School of Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series
The School of Chemical Engineering sponsors a Graduate Seminar Series in the fall and spring semesters, made possible by our generous supporters of the program. Experts from various areas of chemical engineering, including petroleum, energy, materials, chemicals, and biomedical, share the latest research in their fields. The seminars are held on Tuesdays from 3:00-4:00 p.m. (CST) in 107 Engineering South with a reception following. A complete list of the seminar dates, speakers, and topics for the current academic year, as well as past years, is shown below. If you are interested in attending a seminar, please contact us at chegradprogram@okstate.edu for more details.
Spring 2026
| Date | Speaker/Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2/10/2026 | Baojun Bai - Missouri University of Science and Technology | Development and Application of Re-crosslinkable Particle Gels for Preferential Fluid Flow Control in Subsurface Reservoirs |
| 2/17/2026 | Vivek Bajpai - University of Oklahoma | Integrating CRISPR and Stem Cell Models for Engineering Human Pigmentation |
| 2/24/2026 | Sankar Nair - Georgia Institute of Technology | Advanced Separations and Conversions for Integration in Biorefining Processes |
| 3/3/2026 | Andrew Sexton - Trimeric Corporation | Perspectives of a Practicing Chemical Process Engineer |
| 3/24/2026 | Simona Liguori - Clarkson University | Inorganic Membranes: An Intensified Approach to Transforming Chemicals Separation |
| 3/31/2026 | Qiugang (Jay) Lu - Texas Tech University | AI for System Resilience: Optimization, Prediction, and Monitoring in Energy and Process Systems |
| 4/7/2026 | Ahmad Al-Douri - University of Oklahoma | System Safety, Risk, and Reliability Assessment in the Process Industries |
| 4/14/2026 | Alexander Dowling - University of Notre Dame | Optimizing Experiments: From Data-Driven to Intrusive Model-Based Methods |
| 4/21/2026 | Manish Kelkar - AbbVie Inc. | Necessity is the Mother of Invention! .. or is it Curiosity? A Story of Purposeful “Why Not?” in reimagining a pharmaceutical process |
Fall 2025
| Date | Speaker/Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9/9/2025 | Kosma Szutkowski - Adam Mickiewicz University | Mapping Long-Range 3D Lithium Diffusion in Solid Electrolytes Using Pulsed-Field Gradient NMR and MD Simulations |
| 9/16/2025 | Christine Ehlig-Economides - Univeristy of Houston | Models for Emerging Enhanced Geothermal System Concepts |
| 9/23/2025 | Thomas Schwartz - University of Maine | Liquid-Phase, Acid-Base Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals |
| 9/30/2025 | Daniel Burkey - University of Connecticut | Teaching and Assessing Engineering Ethical Decision Making using Pretrained Language Models and Text Analytics |
| 10/14/2025 | Jon Olson - University of Texas | Hydraulic Fracture Geometry in Shales: Insights from Geology, the Laboratory and Modeling |
| 10/21/2025 | Michael Janik - Pennsylvania State | Intermetallics for catalytic active site design |
| 11/18/2025 | Haoxuan Chen - University of California | Advancing Environmental Inhalation Toxicology through Interdisciplinary Innovation |