The 17th International Conference on


June 18-20, 2007, Philadelphia, USA

Keynote Speakers

Sponsorships

Organizing Committee:

General Chair:
Robin G. Qiu Penn State, USA robinqiu@psu.edu
General Co-Chairs:
Prof. William Sullivan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, U.S.A. Prof. Munir Ahmad, School of Science and Technology, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, U.K. Prof. Richard Wysk, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University Prof. David Russell, Penn State Great Valley, USA
Program Co-Chairs:
Ming Yu, Tsinghua University, China, mingyu@tsinghua.edu.cn	Sanjay Joshi, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, sjoshi@psu.edu	Jay Lee, University of Cincinnati, USA,Jay.Lee@uc.edu
Publicity Chair:
Jeff Xi, Ryerson University, Canada, fengxi@ryerson.ca
Publication Chair:
Walter Wang, Penn State Great Valley, USA, gww10@psu.edu
Special Session Chairs:
Gina Tang Rowan University, USA tang@rowan.edu	Kathryn Jablokow, Penn State Great Valley, USA kwl3@psu.edu
Tutorials/Workshop Co-Chairs:
Jeffrey Tew, GM, USA, jeffrey.tew@gm.com	J. B. Zhang, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore, jbzhang@SIMTech.a-star.edu.sg
European Liaisons:
Ralf Denzer, University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Ralf.Denzer@enviromatics.org	Jian-Bo Yang, The University of Manchester , UK, jian-bo.yang@manchester.ac.uk
Aisan Liaisons:
DB Perng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, perng@cc.nctu.edu.tw	Ming Dong, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China,mdong@sjtu.edu.cn
Local Arrangement Chair:
Raghvinder Sangwan, Penn State, rxs69@psu.edu	Norita Ahmad, Penn State, nua2@psu.edu
Secretariat:
Elayna McReynolds, Penn State Great Valley, USA, exm148@psu.edu	Jean Stefanski, Penn State Great Valley, USA, jos12@psu.edu	Betty McAdams, Penn State Great Valley, USA, bxm28@psu.edu
Ursula Thompson, Penn State Great Valley, USA, umt1@psu.edu

Program Committee (tentative):

Munir Ahmad
Esther Alvarez
Jalal Ashayeri
P. Asokan
Ahmad Barari
Ping-Yu Chang
William Gaughran
John English
Jerry Y.H. Fuh
J. Cecil
Kathryn Jablokow
Hsu-Hua Lee
Huw Lewis
Douglas L. McWilliams
Stephen Newma
Chike Oduoza
Mike Ogle
Ajit Pardasani
Robin Qiu
Bala Ram
C. S. P. Rao
R.Saravanan
Rapinder Sawhney
Kumanan Somasundaram
William Sullivan
Wei Sun
Tamas Szecsi
Janis Terpenny
M.K. Tiwari
Lihui Wang
Ming-Tzong Wang
Gerald Weigert
Huirong Xiao
Ali Yalcin
Feng-Cheng Yang
John Yeow

 

Visiting Philadelphia

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Penn State Great Valley

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