Speakers:

Prof. Chris Van Hoof, Program Director of More than Moore Integrated Systems at IMEC  in Leuven & Holst Centre, and professor at the university of Leuven

       Chris Van Hoof received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven in collaboration with IMEC in 1992. At IMEC, he became successively head of the detector systems group (in 1998), Director of the Microsystems Department (in 2002) and Integrated Systems Department (in 2004), and Program Director (in 2007). Since 2009 he is Department Director and program director of HUMAN++ in the Smart Systems Unit at IMEC in Leuven and the HOLST Centre in Eindhoven. Integrated Microsystems research focuses on the application of advanced technology for the creation of miniature components and subsystems, ultra-low power wearable wireless sensor systems, and smart implantable devices. Since 2000 Chris Van Hoof is also a guest professor at the University of Leuven.  

Dr. Vijay Srinivasan, Chief manufacturing systems integration division manufacturing engineering laboratory, NIST, USA

       Vijay Srinivasan is the Chief of the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S.A. Dr. Srinivasan comes to NIST from IBM, where he was most recently Chief Standards and Solutions Officer for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM); and Program Manager for PLM Research, Standards, and Academic Programs at IBM. Before that, he was a line manager in IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center leading research in the areas of geometric modeling, CAD/CAM, robotics, standards for geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, and data exchange. Dr. Srinivasan also served as an adjunct professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University . He is a member of many industry consortia and ISO TC 213, ASME Y 14.5.1 and is an ASME Fellow. He has published widely, and his book, "Theory of Dimensioning: An introduction to parameterizing geometric models" was published by Marcel-Dekker in 2004. He recently co-authored a book on "SOA Approach to Enterprise Integration for Product Lifecycle Management."       

Dr Mougahed Darwish, Responsible of the Swatch Group Electronic Systems, Member of the Executive Management Board, Switzerland

       Mougahed Darwish, Swiss citizen, holds a doctorate in Physics from the ETHL. He has been a member of the Extended Group Management Board since 1994 and of the Executive Group Management Board since 2005, responsible for EM Microelectronic, Micro Crystal, Renata, Microcomponents, Sokymat Automotive (sold in September 2008), Oscilloquartz and Lasag. Mr Darwish has been with the Group since 1979, starting as Project Manager for the Xicor-Ébauches joint venture. Previously, he had been active in research and development for the Centre électronique horloger (CEH) (today Centre Suisse de l’électronique et de microtechnique SA, CSEM). From 1985 to 2007 he ran EM Microelectronic as CEO. Today, Mr. Darwish is responsible for the sector of Electronic Systems within the Executive Group Management Board. He represents the Group on the Executive Board and Science Council of the CSEM; he is a member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Science. Since 2008, Mr Darwish actively accompanies the project Belenos Clean Power.

Prof. Shahin Rahimifard, Professor of Sustainable Engineering and Director of the Centre for Sustainable MAnufacturing and Reuse/Recycling Technologies (SMART) at Loughborough University, UK

        Shahin Rahimifard is the Professor of Sustainable Engineering at Loughborough University, and the Founder Director of the Centre for “Sustainable MAnufacturing and Reuse/Recycling Technologies (SMART)” (www.lboro.ac.uk/smart). He has over twenty years of experience in R & D projects and his current research work is focused on sustainability issues throughout a ‘Product Life Cycle’, including projects on sustainable product design, low carbon and energy efficient manufacturing, sustainable business and consumption models, product service systems, and product recovery and recycling. Professor Rahimifard is also the Editor-in-Chief of the newly established ‘International Journal of Sustainable Engineering’ (Publisher : Taylor and Francis).

Prof. Benoit Montreuil, Canada Research Chair in Enterprise Engineering, Laval University, Québec, Canada

        Benoit Montreuil is a professional industrial engineer graduated in 1978 from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). He holds a M.S.I.E. (1980) and a Ph.D. (1982) in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, U.S.A.). After being on the industrial engineering faculty of UQTR and Purdue University, since 1988 he is professor of operations and decisions systems at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Enterprise Engineering. He is on the scientific board of the CIRRELT Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation. He is president of the College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. At Laval University, he has received the Hermès Award for career-wide research excellence. His main research interests lie in developing concepts, methodologies and technologies for creating, transforming and enabling businesses and value creation networks to sustainably thrive in a fast evolving world. He has extensive advisory, entrepreneurial and collaborative research experience with industry. Through thirty years of research, in collaboration with students and colleagues, he has introduced an imposing set of paradigm-challenging leading-edge contributions such as virtual cellular manufacturing systems, fractal and holographic factory organization, industrial microcosm, symbiotic manufacturing networks (now known as virtual supply chains), network enterprises, responsibility networks, NetMan networked collaborative operating system, personalizing business networks, holistic simulation, tetrahedral business design framework, supply web, human web and physical internet.
 

Prof. Wim Sinke, ECN Solar Energy and Utrecht University, The Netherlands       

          Wim Sinke  has a PhD in Physics from Utrecht University and worked as a visiting scientist at the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan. From 1987 to 1990 he was project leader solar cells at the FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics

in Amsterdam. In 1990 he joined the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) to set up and lead a new group on photovoltaics.This group has grown to a size of over 80 people and covers research in wafer-based silicon as well as thin-film silicon and organic-based cells and modules. Wim Sinke is currently staff member Programme & Strategy in the ECN unit Solar Energy and part-time professor at Utrecht University on “Science & Applications of Sustainable Energy Systems”. He has received several prizes and awards, among others the Royal Dutch/Shell Prize 1999 for sustainability and Energy. He is chairman of the European Photovoltaic Technology Platform.

Prof. H. Scott Matthews, Research Director, Green Design Institute Civil & Environmental Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

          H. Scott Matthews is the Research Director of the Green Design Institute and a faculty member in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. The Green Design Institute is an interdisciplinary research consortium at Carnegie Mellon focused on identifying and assessing the environmental impacts of environmental systems and helping businesses manage their use of resources and toxic
materials. His research and consulting interests are in the area of valuing the socio-economic implications of environmental systems and infrastructure. Of particular interest are using the Internet to facilitate environmental life cycle assessment of products and processes, supply chain management in the electronics industry, the energy and environmental impacts of computing and the Internet, and the sustainability of infrastructure. At Carnegie Mellon, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the Departments of Economics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, and Computer Science.

Prof. Marwan Khraisheh, Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

       Marwan Khraisheh is the founding Dean at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. He served as the Acting Founding Provost until June 2009.

Professor Khraisheh received the B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Jordan in 1990, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University in 1992 and 1996, respectively.

Prior to joining Masdar Institute, Dr. Khraisheh was the Secat - J. Morris Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Kentucky. His research interests include materials processing and sustainable manufacturing. He currently focuses on developing innovative concepts and techniques for processing and fabrication of advanced materials including lightweight alloys to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emission.

Dr. Khraisheh is a recipient of a number of significant awards including the US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2004 Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Eugene Merchant Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, the 2003 North American Manufacturing Research Institute (NAMRI) Outstanding Paper Award and the 2005 Henry Mason Lutes Award for Excellence in Engineering Education. He is an associate member of the International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP) and served on the Editorial Board of Journal of Materials Processing Technology (Elsevier). Professor Khraisheh is a member of a number of international technical committees from ASME, ASM and TMS.