NAMRI | SME Founders Lecture The NAMRI | SME Founders Lecture was established to honor individuals who served on the NAMRC Scientific Committee from 1973 to 1981 and those members who founded NAMRI | SME when it was officially established, as well as other distinguished contributors to manufacturing who have been actively involved with NAMRC. Lecturers 2023How Did We Get Here, and What Are We Going to Do?Scott Smith, PhD, FSME 2022On the 50th anniversary of NAMRI – A time to reflect Shiv G. Kapoor, PhD, FSME, 2003 NAMRI | SME President, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignKornel F. Ehmann, PhD, FSME, 2004-2005 NAMRI | SME President, Northwestern University 2021Warren R. DeVries, PhD, FSME, “A Student’s Perspective on the Early Days of NAMRC" 2019Chi-Hung Shen, PhD, FSME, “A Reminiscence of the Great Machining Years (1980s – 2000s)” 2018John C. Ziegert, PhD, FSME, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, "Prospects in Manufacturing Engineering" 2017Don A. Lucca, PhD, FSME, “On the Path to Ultraprecision Machining” 2016Ralph L. Resnick, FSME, "Standing on the Shoulders of NAMRI/SME Giants" 2015David A. Dornfeld*, PhD, FSME, University of California at Berkeley, "Advances in Manufacturing Over 43 Years of NAMRC"*1990-91 NAMRI/SME Past President Passes Away at Age 66 2014 Founders Lecture and M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Medal of ASME/SME Recipient PresentationDean Bartles, PhD, FSME, Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute, “Riding the US ‘Manufacturing Renaissance’ Wave: How to ‘hang ten’ in doing your part!” 2013Delcie R. Durham, PhD, FSME, PE, University of South Florida, “The 30-Year Trek to Sustainable, Scalable Manufacturing: Are We There Yet?” 2012 J T. Black, PhD, FSME, Auburn University, “The Engineer’s High Privilege” 2011 Ranga Komanduri, PhD, FSME, Oklahoma State University, “How to Conduct Research—The Rumford Way” 2010 Yoram Koren, ScD, FSME, University of Michigan, “Creating the New Manufacturing Paradigm for the New Century” 2009 Klaus J. Weinmann, Michigan Technological University, “A Few Observations Regarding Force Calculations for a Simple Forming Process” 2008 Stephen Malkin, ScD, FSME, University of Massachusetts 2007Marvin F. DeVries, PhD, FSME, CMfgE, PE, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “NAMRC – Ruminations and Revelations” 2006 Betzalel Avitzur, PhD, Lehigh University, “Road Map for Tube Making: From Tube Sinking to Tube Drawing with Floating Plugs” 2005 Geoffrey Boothroyd, PhD, FSME, Boothroyd Dewhurst Inc. 2004 Alan Male, PhD, FSME, PE, University of Kentucky2003 Lucjan Kops, ScD, McGill University 2002 John Schey, PhD, FSME, CMfgE, PE, University of Waterloo, “Whither Manufacturing”2001 Milton C. Shaw, PhD, FSME, PE, Arizona State University2000 Taylan Altan, PhD, FSME, Ohio State University 1999 No record of Founders Lecture. May have been replaced by these “Special Lectures” since NAMRC was held at UC-Berkeley. Special Lecture Joseph Frisch, University of California at Berkeley Special Lecture Erich G. Thomsen, FSME, PE, University of California at Berkeley, “A Short Review of Metal Processing at UC Berkeley Since WWII”1998 John G. Bollinger, PhD, FSME, PE, University of Wisconsin, “Visioneering Manufacturing for the Twenty-First Century”1997 Serope Kalpakjian, PhD, FSME, Illinois Institute of Technology, “NAMRC I to NAMRC XXV: Reflections of a Founding Member” 1996Jiri Tlusty, PhD, FSME, McMaster University, “Machine Tool Research” 1995 Branimir von Turkovich, PhD, FSME, PE, University of Vermont, “Fifty Years of Chip Making” 1994 First occasion of luncheon lecture by a founding memberWilliam B. Rice, PhD, FSME, PE, Queens University, and Marvin F. DeVries, PhD, FSME, CMfgE, PE, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “From NAMRC to NAMRI – A History of the Early Days”
