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Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award
Technical Committee on
Design and Manufacturing and
the Life Cycle
This award was established in honor
of the late Professor Kos Ishii, to
recognize sustained meritorious
contributions to the use of
optimization and other modeling
techniques to support design, manufacturing and life cycle
management decisions in product development.
Satyandra K. Gupta
University of Maryland
Biographical Description: Satyandra K. Gupta is a Professor
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute
for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. He is also
the director of Maryland Robotics Center. He received a
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Mechanical Engineering
from the University of Roorkee (presently known as the Indian
Institute of Technology, Roorkee) in 1988. He received a Master
of Technology (M. Tech.) in Production Engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1989. He received a Ph.D.
in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland at
College Park in 1994.
Dr. Gupta’s research interest is broadly in the area of
automation. He is specifically interested in automation problems
arising in Design, Manufacturing, and Robotics. He has
authored or co-authored more than two hundred articles in
journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He is a
fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
He has served as the Chair of the Design for Manufacturing
Technical Committee in the Design Division of ASME. He has
organized several conference sessions in the area of computeraided
design, manufacturing automation, and robotics. He has
served as Program Co-Chair in 1998 ASME Design for
Manufacturing Conference, Papers Chair in 1999 ASME Design
for Manufacturing Conference, Exhibit Chair in 2000 ASME
Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Program Chair in
2002 ASME Design for Manufacturing Conference, and
Conference Chair in 2003 ASME Design for Manufacturing
Conference. He has served as a member on the Editorial
Advisory Board for Assembly Automation and Computer Aided
Design and Applications journals. He has also served as an
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science
and Engineering, ASME Journal of Computing and Information
Science in Engineering, and SME Journal of Manufacturing
Processes.
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AWARDS AND MEMORIAMS
Dr. Gupta has won many honors and awards for his research
accomplishments. He received the Best Paper Award at the
1994 ASME International Conference on Computers in
Engineering, the Best Paper Award at the 1999 ASME Design
for Manufacturing Conference, a Young Investigator Award from
the Office of Naval Research in 2000, a Robert W. Galvin
Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the
Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 2001, a CAREER Award
from the National Science Foundation in 2001, the Outstanding
Systems Engineering Faculty Award from the Institute for
Systems Research in 2001, a Presidential Early Career Award
for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2001, a Highly
Commended Paper Award from Literati Club in 2002, the Best
Paper Award at the 2006 ASME Computers and Information in
Engineering Conference, a Compliant Mechanism Applications
Award at the 2010 ASME Mechanism and Robotics
Conference. He also holds a US Patent titled Apparatus and
Method for Multi-Purpose Setup Planning for Sheet Metal
Bending Operations.