Graduate Seminar Series

September 01, 2023

12:00 p.m. ET

Scaife Hall 105

sdwolf.pngSandra DeVincent Wolf, Carnegie Mellon University 

Sandra DeVincent Wolf is the executive director of the CMU Manufacturing Futures Institute where she works to identify, connect, leverage, and accelerate research in manufacturing across campus and with industry and government partners to support innovation that will accelerate the path of discovery to commercialization to increase US competitiveness and drive economic development in the Pittsburgh region. She is additionally the executive director of the CMU NextManufacturing Center for additive manufacturing research where she leads the activities and partnerships of the center and its consortium. Wolf originally joined the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2015 as Director of Research Partnerships, responsible for facilitating research partnerships and the growth of new initiatives, centers and institutes, and industrial consortia. She continues to lead partnership growth in support of manufacturing at CMU.

Prior to joining CMU, Wolf spent 15 years in research, development, engineering, and management in advanced materials and manufacturing working in national laboratories, a start-up manufacturing company and large corporations. Her technical work experience was followed by over 10 years in executive management of nonprofits where she was responsible for leading initiatives from conception through implementation and assessment, internal and external communications, strategic planning and operational implementation, program management, corporate and government relations, education and outreach, and staff/volunteer engagement and development. 

Upcoming Events

  • March 13 2025

    3:30 PM ET

    Materials Science and Engineering

    Special Seminar

    "MaterialEyes - Seeing the Invisible using Experiment, Theory and AI," presented by Maria Chan, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory

    Mehl Room - 2327 Wean

  • March 14 2025

    10:00 AM ET

    Materials Science and Engineering

    Graduate Student Seminar

    A Journey from Atoms to Materials: Computationally-Guided Discovery and Design of Functional Materials, presented by Prashun Gorai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    McConomy Auditorium, First Floor Cohon University Center

  • March 21 2025

    10:00 AM ET

    Materials Science and Engineering

    Graduate Student Seminar

    Thermophysical and Thermochemical Properties of Transition Metal Diborides up to and above 3000 degrees, presented by Scott J. McCormack, University of California, Davis

    McConomy Auditorium, First Floor Cohon University Center

  • March 28 2025

    10:00 AM ET

    Materials Science and Engineering

    Graduate Student Seminar

    Deciphering microscopic mechanisms driving assembly and flow of soft materials, presented by Vikram Jadhao, Indiana University, Bloomington

    McConomy Auditorium, First Floor Cohon University Center

  • April 11 2025

    10:00 AM ET

    Materials Science and Engineering

    Graduate Student Seminar

    The Green Steel Revolution, presented by Sara Hornby-Anderson

    McConomy Auditorium, First Floor Cohon University Center

  • April 18 2025

    10:00 AM ET

    Materials Science and Engineering

    Graduate Student Seminar

    presented by Robert Macfarlane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    McConomy Auditorium, First Floor Cohon University Center