Dr. Steven Danyluk

Professor and Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair in Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems

Machining and Characterization of Advanced Materials

Dr. Danyluk's expertise is in the characterization of material behavior in the machining of advanced materials. He received a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University in 1974. He was affiliated with Texas Instruments, Argonne National Laboratory, and University of Illinois at Chicago prior to joining Georgia Tech in 1993 as the Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair Professor. He is currently the co-Director of the Center for Engineering Tribology, and the Director of the Manufacturing Research Center at Georgia Tech. He and his students have received numerous awards for research, and he was recently elected as Academician of the Transportation Academy of Ukraine as the first foreign member.

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Dr. Steven Y. Liang

Professor, Modeling, Optimization, Monitoring, and Control of Machining Processes

Dr. Liang's research expertise is in the modeling and analysis of milling, turning, and grinding processes for performance optimization. He is also known for his work in the sensing, diagnostic, and control of machining processes and precision machine tools. Professor Liang received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987. He was on the faculty of Oklahoma State University for two years prior to joining Georgia Tech in 1990. Dr. Liang is a recipient of the SME Robert B. Douglas Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award and the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award.  Dr. Liang is a Fellow of ASME.  Dr. Liang was the Founding Director of the PMRC.

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Dr. Shreyes N. Melkote

Chair, PMRC

Associate Professor, Machining Process Modeling, Intelligent Fixturing, Surfaces,CAM

Dr. Melkote's research expertise is in the areas of macro- and micro-machining process modeling, intelligent fixturing, and surface generation in precision machining. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan Technological University in 1993. Prior to joining the faculty of Georgia Tech., Dr. Melkote was a research associate in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he actively participated in the Agile Fixturing and Process Modeling projects of the NSF/ARPA Machine Tool-Agile Manufacturing Research Institute.  Dr. Melkote is the recipient of the 1998 Dell K. Allen Outstanding Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and the 2002 Engineer of the Year in Education Award from the Engineers of Greater Atlanta.  He is an active member of the ASME and SME/NAMRI.  He serves as Chair of the Manufacturing Processes Technical Committee of the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the North American Manufacturing Institution of the SME.

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Dr. Min Zhou

Associate Professor, High-speed Machining, Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Micromechanics and Nanomechanics

Dr. Zhou's research expertise concerns the use of solid mechanics and material science to solve engineering problems related to quality, efficiency, properties and performance. Specific examples include the fundamental mechanisms that determine the success or failure of high speed machining. Dr. Zhou received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Brown University where he worked on the dynamic ductile failure of structural metals and shear localization, processes that greatly influence the morphology of chips and surface quality in high speed machining. He was a research fellow between 1993 and 1995 at the California Institute of Technology prior to joining Georgia Tech. Dr. Zhou received the NSF CAREER award in 2000.

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John Morehouse

Research Engineer

Mr. Morehouse is responsible for PMRC program development, coordinating PMRC activities, and serves as the common contact point for the industrial sponsors within the research group.  His expertise is in the area of process optimization and cost reduction.  In 1997, he received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and a B.A. in Physics from Ithaca College.  After graduation, he worked in the consumer electronics industry for 6 years.  During this period, he served three years as a mechanical and process design engineer, working on projects to reduce cost and improve quality of existing products.  He then spent three years working as a manufacturing engineer in a production facility in Humacao, Puerto Rico.  During this time he was involved in process optimization and maintenance of machine soldering operations and certain production lines.  As a result of his tenure in Puerto Rico, Mr. Morehouse is fluent in Spanish.  Mr. Morehouse joined the Georgia Tech PMRC group in May of 2003.