Dr. Timothy G.
Gutowski (Panel Chair)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity
Email: gutowski@mit.edu
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 the Director of the MIT-Industry Composites and Polymer Processing Program from 1984 to 1993, and is current the Co-Lead of Factory Operations for the MIT Lean Aircraft Initiative.
Dr. Gutowski has over 100 technical publications, including 7 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, entitled "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 has been awarded the Alcoa Professorship at MIT from 1985 to 1992, and in 1989 was named an M.I.T. Leader for Manufacturing Professor.
Cynthia F. Murphy (Panel Co-Chair)
Research Associate, MS
Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
College of Engineering
University of Texas
Ms. Murphy was the project manager and/or technical lead on numerous projects at the Microelectonics and Computer Technology Corp (MCC), including "Making Design-for Environment and Life-cycle Assessment Work," and "Revolutionary Environmental Manufacture of Printed Wiring Boards," a $7.3 project involving 6 industry partners. In addition, she contributed to the Electronic Products Environmental Roadmap (1996). Most recently she has worked in the area of electronics products recycling, funded by DOE through West Virginia University. 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 board, and advanced electronic packaging and assembly technologies.
Dr. David T.
Allen
Henry Beckman Professor in Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas At Austin
Email: allen@che.utexas.edu
Dr. David Allen is the Beckman Professor of Chemical Engineering and the 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 B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering, with distinction, from Cornell University in 1979. His M.S. and Ph.D. 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.
Dr. Diana J.
Bauer
Researcher
University of California
Mechanical Engineering Consortium for Green Design &
Manufacturing
Email: diana@greenmfg.me.berkeley.edu
Diana Bauer received her Ph.D. 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 quite extensively in Asia, including 2 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. Presently she is a post-doctoral researcher Berkeley's Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing
Dr. Bert
Bras
Associate Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology
The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Email: bert.bras@me.gatech.edu
Dr. Bert Bras is an 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 question 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. Furthermore, 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 US 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 M.S. 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 a Ph.D. study in the US. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Operations Research from the University of Houston in May 1992. On the completion of his Ph.D., he received a Post-Doctoral grant from the Institute of Space Systems and Operations at the University of Houston.
Dr.
Thomas S. Piwonka
Director
Metal Casting Technology Center
The University of Alabama
Email: MCTC@coe.eng.ua.edu
Dr. Piwonka is the 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 twenty-five 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, and 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 eighty 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.
Dr.
Paul Sheng
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
The University of California at Berkeley
Email: psheng@newton.me.berkeley.edu
Dr. Paul Sheng is Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at Berkeley and directs the Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing. 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 corresponding member of the CIRP.
Dr. Sheng received his S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT. Prior to joining the faculty at Berkeley, he served as Sr. Project Engineer at the Advanced Manufacturing Staff of General Motors Corporation. He is also serving as a consultant in the operations effectiveness and technology practices for McKinsey and Company Inc., a management consultancy.
Dr. John W.
Sutherland
Professor
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Michigan Technological University
Email: jwsuther@mtu.edu
John W. Sutherland is presently Professor and Associate Chair in the Dept. of ME-EM at Michigan Technological University. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. 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).
Dr.
Deborah L. Thurston
Associate Professor
Director, Decision Systems Laboratory
Department of General Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: thurston@uiuc.edu
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 an associate professor of General Engineering, and also holds appointments in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and 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, IL 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 M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984 and 1987, respectively. After obtaining the B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1978, she worked for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for four years.
Dr. Egon E. Wolff
Director
International Materials and Component Research
Caterpillar Inc.
Email: Wolff_Egon_E@cat.com
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.
Egon's 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.
Delcie
R. Durham, Ph.D., PE
Program Director, Design and Manufacturing Research Group
National Science Foundation
Email: ddurhan@nsf.gov
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.
Dr.
A. Frederick Thompson, PE
Program Director, Environmental Technology
National Science Foundation
Email: athompso@nsf.gov
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.