Organizing Committees
Host Organizing Committee
Ihab Ragai, PhD, PE, FASME
Chair, Assistant Professor of Engineering
Penn State Behrend
Tim Kurzweg, PhD
Director, School of Engineering
Penn State Behrend
Kristy Bunce
Administrative Support
Penn State Behrend
Ed Evans, PE
Associate Teaching Professor
Penn State Behrend
NAMRC Scientific Committee
Livan Fratini, PhD
Chair
Professor, Department of Chemical, Management, Computer Systems, Mechanical Engineering
University of Palermo
Palermo, Italy
Ihab Ragai, PhD, PE, FASME
Chair Elect
Assistant Professor of Engineering
School of Engineering, Penn State Behrend
Erie, Pennsylvania
Lihui Wang, PhD, FSME, PE
Advisor (Past Chair)
Professor and Chair of Sustainable Manufacturing
KTH Royal Institutes of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden
Hitomi Yamaguchi Greenslet, Dr. Eng., FSME
NAMRI/SME President
Associate Professor
University of Florida
Gainsville, Florida
MSEC Technical Program Committee
Professor Zhijian (ZJ) Pei, PhD, FASME, FSME
Technical Program Co-Chair
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
Professor Barbara Linke, Dr. -Ing.
Technical Program Co-Chair
University of California Davis
Davis, California
Professor Kevin Chou, PhD, FASME
Chair, ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky