PAST editorS
Editors who have recently completed their terms
Past Technical Editors
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Shapour Azarm
Shapour Azarm, Ph.D., P.E., is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park. He also holds a faculty appointment with the Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Program at UMD. He has B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Tehran, George Washington University, and University of Michigan, respectively. He is a past chair of the ASME Design Automation Conference, ASME Design Automation Committee, ASME Design Engineering Division, and a past operating board member of the ASME Systems and Design Group. Among other awards, he is a recipient of the ASME Design Automation Award for his sustained and meritorious contributions to research in Design Automation. He is a Fellow of ASME. Areas of interest: design optimization, design for market systems, design decision making |
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Panos Y. Papalambros
Panos Y Papalambros, PhD, PE, is the Donald C. Graham Professor of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also holds faculty appointments in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the School of Art and Design, He holds a diploma in mechanical and electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and M.S. and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He has co-authored the textbook Principles of Optimal Design: Modeling and Computation (1988, 2000). He is a Fellow of ASME and SAE, and recipient of the JSME Systems and Design Achievement Award, ASME Design Automation, ASME Machine Design, and ASME Spira Outstanding Design Educator Awards. Areas of interest: design optimization, design science |
Past Associate Editors
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Janet Allen
Janet K. Allen, PhD is a Professor and John and Mary Moore Chair of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. She received her SB degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and an Honorary Member of Pi Tau Sigma, the mechanical engineering honor society. Areas of interest: simulation based design of complex systems and the management of uncertainty. |
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Oscar Altuzarra
Oscar Altuzarra was born in Bilbao in 1971, received his M. Sc. Mechanical Engineering degree from the Engineering School of Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Spain, in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the same University in 1999. He spent a year at the Coventry University in Coventry (U.K.) in 1993 where he obtained a Diploma in higher studies. He is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Engineering School of Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU). His research interests are theoretical kinematics, mechanisms, design of parallel kinematic machines, robotics, and computational solutions to complex mechanical problems in the field of the theory of mechanisms. He gives lectures on Applied Mechanics at Graduate levels, and Kinematic Analysis at Postgraduate levels. He is involved in several academic as well as industrial projects related to the field of mechanisms and robotics. Regarding recent research issues, he has developed several new morphologies of parallel machines for pick and place operations, and solar trackers with high tilting capabilities. Areas of interest: systems design, robust design, intellectual foundations of design |
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Shorya Awtar
Shorya Awtar, Sc.D. is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FlexDex Surgical. He earned his engineering degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (B.Tech., 1998), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (M.S., 2000), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sc.D., 2004). His research interests include machine design, flexure mechanisms, parallel kinematics, mechatronic systems, and precision engineering. Application areas include medical devices for minimally invasive surgery, motion stages for metrology and manufacturing, electromagnetic and electrostatic actuators, and microsystems. He worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and GE Global Research prior to joining the University of Michigan. Areas of interest: machine design, mechanism design, flexure mechanisms, precision engineering, mechatronic systems |
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Christina L. Bloebaum
Christina L. Bloebaum is the Dennis and Rebecca Muilenburg Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University in Ames, IA. She is also a member of the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) and the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) program at ISU. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. She conducts research in design of complex engineered systems, with an emphasis on achieving consistency in physics (through incorporation of multidisciplinary design optimization) as well as preferences (through incorporation of value-based systems engineering and decision analysis). An additional area of research pertains to autonomous systems, with an emphasis of incorporating ethical, legal, societal and environmental implications (ELSEI) in UAS. She is a Fellow of AIAA and member of ASME. Among other awards, she is the recipient of the 2012 AIAA MDO Award, the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellows Award, the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the SUNY Research Foundation Excellence in Research Award. Areas of Interest: complex system design, multidisciplinary design optimization, visualization for decision-making, autonomous systems |
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Diann Brei
Diann Brei, Ph.D., is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her BSE degree in Computer Systems Engineering and her Ph.D Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University. She co-directs the General Motors/University of Michigan Multifunctional Vehicle Systems Collaborative Research Laboratory. She is the Technical Chair of the ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems and past chair of the AIAA Adaptive Structures Technical Committee. She is an AIAA Associate Fellow and recipient of the Hartwell Award, Univ. of Michigan Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award, and National Multiple Sclerosis Society DaVinci Award. Areas of interest: integrated design/methodology/processes, device innovation, smart materials and structures, actuation |
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Jonathan Cagan
Jonathan Cagan, Ph.D., P.E., is the George Tallman and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor in Engineering, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, with courtesy appointments in the School of Design. At Carnegie Mellon, he serves as Associate Dean for Graduate and Faculty Affairs in the College of Engineering, co-directs the Integrated Innovation Institute, and is faculty co-directory of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. He is the co-author of Creating Breakthrough Products (with Craig Vogel) and The Design of Things to Come (with Craig Vogel and Peter Boatwright), and the co-editor of Formal Engineering Design Synthesis (with Erik Antonsson). He is the recipient of the engineering college’ Outstanding Research Award. Cagan is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and serves on the Advisory Board for The Design Society. Dr. Cagan received his Bachelor of Science in 1983 and Master of Science in 1985 from the University of Rochester, and his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of California at Berkeley. All of his degrees are in Mechanical Engineering. Areas of interest: product development, computational innovation, cognitive-based engineering |
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Thomas Chase
Dr. Chase is a Professor and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Chase received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1984. He is a past chair of the Design Engineering Division (2002-03), the Mechanisms Committee (1993-94), and the Design Engineering Technical Conference in 1994. Areas of interest: mechanism synthesis, machine element design, hydraulics, the design of apparatus for high-energy physics experiments, database design for computer aided engineering |
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Olivier de Weck
Olivier L. de Weck, Ph.D., dipl. Ing., is an Associate Professor of Engineering Systems and Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained his degree in Industrial Engineering from ETH Zurich in 1993 and SM and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering from MIT in 1999 and 2001, respectively. His research focuses on understanding how complex man-made systems evolve over time and how we can design them to be more changeable while maximizing lifecycle value. Prof. de Weck has developed quantitative and implementable methods and tools that explicitly consider both changeability and commonality. Specific examples of such methods are Time-Expanded Decision Networks (TDN), the Delta-Design Structure Matrix (DSM) and the Technology Infusion Analysis (TIA) process. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and also serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. He won two best paper awards at he 2004 INCOSE Systems Engineering conference, the 2006 Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising at MIT, a 2007 AIAA Outstanding Service Award and the 2008 best paper award from the journal Systems Engineering. Since July 2008 he serves as Associate Director of the Engineering Systems Division at MIT, an academic unit with 53 faculty members and senior staff as well as approximately 440 graduate students. Areas of interest: systems engineering, engineering change management, design structure matrix method, product families, platforms and commonality, strategic issues in design |
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Andy Dong
Andy Dong, Ph.D., is a Professor and holds the Warren Centre Chair for Engineering Innovation in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies at the University of Sydney. He also holds a Future Fellowship sponsored by the Australian Research Council, one of the most prestigious research fellowships awarded by the Australian Government. Dr. Dong received his Bachelor of Science in 1992, his Master of Science in 1995, and his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of California at Berkeley, all in Mechanical Engineering. He is the author of The Language of Design (Springer). Andy is an expert in the analysis of design data such as organizational interactions, design documents, and product data to forecast and manage the performance of engineering design. He served as the Conference Chair in 2013 for the 25th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology. Areas of interest: design thinking, predictive analytics, computational design, design management |
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Xiaoping Du
Xiaoping Du is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chongqing University, China, and Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, respectively, all in Mechanical Engineering. He previously served as Curator’s Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Southwest Petroleum University in China. In addition to his academic job, Dr. Du assumed a mechanical engineer position at two companies. He has received many grants from NSF and other funding organizations in support of his research in the area of design under uncertainty and reliability. Areas of interest: design under uncertainty, reliability, optimization |
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Qi Fan
Qi Fan, PhD, is a Senior Gear Theoretician and Director of Bevel Gear Technology (China) at The Gleason Works. Dr. Fan currently serves as Chair of the ASME Power Transmission and Gearing (PTG) Committee. Previously, he was an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Wuhan University of Technology in China. Before joining Gleason Works, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Gear Research Center of the University of Illinois at Chicago where he received his PhD degree. He received his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering at Wuhan Transportation University in 1987. Dr. Fan is a recipient of the NASA Tech Brief Award (2004) and the Thomas Bernard Hall Prize (2001) awarded by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK. Area of interest: gear geometry and application, gear manufacturing process and machine tools, machine elements. |
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Zhang-Hua Fong
Zhang-Hua Fong, Ph.D., is a CCU Outstanding Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. He received his B.S. degree from National Chung Hsing University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from National Chiao Tung University, all in mechanical engineering. Prior to joining National Chung Cheng University, he was an engineer and manager of gearing dept. in the Industrial Technology Research Institute. He currently serves the IFToMM Gearing Committees and technology advisor to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), Taiwan. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Research Award by National Science Council, the Outstanding Professor of Industrial Economical Contribution Award, and the Gold Medal Award of National Invention Prize by MOEA, Taiwan. |
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Mary Frecker
Mary Frecker is a Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. She has a B.S. from the University of Dayton, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. When she joined Penn State in 1997, she was awarded the Pearce Endowed Development Professorship in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Frecker has also been awarded the GM/Freudenstein Young Investigator Award by the ASME Mechanisms Committee (2002), the Outstanding Advising Award by the Penn State Engineering Society (2002), and the Outstanding Research Award by the Penn State Engineering Society (2005). She is a Fellow of the ASME. Dr. Frecker is an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, and serves as Chair of the ASME Adaptive Structures Technical Committee. She is also a member of the ASME Mechanisms Committee. |
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Feng Gao
Feng Gao earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China in 1991. From 1995 to 1997, he was a postdoctoral research associate of school of engineering Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He was a full professor at Yanshan University from 1995 to 1999. He served first as Vice President and then President at Hebei University of Technology, China from 2000 to 2004. Since 2004, He has been full professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He currently serves as the director of State Key Lab. of Mechanical Systems and Vibration at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Area of interest: Macro and Micro Parallel manipulators, Humanoid and Multi-leg robots, Design and Control of Heavy-duty Machinery with parallel mechanisms. |
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Ashitava Ghosal
Ashitava Ghosal is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a faculty member of the Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained BTech, MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, University of Florida at Gainesville and Stanford University, respectively. Prior to joining Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore he had research appointments at Carnegie Mellon University and at Integrated Systems, Inc., Santa Clara. He has authored the textbook Robotics: Fundamental Concepts and Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2006). Areas of interest: robotics and multi-body mechanical systems, design of mechanical systems and product design |
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Massimiliano Gobbi
Prof. Massimiliano Gobbi is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in Italy. He was awarded a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1994 (100/100 cum laude) from Politecnico di Milano and Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics in 1998. He has published more than 150 technical papers in well-known, international, peer reviewed journals or presented at reputed international conferences. He is author (or co-author) of seven international patents and one book, ‘Optimal Design of Complex Mechanical Systems with Applications to Vehicle Engineering’, published by Springer Verlag. He is currently serving as Vice-Chair of the ASME Vehicle Design Committee (VDC) and has served as Conference/Program Chair for the Advanced Vehicle Technologies (AVT) Conference at ASME IDECT/CIE in 2012 and 2013. Areas of interest: road vehicles engineering, optimization of complex systems, advanced design. |
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David Gorsich
Dr. David Gorsich is the Chief Scientist of the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC). He is the organization’s primary focal point to organizations such as DARPA and ARO, and serves as the technical director of the U.S. Army National Automotive Center. Previously Dr. Gorsich was the Director of Strategic Plans and Programs at TARDEC, and the Associate Director for Modeling and Simulation. As TARDEC’s Associate Director for Simulation, he also was responsible for the Center’s High Performance Computing program. Before 2003, Dr. Gorsich served as a research scientist in TARDEC’s Robotics Lab as well as the leader of National Automotive Center’s Vehicle Intelligence team. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from M.I.T., his M.S. in applied mathematics from George Washington University, and his B.S. in electrical engineering from Lawrence Technological University. Areas of interest: simulation, reliability-based design optimization, terrain modeling, spatial statistics and other approximation methods |
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Larry Howell
Larry L. Howell, PhD, PE, is a Professor, Associate Dean, and past chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he holds a University Professorship. Prof. Howell received his B.S. degree from Brigham Young University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University. Prior to joining BYU in 1994 he was a visiting professor at Purdue University, a finite element analysis consultant for Engineering Methods, Inc., and an engineer on the design of the YF-22 (the prototype for the U.S. Air Force F-22). He is a Fellow of ASME and past chair of the ASME Mechanisms & Robotics Committee. Prof. Howell’s patents and technical publications focus on compliant mechanisms. He is the author of the book Compliant Mechanisms published by John Wiley & Sons. Areas of interest: compliant mechanisms, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) design |
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Chintien Huang
Chintien Huang, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. He received his B.S. degree from National Chung Hsing University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, all in mechanical engineering. He was previously an Associate Professor at National Cheng Kung University (1992-2000). In 1997, 2002, and 2005-06, he was a visiting scholar at Southern Illinois University, Stony Brook University, and University of California at Davis, respectively. He currently serves on the ASME Mechanism and Robotics Committee (1996-2012) and the IFToMM Computational Kinematics and Transportation Committees. He was a recipient of the ASME MSC Software Simulation Award and A. T. Yang Memorial Award for his work in theoretical/computational kinematics and mechanism design. |
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Charles Kim
Charles Kim is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University. He received his B.S. (1999) in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and M.S.E. (2002) and Ph.D. (2005) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His primary technical research interests are in methodologies for the design of compliant systems and soft robotic actuators. Professor Kim is also involved in numerous curricular and co-curricular initiatives to synthesize design, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Areas of Interest: compliant mechanisms, mechanism design, soft robotics, design |
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Michael Kokkolaras
Dr. Michael Kokkolaras is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University. He joined McGill after spending 12 years at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he held research faculty appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Transportation Research Institute. He has a Diploma in Aerospace Engineering from the Technical University of Munich and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University. His research interests include multidisciplinary optimization, simulation-based engineering design, uncertainty quantification, decomposition and coordination methods, modeling and validation, systems of systems, product families and optimization applications in engineering. He has co-authored 38 articles in archival journals, 48 papers in conference proceedings and 4 book chapters. He serves as Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and is a member of the ASME (active within the Design Automation Committee) and a senior member of the AIAA (serving on the Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee). Areas of interest: multidisciplinary design optimization, decomposition and coordination methods, design under uncertainty, platform-based design of product families |
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Yu-Tai Lee
Yu-Tai Lee, Ph.D., P.E., is Senior Scientist at the Computational Hydromechanics Division of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD). Prior to joining NSWCCD, he was Senior Engineer at the Westinghouse Research and Development Center at Churchill, PA. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Taiwan University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanics and Hydraulics from the University of Iowa. He is the current program chair for ASME Fluids Engineering Division (FED) conferences. He has served as Associate Editor for ASME J. of Fluids Engineering, and a past chair of FED’s Honors and Awards Committee and the Fluid Applications and Systems Technical Committee. He is an ASME Fellow. Among other awards, he is a recipient of the ASME Fluids Machinery Design Award for notable achievements in designing high-pressure fans for Navy’s mission-critical shipboard ventilation systems, and coupling CFD optimization schemes for naval ship HVAC compressors and hovercraft lift fans. Areas of interest: turbomachinery flow simulation, design and optimization |
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Craig Lusk
Dr. Craig Lusk (Ph.D. Brigham Young 2005) is an associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of South Florida, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on mechanisms and applied elasticity. His research interests include compliant mechanisms, MEMS, biomechanics, and spherical/spatial mechanisms. He received a NSF CAREER award in 2011 to study ‘Design for Integrity in Shape-Shifting Surfaces’. He has over 20 peer-reviewed publications and 7 current or pending patents. Areas of interest: compliant mechanisms, MEMS, biomechanics, and spherical/spatial mechanisms |
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Zissimos P. Mourelatos
Zissimos P. Mourelatos is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University. He currently holds the John F. Dodge Chair position of Engineering and has served as the Chair of Mechanical Engineering Department (2010-2014). Before joining Oakland University in 2003, he spent 18 years at the General Motors Research and Development Center. He conducts research in the areas of design under uncertainty, structural reliability methods, reliability analysis with insufficient data, Reliability-Based Design Optimization (RBDO), vibrations and dynamics, and NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness). Dr. Mourelatos has published over 170 journal and conference publications and a book entitled, “Decision Making under Uncertainty using Limited Information.” He is the Editor of the International Journal of Reliability and Safety, and an Associate Editor of the SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, and SAE International Journal of Commercial Vehicles. He has also served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. Dr. Mourelatos is a Fellow of ASME and SAE. Areas of interest: design under uncertainty, probabilistic and non-probabilistic uncertainty theories, structural dynamics |
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Shinji Nishiwaki
Shinji Nishiwaki, Ph.D., C. Eng., J.P.E., is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science at Kyoto University, Japan. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in the Department of Precision Engineering from Kyoto University, and Ph.D. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Michigan. He has received several awards, including the JSME Design & Systems Achievement Award (2007), the JSCES Best Paper Award (2008), the Best Paper Award from the Journal of Engineering Design (2009), Best Paper Awards from the JSME (2010), and the Computational Mechanics Achievement Award from the JSME (2010). He is a member of the JSME, JSPE, JSCES, JSAE, and ImechE. He currently serves as a division chair in the Design and Systems Division at the JSME. Areas of interest: topology optimization, optimum system design, multidisciplinary design optimization |
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Chris Paredis
Chris Paredis is a Professor and Woodruff Faculty Fellow in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He received the 2007 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, the 2007 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, and the 2011 ASME CIE Excellence in Research Award. In 2007-2008, he was the Chair of the ASME Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Division. He is also active within INCOSE and the Object Management Group (OMG), leading a working group on the SysML-Modelica Transformation Specification and serving on the SysML Revision Task Force. Areas of Interest: Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), decision making under uncertainty, and design optimization. |
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Matthew Parkinson
Dr. Matt Parkinson is a Professor and Director of the Learning Factory at Pennsylvania State University in the College of Engineering. He directs the Engineering Design Program and heads the OPEN Design Laboratory (www.dfhv.org). His research efforts focus on tools and methodologies for the design of artifacts which are robust to human variability (e.g., anthropometry, capability, and preference). He has received several teaching awards, SAE’s Teetor Educational Award (2009) and Withrow Distinguished Presenter Award (2008), the ASME DETC “Best Paper Award” (2007) and SAE’s Arch T. Colwell Merit Award for “Best Paper of the Year” (2003). He is a special associate editor for ASME’s Journal of Mechanical Design and chairs the ASME Design Engineering Division’s Student and Early Career Professionals Committee. Parkinson recently received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for activities redefining the foundations of designing for human variability. Areas of interest: maintenance of the asmejmd.org tool, biomechanics, designing for human variability, ergonomics and aesthetics, optimization |
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Karthik Ramani
Karthik Ramani is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering and of Electrical and Computer Engineering (by Courtesy) at Purdue University. He earned his BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, an MS from the Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Mechanical Engineering. He has been recognized by Purdue University through a University Faculty Scholars Award (2002), Discovery in Mechanical Engineering Award (2005), College Research Excellence Award (2007). He serves on the Engineering Advisory Board for the National Science Foundation (Industrial Innovation and Partnerships) for 2007-10; and as advisor at Imaginestics, supplier of shape-based search engine for manufacturing supply chains. Areas of interest: Digital and computational geometry, shape design and analysis, shape and ontology search, computational tools for early design innovation |
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Kazuhiro Saitou
Kazuhiro Saitou is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received a B.Eng degree from the University of Tokyo and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a past chair of the ASME Design Automation Conference, ASME Design Automation Committee, and ASME Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Committee. He has served as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE) and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE). He has been awarded the JSME Outstanding Achievement Award, ME Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Michigan, and the NSF CAREER Award. He is a member of the ASME and a senior member of IEEE. Areas of interest: assembly design, structural optimization, manufacturing systems, and biomedical image processing |
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James P. Schmiedeler
James P. Schmiedeler, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He received the B.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University, all in mechanical engineering. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa (2002-2003) and at The Ohio State University (2003-2008). In 2002, he was a summer faculty research fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, and in 2007, he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his work in modeling human motor coordination and robot-assisted rehabilitation. Areas of interest: machine design, robotics, biomechanics |
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Carolyn Seepersad
Carolyn Conner Seepersad, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and General Dynamics Faculty Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her B.S. degree from West Virginia University in 1996, and M.S. and Ph.D. from the Georgia Tech in 2001 and 2004, respectively, all in mechanical engineering. She also earned a B.A./M.A. from Oxford University in 1998 as a Rhodes Scholar. She has received Best Paper Awards from the ASEE Annual conference and the ASME IDETC Design Theory and Methodology Conference, and she is the recipient of the Design Automation Committee’s Outstanding Young Investigator Award in 2010 and the International Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium in 2009. Areas of interest: design automation, design of engineering materials and structures, set-based design, design for additive manufacturing, conceptual design and innovation |
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Kristina Shea
Kristina Shea is a Professor for Engineering Design and Computing at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. She earned her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993, 1995 and 1997, respectively. Prof. Shea is active in the research community where she serves on the Board of Management of the Design Society and several editorial boards. She is a Fellow of the ASME and a member of the Design Society. Professor Shea graduated in Mechanical Engineering (BS 1993; MS 1995; PhD 1997) from Carnegie Mellon. She worked at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Cambridge University, UK, and TU München, Germany. She also worked at Arup, London, UK, where she led the development of expertise in Computational Design and Optimization and applied her research to live building design projects. Areas of Interest: design methods, design representations, synthesis, computational design, model-based design, additive manufacturing |
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Timothy W. Simpson
Timothy W. Simpson, Ph.D., is the Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design and Manufacturing at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA. He also holds faculty appointments in Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Architecture, the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, and the College of Information Sciences and Technology. He received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the lead editor on the book Product Family and Product Platform Design: Methods and Applications (2005). He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and is active in ASME and ASEE. He is the recipient of a NSF Career Award, SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee Outstanding Service Award, and the Pennsylvania State University President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration. Areas of interest: product family design, product platforms, additive manufacturing, design innovation. |
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Avinash Singh
Avinash Singh, PhD, is an Engineering Group Manager – Advanced Torque Converters & Gear Systems, in the Advanced Power Transfer Group of GM Powertrain, General Motors Corporation. He received his B. Tech. degree from the Institute of Technology, BHU, India in 1990, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University in 1992 and 1997. Dr. Singh works on power transmission component technology and his research interests are in the areas of gear system design and analysis, dynamics and noise, development and validation of high fidelity models, power losses, rotating system diagnostics, and fatigue life prediction. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of the ASME Power Transmission and Gearing committee of the DED. Areas of interest: transmission component design and analysis, model development and validation |
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Alexander H. Slocum
Alexander H. Slocum is the Walter M. May and Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alex has written two books on machine design Precision Machine Design and FUNdaMENTALs of Design (free download on http://pergatory.mit.edu), published more than 150 papers, and has seven dozen+ patents issued/pending. Alex regularly works with companies on the development of new products and has been significantly involved with the invention and development of 11 products that have been awarded R&D 100 awards. Alex is a Fellow of the ASME and the recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal, ASME Leonardo daVinci Award, and the ASME Machine Design Award. Areas of interest: machine elements, precision machine design, medical devices, energy harvesting machines |
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Rikard Söderberg
Dr Rikard Söderberg is chair professor in Product and Production Development at Chalmers University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Chalmers in 1995. After some years in the IT and consultancy sector he went back to Chalmers University of Technology to build up his research group within Geometry Assurance and Robust Design. Dr. Söderberg is head of the department for Industrial and Materials Science and Director for Wingquist Laboratory. He has been a scientific advisor for the Fraunhofer Chalmers Centre of Industrial Mathematics since its founding in 2001 and is Chairman of its Board of Directors. His own research group within Geometry Assurance and Robust Design focus on minimizing the effect of geometrical variation and includes industrial design aspects, visualization, robust design, statistical variation simulation, optimization, assembly modeling and analysis, inspection preparation and analysis. He has close collaboration with automotive and aerospace industry. A number of his scientific results have been transferred into commercial software products and working procedures, today used in daily operation by a large number of engineers in international companies. He is the founder of RD&T Technology that develops and RD&T software for robust design and variation simulation. He is an associate member of CIRP and member of ASME. Areas of interest: Tolerance Analysis, robust design, assembly |
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Janis Terpenny
Janis Terpenny, PhD is is the Peter & Angela Dal Pezzo Chair and Department Head of the Harold & Inge Marcus Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State. She is co-founder and has served as the Director of the Center for e-Design, a 5-university NSF industry/university cooperative research center. She was an Advance Professor and Diggs Teaching Scholar at Virginia Tech and a Dean’s Faculty Fellow in the College of Engineering. Formerly, she was an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has prior industrial work experience with the General Electric (GE) Corporation, including the completion of a two-year corporate management program. She received a BS degree in Applied Mathematics from Virginia Commonwealth University, an MS degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and a PhD degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. She is a member of ASME, ASEE, and senior member of IIE. Areas of interest: design process and methods, knowledge engineering, product families and platforms, product obsolescence, student learning and engagement related to design education |
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Irem Tumer
Dr. Irem Tumer is a Professor at Oregon State University, where she leads research in complex system design as part of the Design Engineering Labs, and currently serves as Associate Dean for Research for the College of Engineering. She is an expert in system-level design and analysis for software-intensive engineered systems. Her extensive experience at NASA and in the Engineering Design community has led to over 100 publications, focusing on risk and failure analysis and engineering design theory and methodology. She has been extensively funded through various NASA programs while leading the Complex Systems Design group during her time at NASA Ames Research Center between 1998 and 2006. Since moving to Oregon State University in 2006, her funding has largely been through NSF, AFOSR, DARPA, and NASA. Prior to accepting a faculty position at OSU, Dr. Tumer led the Complex Systems Design and Engineering group in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center, where she worked from 1998 through 2006 as Research Scientist, Group Lead, and Program Manager. Dr. Tumer has been Conference Chair for ASME’s Design for Manufacturing and the Lifecycle conference in 2000, Technical Program Chair for IEEE Reliability Society’s Prognostics and Health Management Conference in 2008, and is Program Chair (2011) and future Conference Chair (2012) for ASME’s International Design Theory and Methodology Conference. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1998. She is a member of IEEE and ASME. Areas of interest: risk-based design, systems engineering, function-based design, failure analysis, and model-based design. |
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G. Gary Wang
G. Gary Wang, Ph.D., P.E., is a professor at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from School of Mechanical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Victoria. He is a past chair of the ASME Design Automation Conference and ASME Design Automation Committee. He is the recipient of 2005 I.W. Smith award from The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) and 2007 Rh Award from University of Manitoba for research excellence. He is also a Fellow of ASME. Areas of interest: engineering optimization, metamodel-based design optimization, design visualization, design for manufacturing |
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Hong-Sen Yan
Dr. Hong-Sen Yan is an NCKU Chair Professor at the National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He holds a B.S. degree from the National Cheng Kung University, M.S. degree from the University of Kentucky, and Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, all in mechanical engineering. He is the author of two Springer books Creative Design of Mechanical Devices (1998) and Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery (2007). He is a Fellow of ASME, an honorary member of IFToMM, and recipient of ASME Best Paper Award (Mechanism Conference) and National Chair Award (Ministry of Education, Taiwan, ROC). And, he collects ancient Chinese padlocks as a hobby. Areas of interest: kinematics, conceptual design of mechanisms and machines, reconstruction design of ancient machinery |
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Bernard Yannou
Bernard Yannou is a Professor of Industrial and Design Engineering and head of the Industrial Engineering Research Department, CentraleSupélec. He received a M.S. (1988) in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan (ENSC), a M.S. (1989) in Computer Science from Paris-6 University, and a Ph.D. (1994) in Industrial Engineering from ENSC. He directs the Innovative System Design and Development last-year Minor curriculum and directs the M.S. in Industrial Engineering of Ecole Centrale Paris. He has conducted research for a number of industrial companies: Dassault Systemes, Renault, Schlumberger, Johnson Controls, Airbus, Eurocopter, Snecma. He has supervised 15 Ph.D. theses in design engineering. He is member of the ASME for which he serves as an international liaison of IDETC, and a member of the Design Society. He was in 2008 the coordinator of a French handbook on design in 3 volumes “La conception industrielle de produits”. Areas of interest: design science, design automation, design management/methodologies/new product development, artificial intelligence in design, innovation engineering, sustainable design |
Past Guest Editors
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Jesse R. Boyer
Jesse is currently the Additive Manufacturing Fellow at Pratt & Whitney (P&W), and previously the Fellow of Advanced Manufacturing Metrology. Jesse holds two BSE degrees from the University of Michigan in Aerospace Engineering and Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering. Jesse has worked a variety of engineering and management positions throughout his 20+ year career in automotive at General Motors and at P&W several roles, including a Methods Specialist and Technology Manager for Military Blades, Technology Manager of the Capital Equipment Procurement Group, and the Manager of the Advanced Manufacturing Metrology Group (including Computed Tomography and Additive Manufacturing). Jesse has represented P&W on several committees and conferences including the AESQ Standard for MSA, recently the ASTM F42.01 Sub-Committee Chairman, on the Executive Committee of America Makes, and the AIA AMWG. He has 14+ patents in the areas of manufacturing processes, is published in the SME Manufacturing Engineering magazine. He is involved curriculum development at UCONN and University of Hartford to address the gap of manufacturing inspection capable engineers ready for the workforce in the New England Area. Areas of interest: key process variables to control additive manufacturing, in-process monitoring for production, digital thread related to inspection and additive manufacturing |
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Ying Liu
Ying Liu is currently a Reader in Intelligent Manufacturing and the Group Lead for High-value Manufacturing with the Institute of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the School of Engineering in Cardiff University, UK. Prior to that, he worked as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National University of Singapore (2010-2013) and with the Department of Industrial Systems and Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2006-2010). He obtained his Bachelors (1998) and Masters (2001) both from Mechanical Engineering at Chongqing University, China and PhD (2006) from the Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology (IMST) program under the Singapore MIT Alliance (SMA) at the National University of Singapore. His research interests focus primarily on design informatics, design methodology and process, product design, manufacturing informatics, intelligent (digital) manufacturing, and advanced ICT in design and manufacturing, in which areas he has published over 110 scholarly articles, one edited book and seven special issues. He is an Associate Editor of ASME JCISE, the Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering (Taylor & Francis) and is on the Editorial Board of Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier). He is a member of ASME and ACM. Areas of interest: Design informatics, design methodology and process, product design, manufacturing informatics, intelligent (digital) manufacturing and advanced ICT. |
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Conrad Tucker
Dr. Conrad Tucker holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in Engineering Design and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also affiliate faculty in Computer Science and Engineering and director of the Design Analysis Technology Advancement (D.A.T.A) Laboratory. Dr. Tucker has served as PI/Co-PI on several federally funded grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR). He is currently serving as PI and Site Director of the NSF Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT), an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center at Penn State. In 2016, he was invited to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee for the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium. Dr. Tucker is part of the inaugural class of the Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) program, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and is the recipient of the American Society of the Engineering Education’s (ASEE) Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) award. Dr. Tucker received his Ph.D., M.S. (Industrial Engineering), and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology. Areas of interest: design and optimization of systems through the acquisition, integration and mining of large scale, disparate data |
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Charlie C. L. Wang
Charlie C.L. Wang is currently a Professor and Chair of Advanced Manufacturing in the Department of Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Prior to this position, he was a Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he started his academic career in 2003. Prof. Wang received a few awards from professional societies including the ASME CIE Excellence in Research Award (2016), the ASME CIE Young Engineer Award (2009), the Best Paper Awards of ASME CIE Conferences (in 2008 and 2001), the Prakash Krishnaswami CAPPD Best Paper Award of ASME CIE Conference in 2011, and the NAMRI/SME Outstanding Paper Award in 2013. He serves on the editorial board of a few journals including Computer-Aided Design, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, and International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing. He is also a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Area of interest: geometric computing, computer-aided design, advanced manufacturing and computational physics |
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Christopher Williams
Christopher Williams is an Associate Professor and J. R. Jones Senior Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Macromolecules Innovation Institute. He received a B.S. degree with High Honors at the University of Florida (2000) and M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees from Georgia Tech, all in mechanical engineering. His research contributions have been recognized by six best paper awards at international design, manufacturing, and engineering education conferences. He is a recipient of a NSF CAREER Award (2013), the 2012 International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Fabrication Award, and the 2010 Emerald Engineering Additive Manufacturing Outstanding Doctoral Research Award. Areas of interest: additive manufacturing (processes and materials), design for additive manufacturing, engineering design education |