Dr. E. Amine Lehtihet Professor   C O N T A C T   I N F O R M A T I O N Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering The Pennsylvania State University 361 Leonhard Building University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 USA Phone: (814) 863-2350 Fax: (814) 863-4745 Email: lvo@psu.edu   P E R S O N A L   P R O F I L E Amine Lehtihet is Associate Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State. He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Industrial Engineering. His teaching and research interests include the geometric analysis of mechanical assemblies, tolerance control and synthesis of mechanical products, machining theory and practice, tolerance control in machining, process planning and metrology. He has published over 40 technical papers on tolerancing related topics and machining. He served as a consultant on tolerancing in design and machining related issues to a number of companies such as AT&T Reading Works, United Defense / BMY Combat Systems, Burle Industries, Cannondale Corp., Alpha Sintered Metals, NAC Carbon, Sensus Technologies, C-COR Electronics and ECHO Ultrasound.   E D U C A T I O N Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University, 1985. M.S., Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University, 1980. B.S., Mechanical Engineering (Honors), Portsmouth Polytechnic (U.K.), 1977.   P E N N   S T A T E   C O U R S E S Undergraduate Courses IME 097D - Manufacturing Science & Technology IE 310 - Principles of Deformation Processing IE 328 - Production Engineering IE 464 - Assembly of Printed Circuit Boards Graduate Courses IE 576 - Computer-Aided Tolerancing in Design and Manufacturing IE 597A - Process Planning & Machining   S H O R T   C O U R S E S Modular Tolerancing Courses Principles of Tolerance Management in Design and Manufacturing Elements of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Tolerance Management For Product Design and Manufacturing Tolerance Control in Discrete Part Manufacturing   T E A C H I N G   I N T E R E S T S Deformation processes Industrial Automation Production Engineering Process Planning Metrology Computer-Aided Tolerancing Assembly of Printed Circuit Boards   R E S E A R C H   I N T E R E S T S Geometric analysis of mechanical assemblies Stochastic models for tolerance control and synthesis in mechanical assemblies Optimization models for tolerance allocation in the manufacture of discrete parts Machine tool and discrete parts metrology Machining and Metal cutting tools Process planning Assembly of printed circuit boards   S E L E C T E D   P U B L I C A T I O N S Sample Publications Sample Publications in Tolerancing Sample Publications in Electronic Assembly Processes   S T A T E M E N T   O F   I N T E R E S T Active in several societies including SME, ASME and ASPE; Reviewer for several national and international journals including ASME J. Eng. Ind., SME J.M.S., I.J.P.R., IIE Trans., SME Trans. Consulting and special courses in tolerancing for industry including AT&T, Burle Industries, BMY/United Defense   C U R R E N T   R E S E A R C H Sequential tolerance control in discrete part manufacturing. National Science Foundation Grant # DMI-9622620, Co-PI with T.M. Cavalier, 8/96 - 1/00. Producibility models for the class of geometric position tolerance controls. National Science Foundation Grant # DMI-9908268, Co-PI with T.M. Cavalier, 8/99 - 8/02. Probabilistic sequential tolerance control. National Science Foundation Grant # DMI-9908188, Co-PI with T.M. Cavalier and E.del Castillo, 8/99 - 8/01. This page has been accessed 15523times since July 31, 1998. This page was last modified: Wednesday, 05-Feb-2003 11:25:00 EST. site design by oxygenesis design / ian cavalier.