Sustainable Manufacturing News

The Center for Manufacturing is pleased to announce that Dr. Fazleena Badurdeen and her student, Haritha Metta were recently awarded the Ann Taylor Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Conference on Value Chain Sustainability. The paper is titled, “A Framework for Coordinated Sustainable Product and Supply Chain Design”. Read the abstract...

Forum on Sustainable Manufacturing:
Products, Processes, and Systems
August 7, 2009
Presented by the University of Kentucky

Sustainable development is no longer a choice but a necessity that must be followed at individual, enterprise, national and international levels. Manufacturing being one of the major drivers of development, it is then imperative that innovative sustainable manufacturing practices are developed and implemented to ensure economic growth is achieved while ensuring environmental protection and societal well-being. The Sustainable Manufacturing Research Group at the University of Kentucky, together with the Center for Manufacturing and College of Engineering is organizing a ‘Forum on Sustainable Manufacturing: Products, Processes and Systems’. This event is organized to precede the First International Congress in Sustainable Manufacturing (ICOSSE) to be held in Cincinnati, OH from August 9-12, 2009 and will bring together a group of nationally & internationally renowned experts in sustainable products, processes and systems (supply chains) from academia and industry.  The event will include short presentations by the invited speakers and two panel discussions

UK Sustainable Manufacturing Research in the News
Dusan P. Sekulic Ph.D. along with researchers from MIT have published a study in Environmental Science & Technology. The study brings to light how inefficient modern manufacturing processes can be. Dr. Sekulic answered questions regarding the study for Scitizen, a French based source for scientific news around the world.
View article in Scitizen
Article in French

Dr. Sekulic to be Keynote Speaker at Upcoming Conferences
Dr. Sekulic will be a keynote speaker at the First International Congress for Aluminum Brazing Technologies for HVCA&R in Dusseldorf, Germany on June 16-17, 2009. The topic of his presentation is, "Design for Manufacturing of Aluminum Compact Heat Exchangers. Click here to see Conference Brochure.

Dr. Sekulic will also be a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels in Pohang, South Korea on June 22-24, 2009. The topic of his presentation is, "Wetting and Spreading of Liquid Metals through Open Micro Grooves and Surface Alteration".

Keynote Paper Presented by Dr. Jawahir
Professor I.S. Jawahir has been invited to present a keynote paper at the opening session of the 42nd CIRP International Conference on Manufacturing Systems in Grenoble, France on June 3, 2009.  CIRP (known as the International Academy for Production Engineering) is a major prestigious professional academy known for pioneering research breakthrough in manufacturing research and currently has about 170 Fellows and Honorary Fellows from about 40 countries.  Dr. Jawahir is one of the Fellows.  This paper is entitled “New Challenges for Sustainable Manufacturing: Modeling Issues at the Product, Process and System Levels”, and is co-authored by Dr. A.D. Jayal, Dr. F. Badurdeen and Dr. O.W. Dillon, Jr.

Best Paper Awards
A research paper written by members of UK sustainable manufacturing research group was selected as the best paper at the 12th CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations held in San Sebastian, Spain last week – May 7-8, 2009.  Dr. D. Umbrello (Visiting Professor from the University of Calabria, Italy at UK last year), Dr. A.D. Jayal, S. Caruso, Dr. O.W. Dillon, Jr. and Dr. I.S. Jawahir co-authored this paper entitled “Modeling of White and Dark Layers Formation in Orthogonal Machining of Hardened AISI 52100 Steel”.  This paper was selected from among 120+ papers presented at the above conference, and the paper was presented by Dr. D. Umbrello.

Dr. A.D. Jayal also recently won another best paper award for his paper entitled “On the Tribological Effects of Cutting Tool Surface Texture in Metal Machining Under Dry Cutting Conditions”, presented at the 2nd International and 23rd All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR 2008) held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India in December 2008. This paper was selected from among 170+ papers presented there. This paper was authored by Dr. A.D. Jayal, Dr. A.K. Balaji (former UK PhD and currently an associate professor at the University of Utah), Dr. O.W. Dillon, Jr.  and Dr. I.S. Jawahir.