The Dr. Robert W. Courter Seminar Series
The Mechanical Engineering (ME) Seminar Series has informally existed for over thirty years since the time when Dr. Thomas W. Lester was ME Department Chair. It was formally established as a regularly occurring event in 1995 by Dr. Effie Gutmark, then Chair of the ME Department. Since 2011 it has been sponsored and sustained by ME Alumnus Mr. Sidney “Sid” E. Fuchs being re-named to “The Sidney E. Fuchs Seminar Series” at that time. Mr. Fuchs, an alumnus of the ME undergraduate and graduate programs, is a Member and Chair Emeritus of the MIE Board of Advisors and ME Industry Advisory Council, and an Executive in Residence in the MIE Department and College of Engineering.
In 2019, Mr. Fuchs graciously decided to dedicate this seminar series to his former graduate adviser and mentor, Dr. Robert “Bob” W. Courter, to honor him for his life-long mentorship of students and his significant contributions to the LSU Mechanical Engineering Program and the profession. Thus, the seminar series was renamed to “The Dr. Robert W. Courter Seminar Series”.
The series brings a broad variety of distinguished speakers from academe, government and industry to the Department for the benefit of the students and the faculty.
2024-2025
Corina Barbalata
Catalin Picu
Eugene Chabot
David C. Wisler
Christian Franck
Kris Darling
2023-2024
Pin-Chuan Chen
Axel Kriegl
Dylan Shell
Dale Thomas
Leonardo Bobadilla
Gautam Biswas
Srinath Ekkad
2022-2023
Paul Campagnola
Anastasia Muliana
Edward Sander
Jason Gross
Hunter Gilbert
Genevieve Palardy
Shyam Menon
2021-2022
Paul Campagnola
Anastasia Muliana
Hitesh Bindra
Holly Rushmeier
Xiaoli Zhang
Xiaming Feng
2020-2021
Yuri Antipov
Adam Melvin
Paul Campagno
Richard Crawford
Aditya Mohite
Wei-Chuan Shih
Joseph Oefelein
Mahdi Tavakoli
Manas Gartia