Other Professional Activities:

I:   Services, Honors and Awards:

·          Chair, Biomanufacturing Technical Committee, American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)

·          Chair of External Advisory Board, Bioprinting Research Center, Medical Univ of South Carolina

·          Featured by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) magazine, Mechanical Engineering, "Life, meet engineering" in the July 2005 issue (Vol. 127, No.7)

·          Featured by The Scientists: "Machining the Body", (Vol. 19, Issue 9, May 9, 2005)

·          Outstanding Contribution to Graduate Teaching Award, Mechanical Engineering, Drexel, 2004

·          Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, Society of Automotive Engineers, 2003

·          Professor of the Year Award, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University, 2002

·          Guest Researcher, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, MD, 2002, 2004

·          Highly Commend Award for Outstanding Paper, Literati Club, Emerald Publishing, 2001, 2006

 

II. Editorships, Conference/Workshop Organizations and Session Chairs

      a. Editorships

1.       Section Editor for Tissue Engineering, Journal of American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO), 2004 – present

2.       Member of Editorial Board, International J. of Virtual and Physical Prototyping (2008)

3.       Member of Editorial Board, J. of Recent Patents on Engineering (2006 – present)

4.       Member of Editorial Board, Int.. J. of Service Operations & Informatics (2006 – present)

5.       Member of Editorial Board, J. of Computer-Aided Design & Applications (2004 – present)

6.       Guest Editor: Special Issue on BioCAD, Journal of Computer-Aided Design, 2005

b. Conference/workshop organizations and member of committee:

1.       Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee: World Congress of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells, Guangzhou, China, December 2-4, 2008.

2.       Member of the International Advisory Committee: International Conference on Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing & Bio-Manufacturing (ICRPM-BM'08), Beijing, China, November 6-8, 2008.

3.       Track Chair: Biological Technologies, 2008 ASME International Conference on Manufacturing Science & Engineering, Evanston, Illinois, USA, October 7-10, 2008.

4.       Member of the scientific committee: The Eighteenth Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, Austin, TX, USA, August 4-6, 2008.

5.       Co-organizer: Collaborative Workshop: Grand Challenges for Bio-Nano Integrated Manufacturing for Year 2020, sponsored by NSF, April 14-16, 2008, Arlington, VA, USA.

6.       Co-organizer: Symposium on Solid Freeform Fabrication in Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Applications, 2007 ASME International Conference on Manufacturing Science & Engineering, Atlanta, GA, USA, sponsored by the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division, October 15-17, 2007.

7.       Co-organizer: Workshop on Bio-Nano Manufacturing for Cellular Engineering, sponsored by NSF, October, 2007.

8.       Co-organizer: International workshop on “Solid Freeform Fabrication for Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Applications,” Bangalore, India, Sponsored by the IndoUS Science and Technology Forum, Feb. 21-23, 2007.

9.       Co-organizer: International Workshop on Biomanufacturing, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, sponsored by NSF, June 29-July 1, 2005.

10.   Co-organizer: Symposium on Advances in Biomanufacturing, 2005 ASME IMECE, Orlando, FL, USA, sponsored by the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division, November 13-18, 2005.

11.   Moderators: Special Panel for Advances on Biomanufacturing, 2005 ASME IMECE, Orlando, FL, USA, sponsored by the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division, November 15, 2005.

12.   Member of the scientific committee: Virtual and Rapid Prototyping (VRAP 2007), September, 18-21, 2007, Leiria, Portugal.

13.   Member of the scientific committee: The Seventeenth Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, August 6-8, 2007, Austin, TX, USA.

14.   Member of the scientific committee: International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, CAD'07, June 25-29, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

15.   Member of the scientific committee: The Seventeenth International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, June 18-20, 2007, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

16.   Member of the scientific committee: International Conference on Manufacturing Automation, May 28-30, 2007, Singapore.

17.   Member of the scientific committee: The Seventeenth Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, August 14-16, 2006, Austin, TX, USA.

18.   Member of the scientific committee: International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, CAD'06, Phuket, Thailand, June 20-24, 2006.

19.   Member of the scientific committee: The 9th International conference on Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics, Dec 7-10, 2005, Hong Kong, China.

20.   Member of the scientific committee: The Second International Conference on Virtual and Physical Rapid Prototype, Leiria, Portugal, September 28-October 1, 2005.

21.   Member of the scientific committee: International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, CAD'05, Bangkok, Thailand, June 20-24, 2005.

22.   Member of Organizing Committee: The 2nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Industrial Design and Conceptual Design, Bangkok, Thailand, November 18 – 20, 1999.

23.   Member of Organizing Committee: The 98 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Guilin, China, October 8 - 11, 1998.

c. Conference session chairs:

1.       International Workshop on “Solid Freeform Fabrication for Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Applications,” Session Chair: Biomaterials and Cell-Implant Interaction, Bangalore, India, Feb. 23, 2007.

2.       The 17th Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, Session Chair: Bio-Orthopedics & General Applications, Austin, TX, USA, August 16, 2006.

3.       International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, CAD'06, Session Chair: Geometrical Modeling, Phuket, Thailand, June 22, 2006.

4.       2005 ASME IMECE Symposium on Advances in Biomanufacturing, Session Chair: Process Modeling, Orlando, FL, USA, November 10, 2005.

5.       World Congress on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Session Chair: Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering, Shanghai, China, October 23, 2005.

6.       The 9th International conference on Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics, Section Chair: Geometrical Modeling, Hong Kong, China, December 8, 2005.

7.       The 16th Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, Session Chair: Process I, Austin, TX, USA, August 1, 2005.

8.       International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, CAD'05, Session Chair: BioCAD Bangkok, Thailand, June 22, 2005.

9.       International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, CAD'04, Session Chair: SoftCAD, Pattaya Beach, Thailand, May 26, 2004

10.   The 21st Southeastern Bioengineering Conference, Session Co-Chair, Medical Imaging Process and Modeling, Washington, DC, Sept. 29, 2002.

11.   ASME 2000 Design for Manufacturing Technical Conference, Session Co-Chair: Design for Manufacturing, Baltimore, Maryland, September 12, 2000.

12.   The Fourth International Conference of Composite Engineering, Section Co-Chair: Use of Composites in Transportation Industry, the Big Island, Hawaii, July 10, 19972647, 2002.

 

III: Invited Technical Reviewers

a. Invited proposal reviewers:

Proposal reviewer for NSF: from 2002 - 2008

Proposal panelist for NSF: from 2002-2007

Member of NIH Study Sessions for proposal review and panelist: NIMOSS-National Institute of Musculoskeletal, Oral and Skin Sciences (2005-2007)

Member of NIH Study Sessions for proposal review and panelist: NLHBI-National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (2005)

Member of proposal reviewer committee: Singapore Science & Eng. Research Council: 2004-2008

Member of proposal reviewer committee: Canada Science & Engineering Research Council, 2005

Member of proposal reviewer committee: China National Natural Science Foundation, 2005-2007

Member of proposal reviewer committee: IndoUS Science and Technology Forum, 2006

Member of proposal reviewer committee: Hong Kong Research Grant Council, 2006-2008

b. Invited technical reviewer for the following journals:

1.             Natural Materials

2.             Biomaterials

3.             Acta Biomaterialia

4.             Tissue Engineering

5.             Trend in Biotechnology

6.             Annals of Biomedical Engineering

7.             J. Biomedical Materials Research: Part A

8.             J. Biomedical Materials Research: Part B – Applied Biomaterials

9.             J. Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry

10.         J. Biomacromolecules

11.         J. Expert Review of Medical Devices

12.         J. American Society of Internal Artificial Organs (ASAIO)

13.         J. Control Release

14.         J. Materials Chemistry (Application)

15.         European Spine Journal

16.         J. Materials Scienece and Engineering C

17.         Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

18.         Computer-Aided Design & Applications (CADA)

19.         J. of Composites

20.         J. of Composite Science and Technology

21.         J. Advanced Engineering Software

22.         J. of Mechanical Design

23.         J. of Solid and Physical Structures

24.         J. of Engineering with Computer

25.         International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

26.         International Journal of Services Operations & Informatics

27.         Rapid Prototyping Journal

28.         IEEE Transactions: J. Computer Graphics and Applications

29.         ASME Transactions: Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

30.         ASME Transactions: Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

c. Invited book reviewer for the following publishing companies:

Research Publishing Company

IRWIN Publishing Company

            Addison Wesley Longman Company