Professional Activities and Services

Conference Organization

• Organizing Committee Chair, The 37th Society of Engineering Science Conference, SES 2000, The University of South Carolina - Columbia, South Carolina, October 23 - 25, 2000
• Organizing Committee Chair, The Twentieth North American Manufacturing Research Conference of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, NAMRC XX - SME, Washington State University - Pullman, Washington, May 19th through May 22nd, 1992
• Scientific Committee - NAMRI, 1987 - present
• Symposium Organizer-Sensing and Control in Manufacturing, SES 1998 & 2000
• Session Chairman - NAMRC, 1986 - 98
• Session Chairman - ASME, 1986, 1987 and 1990 - 1997
• Session Chairman - 22nd Midwestern Mechanics, 1991

Society Membership

• American Helicopter Society, AHS
• American Nuclear Society, ANS
• Biomedical Engineering Society, BMES
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers, SME
• American Society of Engineering Education, ASEE
• North American Manufacturing Research Institute, NAMRI
• Egyptian Association of Professional Engineers EAPE
• Engineering Honorary Tau Beta Pi

Proposal, Book and Article Review

• Department of Energy
• National Science Foundation
• U S Department of Agriculture
• Washington Technology Center
• National Research Council
• International Journal of WEAR
• Journal of Materials Research
• Journal of Engineering Mechanics
• J. Metallurgical Transactions
• J. Engineering for Industry - ASME
• J. Materials Shaping Technology - ASM International
• North American Manufacturing Research Institute - NAMRI
• Metals Handbook, ASM International
• McGraw Hill Book Company
• Western Educational Publishers