Icmiee2020

Keynote Speakers

Keynote Lecture 1: Title: Lunar Surface Sustainability: A Permanent Human Settlement on the Moon

	Prof. Ahsan Choudhuri Founding Director & Associate VP for Strategic Initiates NASA MIRO Center for Space Exploration and Technology Research, College of Engineering The University of Texas at El Paso Texas, USA
Keynote Abstract: With the Artemis program, The United States plans to return to the Moon and create a permanent human presence in the lunar south pole before the next decade. Lunar poles and cislunar space offer a great option to expand human settlement beyond the planet earth. Scientific and economic opportunities of such human settlement are enormous. ....View Detail Biography: Dr. Ahsan Choudhuri is Associate Vice President for Aerospace Center and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He is the founding Director of UTEP NASA MIRO Center for Space Exploration and Technology Research (cSETR) and holds the endowed Mr. and Mrs. MacIntosh Murchison Chair II in Engineering. ....View Detail
Keynote Lecture 2: Title: Research and Development of Next Generation Refrigerants and Refrigeration Systems

	Akio MIYARA Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saga University, Japan & WPI Visiting Professor, International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University, Japan Website
Keynote Abstract: After the innovative development of machine refrigeration in the nineteenth century, refrigerants used as working fluid in the refrigeration machine have changed in response to safety and environmental issues. . . View Detail Biography: Dr. Akio Miyara is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saga University, Japan since 2003 and a Visiting Professor in the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University, Japan since 2016. ....View Detail
Keynote Lecture 3: Title: Tires, Tires, Tires Everywhere – What shall we do? An Entrepreneurial Thinking and Innovation Model

	Donald Reimer College Professor Dept of Industrial Engineering Lawrence Technological University Southfield, Michigan, USA
Keynote Abstract: The challenge of engaging students in the learning process has been a topic of educators around the globe. The opportunity to engage students through student-based and active and collaborative learning continues to offer great promise in meeting this challenge. The creation of an exercise that engages the student demonstrates that Problem Based Learning outcomes can be an effective approach to delivering meaningful engineering education content....View Detail Biography: Donald M. Reimer is an adjunct faculty at the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering in College of Engineering at Lawrence Tech in Southfield, Michigan. He coordinates the Certificate of Entrepreneurial Engineering Skills. Mr. Reimer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Lawrence Technological University and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from University of Detroit/Mercy. He is over 40 years of experience in working with closely held businesses....View Detail
Keynote Lecture 4: Title: Recent and ongoing advancements in research on magnetic suspension

	Takeshi Mizuno Professor Intelligent Mechanical System Dept of Mechanical Engineering Saitama University, Japan
Biography: Dr. Takeshi Mizuno received the Doctor of Engineering Degree from the University of Tokyo in 1985; the title of the thesis was "Control of magnetic bearing". He was a Research Associate at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo from 1980 to 1985, and an Assistant Professor at Polytech University of Japan from 1985 to 1988. ....View Detail
Keynote Lecture 5: Title: Bioinspired Electrospun Nanocomposites: An Emerging Technology of Atmospheric Fog Water Generator

	Muhammad Mustafizur Rahman Professor Dept of Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering Wichita State University, Kansas, USA
Keynote Abstract: Nature-inspired fog harvesting is a promising technology aimed at acquiring freshwater from the atmosphere. However, the design of nature-inspired surfaces with unique characteristics for the specific application provides a paradigm shift in the development of the new engineering surfaces. . ....View Detail Biography: Dr. Muhammad Mustafizur Rahman earned BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, MS from University of Manitoba, and PhD from University of California, Berkeley. ... View Detail
Keynote Lecture 6: Title: Energy Security through Nuclear Power Plant and Human Resource Development

	Firoz Alam Professor School of Engineering Cluster Dept of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering RMIT University, Australia
Biography: Dr Firoz Alam is a Professor and Program Director in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He completed his PhD in vehicle aerodynamics from the same university in 2000. He completed his Master's degree (combined with Bachelors) in Aeronautical Engineering with Honours (First Class First) from Riga Civil Aviation Engineers Institute, Latvia in 1991... View Detail
Keynote Lecture 7: Title: Acoustic Emission Technique, A Nondestructive Monitoring Tool for Damage Detection and Evaluation

	Md. Tawhidul Islam Khan, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept of Mechanical Engineering Graduate School of Science and Engineering Saga University, Saga, Japan https://research.dl.saga-u.ac.jp/profile/en.0bc2861696aa0126.html
Keynote Abstract: Acoustic emission (AE) signals that are generated due to the sudden rearrangements of stresses inside a material as elastic waves, are widely used in non-destructive testing (NDT) of material cracking especially in health monitoring of structures for damage detection as well as in plant maintenance etc. ....View Detail Biography: Dr. T. I. Khan graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Bangladesh in 1991. He completed his masters and doctorate degrees from Saga University, Japan in 1997 and 2003 respectively. ....View Detail
Keynote Lecture 8: Title: Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing - Challenges and Opportunity in Bangladesh and Global Context

	Ahad Ali, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director, BS and MS in Industrial Engineering Dept of Industrial Engineering Lawrence Technological University Southfield, Michigan, USA
Biography: Ahad Ali is an Associate Professor and Director of Industrial Engineering Program and Director of Smart Manufacturing and Lean Systems Research Group, A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical, Robotics and Industrial Engineering at the Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA. He earned B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, Masters in Systems and Engineering Management from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.... View Detail
Keynote Lecture 9: Title: Development of Smart Materials for Invasive Medical Applications Using Shape Memory Polymers

	Mainul Islam, Ph.D. Associate Professor (Mechanical Engineering) School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia Website: https://staffprofile.usq.edu.au/Profile/Mainul-Islam
Keynote Abstract: Shape memory polymers (SMPs) represent an intelligent polymeric material which can fix deformed temporary shape and recover their permanent shapes upon an external stimulus such that temperature, light, electricity, water, pH, magnetism and specific ions. ....View Detail Biography: Dr. T. I. Khan graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Bangladesh in 1991. He completed his masters and doctorate degrees from Saga University, Japan in 1997 and 2003 respectively. ....View Detail
Keynote Lecture 10: Title:

	Dr. Mesbahuddin Chowdhury Senior Lecturer College of Business and Law University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Biography: Mesbahuddin Chowdhury, PhD, is a Senior lecturer of operations and supply chain management at UC Business School, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He received his PhD in Supply Chain Management from Monash University, Australia in 2012, MBA (Major - Management of Technology) from Asian Institute of Technology in 2006, Thailand View Detail
Keynote Lecture 11: Title: Design and Control of a Wearable Upper Extremity Exoskeleton Robot for Rehabilitation

	Dr. Mohammad Habibur Rahman Director, BioRobotics Lab Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Wisconsin, USA
Biography: Mohammad Habibur Rahman (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Associate Professor with the Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA. View Detail