Recent professional activities by Steven R. Schmid, Professor Emeritus, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

Author: Kelli Brown

Steven Schmid

Community Service:

American Society of Mechanical Engineers:
Chair, Manufacturing Public Policy Task Force
Member, Intelligent Manufacturing Task Force
Member, Committee on Nominations

Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers

Sustainability Committee

Teaching (including off-campus):
Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Two classes per academic year in the areas of manufacturing, tribology, and design.
 
Publications:
 
Book:
Schmid, S.R., Schey's Tribology in Metal Forming, ASM International, 2023.
 

Journal Papers:

Alamos, F., Philo, M., Go, D.B., and Schmid, S.R., ``Rough surface contact under creep conditions’', Trib. Int., v. 176, December 2022, 107916.

Schmid, S.R., and Melkote, S.N., ``Manufacturing and the Great Resignation,'' Mechanical Engineering, April/May 2022, pp. 38-43.

Alamos, F., Schiltz, J., Kozlovsky, K., Attardo, R., Tomonto, C., Pelletiers, T. and Schmid, S.R., ``Effect of powder reuse on orthopedic metals produced through selective laser sintering''. Manuf. Letters, v. 31, 2022, pp. 40-44.
 
Schmid, S.R., and Melkote, S.N., ``Manufacturing and National Security,'' Mechanical Engineering, 2021, v. 143, 37-41. Related Podcast, June 6, 2021.
 
Alamos, F.J., Philo, M., Go, D.B., and Schmid, S.R., ``Asperity contact under creep conditions'', Trib. Int., v. 160, 2021, 107039.
 
Academic Lectures and Conference Presentations:
 
"Additive Manufacturing of Silicon Carbide,'' Presented at PRESM 2023, Bankoku Shiryokan, Okinawa, July 16-21, 2023.
 
"Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Ceramics,'' 2nd International Symposium in Advanced Materials,'' Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity, Toyama, Japan, Oct. 17-19, 2022.
 
Schmid, S.R., ``Developments in Manufacturing Tribology,'' Presented at the International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM 2022), Jeju, South Korea, July 20-22, 2022.
 
4. Schmid, S.R., "Fracture Fixation with Resorbable Materials: Opportunities and Design Considerations'', IFMM2022 Symposium: Application of Magnesium to Medical Field, Virtual Conference, March 26, 2022.
 
Awards and Honors:

David Dornfeld Manufacturing Innovation Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2023.
 
Member, World Manufacturing Forum, 2021-2022.
 
Award of Distinction, Manufacturing Engineering Society (Spain), 2021.
 
Gold Medal, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2019.
 

$4.25 million in research funding since 2021 (all as lead PI).

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