Sanjay Joshi's Home Page

Sanjay Joshi

Professor
Dept. of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
310 Leonhard Building
University Park, PA 16802

Office Hours: Tues: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Wed. 11:00AM - 12:30 PM

Phone: (814)-865-2108
Fax: (814)-863-4745
email: sjoshi@psu.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D.           Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 1987
M.S.            Industrial Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo, 1983
B.S.             Production Engineering, University of Bombay, India, 1981.

Courses Taught

Spring 2007:

IE 470: Design and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems

IE 480W: Industrial Projects

Courses Taught in the Past:

Undergraduate                                                            Graduate
IE 300 - Introduction to Computing and IE                      IE 563 - CAD for Manufacturing
IE 328 - Production Engineering                                       IE 551 - Computer Control of Manufacturing Systems
IE 450 - Manufacturing Systems Engineering                IE 497 - Rapid Prototyping
IE 463 - CAD/CAM

Recent Research Interests & Projects

Nano Manufacturing
Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing
Geometric Problems in Design & Manufacturing
Control of Manufacturing Systems
Rapid Prototyping and Tooling

Current Funded Research Projects

• “SGER: Step-Place-Grow Assembly - An Approach to Economical, Environmentally Benign Manufacturing of Ordered Nano Structures,” National Science Foundation, (co-PI with Stephen Fonash and Wook Jun Nam), July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007.

• “STTR Phase I: A Lithographic Gelcasting Process using Nanoparticulates: An Enabling Technology for Mass Production of Microdevices with Nanoscale Features”, National Science Foundation, (co-Investigator with E. Mockensturm, J. Adair, C. Mulhstien, H. Nembhard, and Advanced Power Products), Jan1, 2007 – Dec 31, 2007.

Selected Publications

Honors and Awards

IIE Fellow, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2006.
Boeing A.D. Welliver, Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2003.
PSES Outstanding Advising Award, College of Engineering , Penn State University , 2002.
General Electric Learning Excellence Award, in recognition of innovative work in integrating product development and entrepreneurship into the undergraduate IME curriculum, 2002.
Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), 1993.
PSES Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering, Penn State University, 1993.
Presidential Young Investigator (PYI), National Science Foundation, 1991-1996.
Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), 1991
Certified in Production and Inventory Control (CPIM) by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), 1983.

And, my favorite award - MASNA Award for "Outstanding Contribution to the Marine Aquarium Hobby" , Marine Aquarium Societies of North America, 2006.

Journal Affiliations

Associate Editor, IIE Transactions, Nov. 1991 - 2003.
Associate Editor, Engineering Design and Automation, July 1994 - present.
Member Editorial Board, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Aug. 1993 - present.
Member Editorial Board, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Sept. 1993 - present.
Member Editorial Board, Journal of Manufacturing Engineering, 1999 - present.
Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (IJCIM), 1999-present.
Editor, Feature Modeling and Concurrency Issues, Journal of Design and Manufacturing, Aug. 1994 - 1999.
Department Editor, Manufacturing Process Planning, IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing, Feb. 1995-2002.

Professional Memberships

Society of Manufacturing Engineers, (SME)
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Other Interests

When I am not working (or sometimes when I should be working), I can often be found tinkering with my three aquariums- 180G coral reef aquarium, a 55G reef, and a 29G planted fresh water aquarium.

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