Dr. Pedro Ponte Castañeda, the Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow and Professor, at the department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, at University of Pennsylvania, was the invited speaker for the CE-CISMMS co-sponsored Graduate Seminar on February 16th. The title of his talk was,’Nonlinear Composites Materials‘. During his visit he met several faculty members from the different departments of engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE). He concluded his visit by meeting members of the CMRL at the third floor of Latrobe Hall.