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Dr.
Robert Williams is an Associate Professor with the Center
for Nontraditional Manufacturing Research and the Department
of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his
bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from
Lehigh University in 1984. He then worked for Ingersoll-Rand
Company as an Advanced Manufactur -ing Engineer and
Supervisor of Routing and Standards. He received his
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nebraska
in 1989 and 1993, respectively.
Dr.
Williams is a member of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME), the North American Manufacturing Research Institution
of SME (NAMRI/SME), and the Industrial Engineering Honor
Society Alpha Pi Mu. He is on the NAMRI/SME Scientific
Committee and serves as a reviewer for NAMRI/SME, the
ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering
and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Williams’
research interests include abrasive flow machining,
rapid prototyping, ultrasonic polishing and metrology.
His grants include: Brown and Sharpe Metrology Grant
Program; National Science Foundation Engineering Faculty
Internship; and the Advanced Research Projects Agency
award for “Tooling for Nontraditional Manufacturing
by Stereolithography.
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Williams and Rajurkar were principal investigators on
a project entitled “Flow Control Machining”
which was funded by the NIST Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Advanced Technology Program. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
was part of a joint venture, which included Extrude Hone
Corporation, Ford, General Motors and the University of
Pittsburgh. Recently, Dr.Williams was awarded a CAREER
grant from the National Science Foundation in the area
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areas of teaching include Manufacturing Methods and
Processes, Nontraditional Manufacturing, Computer-Aided
Manufacturing, Work Measurement, and Metal Cutting Theory
and Practice. Dr. Williams received both the College
Teaching (1995) and Research (1997) Awards for Assistant
Professors. In April 1999, he received the Tau Beta
Pi Outstanding Teaching Award from the UNL College of
Engineering and Technology.
rwilliams2(at)unl(dot)edu
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