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Action Officer for underbody modeling research programs
across the DoD such as the Underbody Blast Methodology for
Test and Evaluation (UBM/T&E). As the M&S lead for the
Occupant-Centric Platform (OCP) Technology-Enabled
Capability Demonstrator (TECD) project, he focused on the
development of crash-worthy and blast-worthy ground
vehicles, with special emphasis on occupant kinematics and
safety.
He received the Army Materiel Command Systems Analysis
awards in 2010 and 2012. He was coauthor of research
publications that won the Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering
and Technology Symposium (GVSETS) Best Paper Awards in
2013 and 2015. He is a Member of the Army Acquisition
Corps, and is a Certified Acquisition Professional as Systems
Engineer, Program Manager and S&T Manager. In 2017, he
received the Army Commander’s Award for Civilian Service.
He spent over 15 years in the automotive industry at Ford
Motor and Visteon Corporation, where he was involved in all
aspects of the product development lifecycle of automotive
interiors. His automotive experience includes leadership roles
in concept-to-launch product design, human factors/
ergonomics development, as well as in the standardized
application of CAE tools during the overall design engineering
process. He received several awards for his pioneering efforts, the gap between nanoscience discoveries and nanotechnology
including the President’s level Customer-Driven Quality award.
He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and his M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mechanics from Caltech,
Pasadena. His doctoral dissertation was on the Modeling and
Analysis of Hysteretic Structural Behavior. He has three
patents, widely published with over 60 technical papers and is
Co-organizer of SAE Congress sessions and Associate Editor
for the SAE Journals. In 2013, he received the SAE Forest R
McFarland Award.
Track 2: Advanced Manufacturing
SESSION 2-1-1, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
PLENARY
Tuesday, November 7, 8:00am–9:45am
Room 1, Tampa Convention Center
Perspectives in Advanced and Nano Manufacturing
(IMECE2017-73540)
Khershed Cooper
National Science Foundation, CMMI Division
Abstract: Advanced manufacturing is the application of innova-
tive technologies to accelerate product development, custom-
ize products, increase production efficiency and reduce cost.
There is a need for rapid transfer of S&T research into manu-
facturing processes and products. Products are getting
complex, require a high level of design, need to be exciting,
reliable and affordable and meet societal needs. To meet
these product requirements, new manufacturing approaches
are needed. In the last several decades, novel process
technologies have emerged—CAD/CAM/CAE, precision
systems, IT, robotics, intelligent systems, automation,
advanced control systems, new production platforms, mass
customization, and green manufacturing. The interest in
advanced manufacturing is driven by the need to maintain
US manufacturing competitiveness, globally. To achieve this
goal requires moving efficiently and rapidly from research to
prototype to product. The challenge is to close these gaps,
which can be done by developing a close connection between
research, design and production. Production innovation is
most efficient when tied to a close understanding of manufac-
turing processes. To transform production, new manufacturing
paradigms involving cyber, nano, additive, smart, etc. need to
be cultivated. Nanomanufacturing, in particular, has achieved
significant advances over the last two decades. It is the fabri-
cation of nano-scale building-blocks (nanomaterials, nano-
structures), their assembly into higher-order structures
(nanodevices and nanosystems), and the integration of these
into larger scale systems. Nanomanufacturing research is the
study of processes to manipulate and control matter at the
nano-scale, reproducibly. The nano-scale dimension is one
where a significant benefit in materials behavior occurs,
usually, 1-100 nm. Top-down (e.g., lithography) and bottom-up
(e.g., self-assembly) methods and techniques make up a suite
of more than 150 nano-scale processes. Integration could be
across length scales, geometries, materials and functions, and
could provide a means of forming complex, heterogeneous
systems exhibiting unusual properties. The goal is to bridge
products. NSF is advancing research in nanomanufacturing
through several programs. These support fundamental
research to enable and improve the large-scale or customized
manufacture of nano-scale materials, structures, devices and
systems, backed by model-based experimental verification and
process validation approaches. A key focus of the programs is
research leading to new nanomanufacturing methods, tools
and platforms. Projects address manufacturability challenges
such as scalability, customizability, sustainability, efficiency,
controllability, yield and cost, and involve studies of unit
processes, in-line and off-line metrology and closed-loop
process control. This talk will give research perspectives in
advanced and nano manufacturing and discuss future
opportunities.
Biography: Dr. Khershed P. Cooper is a xxv
Program Director (PD) in the Civil, Mechanical
and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Division
of the Engineering Directorate at NSF. He
directs the Nanomanufacturing Program, the
Scalable Nanomanufacturing for Integrated
Systems Solicitation and the manufacturing NSECs. He serves
as a co-PD for ERCs. He represents NSF on NSTC’s Nano
Science Engineering & Technology (NSET) Sub-committee, and
is a member of its Nanotechnology Innovation and Commer-
cialization Ecosystem (NICE) working group and of the NNI’s
Signature Initiative: Sustainable Nanomanufacturing. He
contributes to the development of the Manufacturing USA
Institutes and is a SME for NextFlex FHE-MII. Prior to joining
NSF, Dr. Cooper was a Program Officer at ONR and a Senior
Research Metallurgist at NRL. While at ONR he managed the
Manufacturing Science Program, focusing on additive
manufacturing (3D printing) and nanomanufacturing, and
several SBIR/STTR and ManTech projects in various areas of