WSEMAE2024 | Mechanical Engineering | Aerospace Engineering| Aerospace | Top Conference in Aerospace Engineering

Prof. Nourredine Boubekri

The University of North Texas, USA

Title: Smart Manufacturing and Supply Chain: Assessment and Roadmap

Dr. Nourredine Boubekri is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of North Texas. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering. He received both his Master and Bachelor of Science degrees in Manufacturing Engineering. His career started at the University of Miami. There he founded the University of Miami Industrial Assessment Center in the year 2000, which is currently still funded by DOE. He also founded and is directing the University of North Texas Industrial Assessment Center funded by DOE in 2022.His experience includes his roles as Department chair /Director of Research and Innovation. He directed more than sixty Master and Ph.D. Students and published more than 100 technical articles and journal papers. He has made guest presentations at international conferences in the areas of Sustainable Manufacturing, New Product/Process Development, Project and Quality Management, and Smart Manufacturing. His research funding exceeds seven million dollars in grants and contracts. Dr. Boubekri has collaborated with more than 150 companies spanning various industries in the areas of energy efficiency, productivity, and waste management, and smart manufacturing.

Prof. Weidong Zhu

University of Maryland, USA

Title: Vibration-based Structural Damage Detection

Weidong Zhu is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the founder and director of its Dynamic Systems and Vibrations Laboratory and Laser Vibrometry and Optical Measurement Laboratory. He received his double major BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1986, and his MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and the University of California at Berkeley in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He is a recipient of the 2004 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He has been an ASME Fellow since 2010, and has served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics and the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, and as a Subject Editor of the Journal of Sound and Vibration and Nonlinear Dynamics. His research spans the fields of dynamics, vibration, control, structural health monitoring, renewable energy, metamaterials, and involves analytical development, numerical simulation, experimental validation, and industrial application. He has published over 310 SCI-indexed journal papers in these areas and has eight issued U.S. patents. He received 14 best paper awards from the ASME and Society of Experimental Mechanics. He is a recipient of the 2020 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research.

Prof. Chris Fuller

Virginia Tech, USA

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Prof. Chris R. Fuller finished his B.E.(Hons) and Ph.D. at Adelaide University, Australia in 1974 and 1978 respectively. His Ph.D. topic concerned re-active attenuation of sound in ducts. He then spent three years at the ISVR, University of Southampton, England as a Research Fellow studying coupled vibrations in fluid-filled cylinders. After this Prof. Fuller moved to the U.S. where he worked at NASA Langley Research Center as a National Academy of Science/NRC Research Associate for two years studying control of aircraft inlet and interior noise. In 1983 he accepted a faculty position at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia where he was from 1996 to 2011 the Roanoke Electric Steel Professor of Mechanical Engineering. In January, 2011 Prof. Fuller became the Virginia Tech Samuel Langley Distinguished Professor at the National Institute of Aerospace, a position funded by NASA.

As the SLP, Prof. Fuller interacts daily with NASA Langley staff. Prof. Fuller is also the Director of the Bruel & Kjaer Center for Aerospace Acoustics and Vibration where his current research interests are in active control of sound and vibration, acoustic meta materials, noise in medical systems and noise in aerospace systems. Prof. Fuller has authored over one hundred and seventy papers in various major technical journals and holds over ten patents in active control, four of which are in commercial use. He is the pioneer of two major fields in acoustics and vibration; “Active Structural Acoustic Control(ASAC)” and more recently “Heterogeneous Composite Materials(HGM) for Passive Sound and Vibration Control”. There are over 1800 ASAC systems flying worldwide in commercial aircraft today. HGM is an early form of Acoustic Meta Materials.

Prof. Fuller is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. Prof. Fuller has served on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Sound and Vibration and the Institute of Noise Control Engineers. He is the lead author of the text Active Control of Vibration published by Academic Press. Prof. Fuller is considered a leading world expert in active noise control and regularly presents keynote talks at major conferences. Prof. Fuller has taught over a dozen short courses in active noise and vibration control in the US, Japan, Europe and Australia. Prof. Fuller received the 2017 ASME Rayleigh Award for his pioneering work in acoustics and active noise control. This is considered the highest award for work in acoustics in the US.

Prof. Fuller is also Principal of FTI, a small company dedicated to working with industry to develop products in noise and vibration control. FTI has worked with Boeing Aerospace, Cessna, Textron, Ford, Lockheed Martin, Somfy, Mercedes, Airbus, Andersen, Boeing Space and Communications and other large corporations.

Prof. Klaus Schilling

Center for Telematics, Germany

Title: Future Spacecraft Concepts S5: Smart, Small, Self-organizing Satellite Systems

Prof. Dr. Schilling was in space industry head of “Mission and System Analyses” and had responsibility for system studies on Earth observation, telecommunication and interplanetary satellites (such as HUYGENS to the Saturnian moon Titan and ROSETTA for exploration of comets), before he was appointed professor and chair for Robotics and Telematics at University Würzburg 2003-2022. In parallel, he is president of the research company „Center for Telematics (ZfT)“ since 2007.

He and his team built the first German pico-satellite UWE-1, launched 2005, to optimize parameters for Internet in Space. He published more than 400 papers and received several awards, including the Walter-Reis-Award for Innovations in Robotics 2008 and 2012, as well as from the European Research Council (ERC) an “Advanced Grant” 2012 for “NetSat” to research on control of networked distributed satellite systems and a “Synergy Grant” 2018 for “CloudCT” to improve climate models by computed tomography observations with a formation of small satellites. He is full member of the International Academy of Astronautics and was Consulting Professor at Stanford University 2002-2006. For his contributions to pico-satellite technology he was honored by German Aerospace Society DGLR 2021 with the Eugen-Sänger-Medal and 2023 with the Frank-J.-Malina-Medal from the International Astronautical Federation IAF.

Prof. I. S. Jawahir

University of Kentucky, USA

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Prof. Anwarul Haque

The University of Alabama, USA

Title: Additive Manufacturing of Composites : Present and Future Perspective

Prof. Haque is currently working in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Alabama (UA), USA. He received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University in 1995. His field of expertise is solid mechanics, structures and composite materials. His research focuses computational stress analysis, fracture and damage mechanics, impact/high strain rate loading, additive manufacturing, nano and advanced composite materials. He has been working in the field of composite materials for more than thirty years. His research projects are sponsored by US government agencies NASA, NSF, Army, Navy and private companies 3M and Boeing, Prof. Haque has worked in developing a two phase composite armor vehicle structure under a Army project in collaboration with UCSD/UD researchers. He worked in 3D crack propagation problem related to “Beta Factor Calculation for F-77 Fuselage” sponsored by Mercer Research corporation. He studied damage tolerance of ceramic matrix composites (SiC/SiNC) for propulsion engine component sponsored by NASA Glenn Research Center. Recently, he has been working in 2D-Graphene based composites applying atomistic/peridynamics simulation and additive manufacturing of thermoset composites using high rate frontal polymerization. He has been an invited speaker in many national and international conferences and published more than one hundred research articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He is a Fulbright scholar and taught at the European University of Madrid, Spain in 2020. Prof. Haque has served as a UA focal point in Airbus Group University Partnership Program (AGUPP) during the period 2013-2017 and participated many global workshops/conferences held in U.K., France, Germany, Singapore and China.

Prof. Hamid Reza Karimi

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

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Hamid Reza Karimi is Professor of Applied Mechanics with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Karimi’s original research and development achievements span a broad spectrum within the topic of automation/control systems, and intelligence systems with applications to complex systems such as wind turbines, vehicles, robotics and mechatronics. Prof. Karimi is an ordinary Member of Academia Europa (MAE), Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), Fellow of The International Society for Condition Monitoring (ISCM), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Member of Agder Academy of Science and Letters and also a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems, the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control, the IFAC Technical Committee on Automotive Control as well as member of the board of Directors of The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV). Prof. Karimi is the recipient of the 2021 BINDT CM Innovation Award, the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering, the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, August-Wilhelm-Scheer Visiting Professorship Award, JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Research Award, and Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung research Award, for instance. Prof. Karimi is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems, Subject Editor, Technical Editor or Associate Editor for some international journals and Book Series Editor for Springer, CRC Press and Elsevier. He has also participated as General Chair, keynote/plenary speaker, distinguished speaker or program chair for several international conferences in the areas of Control Systems, Robotics and Mechatronics.

Prof. David N. Ku

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Title: The fluid mechanics of a heart attack: How the fastest bond in biology can save you or kill you

David N. Ku, MD, PhD is a Regents’ Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the L.P. Huang Chair Professor for Engineering Entrepreneurship at Georgia Institute of Technology where he has made his career. David attended Harvard for college, then did his MD at Emory and PhD at GT. After surgical training at the University of Chicago, Dr. Ku returned to Atlanta to teach at GT and as an attending in vascular surgery at Emory. His research is primarily on the fluid mechanics of blood, related to heart attacks and strokes, funded by NIH and NSF. He has over 450 publications and is listed in the top 1% of cited scientists. He has founded 6 companies to make medical devices from knee cartilage, to computer-aided mammography, to pneumonia sampling devices.

Prof. Anderson H. C. Shum

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Title: Nature-inspired fluidics

Prof. Shum is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Vice-President (Research and Innovation) at the University of Hong Kong, Director of the Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre, and President of Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences. His research interests include biomicrofluidics, biomedical engineering, and soft matter. Prof. Shum received Gold Medal and International Special Award in 8th International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN, 2023), Gold Medal in 48th International Exhibition of Inventions (Geneva, Switzerland, 2023), Hong Kong Engineering Science and Technology Award 2022, Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2020, Rising Star Award by Ton Duc Thang University 2019, NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund 2019, Young Scientists Award in Microsystems-and-Nanoengineering-Summit 2019, IEEE Nanomed New Innovator 2018. He was selected as Fellow in HKIE (2023), IAAM (2023), RSC (2017).

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