Address: Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 35-234
Cambridge, MA 02139
Dr. Timothy G. Gutowski is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The LMP is responsible for manufacturing development, including manufacturing process and system design, control, analysis and optimization. He has also been Director of the MIT-Industry Composites and Polymer Processing Program, 1984-93, and is currently the Co-Lead of Factory Operations for the MIT Lean Aircraft Initiative.
Dr. Gutowski has over 100 technical publications, including seven patents, in such areas as advanced composites processing, polymer processing, new process development, design for manufacturing, cost estimating, physical chemistry, and acoustics and vibration. He and his students have developed several new processes for the forming of advanced composites for aerospace applications. He has also developed new theories for the consolidation of composites and the mapping of fiber assemblies onto complex shapes. His most recent book, Advanced Composites Manufacturing, was published by John Wiley in 1997. Dr. Gutowski is the North American Editor for the international journal Composites, Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing, and he is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Manufacturing Systems.
He held the Alcoa Professorship at MIT from 1985 to 1992, and in 1989 was named an MIT Leader for Manufacturing Professor.
Address: Research Scientist, Center for Energy and Environmental
Resources
University of Texas at Austin (R7100)
10100 Burnet Road., Bldg. 133
Austin, TX 78758
Ms. Murphy is currently a research scientist at the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, University of Texas at Austin. She has been the Principal Investigator for two projects attempting to advance electronic products recycling in the context of an eco-industrial park. The focus of both projects is to evaluate material streams associated with these products, including metals, thermoplastics, and leaded glass. This is being done through the development of activity-based process and logistics models that address cost, quality, and environmental metrics. She is also the Principal Investigator for an NSF/EPA project in cooperation with Motorola and SEMATECH to develop generic LCI modules for the semiconductor industry.
Prior to joining the University of Texas, Ms. Murphy was a Senior Member of Technical Staff and Project Leader in Environmental Programs at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. (MCC) in Austin, TX. She was the project manager and/or technical lead on numerous projects at MCC, including "Making Design for Environment and Life-cycle Assessment Work," and "Revolutionary Environmental Manufacture of Printed Wiring Boards," a $7.3 million project involving six industry partners. In addition, she contributed to the Electronic Products Environmental Roadmap (1996). Ms. Murphy has 10 years of experience in the area of cost-modeling, process-modeling, and materials inventory modeling for the purpose of performing tradeoff analyses and optimization for various sectors of the electronics industry. Her background includes manufacture and test of semiconductors and printed wiring boards, and advanced electronic packaging and assembly technologies.
Ms. Murphy’s research interests include design for environment, life-cycle assessment, environmentally conscious manufacturing, process modeling of manufacturing processes, and economic and environmental tradeoff analyses. She has numerous publications.
Address: Henry Beckman Professor in Chemical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Chemical Engineering Bldg., 3.462
Austin, TX 78712-1062
Dr. David Allen is Beckman Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas, Dr. Allen was Professor and Chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests lie in environmental reaction engineering, particularly issues related to air quality and pollution prevention. He is the author of three books and over 100 papers in these areas, and the quality of his research has been recognized by the National Science Foundation through the Presidential Young Investigator Award and the AT&T Foundation through an award in Industrial Ecology. Dr. Allen is also active in developing pollution prevention education materials for engineering curricula, and his teaching has been recognized through UCLA's Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award.
Dr. Allen received his BS degree in Chemical Engineering, with distinction, from Cornell University in 1979. His MS and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering were awarded by the California Institute of Technology in 1981 and 1983. He has held visiting faculty appointments at the California Institute of Technology and the Department of Energy.
Address: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Center for Environmental Research (NCER)
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., 8722R
Washington, DC 20460
Dr. Diana Bauer is currently serving as a AAAS Fellow at the Environmental Projection Agency in Washington, DC. She received her PhD in mechanical engineering with a specialization in environmentally conscious design and manufacturing from UC Berkeley in 1999. Before returning to graduate school she spent several years in industry, first developing computer models in the Systems and Design Integration Group at Foster Miller, Inc., and later conceptualizing new CAD product ideas in the Product Planning Group at Parametric Technology Corporation. She has also lived and traveled extensively in Asia, including two months in 1998 based at MEL in Tsukuba researching Japanese industry and the environment. Her research interests include process-level environmental evaluation of manufacturing, tools to support environmental decision making in design and manufacturing, and international comparisons of environmentally conscious design and manufacturing activities and motivations.
Address: Associate Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology
The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Systems Realization Laboratory
Atlanta, GA 30332-0405
Dr. Bert Bras has been Associate Professor at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology since September 1992. His research focus is on environmentally conscious design and manufacturing, design for de- and remanufacture, activity-based life-cycle assessments, and industrial ecology. His primary research interest is how to reduce the environmental impact of companies while increasing their competitiveness, i.e., how to promote sustainable development. He has received funding and donations from the National Science Foundation, the Georgia Research Alliance, the Center for Sustainable Technology, AT&T, Motorola, Ford Electronics, the Army Environmental Policy Institute, and DaimlerChrysler for his research. He has authored and co-authored over 60 publications. He has developed and taught an undergraduate course on Environmentally Conscious Design & Manufacturing since 1993 and has developed a curriculum in Sustainable Development with colleagues from other engineering schools and public policy. He also taught segments of a National Center for Advanced Technologies (NCAT) short course on Integrated Product and Process Development for the Army and for the U.S. Navy. He has won Georgia Tech’s 1995 Amoco and Center for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Young Faculty Teaching Award, was named the 1996 Engineer of the Year in Education by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers, and received a NSF Young Faculty Career Award in 1996, and a Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Award in 1999.
Dr. Bras obtained his Master of Science ("Ingenieur") degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, in August 1987. After completion of his MS thesis he was hired as a full time research associate at the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands’ (MARIN) Design Research Department and sponsored by MARIN to complete PhD study in the U.S. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Operations Research from the University of Houston in May 1992. Upon completion of his PhD, he received a Post-Doctoral grant from the Institute of Space Systems and Operations at the University of Houston.
Address: Director, Metal Casting Technology Center
University of Alabama
106 Bevill Building, P.O. Box 870201
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
Dr. Piwonka is Director of the Metal Casting Technology Center and Acting Director of the Marine Transportation Center at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL. Prior to joining the university, Dr. Piwonka spent 25 years in the metalcasting industry, at the General Motors Corporation, Kelsey-Hayes Corp, and TRW Inc. He has held a variety of positions in the cast metals industry, ranging from production engineer to research director. He is a graduate of Case-Western Reserve University, and received his advanced degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Piwonka is a member of the American Foundrymen’s Society, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, ASM International, and the Investment Casting Institute. He is a member of the Advisory Technical Awareness Council of ASM International, is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cast Metals Research, and was on the editorial board of Metals Handbook, Desk Edition—Second Edition. He has authored more than 80 technical papers on foundry technology and has seven patents in the field of metal casting. He is a member of the Process Design & Modeling, Aerospace Structural Casting, Aluminum Gating and Risering, Mold-Metal Interface and Green Sand Committees, and the Steel Division at AFS, and is Program Manager for the Thin Wall Iron Casting Program at AFS, and the Maritime Administration’s High Speed Sealift Program.
Dr. Piwonka’s research interests include alloy solidification, non-ferrous foundry processes, manufacturing processing of superalloys, mold making science and technology and manufacturing systems. He teaches courses in non-ferrous metalcasting, high temperature alloys, materials processing and powder metallurgy.
Address: Associate Principal
McKinsey and Co., Inc.
111 Congress Avenue, Suite 2100
Austin, TX 78701
Dr. Paul Sheng has recently moved to a position with McKinsey & Company, from his previous post at UC Berkeley. His research interests are in environmentally conscious processing and planning, particularly in machining and electronics manufacturing. He has co-authored over 90 journal and conference publications on environment and manufacturing topics. Dr. Sheng is the recipient of the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineering Young Engineer Award, NAMRI Outstanding Paper Award, Japan-USA Flexible Automation Young Investigator Award, and the Lucent Technology Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship. He is currently a corresponding member of the CIRP.
Dr. Sheng received his SB, SM and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT. Prior to joining the faculty at Berkeley, he served as Sr. Project Engineer on the Advanced Manufacturing Staff of General Motors Corporation.
Address: Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering
Mechanics
Michigan Technological University
815 R.L. Smith ME-EM Building
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931-1295
Dr. John W. Sutherland is presently Professor and Associate Chair in the Dept. of ME-EM at Michigan Technological University. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously, he held an adjunct faculty position at the University of Illinois and served as a manufacturing consultant. He has published over 100 technical papers in various journals and conference proceedings. He is a member of the Board of Directors and the Scientific Committee of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME, and serves on the Executive Committee of ASME's Manufacturing Engineering Division. Professor Sutherland has received numerous teaching awards, SME's Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (1992), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineering (1996), and SAE's Ralph R. Teetor Award (1999).
Address: Professor of General Engineering
Director, Decision Systems Laboratory
Department of General Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
117 Transportation Building
104 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Dr. Deborah L. Thurston is Director of the Decision Systems Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she conducts research in multiobjective engineering design decision making. She is a Professor of General Engineering, and also holds appointments in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department.
The focus of her research is on developing new methods for integrating environmental impacts, production costs, product performance and quality into concurrent design and manufacturing analysis. She has published over 70 technical papers. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Chrysler, General Motors, Ford, Motorola, Hayes-Lemmerz, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Armstrong World Industries, Prefinish Metals, Nestle, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, and EPRI.
She received the prestigious Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1989, the Xerox Award for excellence in engineering research in 1992 and 1995, three awards for excellence in undergraduate advising, and a 1994 Best Paper of the Year Award for The Engineering Economist. Professor Thurston currently serves as an Area Editor for The Engineering Economist, and as past Associate Technical Editor in Design Theory and Methodology for the Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Journal of Mechanical Design. She is a registered professional engineer and a member of ASEE, ASME, IEEE and IIE.
She earned the MS and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984 and 1987, respectively. After obtaining the BS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1978, she worked for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for four years.
Address: Director, International Materials and Component
Research
Caterpillar Inc.
Technical Center, Bldg. K, P. O. Box 1875
Peoria, IL 61656-1875
Egon Wolff’s career at Caterpillar started in 1967 as a Project Engineer for large off-highway vehicles. He served as a Technical Resources and Development Manager in the United States and Brazil before taking the position as Director, International Materials and Component Research.
His work focuses on developing and acquiring emerging technologies from universities and institutions, research funded by agencies of government, and through the creation of technology ventures. He has formed partnerships with more than 20 international institutions and specifically focused on technology transfer as a means to improve the discovery process for increased implementation. He earned degrees in Materials Science and Engineering in Germany and is a Professor for Engineering and Technology at Bradley University.
Address: Program Director, Design and Manufacturing Research
Group
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 565
Arlington, VA 22230
Dr. Durham is Program Director for the Materials Processing and Manufacturing Program in the Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. This program sponsors research in novel materials processing, including nanotechnologies, microfabrication, and plasma deposition processes. The program also funds research in modeling and simulation of netshape processes such as casting, forming, polymer composites and thin films for predictability and improved productivity. Many of the awards are directed towards environmentally conscious manufacturing. Dr. Durham is on leave from the University of Vermont where she is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and where she served as Dean of the Graduate College. Dr. Durham has served on the Board of the North American Manufacturing Research Institute of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, including President in 1995. She is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Manufacturing Engineering Division. Dr. Durham is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Vermont and has worked as a consultant for numerous industries.
Address: HMI Corporation
Matsudo Paresu 1002
35-2 Koyama
Matsudo 271, JAPAN
Hiroshi Morishita, President, HMI Corporation, specializes in ultra-micro manipulation technology for MEMS (microelectromechanical systems). He founded HMI Corporation in 1991 to commercialize his ultra-micro manipulator system. He extended his interest and business to the field of archaeological excavating and to the new robot manipulator system to help bed-ridden persons. In 1994, he became a consultant to WTEC panel members concerning their study tours in Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo (BA, MA, mechanical engineering), and is in the final stage of preparing his doctoral thesis. He was a visiting researcher in the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1992 and 1993 and at RCAST (the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology) at the University of Tokyo in 1994 and 1995.
Address: Program Director, Manufacturing Machines & Equipment Group
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 565
Arlington, VA 22230
Dr. K.P. Rajurkar is Program Director for the Manufacturing Machines & Equipment Program in the Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. He received his B.S. degree with honors from Jabalpur University, India. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan Technological University in 1978 and 1982, respectively.
Dr. Rajurkar is the founder of the Center for Nontraditional Manufacturing Research of the College of Engineering and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In the past he has worked as Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and as Assistant Professor at Michigan Technological University. Dr. Rajurkar is a member of the ASME, SME and a corresponding member of CIRP. Dr. Rajurkar serves as a reviewer for several professional journals including Trans. ASME, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering; Trans. ASME, Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology; the ASM Journal of Shaping Technology; International Journal of Electro-Machining; Wear; and others. Dr. Rajurkar served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Engineering for Industry and Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the NAMRI/SME. He is the President-Elect of the North American Manufacturing Research Institute of SME.
Dr. Rajurkar has more than 90 refereed publications and nearly 100 technically edited papers which were published in conference proceedings. He has authored many technical reports and has made several unpublished presentations. Dr. Rajurkar has participated in numerous seminars, workshops, and curricular/lab development activities. He has been successful in attracting research grants from NSF, NIST/ATP, DOD, GEAE, Extrude Hone, Brush Wellman, Cummins Engines, NCMS, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Japan), Trans Tec Inc. (England), State of Nebraska, and other sponsors. He has received College of Engineering and Technology Awards for research and teaching. He also has received the ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award for a paper on Pulse Electrochemical Machining. Recently his patent on cryogenically cooled tool machining has been approved.
His areas of teaching experience include undergraduate and graduate courses in Manufacturing Methods and Processes, Metal Cutting Theory and Practice, Nontraditional Manufacturing Methods, Computer Aided Manufacturing, Numerical Control and Automation, Robotics, Applied Operation Research, Production Planning, Statics, Dynamics, Strength of Materials, Statistical Experimental Design, and Modeling of Manufacturing Processes and Systems.
Address: Program Director, Environmental Technology
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 565
Arlington, VA 22230
Fred Thompson joined The National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1997 after 28 years in the environmental consulting and construction industry. He has broad experience in all phases of environmental engineering and management, and his activities have included all media, including air, water, wastewater, and solid and hazardous wastes. He has been a consultant to industry and to municipal, state and federal government agencies as they solved existing environmental problems or established programs and plans to avoid future pollution. His experience includes a three-year assignment in Milan, Italy, where he served industrial clients throughout Europe. Dr. Thompson earned his BS in Engineering Science from the Pennsylvania State University (1963) and his MS (1965) and Ph.D. (1968) in Environmental Health Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
At NSF, he directs the Environmental Technology element of the Environmental/Ocean Systems Program in the Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems. This program element focuses on technologies to prevent the formation and discharge of pollutants and to avoid environmental harm.