Stephen Malkin Lecture Series
Established in memory of Distinguished Professor Emeritus Stephen Malkin, the Malkin Lecture Series attracts a wide variety of expert speakers, who inspire our learning community on issues of innovation and progress in engineering fields involved with manufacturing.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Stephen Malkin
Malkin was an internationally renowned guiding force in manufacturing science who established the scientific basis of modern grinding systems, and he leaves behind a legacy of intellectual and professional rigor that is reflected in the lecture series named after him.
In 1986, Stephen Malkin joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a full professor. In 2000, Malkin was appointed as the first Head of the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, which merged the scholarly activity of two separate departments: Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering. He was the department Head during 2000–2006. Malkin was named a Distinguished University Professor in 1998. He retired in 2008.
He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE); a Fellow of the International Institution for Production Engineering (CIRP); a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); and a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineering.
Past Lecturers
2023
Toward Intelligent Process Control in LPBF Additive Manufacturing
Presented by: Chinedum (“Chi”) Okwudire
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Miller Faculty Scholar, University of Michigan
2022
Integrating Physical and Data Sciences for Advanced Manufacturing
Presented by: Robert X. Gao
Cady Staley Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
2018
Innovation in Abrasives: Role of Grinding Science and Education
Presented by: Anand Tanikella
Vice President R&D, Saint - Gobain Abrasives
2016
Abrasive Machining of Aerospace Alloys – Challenges and Recent Advancements
Presented by: Changsheng Guo
Principal Scientist and Project Leader with the United Technologies Research Center (UTRC)
2015
Modeling of grinding technologies – Case studies on gear grinding
Presented by: Fritz Klocke
Head, Fraunhofer Institute of Production Technology IPT in Aachen
Chair, RWTH Aachen Laboratory of Machine Tools and Production Engineering