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For nearly ; 0 years Dr. Kapoor has been making
extraordinary and pioneering contributions to manufacturing
engineering through his published scholarly
literature; technical writing; research; teaching; and
service in the engineering community.
Kapoor has been with the - niversity of Illinois at
- rbana-Champaign ;- I- C; since 1; 7; and is currently
; rayce Wicall ; authier chair in mechanical science and
engineering. Among his prior positions; he was director
of the College of Engineering;s manufacturing engineering
education program ;1; ; ; –2010; and - I- C;s
Manufacturing Research Center ;1; ; 5–2012;. He has
maintained an active research and graduate education
program in the areas of modeling of manufacturing
systems and Cuality engineering.
Kapoor also served as director of the National Science Foundation;s ;NSF; Industry;
- niversity Cooperative Research Center for Machine Tool Systems Research ;1; ; ; –
200; ;. The center;s research focused on agile; flexible machining and machine-tool
systems; machine tool system planning and control; and machining process development
and innovation. This led to advances in mechanistic machining process models
that - I- C is renowned for. The modeling work; when implemented in software; is
detailed enough to design machines and machined parts; and is used by researchers
in academe and industry as well as by educational institutions in the training of manufacturing
engineers.
His work on the micro; mesoscale manufacturing factory of the future has set a
significant milestone in the micro and precision machine tool design arena. Kapoor;
his colleagues and his students have been pioneers in understanding the physics of
microcutting and developing models to predict the machining performance of
microscale systems. ; ased on their success in designing micro-machine tools; two of
his students started a company in 2005 that now employs more than two dozen engineers
to design and build a variety of these tool products.
Kapoor has published more than ; 50 ;ournal and conference papers; which are continually
referenced by practitioners in academia and industry. He has authored;
co-authored many book chapters; given numerous invited presentations; both
academic and industrial; and given keynote; plenary addresses at ma;or international
conferences. He holds several patents.
An ASME Fellow; Kapoor ;oined the Society;s Technical Committee on Publications
and Communications in 200; and has been serving as chair since 2011. The committee;
working with fellow editors and publication staff; has added value; both financial and
intellectual; to ASME;s publication portfolio. Earlier Kapoor served as chair ;1; ; 2–; ; ;
of the Manufacturing Engineering Division ;MED;; member-at-large on the Manufacturing
Operating ; oard ;1; ; ; –; 5; and vice president for the manufacturing technical
group on ASME;s Council on Engineering ;1; ; ; –; ; ;. Kapoor;s countless contributions
include two changes that strengthened ASME;s leadership position in manufacturing
engineering. He developed and implemented the plan that changed the name of the
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