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Christine Reilley is the Managing Director of Publishing for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), based in New York City. Most recently, she was Managing Director of Strategy and Innovation. Previously, she led the Healthcare Technology Team, which focuses on creating and growing the Society’s portfolio of programs, products, and services in this area. Christine also has served as a program manager in the ASME Emerging Technologies unit, developing content and conferences in areas focusing on bioengineering, nanotechnology, thermofluids, and materials. Previously, she spent more than 10 years in ASME Codes and Standards Publishing as an editor, overseeing the production of codes from manuscript to final bound and digital product.

Dr. Andrew Barnard is the director of the Great Lakes Research Center and an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University, where he has been a faculty member since 2014. He previously was a research associate at the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State University for eight years. He received his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He received a Ph.D. in Acoustics from Penn State University in 2010. Dr. Barnard is Board Certified by the Institute for Noise Control Engineering (INCE) and is a Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD). Dr. Barnard has interests in acoustics, noise control, and vibration, as well as water resources and marine technology. Currently, he is interested in the commercialization of thermoacoustic thin-film loudspeakers made from carbon nanotubes (CNT). He is also interested in noise control methods for underwater electro-mechanical machines, such as electric motors and actuators. Though-ice acoustic propagation and on-ice source localization and tracking using machine learning are another current areas of study for Dr. Barnard. Finally, he is interested in the implementation of the maritime autonomous vehicles in commercial and defense applications.

Amanda Arvai serves as the deputy branch manager for the spacecraft operations and engineering branch at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which supports the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spacecraft flight operations. In this role, she develops flight products and procedures to operate JWST post-launch. She leads the Attitude Control Subsystem (ACS), which is responsible for pointing control and attitude determination, and supports the propulsion and fault management subsystems. She also supports the development and maintenance of software tools for the flight operations team.

Dr. Maurizio Porfiri is an Institute Professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, with appointments at the Center for Urban Science and Progress and the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Civil and Urban Engineering. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, in 2000 and 2006; a 鈥淟aurea鈥� in Electrical Engineering (with honors) and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Rome 鈥淟a Sapienza鈥� and the University of Toulon (dual degree program), in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He has been on the faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department since 2006, when he founded the Dynamical Systems Laboratory.

Dr. Porfiri is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has served in the Editorial Board of ASME Journal of Dynamics systems, Measurements and Control, ASME Journal of Vibrations and Acoustics, Flow, IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Mathematics in Engineering, and Mechatronics. Dr. Porfiri is engaged in conducting and supervising research on complex systems, with applications from mechanics to behavior, public health, and robotics.

He is the author of more than 350 journal publications and the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He has been included in the 鈥淏rilliant 10鈥� list of Popular Science in 2010 and his research featured in all the major media outlets, including CNN, NPR, Scientific American, and Discovery Channel. Other significant recognitions include invitations to the World Laureate Forum and to Frontiers of Engineering Symposia organized by National Academy of Engineering; the Outstanding Young Alumnus award by the College of Engineering of Virginia Tech; the ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award; the ASME DSCD Young Investigator Award; and the  ASME C.D. Mote, Jr. Early Career Award.

Prof. Loianno is an assistant professor at the New York University and director of the Agile Robotics and Perception Lab working on autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles. Prior to NYU he was a lecturer, research scientist, and team leader at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in automation engineering, both with honors, from the University of Naples "Federico" in December 2007 and February 2010, respectively. He received his PhD in computer and control engineering focusing in robotics in May 2014. Dr. Loianno has published more than 70 conference papers, journal papers, and book chapters. His research interests include visual odometry, sensor fusion, and visual servoing for micro aerial vehicles. His expertise is in the area of agile autonomy for small-scale aircrafts. He received the Conference Editorial Board Best Reviewer Award at ICRA 2016, National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) Young Investigator Award 2018. He was the program chair for IEEE SSRR 2019, 2020, and will be the general chair for SSRR 2021. He has organized multiple workshops on Micro Aerial Vehicles during IROS conferences and created the new International Symposium on Aerial Robotics (ISAR). His work has been featured in a large number of renowned international news and magazine.

I am Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portsmouth. I lead the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Research Group. I'm also a Docent (Visiting) Professor of Biobased Composite Materials at the Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business at the University of Bor氓s, Sweden.

My expertise include the design and development of sustainable lightweight composite materials, and their testing and characterisation. My research has benefited many industries through the development of a range of new sustainable materials, formulations and manufacturing processes. 

I'm published in over 150 international peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. I've been a guest editor for a number of journals and I'm a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Composites Science, Journal of Research on Engineering Structures & Materials, and the Material Chemistry section of the Journal of Molecules. I also serve as a member of scientific committees and as an evaluator for various research projects.

After the successful publication of the first book I co-authored in 2018, entitled Repair of Polymer Composites: Methodology, Techniques and Challenges, my second co-authored book Sustainable Composites for Lightweight Applications will be published in October 2020 by Woodhead Publishing (Elsevier Ltd).

I'm a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a member of the American Society for Composites (ASC), and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (IOM3) (FIMMM).

Professor Bruce Drinkwater is based in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research involves the use of ultrasound to test for engineering defects and cracks in safety critical structures such as power stations, oil and gas plants, sewage pipes, and aircraft engines. This method of non-destructive testing is used to intercept and prevent serious damage. He was awarded the Roy Sharpe Prize for his work in ultrasonic imaging that led to the invention of a special probe used to ensure that aircraft are safe to fly. Professor Drinkwater is also developing the use of sound waves to move and manipulate very small materials, a process called acoustic levitation that has potential applications in small-scale manufacturing, 3D printing and the assembly of living tissue. He co-invented the world鈥檚 first stable ultrasonic tractor beam - which attracted major media interest - and was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for this work. He is also Director of the EPSRC CDT in Future Innovation in Non-Destructive Testing (FIND).

Education
1991 - BEng Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College
1995 - PhD Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College

Anderson regularly teaches courses in spaceflight mechanics, aerospace vehicle systems design, and aerospace systems control. Anderson earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and his master’s degree in dynamic systems and control from the University of California at Berkeley. Then, he worked in the areas of dynamics, structural dynamics, and controls for TRW Space and Technology in Redondo Beach, which is now part of Northrop-Grumman Space Systems. He earned a doctoral degree in applied and computational mechanics from Stanford University. Then, Anderson served as researcher and principal dynamics engineer at TRW where he was associated with various spacecraft and research programs. Next, he was invited to Germany for a two-year period as a visiting scholar, lecturer, and research fellow at the Technische Hochscule - Darmstadt. Anderson joined the faculty of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mechanics, and Aviation at The Ohio State University in Columbus, where he remained until coming to RPI in 1995. Anderson is a member of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the US Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM), the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi.

Dr. Hakki Erhan Sevil received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), and his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Izmir Institute of Technology. He had over 4 years of research experience at Izmir Institute of Technology, and he was a Visiting Researcher in Service Automation and Systems Analysis (Service d'Automatique et d'Analyse des Systemes - SAAS) Laboratory at Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 2009. Between 2009 and 2013, he was conducting research in Computer-Aided Control System Design Laboratory (CACSDL) and Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory (AVL) at UTA.

Before joining University of West Florida (UWF) in 2018, he has worked as a Research Scientist in the Automation & Intelligent Systems Division at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI) between 2014 and 2018. His research interests include robotics, guidance and navigation, fault detection and isolation, bio-inspired and evolutionary computational methods, and distributed behavior models for multi-agent systems. Dr. Sevil has authored/co-authored more than 45 journal and conference papers, and book chapters, and he has been involved in 10 funded projects as a researcher. Besides working on the funded projects as key personnel, Dr. Sevil also has been the PI and Co-PI of various internal and external projects, sponsored by agencies, including NSF, NASA, ARL, and ONR. His recent work includes resilient and intelligent robotic systems, cooperative multiagent systems, computer vision applications for mobile robots, and advanced guidance and navigation techniques

Degrees & Institutions:
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology

Dr. Guillermo A. Francia, III joined the University of West Florida Center for Cybersecurity in 2018. Previously, Dr. Francia served as the Director of the Center for Information Security and Assurance and held a Distinguished Professor position at Jacksonville State University. Dr. Francia is a recipient of numerous cybersecurity research and curriculum development grants. His projects have been funded by prestigious institutions such as the National Science Foundation, Eisenhower Foundation, Department of Education, Department of Defense, and Microsoft Corporation. 

His scholarly interests include critical infrastructure security, connected vehicle security, security standards, and regulatory compliance and audit, radio frequency signal security, industrial control systems (ICS) security, machine learning (ML) for security, and digital badging for learning and employment records (LERs). In 1996, Dr. Francia received one of the five national awards for Innovators in Higher Education from Microsoft Corporation. 

He served as a Fulbright scholar to Malta in 2007 and a US-UK Fulbright Cybersecurity research scholar to Imperial College London in the United Kingdom in 2017. Dr. Francia is the recipient of the 2018 National CyberWatch Center Innovations in Cyber Security Education 鈥� Faculty Development Category Award.

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison
MS, Mechanical Engineering Northern Arizona University
BS, Engineering Mechanics, University of Wisconsin–Madison



Biography
Dr. Dyreson leads the Great Lakes Energy Group, where she uses energy analysis and grid-scale modeling to study the performance of renewable technologies and the operation of future electric power systems, with a focus on the impacts of climate change on those systems in the U.S. Great Lakes region. Her research links power plant-level thermodynamic models, climate models, hydrology models, and electricity grid operation models to understand how weather and climate change impact future power systems, both as individual components (i.e. snow shedding off of solar panels) and as a whole (balancing hourly grid operations during a heat wave). Dr. Dyreson is passionate about teaching and improving the diversity of Mechanical Engineering as a discipline. Dr. Dyreson has a background in solar energy (PhD Mechanical Engineering, 2018, University of Wisconsin–Madison and MS Mechanical Engineering, 2014, Northern Arizona University) and electricity grid modeling (Post-doctoral researcher 2018-2020, Grid Systems, National Renewable Energy Laboratory). Dr. Dyreson holds a BS in Engineering Mechanics from University of Wisconsin–Madison as a registered Professional Engineer (Wisconsin).



Seeking PhD Student Interested in Climate Change Impacts on Electrical Power Systems
This is a PhD-funded student position in mechanical engineering-engineering mechanics.








 



Links of Interest








Areas of Expertise

Solar photovoltaic and thermal power plants
Electricity grid operational modeling
Energy-water nexus



Research Interests

Grid integration under high penetrations of wind and solar energy
Drought and heat impacts on power systems
Thermal power plant modeling
Hybrid power plant value propositions
Electricity load modeling

Affiliated Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
Multiplanetary Innovation Enterprise (MINE) Faculty Advisor





PhD, Engineering Systems, Colorado School of Mines
MS, Engineering Systems, Colorado School of Mines
MS, Civil Engineering (Structural / Building Engineering), TU-Delft



Biography
Dr. van Susante grew up in The Netherlands and received a Master of Science from Delft University of Technology in 2001 in Civil Engineering with an emphasis on Building Engineering. He then went to the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) to participate in NASA research and received a Master of Science in Engineering Systems from CSM in 2004, followed by a Ph.D. in Engineering Systems from CSM in 2011. Dr. van Susante taught Freshman, Sophomore, and Senior Design as well as Mechanics of Materials for five years at CSM before coming to Michigan Technological University in 2012. He was a NASA Faculty Fellow in 2010 and consulted for a variety of companies on SBIR or STTR projects, such as the University of Arizona, Sysrand Corporation, Energid, HoneyBee Robotics, and others. He has been involved in research projects for many customers, including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX, TransAstra, DARPA, NASA KSC, JPL, Bechtel, Caterpillar, NCHRP, NSF and others.
Dr. van Susante is the PI of the Planetary Surface Technology Development Lab (PSTDL).



Teaching Interests

Engineering Design Process
Mechanics of Materials
System Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Practice
Finite Element Analysis
Intro to Aerospace Engineering
Space System Engineering
Space Resource Utilization
Senior Design Capstone / Enterprise Project
Product Realization

Areas of Expertise

Solid Mechanics
Structural Design
Finite Element Analysis
Engineering Design Process
System Engineering
Interdisciplinary Engineering (Aerospace, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Mining, Architecture)
Extreme Environment Design
Civil and Mining Engineering
Education
Optimization and Modeling



Research Interests

Extreme Environment Technologies (Space, Underwater, Mining, Arctic, etc.)
Excavation and Mining Technology
Planetary Science and Exploration
In-Situ Resource Utilization
Space Mining and Construction
Design Optimization
Robotics and Automation
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Director, Advanced Power Systems Research Center, Area Director, Energy-Thermo-Fluids (ETF)
Pi Tau Sigma Faculty Advisor
University of Wisconsin-Madison



 

Biography
Dr. Naber joined MTU in August of 2004. Prior to joining MTU, he worked in the automotive industry on R&D of engine management systems for gasoline and diesel engines. He also worked at Sandia National Laboratories, CRF, investigating sprays and combustion processes of diesel, natural gas, and hydrogen engines utilizing laser-based diagnostics. He and fellow colleagues direct the Advanced Internal Combustion Laboratories (AICE) at the University. His research interests are in IC engines and after-treatment and the development and application of advanced experimental techniques, signal processing technologies, theoretical models, and embedded control to characterize thermo-physical processes.



Areas of Expertise

Internal Combustion Engines
Hydrogen and Biofuels
After-Treatment



Research Interests

Combustion processes and combustion control of hydrogen and hydrogen dual-fueled engines
Biofuels, including ethanol with production from forest products and application in advanced combustion engines
Gasoline IC engine research and the development of physical-based correlations and models
Development of combustion measurement techniques for diesel, gasoline, and HCCI and PPCI engines

Gravish’s research focuses on better understanding the challenges of movement and manipulation in micro-scale robotic and biological systems. Current understanding of locomotion and manipulation in micro-scale systems lags behind our ability to create devices at these scales (i.e. microrobots). We also lack an intuitive understanding of the strategies animals use for movement and manipulation at these scales.  To bridge this knowledge gap between manufacturing and movement, Gravish studies high-speed, robust and agile locomotion in microscale biological systems such flying and running insects and looks for the principles of dynamic locomotion at the micro-scale. In addition, Gravish manufactures at-scale microrobots to test locomotion and manipulation hypotheses. His research takes an integrative approach, through quantitative biology experiments and robotics manufacturing and experiments, based on the mechanics driving the interaction between the animals and their environment when they move. He aims to discover principles for robust movement in complex environments with limited sensing and control. Gravish’s overarching goal is to expand our knowledge of movement and manipulation capabilities in micro-scale biological and robotic systems through novel manufacturing and experiments.