday | 27 Nov | 4 PM | ||
| Ray Smith | 2 Dec | 9 AM | GREENSCOPE – A Comprehensive and Systematic Sustainability Evaluation Tool for Chemical Processes (Webinar) | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
| Charles Doering University of Michigan | 2 Dec | 4 PM 135 TMCB | Convection, Stability, and Turbulence | BYU Math |
| Ammon EatonAmin SalehiNafiseh Poorhejad
| 4 Dec | 4 PM | Graduate Research Update | |
| John Salmon
| 11 Dec | 4 PM | JDH |
There is a safety minute at the beginning of each period. Students are encouraged to select a topic from on-the-job or off-the-job activities. There are online materials to assist in preparation for the safety minute discussion.
Speakers should plan to end at 4:40 to allow at least 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
Students may make up seminars by attending seminars by watching recorded sessions online or attending other relevant seminars at BYU. The Mechanical Engineering department holds seminars on Monday at 4 PM in 381 CB. Below is a link to the current schedule of seminar speakers.
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar
Another opportunity is the Modeling and Optimization Symposium that is conducted via Webinar on most Tuesdays (typically 9 AM). Some of the sessions are cross-listed with the graduate seminar while others are hosted from remote locations.
Modeling and Optimization Symposium
Many of these lectures will also be of interest to chemical engineering students and faculty. The events are cross-listed to raise awareness of the opportunity to attend these lectures as well as the chemical engineering graduate seminar.
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