On the afternoon of July 18, 2026, in Meeting Room P209 at the headquarters of the National Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering, the Institute held the Institute-level doctoral thesis defense ceremony for PhD candidate Tran Si Kien, currently working at the Institute's Mechanical Manufacturing Center, on the topic: "Dynamics and optimal motion control of industrial manipulators based on Pontryagin's maximum principle."

On the morning of July 4, 2026, at Meeting Room P209, Headquarters of the National Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering, the Institute held the Institute-level doctoral thesis defense ceremony for PhD candidate Mai Tất Lợi.