Journal of Mechanical Design

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Areas of interest:
decision analysis
product lifecycle engineering
remanufacturing
sustainable design

Sara Behdad

Associate Editor

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.