Tau Beta Pi–Michigan Gamma

Go Blue Rising Stars in U-M Engineering Seminar

Event Type: Service Hours

Go Blue Rising Stars in U-M Engineering Seminar Series - Presented by Tau Beta Pi Michigan Gamma (TBP MI-G) & ADGPE

Join us for an exciting in-person seminar highlighting cutting-edge research and emerging talent within the College of Engineering!

Featured Talk: Understanding Experts' Mental Models to Design Efficient and Effective Human-AI Decision Systems

👨‍🔬 Speaker: Sumit Asthana, PhD Candidate in Computer Science, University of Michigan
📅 Date: March 31st
⏰ Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
📍 Location: EECS 1003

☕ 🍪 Refreshments Provided!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to accelerate progress by helping experts make better decisions, collaborate and tackle complex challenges. However, AI systems learn from experts' decisions rather than how or why they made those decisions. For example, if we watch Youtube videos on food, or politics, AI tends to recommend more of the same videos, without understanding why or when we decide to watch something. To become true assistants to support our work, AI systems need to understand our underlying motivations, goals and expertise of users. In this talk, he will talk about how humans make decisions in complex scenarios, and how can AI understand our reasoning behind the decisions to enhance our decision-making rather than reiterating our prior choices.

📌 Sign up now ☕🍪 (Please share this link with your friends.)
📌 You will earn a service hour upon submitting a synopsis of what you learned.

🔹Open to all students, postdocs, and faculty from all engineering disciplines! Bring your friends!

See you there! 🚀💡
Go Blue Rising Stars in U-M Engineering Seminar Series - Presented by Tau Beta Pi Michigan Gamma (TBP MI-G) & ADGPE

Join us for an exciting in-person seminar highlighting cutting-edge research and emerging talent within the College of Engineering!

Featured Talk: Thermoacoustic instabilities in gas turbine combustors and their control

👨‍🔬 Speaker: Rahul Ramesh, PhD Candidate in Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
📅 Date: April 17th
⏰ Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
📍 Location: EECS 1012

🥪🥪Panera Sandwiches ☕ Coffee & 🍪 Cookies Provided!

The talk will focus on aspects of flame-turbulence interaction and real time adaptive control of thermoacoustic instabilities observed in lean operation on a model gas turbine combustor at U-M.

📌 Sign up now ☕🍪 (Please share this link with your friends.)
📌 You will earn a service hour upon submitting a synopsis of what you learned.

🔹Open to all students, postdocs, and faculty from all engineering disciplines! Bring your friends!

See you there! 🚀💡
Go Blue Rising Stars in U-M Engineering Seminar Series - Presented by Tau Beta Pi Michigan Gamma (TBP MI-G) & ADGPE

Join us for an exciting in-person seminar highlighting cutting-edge research and emerging talent within the College of Engineering!

Featured Talk: "Poop for Power: A Journey in Environmental Biotechnology"

👩‍🔬 Speaker: Renata Starostka, PhD Candidate, Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
📅 Date: February 19th
⏰ Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
📍 Location: LEC 4231
☕ Coffee & 🍪 Cookies & a lot of Pastries Provided!

What if wastewater could be a source of energy? Renata Starostka explores the fascinating intersection of biotechnology and sustainability, using dynamic membranes to filter and treat high-strength wastewater—converting organic nutrients into bioenergy

Don’t miss this chance to engage in a 35-minute talk + 15-minute discussion, connect with fellow engineers, and explore how engineering can drive sustainability and social impact.

📌 Sign up now ☕🍪
📌 You will earn a service hour upon submitting a synopsis of what you learned.

🔹Open to all undergraduate & graduate students, postdocs, and faculty from all engineering disciplines!

See you there! 🚀💡
Go Blue Rising Stars in U-M Engineering Seminar Series - Presented by Tau Beta Pi Michigan Gamma (TBP MI-G) & ADGPE

Join us for an exciting in-person seminar highlighting cutting-edge research and emerging talent within the College of Engineering!

Featured Talk: Experiences of Engineering Undergraduate Students with Disabilities

👩‍🔬 Speaker: Isabel Miller, PhD Candidate, Engineering Education Research, University of Michigan
📅 Date: March 19th
⏰ Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
📍 Location: AEP1000 (the wilson center conference room)

☕ Coffee & 🍪 Cookies & a lot of Pastries Provided!

Students with disabilities in engineering must navigate spaces that contain inherent social and physical barriers. This presentation will share results from a mixed methods study, including findings from a survey about attitudes towards accommodations and norms in engineering, and interviews with undergraduate engineering students. The goal of this work is to improve accessibility and the field of engineering education to be better to support students with disabilities.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage in a 35-minute talk followed by a 15-minute discussion, connect with fellow engineers, and explore how engineering can promote accessibility, inclusivity, and social impact.

📌 Sign up now ☕🍪 (Please share this link with your friends.)
📌 You will earn a service hour upon submitting a synopsis of what you learned.

🔹Open to all students, postdocs, and faculty from all engineering disciplines! Bring your friends!

See you there! 🚀💡
Go Blue Rising Stars in U-M Engineering Seminar Series - Presented by Tau Beta Pi Michigan Gamma (TBP MI-G) & ADGPE

Join us for an exciting in-person seminar highlighting cutting-edge research and emerging talent within the College of Engineering!

Featured Talk: Methane Emissions and Flares: The Undercounted Problem and Solutions for Reduction

👨‍🔬 Speaker: Jenna Stolzman, PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
📅 Date: April 10th
⏰ Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
📍 Location: EECS 1012

🥪🥪Panera Sandwiches ☕ Coffee & 🍪 Cookies Provided!

Reducing methane emissions in the United States and globally remains an important and timely research topic. Methane emissions from oil and gas flaring have been demonstrated to be up to five times higher than EPA inventories, indicating discrepancies between bottom-up (e.g., EPA) and top-down (e.g., airborne sampling or satellite imagery) estimates. Estimates may also undercount low-flow flares that are more susceptible to crosswind. This presentation will examine flare volume estimates through bottom-up and top-down lenses, followed by new experimental data on methane destruction efficiencies of low-flow utility flares. Experimental results will be scaled to state-level methane emissions using local flare data, and practical mitigation strategies for reducing emissions will be discussed.

📌 Sign up now ☕🍪 (Please share this link with your friends.)
📌 You will earn a service hour upon submitting a synopsis of what you learned.

🔹Open to all students, postdocs, and faculty from all engineering disciplines! Bring your friends!

See you there! 🚀💡

Project Leaders: Manikandan Pandiyan (mpandiya)