Ticketed event: Mechanism Design - $30.00
The task of designing mechanisms for machinery and robotics has historically presented a formidable challenge, both to students and industry professionals. Curiously, a substantial proportion of innovative mechanisms have been conceived by artists rather than scientists, despite the formalization of mechanism design and simulation theory and computation by engineers and scientists. This workshop will demonstrate how the motion generation, involving the determination of N positions, and the path synthesis problems can be effectively addressed using this tool.
Anticipated Participants: This workshop is targeted towards academic professionals instructing courses in engineering design, kinematics, robotics, and mechatronics, as well as undergraduate and graduate students and industry practitioners with an interest in these fields.
Dr. Anurag Purwar is an award-winning professor, researcher, TEDx speaker, and inventor of several technologies. He has received several best paper and outstanding research awards, excellence in teaching awards, and the top 100 design awards for his inventions. He received the SUNY FACT2 award, two SUNY Research Foundation Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) awards, A.T. Yang award for Theoretical Kinematics, and Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the 2021 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Distinguished Teaching award.
Dr. Purwar has led more than 125 technical projects in mechanisms and robotics, wave-, and wind-energy harvesting, physical therapy and rehabilitation devices, aircraft components, and consumer products design, with a cumulative in-cash funding of $6.1M supported by National Science Foundation, industry, NY-state SPIR, NY-state Center for Biotechnology, Sensor-CAT, SUNY Research Foundation, and SUNY Office of Provost. More than 175 students have been supported on these projects. Dr. Purwar’s current research focuses on bringing together rigid body kinematics with machine learning for design of robotic systems. He has published 92 peer-reviewed papers.
He is currently an Associate Editor of the American Society of Mechanical Engineer (ASME) Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering and of International Journal of Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines and has served as the Conference and Program chair for several ASME international conferences. He is an elected member of the ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Executive Committee and a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) by Stony Brook University Chapter.