Keynote Speakers
Dr. V. K. Jain
Professor (Retired)
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, INDIA
Topic: Manufacturing: Vision for future
Date/Time: April 09, 2022 / 10:15am -11:15 am
Biography: Prof. V.K..Jain did his B.Tech. from MACT Bhopal (Vikram University, Ujjain), and M. Tech. and Ph.D. from University of Roorkee (now, IIT Roorkee). He has about 44 years of teaching and research experience. He has served as a visiting professor at university of California at Berkeley (USA) and university of Nebraska at Lincoln (USA). He retired as a professor from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur after serving for thirty three years. Dr. Jain has won three gold medals, two silver medals and one best paper award as recognition to his research work. He is editor-in-chief of three International journals and associate editor of Int J. Engineering manufacture and J. Machining Science and Technology. In recognition to the research work of Dr. Jain, he has been opted as a member of the editorial board of more than ten international journals. He has also worked as a guest-editor for more than ten special issues on TQM, CAPP, advanced machining processes, micromanufacturing, and micro fabrication. He has more than 300 publications to his credit. He has written and edited eight books. He has guided fifteen Ph.D. Students and around one hundred M. Tech. / M. E. Students. Dr. Jain has various research areas of interest, viz. Advanced machining techniques (ECM, EDM, AFM, MAF, MRAF, and others), machining of advanced engineering materials, shear strain acceleration phenomenon in metal cutting, computer aided manufacturing, and CAPP.
Professor (Retired)
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, INDIA
Topic: Manufacturing: Vision for future
Date/Time: April 09, 2022 / 10:15am -11:15 am
Biography: Prof. V.K..Jain did his B.Tech. from MACT Bhopal (Vikram University, Ujjain), and M. Tech. and Ph.D. from University of Roorkee (now, IIT Roorkee). He has about 44 years of teaching and research experience. He has served as a visiting professor at university of California at Berkeley (USA) and university of Nebraska at Lincoln (USA). He retired as a professor from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur after serving for thirty three years. Dr. Jain has won three gold medals, two silver medals and one best paper award as recognition to his research work. He is editor-in-chief of three International journals and associate editor of Int J. Engineering manufacture and J. Machining Science and Technology. In recognition to the research work of Dr. Jain, he has been opted as a member of the editorial board of more than ten international journals. He has also worked as a guest-editor for more than ten special issues on TQM, CAPP, advanced machining processes, micromanufacturing, and micro fabrication. He has more than 300 publications to his credit. He has written and edited eight books. He has guided fifteen Ph.D. Students and around one hundred M. Tech. / M. E. Students. Dr. Jain has various research areas of interest, viz. Advanced machining techniques (ECM, EDM, AFM, MAF, MRAF, and others), machining of advanced engineering materials, shear strain acceleration phenomenon in metal cutting, computer aided manufacturing, and CAPP.
Dr. Farrokh Mistree
Professor
The University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
Topic: Design Engineering 4.0
Date/Time: April 09, 2022 / 04:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Biography: Farrokh’s passion is to have fun in providing an opportunity for highly motivated and talented people to learn how to define and achieve their dreams. Since his arrival in August 2009 at the University of Oklahoma, after seventeen years at Georgia Tech, Farrokh holds the L. A. Comp Chair in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Farrokh received his B. Tech (Hons) degree in Naval Architecture in 1967 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. He has co-authored two textbooks, four monographs and more than 450 technical papers dealing with the co-design of materials, products and associated manufacturing processes, the design of mechanical, thermal and structural systems; ships and aircraft; engineered networks. He has co-mentored 34 doctoral students and 65 master’s students; 18 of his mentees are pursuing highly successful careers in academia. In addition, he has mentored two students, one master’s and one doctoral, who founded several for-profit colleges in Odisha, India. Farrokh is a Fellow of ASME, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, a Life Member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and a Member of ASEE, RINA and SNAME. He was named the ASME Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Engineering Design Educator in 2011. In September 2012 he was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. In December 2012, he received the Life Time Achievement Award from the International Society for Agile Manufacturing, Lafayette, Louisiana. Farrokh co-directs the Systems Realization Laboratory @ OU (SRL@OU) with his wife Professor Janet K. Allen who holds the John and Mary Moore Chair in Industrial and Systems Engineering. The SRL@OU is a multicultural, multidisciplinary academic family focused on educating the next generation of professors. They provide an opportunity for every member to learn how to dream, rise to his/her full potential and contribute to the scholarship associated with the realization of complex engineered systems.
Professor
The University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
Topic: Design Engineering 4.0
Date/Time: April 09, 2022 / 04:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Biography: Farrokh’s passion is to have fun in providing an opportunity for highly motivated and talented people to learn how to define and achieve their dreams. Since his arrival in August 2009 at the University of Oklahoma, after seventeen years at Georgia Tech, Farrokh holds the L. A. Comp Chair in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Farrokh received his B. Tech (Hons) degree in Naval Architecture in 1967 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. He has co-authored two textbooks, four monographs and more than 450 technical papers dealing with the co-design of materials, products and associated manufacturing processes, the design of mechanical, thermal and structural systems; ships and aircraft; engineered networks. He has co-mentored 34 doctoral students and 65 master’s students; 18 of his mentees are pursuing highly successful careers in academia. In addition, he has mentored two students, one master’s and one doctoral, who founded several for-profit colleges in Odisha, India. Farrokh is a Fellow of ASME, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, a Life Member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and a Member of ASEE, RINA and SNAME. He was named the ASME Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Engineering Design Educator in 2011. In September 2012 he was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. In December 2012, he received the Life Time Achievement Award from the International Society for Agile Manufacturing, Lafayette, Louisiana. Farrokh co-directs the Systems Realization Laboratory @ OU (SRL@OU) with his wife Professor Janet K. Allen who holds the John and Mary Moore Chair in Industrial and Systems Engineering. The SRL@OU is a multicultural, multidisciplinary academic family focused on educating the next generation of professors. They provide an opportunity for every member to learn how to dream, rise to his/her full potential and contribute to the scholarship associated with the realization of complex engineered systems.
Dr. Janet Allen
Professor
The University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
Topic: Design Engineering 4.0
Date/Time: April 09, 2022 / 04:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Biography: Janet K. Allen has held the John and Mary Moore Chair and has been a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering since her arrival at the University of Oklahoma in August 2009 from Georgia Tech. She received her S.B. in Life Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her PhD in Biophysics from the University of California. She has co-authored one textbook, four monographs and more than 350 technical papers dealing with the co-design of materials, products and associated manufacturing processes, the design of mechanical, thermal and structural systems; ships and aircraft; and engineered networks such as supply chains. Janet K. Allen and her husband, Professor Farrokh Mistree, who holds the L.A. Comp Chair in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, co-Direct the Systems Realization Laboratory which is home to students from various disciplines. Our mission is to provide an opportunity for students to learn how to rise to their full potentials to become the next generation of professors.
Professor
The University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
Topic: Design Engineering 4.0
Date/Time: April 09, 2022 / 04:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Biography: Janet K. Allen has held the John and Mary Moore Chair and has been a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering since her arrival at the University of Oklahoma in August 2009 from Georgia Tech. She received her S.B. in Life Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her PhD in Biophysics from the University of California. She has co-authored one textbook, four monographs and more than 350 technical papers dealing with the co-design of materials, products and associated manufacturing processes, the design of mechanical, thermal and structural systems; ships and aircraft; and engineered networks such as supply chains. Janet K. Allen and her husband, Professor Farrokh Mistree, who holds the L.A. Comp Chair in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, co-Direct the Systems Realization Laboratory which is home to students from various disciplines. Our mission is to provide an opportunity for students to learn how to rise to their full potentials to become the next generation of professors.
D. Scott Sink
Professor
Western Michigan University, USA
Topic: Achieving operational excellence: perspectives, points of view and strategies
Date/Time: April 10, 2022 / 4:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Biography: Scott is a native of Findlay, Ohio, and a graduate of The Ohio State University (1973, '76, '78). He spent three years with Eastman Kodak as a Service Systems Engineer in Rochester, N.Y., after receiving his BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Scott returned to Ohio State as a graduate research assistant funded by an NSF grant, studying white collar productivity measurement. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies (based in ISE), he joined the faculty at Oklahoma State University from 1978-1984. In the fall of 1984, Scott joined the ISE faculty at Virginia Tech and led the Virginia Quality and Productivity Center from 1984-1997. Scott has written three books and more than 40 papers and articles, and has consulted extensively. Scott joined the private sector in 1997 and served as VP of Business Process Reengineering for Exchange Solutions (Boston/Toronto) and then from 2004-2007 as VP of Business Process Improvement for MDS, Intl. in Toronto. He designed and launched a very successful Operational Excellence (LeanSigma) Program for MDS (Global Life Science Company). In the fall of 2007, he decided to return to academia and his alma mater to develop and lead a LeanSigma Certification Program in the College of Engineering. The LeanSigma Certification Program has been exceedingly well received by ISE undergraduate candidates. The 53 projects to date have generated some $4 million in direct benefits to local business and industry. (e.g. The Limited, Kroger, OSU Medical Center, PPG, Mid Ohio Foodbank, Diamond Innovations, Rosati Windows, Kahiki Foods, Smiths Medical, Donato’s Pizza, and others).
Professor
Western Michigan University, USA
Topic: Achieving operational excellence: perspectives, points of view and strategies
Date/Time: April 10, 2022 / 4:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Biography: Scott is a native of Findlay, Ohio, and a graduate of The Ohio State University (1973, '76, '78). He spent three years with Eastman Kodak as a Service Systems Engineer in Rochester, N.Y., after receiving his BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Scott returned to Ohio State as a graduate research assistant funded by an NSF grant, studying white collar productivity measurement. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies (based in ISE), he joined the faculty at Oklahoma State University from 1978-1984. In the fall of 1984, Scott joined the ISE faculty at Virginia Tech and led the Virginia Quality and Productivity Center from 1984-1997. Scott has written three books and more than 40 papers and articles, and has consulted extensively. Scott joined the private sector in 1997 and served as VP of Business Process Reengineering for Exchange Solutions (Boston/Toronto) and then from 2004-2007 as VP of Business Process Improvement for MDS, Intl. in Toronto. He designed and launched a very successful Operational Excellence (LeanSigma) Program for MDS (Global Life Science Company). In the fall of 2007, he decided to return to academia and his alma mater to develop and lead a LeanSigma Certification Program in the College of Engineering. The LeanSigma Certification Program has been exceedingly well received by ISE undergraduate candidates. The 53 projects to date have generated some $4 million in direct benefits to local business and industry. (e.g. The Limited, Kroger, OSU Medical Center, PPG, Mid Ohio Foodbank, Diamond Innovations, Rosati Windows, Kahiki Foods, Smiths Medical, Donato’s Pizza, and others).
