DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING & LIFE CYCLE

Chao Hu

Dr. Chao Hu is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut and the director of the Reliability Engineering and Informatics Laboratory (REIL) at UConn. He received his B.E. degree in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University (2007) and his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (Reliability Engineering) from the University of Maryland, College Park (2011). Dr. Hu’s research interests are engineering design under uncertainty, degradation diagnostics and prognostics of lithium-ion batteries, and prognostics and health management. He is a two-time recipient of the Highly Cited Research Paper Award (2012-2013 and 2020) in the Journal of Applied Energy, the recipient of the 2018 ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award, and a recipient of the Best Paper Awards at the ASME Design Automation Conference (2013) and the IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (2012).

Sara Behdad

Sara Behdad is an Associate Professor at the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment at the University of Florida. From 2013 to 2020, she was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic. Dr. Behdad leads the Green Engineering Technology for the Community of Tomorrow (GETCOT) Research Laboratory. She has served as a symposium and session chair for the ASME IDETC/CIE and ASME MSEC conferences since 2013. Dr. Behdad served as the ASME Design for Manufacturing and Lifecycle (DFMLC) conference chair and is an ASME DFMLC Technical Committee member. Her expertise lies in product lifecycle engineering, sustainable design, remanufacturing, and decision analysis.

Yaoyao Fiona Zhao

Dr. Yaoyao Fiona Zhao is currently an Associate Professor and the head of the Additive Design and Manufacturing Laboratory (ADML) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in McGill University. She received the Bachelor of Engineering degree from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2003, and the Master of Mechanical Engineering degree (First Class Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. She was a Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France, from 2010 to 2012. Her research expertise lies in the general field of design and manufacturing including the exploration of new design methods for additive manufacturing and sustainable manufacturing, developing computational and data analytic tools to improve manufacturing intelligence and cognition. Her team is leading the research in Design for Additive Manufacturing with the development of new design methods and tools to achieve light-weight, multi-functionalities, less part count, better performance and better sustainability performance.

Paul Witherell

Dr. Paul Witherell is a Mechanical Engineer in the Systems Integration Division of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Paul received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2009. Paul joined NIST in 2010 as a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellow. At NIST, Paul manages a project on Systems Integration for Additive Manufacturing and serves as the Associate Program Manager of the Measurement Science for Additive Manufacturing program in the Engineering Laboratory. Paul received the ASME Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Division Young Engineer award in 2014. Paul is active in ASTM F42/ ISO TC261 standards efforts and is Vice Chair on ASME’s Y14.46 subcommittee on Product Definition for Additive Manufacturing.

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Chao Hu

Sara Behdad

Yaoyao Fiona Zhao

Paul Witherell

Journal of Mechanical Design