People

Director

Dr. Tugrul Özel is the Director of Manufacturing Automation and Research laboratory. He received a B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey in 1987, a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey in 1991 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University in 1998. Dr. Özel previously worked four years at NSF funded Engineering Research Center for Net Shape Manufacturing and taught three years at Cleveland State University. He was a summer faculty fellow at NASA Glenn Research Center in 1999, where he conducted research on micro-manufacturing sciences.

Dr. Özel's teaching and research interest include computational modeling of manufacturing processes, automated manufacturing and process control, optimization of processes and systems, and micro-manufacturing sciences. He has research articles published in International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, and Transactions of North American Manufacturing Research Institute. His research has been funded by NASA/NJ Space Consortium, Rutgers Research Council and industry. He is the faculty advisor to SME student chapter at Rutgers. He is a senior member of SME, ASME and North American Manufacturing Research Institute (NAMRI). He is listed in The Marquis Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He received the Best Paper Award in 8th CIRP International Workshop on Modeling of Machining Operations in 2005 and his sole-authored article ranked 4th and his article co-authored with Y. Karpat ranked 1st in Top 25 Articles in International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture.

He is a member of the editorial board in International Journal of Machining & Machinability of Materials. He is the symposium organizer on Hybrid Macro/Meso/Micro Manufacturing Processes for the 2007 ASME Manufacturing Science & Engineering Conference. He is a guest editor on the following special issues: Intelligent Machining-Computational Methods and Optimisation- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MATERIALS AND PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY, Experimental and Numerical Methods for Nanomanufacturing Processes - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NANOMANUFACTURING, and Advances in Hard Turning - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MACHINING AND MACHINABILITY OF MATERIALS.

Students

Atul Dhanorker, MSIE, Rutgers (2007)

Atul Dhanorker has been a graduate student in the Industrial & Systems Engineering Department at Rutgers University since Spring 2005 and earned his Master of Science degree in May 2007. His master thesis is entitled "An experimental and modeling study on meso and micro scale end milling processes for micromanufacturing". Atul has researched about experimental and numerical modeling of meso and micro scale end milling processes for micromanufacturing of metal products. He developed codes using Matlab and finite element software, DEFORM, for predicting process variables forces, stresses and temperatures in micro-scale metal cutting.

One conference paper in ASME-MSEC 2007
One conference paper in 2007 CIRP Machines and Die/Mold Manufacturing
One conference paper in ASME-MSEC 2006

Yigit Karpat, Ph.D., Rutgers (2007)

Yigit Karpat received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Rutgers in 2007. He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey and a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. He worked as a research assistant and later as an instructor at M.E.T.U. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University, Turkey. His research interest includes analytical and computational modelling of machining processes, optimization of manufacturing processes using evolutionary algorithms, computational intelligence in multi criteria decision making.

Two papers in Int. J. of Machine Tools and Manufacture
One paper in Int. J. of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
One paper in J. Material Processing Technology
One paper in Materials & Manufacturing Processes
Three papers in ASME J. of Manufacturing Science & Engineering
Four in Transactions of NAMRI
Four Conference papers

Erol Zeren, MSIE, Rutgers (2006)	Erol Zeren has received his MS degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Rutgers in 2006. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. He worked as a research assistant at a CAD/CAM laboratory in D.E.U. He has been with Rutgers since January 2003. He worked on a project funded by New Jersey Space Grant Consortium entitled "Development of workpiece material and friction models for simulation of machining of aerospace alloys". His research interests include developing material and friction models for metal cutting processes, and FE simulation of metal cutting to optimize machining parameters in high speed machining. He is currently with Seagate Technology Inc.	Two papers in Int. J. of Advanced Manufacturing Technology One paper in J. of Materials Processing Technology One paper in Int. J. Machining & Machinability of Materials One paper in ASME J. of Manufacturing Science & Engineering One paper in Transactions of NAMRI Four conference papers
Wen-Hui (Mary) Lee, MSIE, Rutgers (2005)	Master's Project, "A State-Of-The-Art in Pulsed Laser Micromachining Processes and Hole Area Modulated Machining of Microlenses"	One conference paper in ASME- MSEC 2007
Fazal Naikwadi, MSIE, Rutgers (2005)	Master's Project, "Design and Analysis of Micromanipulator for Microfabrication"	-
Dhiraj Oberoi, MSIE, Rutgers (2004)	Master's Project, "CAD/CAM in Turning"	-
Tsu-Kong Hsu, MSIE, Rutgers (2003)	Master’s Project, “Development of Interactive Web-Based Tools for Hard Turning Analysis: Cutting Forces, Surface Roughness and Tool Wear”	One paper in Int. J. of Advanced Manufacturing Technology One conference paper in 2004 IERC
Mark Geiger, MSIE, Cleveland State University, OH (2001)	Master’s Project, “Development of Rapid Tooling for Injection Molding using Metal Filled Stereolithography Cavity Inserts”	One conference paper in 2001 CIRP Machines and Die/Mold Manufacturing
Abhijit Nadgir, MSIE, Cleveland State University, OH (2000)	Master's Thesis, "Neural Network Modeling of Flank Wear for Tool Condition Monitoring in Orthogonal Cutting of Hardened Steels"	One paper in Int. J. of Machine Tools & Manufacture One conference paper in EDA 2000
Ronald Koenig, MSIE, Cleveland State University, OH, (2000)	Master’s Project, "Developmental Micro Mechanical Machining of Silicon Carbide Using Cubic Boron Nitrite Cutting Tools"	-

Former Visitors

Xinyu Liu, Ph.D.

Dr. Xinyu Liu joined our research group as a visiting scholar after receiving his graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2006. Dr. Liu developed finite element models for the micro-end milling process using DEFORM and ABAQUS to study the influence of edge radius on the machining performance. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Lamar University, Texas.

One conference paper in ASME-MSEC 2007
One conference paper in 2007 CIRP, Machines and Die/Mold Manufacturing

Undergraduate Students

Adam Miller, BSME Rutgers (2008)	Assisted in designing and manufacturing of workholding fixture and machining of grooves to prepare nickel-base super alloys disks for the orthogonal cutting tests.
Mike Pandolfo, BSIE Rutgers (2009)	Assisted in acquiring, measuring and analyzing forces in orthogonal cutting tests of nickel-base super alloys.