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Committee Members’ Biographical Information

MAXINE L. SAVITZ, Co-Chair, retired as general manager of technology/partnerships at Honeywell, Inc., formerly Allied Signal. She is a member and served two terms as vice president of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE; 2006–2014). Dr. Savitz was appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology in 2009 and served until January 2017; she served as vice co-chair from 2010 to 2017. Dr. Savitz was employed at the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies (1974–1983) and served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Conservation. She serves on the board of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (emeritus) and on advisory bodies for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, FERMI National Laboratory, and the CRDF Global and Energy Futures Initiative. In 2019–2020, she chaired the visiting committee for the Harvard John A. Paul-son School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Past board memberships include the National Science Board, Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, Defense Science Board, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Draper Laboratories, and the Energy Foundation. Dr. Savitz’s awards and honors include the following: elected a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013; C3E Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013; the Orton Memorial Lecturer Award (American Ceramic Society) in 1998; the DOE Outstanding Service Medal in 1981; the President’s Meritorious Rank Award in 1980; recognition by the Engineering News Record for Contribution to the Construction Industry in 1979 and 1975; and the MERDC Commander

Award for Scientific Excellence in 1967. She is the author of about 20 publications. Dr. Savitz has served on numerous National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees and boards and participated in multiple National Academies activities.

ROBERT F. SPROULL, Co-Chair, retired as vice president and director of Oracle Laboratories, an applied research group that originated at Sun Microsystems. Since his undergraduate days, he has been building hardware and software for computer graphics: clipping hardware, an early device-independent graphics package, page description languages, laser printing software, and window systems. Dr. Sproull has also been involved in very large-scale integration design, especially of asynchronous circuits and systems. Before joining Sun Microsystems in 1990 (acquired by Oracle in 2010), he was a principal with Sutherland, Sproull and Associates, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and a member of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He is a co-author with William Newman of the early text Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics. Dr. Sproull is also an author of the book Logical Effort, which deals with designing fast CMOS circuits. He is a member of the NAE and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Sproull has served on the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and as a technology partner of Advanced Technology Ventures. He is currently a member of the National Academies’ Committee on Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Public Policy (COSEMPUP) and an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst).

STEPHANIE G. ADAMS has been the fifth dean of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science since 2019 at The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas). She is also a professor of systems engineering. Dr. Adams is a pioneer in engineering education. In 2003, she received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to research effective teaming in the engineering classroom. In addition to teamwork and team effectiveness, her other areas of research expertise include broadening participation in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), faculty and graduate student development, global education, and quality control and management. Dr. Adams has served in leadership roles in several organizations, including as president of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) from 2019 to 2020, on the advisory board of the National Society of Black Engineers, and on the board of directors of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network. Prior

to joining UT Dallas, Dr. Adams was dean of the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University. She also served in various academic leadership positions at Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the NSF Division of Engineering Education and Centers, North Carolina State University, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, South Plains Community College, and 3M Co. Dr. Adams is an honors graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, where she earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering. She earned a master of engineering in systems engineering from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary engineering and management from Texas A&M University, where she concentrated on industrial engineering and management.

S. KEITH HARGROVE is provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Tuskegee University. Previously, he served as dean of the College of Engineering at Tennessee State University (TSU). Dr. Hargrove received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from TSU, M.S. from the Missouri University of Science and Technology as a GEM (National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Science and Engineering) fellow, and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa as a CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) fellow. He is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer recognized by the Society of Manufacturing Engineering and registered professional Engineer. Dr. Hargrove was a Boeing Welliver Faculty Fellow in 2008. He has worked for General Electric as a manufacturing engineer and with Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a researcher in advanced manufacturing engineering. He has been awarded research contracts and grants with Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, and NSF for work in manufacturing, advanced materials, and engineering education. Dr. Hargrove is a K–12 STEM advisor and board member for several local schools, and is the author of Navigating Academia: A Guide for Women and Minority STEM Faculty and In Search of Academic Leadership—A Primer for Faculty Development.

KATHRYN W. JABLOKOW is a professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and currently serves NSF in the Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Division as program director for the Engineering Design and Systems Engineering program. Dr. Jablokow is widely recognized for her expertise in cognitive diversity and its impact in engineering education and practice, including

manufacturing education and student design experiences. Her research includes the use of rapid manufacturability analysis tools to enhance decision-making in engineering design education, as well as the characterization and mediation of manufacturing fixation in design education and practice (i.e., interventions to address an engineer’s overreliance on a specific manufacturing technique). Dr. Jablokow has received many major teaching and research awards, including the W.M. Keck Foundation Teaching Excellence Award, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award, and multiple Best Paper Awards. Dr. Jablokow is a fellow of ASME, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of ASEE, Sigma Xi, and the Design Society. She earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University in 1983, 1985, and 1989, respectively.

DON A. KINARD is a senior fellow for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Production Operations and has been with Lockheed Martin for 36 years. Dr. Kinard supports Digital Transformation as well as programs such as F-35. Prior to his current assignment, he was lead for F-35 production rate transition and earlier the director of F-35 Production Engineering responsible for Joint Strike Fighter Tooling, Planning, Manufacturing Engineering, and Aircraft Systems Testing. Before joining F-35 in 2004, Dr. Kinard held various positions in both engineering and manufacturing during his 18 years on the F-22. He is the lead for the Lockheed Martin Corporate Strategic Technology Advisory program for Advanced Manufacturing as well as the Manufacturing Fellow’s team whose objectives are to develop and share engineering, manufacturing, and sustainment technologies throughout all the Lockheed Martin business units. His technical interests include materials and structures, digital thread/twin integration, digital transformation, Industry 4.0, manufacturing technology, manufacturing system design, and production management.

SUNDAR KRISHNAMURTY has served as professor and head of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UMass Amherst since 2015. In 2020, Dr. Krishnamurty was awarded the Ronnie and Eugene Isenberg Distinguished Professorship in Engineering, which was created to enhance interdisciplinary teaching and research between fields of management, engineering, and science. He is a fellow of ASME, and he is an elected member of the ASME Executive Committee (2020–2022 department head/

chair). Dr. Krishnamurty is site director for the NSF-sponsored Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) Center for e-Design, a joint research coalition comprised of seven universities working closely with numerous businesses and government organizations. His research interests include advanced manufacturing, manufacturing automation, predictive analytics in design and manufacturing, and innovation and entrepreneurship. He was a member of the Brain Trust for the UMass Advanced Manufacturing Summit in Spring 2021 and a member of the Chancellor’s Task Force for the UMass Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 2020. Dr. Krishnamurty received his B.S. in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1982; M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984; and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1989.

THOMAS R. KURFESS is a professor and the HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control in the George W. Wood-ruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, he was chief manufacturing officer at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Prior to that, Dr. Kurfess was the BMW Chair in Manufacturing and a professor in the Campbell Graduate Engineering Center at Clemson University. His current research focuses on the control of precision grinding systems that involve the development and implementation of adaptive controllers for precision grinding operations, including bore grinding, through feed centerless grinding, and surface grinding. Ultra-rigid machine tools with open architecture controls are employed. The results of this work are used in a number of industrial environments. His project on precision measurement involves the use of coordinate measurement machines to verify part geometry in three dimensions. Currently, the metrology systems developed in this project are being used in the verification of parts on actual production lines. Dr. Kurfess is a fellow of ASME and has received both the Presidential Faculty Fellowship and the Presidential Young Investigator Award from NSF. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he is a member of the NAE.

CHINEDUM OKWUDIRE is an associate professor at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Michigan, he was the mechatronic systems optimization team leader at DMG Mori USA. His research is focused on exploiting knowledge at the intersection of machine design, control, and,

more recently, computer science to boost the performance of manufacturing automation systems at low cost. He has recently led the development of a new educational track in Additive Manufacturing and co-led the development of the Smart Manufacturing curriculum at the University of Michigan. Dr. Okwudire has received a number of awards and recognitions, including the NSF CAREER Award; the Young Investigator Award from the International Symposium on Flexible Automation; the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers; the Ralph Teetor Educational Award from SAE International; and the Russell Severance Springer Visiting Professorship from the University of California, Berkeley. He participated in the 2014 Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium. He has co-authored a number of best paper award–winning papers in the areas of control and mechatronics. Dr. Okwudire received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2009 and joined the mechanical engineering faculty at the University of Michigan in 2011.

DAVID PAREKH is chief executive officer of SRI International. He serves on various boards, including the board of trustees of the Connecticut Science Center and the board of the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute. Previously, Dr. Parekh served as corporate vice president, research, and director, United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), providing global leadership for United Technologies Corporation’s (UTC’s) central research organization. Under his leadership, UTRC developed a broad portfolio of advanced manufacturing technologies for the UTC business units and established the corporation’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence. Prior to joining UTRC, Dr. Parekh served as deputy director of Georgia Tech Research Institute and associate vice provost for research at the university. A fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, he is also a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. He earned a doctorate in mechanical engineering and a master’s degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering from Stanford University, as well as a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech.