Manufacturing Engineering and Technology

Serope Kalpakjian is professor emeritus of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is the author of Mechanical Processing of Materials and co-author of Lubricants and Lubrication in Metalworking Operations (with E.S. Nachtman). The first editions of his textbooks Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology have received the M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Textbook Award. He has conducted research in various areas of manufacturing, is the author of numerous technical papers and articles in handbooks and encyclopedias, and has edited a number of conference proceedings. He also has been editor and co-editor of several technical journals and has served on various editorial boards, including the Encyclopedia Americana. 

Among various awards, Professor Kalpakjian has received the Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation Best Paper Award, the Excellence in Teaching Award from lIT, the ASME Centennial Medallion, the International Education Award from SME, A Person of the Millennium Award from lIT, the Albert Easton White Outstanding Teacher Award from ASM International, and the 2016 SME Gold Medal Award. The Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award of SME, for 2001, was named after him. Professor Kalpakjian is a Life Fellow ASME, Fellow SME, Fellow and Life Member ASM International, Fellow Emeritus International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), and is a founding member and past president of NAMRI. He is a graduate of Robert College (High Honor, Istanbul), Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Steven R. Schmid is professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches and conducts research in the general areas of manufacturing, machine design, and tribology. From 2016 to 2018, he served as a Program Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Program at the National Science Foundation. He received his B.S. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology (with Honors) and Master's and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University, all in mechanical engineering. He has received numerous awards, including the John T. Parsons Award from SME, the Newkirk Award from ASME, the Kaneb Center Teaching Award (three times), and the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching. 

Professor Schmid served as President of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution (NAMRI, 2015-2016) and was appointed the first Academic Fellow at the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, U.S. Department of Commerce, where he helped design the Manufacturing USA program. Dr. Schmid is the author of over 140 technical papers, and has co-authored Fundamentals of Machine Elements, Fundamentals of Fluid Film Lubrication, it Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials, and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He was elected to the Board of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 2018.