SME elects seven to SME College of Fellows

Southfield, Mich.-based SME has announced the 2018 SME College of Fellows members. They join a distinguished group of professionals from industry, research, and academia who have made significant contributions to manufacturing in areas including manufacturing operations, material science, additive manufacturing, virtual prototyping, CAD/CAM, robotics, machine dynamics and control, industrial analytics, and system informatics.

"All of our organization—and, indeed, our entire industry—notes the significant and important contributions that mark the entire and extended careers of these professionals," said 2018 SME President Thomas R. Kurfess, PhD, FSME, PE. "We're honored and proud to include them as SME Fellows in recognition of their service and contribution."

The 2018 Class of SME Fellows are:

• Satish T.S. Bukkapatnam, PhD, FSME, Rockwell International professor, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
• Frank W. Gayle, ScD, FSME, deputy director, Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, Office of Advanced Manufacturing, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md.
• S. Jack Hu, PhD, FSME, J. Reid and Polly Anderson professor of manufacturing and vice president for research, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• Bernhard Karpuschewski, Dr.-Ing., FSME, professor and director, Leibniz IWT University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
• Ming C. Leu, PhD, FSME, Keith and Pat Bailey distinguished professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Mo.
• Hamid R. Parsaei, PhD, FSME, PE, professor, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
• John D. Russell, DSc, FSME, technical director, Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies Division, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio