Message from the Division President
Dear M&D Colleagues,
I am very thankful and honored to have the opportunity to serve you as the President of Manufacturing and Design Division.
First, I would like to thank all our members who volunteer to serve our M&D Division. You are our biggest asset and source of inspiration for our future generation of leaders – Our Student Members!
As a means of introduction, I want to take a step back on how I got involved with M&D Division before I share the goals for our Division during my tenure.
When I was a student (several years ago!), I was deeply inspired by all the hard work of my predecessors to promote M&D and IISE through multiple avenues: our annual conference, carefully thought-out workshops to benefit our community, webinars to share new knowledge, awards to recognize the deserving, and most importantly, building a sense of togetherness in our mission to advance manufacturing and design. This is my seventh year on the M&D Board, and it comes down to what I have learnt from our community:
We do what we have always done, pay it forward for our M&D community!
During my tenure as your M&D President, I aim to: (1) Increase industry participation within our Division, and (2) Establish a forum to share best practices in teaching and graduate school research of M&D topics to best serve our society. In addition, I will continue to promote our former M&D Board’s excellent efforts in successfully enhancing diversity within our division.
Please join me in welcoming our new volunteer M&D Board members! I am looking forward to working with our newest leadership team and ‘catching the bug’ from their awesome ideas and energy. We will highlight each of them through our current and upcoming newsletters. Finally, I am looking forward to seeing you all at IISE 2022! Stay tuned!
As your M&D President, it is my privilege to serve our vibrant M&D community. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me with your ideas or questions. You can email me at gum@psu.edu
Regards,
Guha
Guha Manogharan, Ph.D.
President
IISE M&D Division
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Message from the Editor
Welcome to our 2021 M&D September Newsletter. We are excited to share our activities at the 2021 IISE Annual Conference and Expo in May 2021 in this newsletter. We had a successful experience of 2020’s virtual conference where the M&D track organized 48 research presentations and four live sessions during the 2021 IISE Annual Conference. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all M&D members’ participation and support. Your participation is extremely important to maintain the level of excellence that our annual conference has maintained over the years.
In this issue, we will highlight our new M&D board members and advisory committee who volunteer their time and efforts through multiple initiatives to serve our division members within IISE. You will also find an exciting opportunity to get involved with the M&D Board through volunteering opportunities. This issue also includes highlights from our M&D 2021 virtual town hall meeting, and our special live sessions at the 2021 IISE Annual Conference.
We look forward to your continued active participation and contributions to the 2022 M&D Track at the IISE Annual Conference and Expo. Finally, we invite and encourage you to check our social media pages on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter where we share our most up-to-date information of the division activities and resources.
Thanks for your interest in M&D to check out our September 2021 Newsletter and we look forward to seeing you through interactions on our social media pages. If you have M&D related events and articles to share, email me at tian@ise.msstate.edu.
Best Regards,
Wenmeng Tian
External Relations Director
IISE M&D Division
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Get Involved! Volunteer for the M&D Division
All the great work and activities done at our M&D Division are solely enabled by the contributions of our volunteers! If you want to contribute to the excellence of our M&D division, please let us know through submitting your information to the Google Form
We have exciting opportunities and roles for everyone! If you are a practitioner, faculty, graduate, undergraduate or an administrator, you can volunteer. The only requirement is of course, your interest in the mission of the M&D division! Sign up here!
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M&D Division Board Member and Advisory Committee Highlight |
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Meet our new 2021-2023 M&D Board Members!
Assistant Instructional Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
BS (2013), MS (2013), PhD (2018)
Industrial and Systems Engineering
North Carolina State University
Research Areas
Gen Z Learning Preferences in an online environment
Experiential learning opportunities for Gen-Z students
Application Areas
Teaching Creating Active Online Courses
Teaching CNC machining in a self-paced course
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Lead AM Scientist
REM Surface Engineering
BS (2003), PhD(2010)
Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
University of Puerto Rico
Post-Doctoral (2014)
Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
Texas A & M University
Recognitions
Ford Foundation Fellowship
Research Areas
Additive Manufacturing, Surface Chemistry,
Surface Metrology, Nanomaterials, Drug Delivery,
Formulations, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Material Science,
Colloidal Chemistry, Artificial Photosynthesis
Application Areas
Surface finishing of metal components
Enhance mechanical properties
Enhance corrosion resistance
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Highlights of 2021 M&D Town Hall Meeting
On May 24, 2021, the IISE Manufacturing and Design Division held our annual (virtual) Town Hall Meeting. The meeting started with both IISE and our M&D division acknowledging the hard work of all the members of the division through these difficult times during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also recognized our former M&D President, Dr. Iris Rivero who was honored as an IISE fellow, which recognizes outstanding leaders of the profession who have made significant, nationally recognized contributions to industrial and systems engineering.
We summarized the major activities of IISE M&D during this year’s conference. The Manufacturing and Design track organized 48 research presentations and 4 live sessions (including the virtual town hall meeting). The other 3 special sessions organized during the conference were introduced.
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We are proud that the M&D Division sponsored 12 student members to attend this IISE conference (see the students below). Thanks to our M&D Town Hall Meeting Sponsors! |
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Zulma Acevedo Figueroa
Undergraduate Student
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Mahathir Mohammad Bappy
PhD student
Mississippi State University
Maria Alejandra Cabarcas-Romero
MS student
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Maria Camila Ceballos Santa
PhD student
Rochester Institute of Technology
Christian Enyoghasi
PhD student
University of Kentucky
Elliott Gengo
MS student
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Subarna Haque
PhD student
Wichita State University
Emily Lazarus
PhD student
Rochester Institute of Technology
Srikanthan Ramesh
PhD student
Rochester Institute of Technology
Samantha Sorondo
PhD student
Rochester Institute of Technology
Yinan Wang
PhD student
Virginia Tech
Liangkui Jiang (Best Student Paper)
PhD student
Iowa State University
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We are Excited to Share our Annual M&D Division Award Winners!
2021 M&D Best Track Paper Award
"In-situ Monitoring of Direct Energy Deposition via Structured Light System and
its Application in Remanufacturing Industry"
Authors:
Xiao Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Iowa State University,
Weijun Shen, Ph.D. Student, Iowa State University,
Xuepeng Jiang, Ph.D. Student, Iowa State University,
Beiwen Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Iowa State University,
Qing Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Iowa State University,
Iris Rivero, Ph.D., Department Head, Rochester Institute of Technology
Hantang Qin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
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2021 M&D Best Student Paper Award
"Modeling and Experimental Validation of Droplet Generation in Electrohydrodynamic Inkjet Printing for Prediction of Printing Quality"
Authors:
Liangkui Jiang, Pavithra Premaratne, Yanhua Huang, Hantang Qin
Liangkui Jiang is a PhD student in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE) at
Iowa State University (ISU) under the supervision of Dr. Hantang Qin.
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Outstanding Teaching Award
Dr. Abishek B. Kamaraj
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Kettering University, Flint, Michigan
Interdisciplinary Design and Manufacturing (IME-100)
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Outstanding Young Investigator Award
Dr. Chenhui Shao
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Outstanding Service Award
Dr. Paul Cohen
Edgar S. Woolard Distinguished Professor
Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
North Carolina State University
Congratulations for also receiving the
Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award!
Please join us in congratulating all our awardees for their passion, dedication, and contributions to our Manufacturing and Design community.
During our M&D Town Hall Meeting, we introduced the new members of the 2021-2023 Board and Advisory Committee. Finally, we held discussions on our community’s ideas and suggestions to advance the mission of M&D Division. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participated in our town hall for your valuable inputs and suggestions.
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Highlights of Special Sessions at the 2021 IISE Annual Conference
and Expo!
At the 2021 IISE Annual Conference and Expo in May 2021, M&D hosted three special live sessions in addition to 48 research presentations.
Women and Leadership in Manufacturing and Design
This special live session invited six inspiring female leaders from both academia and industry as panelists. They were Dr. Iris Rivero from Rochester Institute of Technology, Dr. Eileen Van Aken from Virginia Tech, Dr. Janis Terpenny from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Dr. Susan Steadman from the Hershey Company, Ms. Mindy Holmes from Intel Corporation, Ms. Renee Thiesing from Simio LLC. This panel was hosted by Dr. Katie Basinger from University of Florida.
Each panelist shared three aspects of their suggestions for women professionals to take leadership roles in the field of manufacturing and design both in academia and industry. Subsequently, a live Q&A session was organized to answer questions from the audiences. Dr. Lourdes Medina concluded this special session by introducing the initiatives at IISE M&D for promoting women leadership in IISE.
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Teaching Manufacturing and Design Hands-on Experiences on a Pandemic
This live session invited four panelists who were highly successful in teaching manufacturing and design courses during the pandemic. The panelists were Dr. Robert C. Voigt from, Denis Cormier from Rochester Institute of Technology, Dr. Abishek Balsamy Kamaraj from Kettering University, and Dr. Lourdes Medina from University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. This panel was hosted by Dr. Wenmeng Tian from Mississippi State University.
The pandemic that started in 2020 has provided tremendous challenges and new opportunities in teaching manufacturing and design hands-on courses. Our panelists shared their own experiences in teaching hands-on M&D experiences during the pandemic. Their presentations were followed by a live Q&A session for the audience to ask questions regarding best teaching practices for manufacturing lab during the pandemic. There were over 190 attendees in this special session, which indicated the great interest our community showed to this important topic.
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