Seminar
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Future of Manufacturing |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Charles Ume |
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Affiliation: |
Georgia Tech, Mechanical |
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When: |
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 2:00:00 PM |
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Where: |
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
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Host: |
Dr. Leon McGinnis | |
Abstract 30-minute talk on the Future of Manufacturing and on How the Professorship will be used in Your Research Program |
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Biography I. Charles Ume is a Professor and Director of Instructional Mechatronics, and Advanced Electronic Packaging and Laser Processing Laboratories at the Woodruff School of ME at GIT. He is the Founder and the Chairman of the Board of Directors, AkroMetrix LLC. His research interests are in the areas of thermo-mechanical reliability of electronic systems, laser ultrasound, and intelligent mechatronics. He has published over 200 refereed publications; received four patents and has five utility patents pending; has edited 11 books. He has advised 23 Ph.D. and 21 MS thesis, and 23 non-thesis students. Prof. Ume was a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Mechatronics Journal; Associate Editors of the IEEE Transactions on CPTs and the ASME JEP. He was the General Chair of the 7th Mechatronics Forum International Conference. He is the Chair of the Advisory Board; was the Chair of the Executive Committee; and still a member of the Executive Committee, ASME Electronic and Photonics Packaging Division (EPPD). His former students (2 Ph.D. and 1 MS) have won the Best Sigma Xi Thesis Awards. A few of his selected awards include: ASME-EPPD Best Paper of the Year Award; Instrument, System, and Automation Society E. G. Bailey and Donald P. Eckman Education Awards; GIT Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award; ASEE Robert G. Quinn Award for Excellence in Engineering Education; IEEE-CPMT Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award; Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award; and Fellow of IEEE and ASME |
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