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JENNIFER CASE, Virginia Tech Going beyond the fads and jargon: What does research tell us about teaching for high quality learning in science and engineering?  There is much contemporary talk on how university teaching is outdated, and how radical change is needed to accommodate the needs of current students and the expectations of the workplace. Many […]

ALFRED SPORMANN, Stanford University Microbial Electrosynthesis for a Carbon-Neutral Energy and Chemicals Economy

IAN GILMORE, National Physical Laboratory, UK Metabolic Imaging at the Single-Cell Scale: Recent Advances and Future Challenges in Mass Spectrometry Imaging Super-resolution optical microscopy using fluorescent labels has been transformational in allowing the machinery of life, e.g. proteins, to be seen at the nanoscale. There is a great desire in the life-sciences to achieve this level […]

JOHN LIENHARD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thermodynamics and transport in desalination systems engineering  The world’s renewable fresh water supply may be considered to be the difference between precipitation over land and evaporation; and this supply is essentially fixed while world population has risen sharply and the water demands of growing economies continue to rise. As a […]

MANOS MAVRIKAKIS, University of Wisconsin – Madison Reaction Mechanisms and Structure Sensitivity for Heterogeneous Catalyst Discovery from First-Principles First-principles calculations have emerged as a key contributor towards the fundamental understanding of heterogeneous catalysis and the educated discovery of improved catalytic materials. By choosing the example of formic acid (HCOOH) decomposition on transition metals and alloys, we […]

RON WEISS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Synthetic biology is revolutionizing how we conceptualize and approach the engineering of biological systems. Recent advances in the field are allowing us to expand beyond the construction and analysis of small gene networks towards the implementation of complex multicellular systems with a variety of applications. In this talk I will […]

This seminar will focus on the application of leadership research into engineering leadership curriculum. Drawing on qualitative data, the seminar will summarize key findings exploring leadership within the engineering context. The seminar will identify relevant themes across the leadership studies and explore various applications to translate abstract leadership concepts into tangible learning activities and curricular […]

ALÁN ASPURU-GUZIK , University of Toronto Hosted by the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Lectures at the Leading Edge enhance our culture of excellence by providing a rich view of the broad landscape and far-reaching horizons of chemical engineering and applied chemistry education and research. Closed-loop Discovery of Materials: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Predictive […]