Mission Statement

• Our main goal is to conduct research towards the advancement of manufacturing science and related enabling systems and to provide industrially relevant quality engineering education.

• We are mainly interested in advanced manufacturing processes to produce discrete products and manufacturing systems for high productivity, high efficiency, and sustainable production. Therefore, our research revolves around the interaction of people, machines, computers, sensors, energy sources, and environmental factors.

Research Focus  

• MARL group's research expertise is on experimental, analytical & computational modeling and analysis of advanced manufacturing processes such as high-speed machining, hard turning, micro-milling, laser micro-machining, and laser-based additive manufacturing.

• We develop computational models to design, analyze, and optimize such advanced processes  for high product quality, performance, and sustainable production. The application areas include but are not limited to: i) aerospace and automotive production, ii) medical devices and biomedical implant production, iii) clean and green energy device production and iii) micro-electronics and critical infrastructure device production.

• We also develop model-based process optimization & multi-criteria decision support techniques for advanced manufacturing processes using sensor-assisted process monitoring data, autonomous machine learning & neural network modeling, and evolutionary computational algorithms.

Graduate Student/ Assistantship Opportunities

• Applications are always welcome from highly qualified students for Graduate Studies leading to M.S. or Ph.D degrees in Industrial & Systems Engineering with a focus on Production & Manufacturing Engineering. The candidates should have strong academic records and be highly motivated individuals with great enthusiasm for learning. A strong engineering background in manufacturing, simulation modeling, experimental design and physics based modeling with hands on experience using lasers, machine tools, metrology & material characterization equipment is desired.
• For further information please contact with ozel@rutgers.edu

News

• Prof. Özel has joined the Editorial Board of the Springer's Production Engineering: Research and Development.

• Prof. Özel has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture.

• Durul Ulutan successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on December 5, 2012 and completed his Ph.D. degree in January 2013 . He continues to his journey as a post-doctoral research fellow at Clemson University (CU-ICAR). Congratulations to Durul !

• Prof. Özel has been invited to the Member of the Scientific Committee of the 10th International Conference on High Speed Machining, September 26-27, 2013, Darmstadt, Germany.

• Prof. Özel has been invited to the Scientific Committee of the 14th CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations, June 13-14, 2013, Turin, Italy.

• Prof. Özel has been invited to the International Program Committee of the 7th International Conference and Exhibition on Design and Production of Machines and Dies/Molds, June 20-23, 2013, Antalya, Turkey.

• Prof. Özel  and Ph.D. students Durul Ulutan and Thanongsak Thepsonthi participated with three papers in The 40th North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) & 2012 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC) on June 4-8, 2012 collocated  in South Bend, Indiana.
• Durul Ulutan becomes Ph.D. candidate and receives Rutgers ISE Department's 2012 Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Congratulations to Durul !
• Prof. Özel's Article Ranked #1 in Top 25 Hottest Articles in Engineering- Int. J. Machine Tools & Manufacture.
  Prof. Özel's article co-authored with his Ph.D. student Mr. Durul Ulutan entitled "Machining induced surface integrity in titanium and nickel alloys: A review " was ranked #1 in the list of 25 Hottest Articles. The complete list of the 25 Hottest Articles can be found here.
• Prof. Özel's Article Ranked #2 in Top 25 Hottest Articles in Engineering- Int. J. Mechanical Sciences.
  Prof. Özel's article co-authored with his collaborator Prof. P.J. Arrazola entitled "Investigations on the effects of friction modeling in finite element simulation of machining " was ranked #2 in the list of 25 Hottest Articles of October 2009 - September 2010 Academic Year. The complete list of the 25 Hottest Articles can be found here.
• Prof. Özel has been appointed to serve on the NAMRI/SME Scientific Committee for the 2012-2014 term (a three-year term).

• Prof. Özel has been invited to the Scientific Committee of The Fifth CIRP Conference on High Performance Cutting, that will be held on June 4-7, 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland.

• Prof. Özel receives another grant award in the amount of $130,000 from National Science Foundation.
  The grant award is entitled "EAGER: Pulsed Laser Assisted Exfoliation of Single Crystalline SiC Thin Layers for Cost Effective Micro-Device Fabrication".
• Prof. Özel receives a grant award in the amount of $388,345 from National Science Foundation.
  The grant award is entitled "Predictive Modeling and Optimization of Machining Induced Surface Integrity with Applications in Titanium and Nickel-Based Alloyed End Products."
• Prof. Özel hosted the Second Annual Meetings for the IREBID project titled "Biomedical Devices Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing".
  The IREBID project is an European Commission-Marie Curie grants funded program. The meetings were held in Rutgers Busch campus – CoRE Building on July 11-29, 2011.
• Prof. Özel is organizing together with European and North & South American partners The First International Conference on Design and PROcesses for MEdical Devices (PROMED 2012) in Brescia - Italy on May 2-4, 2012.
  This conference aims to bring together researchers around the world from engineering, science and medical fields for stimulating meetings and discussions about advanced manufacturing, medical devices, design, development, and biomaterials.

• Prof. Özel publishes a new edited book titled "Micro-Manufacturing: Design and Manufacturing of Micro-Products". 
  The book is co-edited by M. Koc and Prof. Özel has been published. (ISBN: 978-0-470-55644-3 Wiley, Hardcover 404 pages, 2011).

• Prof. Özel  chaired a session on "Machining" and gave two presentations at The 39th North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) on June 14-15, 2011 in Corvallis, Oregon.

• Prof. Özel has been invited to the Scientific Committee of The Ninth International Conference on High Speed Machining, that will be held on March 7-8, 2012 in San Sebastian, Spain.

• Prof. Özel has been invited to the Scientific Committee of The 1st CIRP Conference on Surface Integrity (CSI), that will be held on January 30- February 1, 2012 in Bremen, Germany.

• Prof. Özel chaired a session on "Surface Integrity" and gave a presentation at The 13th CIRP International Workshop on Modeling of Machining Operations, on May 12, 2011 in Sintra, Portugal.

• Mr. Mohamed Amin who is supported by the NSF REU Program has joined the MARL group as summer student on April 15, 2011.

• Mr. Harkaitz Urreta, Microtechnology and Ultraprecision Manager from IDEKO IK4 Technological Center in Spain visited Rutgers MARL and gave a presentation on April 8, 2011.

• Mr. Simone Farina has defended his Master's Thesis titled “Micro End Milling of Ti-6Al-4V: Forces and Tool’s Deflections Analysis" in March 15, 2011 at the Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering in University of Brescia (Università degli Studi di Brescia). He was co-advised together with Prof. Elisabetta Ceretti.

• Prof. Özel visited GREP, University of Girona, Catalonia, Spain on March 14 to 18, 2011 and gave invited lectures on "Product and Process Engineering" and "Innovative Manufacturing Technologies". Dr. Özel also visited laboratories of the GREP group and conducted meetings related to IREBID project.

• Dr. Daniel Attinger of Columbia University visited Rutgers MARL and gave a seminar on "Microfluidic Engineering of Solid-Liquid Interfaces" on February 01, 2011.

• Prof. Özel has given an invited presentation at The CIRP STC-C meetings  on January 27, 2011 in Paris, France.

• Prof. Özel has been invited to the Scientific Committee of The Fifth International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping (VRAP 2011) that will be held on September 28-October 1, 2011 in Leiria, Portugal.

• Prof. Özel attended the 2011 NSF-CMMI Research and Innovation Conference in Atlanta, GA on January 4 to 7, 2011. Dr. Özel together with his students had a conference paper and poster presentation about their recent research on "Physics-based simulation of machining titanium alloys" funded by NSF.

• Prof. Özel has been invited to the International Advisory Board, International Conference on Computational Methods in Manufacturing (ICCMM 2011), that will be held on December 15-16, 2011 at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in Guwahati, India.