Author: Mahmoud Dinar

I am pleased to announce that I have accepted an offer to join California State University Sacramento as an assistant professor in mechanical engineering, starting in Fall 2019.

Having mentored about 40 teams and 150 students since I started teaching ME 2110 ‘Creative Decisions and Designs’ 2 years ago, there could not be any more pleasant ending than seeing 2 teams from my section reach the final match and finishing in 2nd and 3rd place, not to mention that in the 5th place I also had my students. Thanks to all of you for giving me this gift.

A paper that I co-wrote with Mahmoud Parto and Thomas Kurfess, titled “An Mtconnect-Compatible Platform for Secured Machine Monitoring Through Integration of Fog Computing, Cloud Computing, and Communication Protocols”,is accepted in the 2018 International Symposium on Flexible Automation, and will be presented in Kanazawa, Japan on the third week of this July.

My paper titled “Easy Sculpting: A Pilot Study in Teaching High School Students Machining with CNC without Learning G-code” was published in volume 33, issue 6A of the International Journal of Engineering Education. The paper showcased how to use CAD/CAM software to simplify some machining concepts such as process planning, accessibility, fixturing, etc. to a group of high school students with the promise of lowering barriers of teaching new technology to a non-college workforce.

A paper I co-authored with Roby Lynn and other colleagues at Georgia Tech, titled “Direct Digital Subtractive Manufacturing of a Functional Assembly Using Voxel-based Models”, appeared in the February issue of the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering. In this paper, we demonstrated how to design and build an assembly free functional mechanism (a ball joint) from a single stock, similarly to how additive technology is exploited.

A paper I co-authored titled “Manufacturing Apps and the Dynamic House of Quality: towards an industrial revolution” that has just been published recently on “Manufacturing Letters” is now published at the journal Manufacturing Letters. It can be found with DOI: 10.1016/j.mfglet.2017.05.005.

The design and build contest for the Creative Decisions and Designs course at Georgia Tech, a.k.a. the ME 2110 final competition was on Friday April 7. Half of my students in sections D and E made it to the third round and I am proud of them. This was an icing on the cake, the experience of teaching 40 sophomore students about creative conceptual design at Georgia Tech.

The paper I coauthored with David Rosen titled “A Design for Additive Manufacturing Ontology” is now accessible at the Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (DOI 10.1115/1.4035787). I am grateful to the JCISE reviewers and editors for their speedy review process.

I am glad to be a part of the ‘ME2110: Creative Decisions and Designs’ team this Spring at Georgia Tech. I am teaching two studio sections with 40 students. In collaborations on two different research projects my sections, I will teach students effective team dynamics and CNC machining in addition to the main syllabus.

I am honored that the CIE Executive Committee has selected the paper I wrote with my co-author David Rosen, titled “DETC2016-60196: A Design for Additive Manufacturing Ontology” as the best paper of the 36th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference – Systems Engineering Information & Knowledge Management (SEIKM).