Serope Kalpakjian isprofessor emeritus of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, the IllinoisInstitute of Technology. He is the author of Mechanical Processing ofMaterials and co-author of Lubricants and Lubrication in MetalworkingOperations (with E.S. Nachtman). The first editions of his textbooks ManufacturingProcesses for Engineering Materials and Manufacturing Engineering andTechnology received the M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Textbook Award. Hehas conducted research in various areas of manufacturing, is the author ofnumerous technical papers and articles in handbooks and encyclopedias, and hasedited a number of conference proceedings. He also has been editor andco-editor of several technical journals and has served on various editorialboards, including the Encyclopedia Americana.
Among various awards, Professor Kalpakjian has received theForging Industry Educational and Research Foundation Best Paper Award, theExcellence in Teaching Award from lIT, the ASME Centennial Medallion, theInternational Education Award from SME, A Person of the Millennium Award from lIT,the Albert Easton White Outstanding Teacher Award from ASM International, andthe 2016 SME Gold Medal Award. The Outstanding Young Manufacturing EngineerAward of SME, for 2001, was named after him. Professor Kalpakjian is a LifeFellow ASME, Fellow SME, Fellow, and Life Member ASM International, FellowEmeritus International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP); and he is afounding member and past president of NAMRI. He is a graduate of Robert College(High Honor, Istanbul), Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology.
Steven R. Schmid isprofessor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, the University of NotreDame, where he teaches and conducts research in the general areas ofmanufacturing, machine design, and tribology. From 2016 to 2018, he served as aProgram Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Program at the National ScienceFoundation. He received his B.S. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology(with Honors) and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University, allin mechanical engineering. He has received numerous awards, including the JohnT. Parsons Award from SME, the Newkirk Award from ASME, the Kaneb CenterTeaching Award (three times), and the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellencein Teaching.
Professor Schmid served as President of the North AmericanManufacturing Research Institution (NAMRI, 2015–2016) and was appointed thefirst Academic Fellow at the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office,U.S. Department of Commerce, where he helped design the Manufacturing USAprogram. Dr. Schmid is the author of over 140 technical papers, and hasco-authored Fundamentals of Machine Elements, Fundamentals of FluidFilm Lubrication, Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials,and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology. He is a Fellow of theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of ManufacturingEngineers. He was elected to the Board of the Society of ManufacturingEngineers in 2018.
