Shivakumar Raman, Ph.D.

David Ross Boyd Professor
 

E-mail: raman@ou.edu
Office Phone: 405.325.3721
Fax: 405.325.7555
Personal Web Site: http://www.ou.edu/manufacturing

Biography

Dr. Shivakumar Raman is David Ross Boyd Professor, and John A. Myers Professor in Engineering. He was tenured in 1994 and was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 1999. He was selected in 2004 to be a David Ross Boyd Professor (lifetime title at OU). He was honored with a S.R. Noble Foundation Presidential Professorship from 1999-2003.  He teaches courses in the areas of materials, manufacturing processes and metrology. He is a member of SME, ASME, IIE and ASEE. He is an elected Fellow of both ASME and IIE. He served as a scientific committee member for North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME (NAMRI/SME) from 1995-2001. He currently serves on the NAMRI/SME Board of Directors (2008-2010).

He serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Manufacturing Systems and Journal of Manufacturing Processes (both of SME), and ASME Transactions: Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering; and as an editorial board member for IIE Transactions (Journal of Design and Manufacturing), and International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing (KSPE). He has organized satellite symposia in advanced manufacturing processes and advanced materials for ASME. He was the Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) program chair for ASME in the National Manufacturing Week (NMW) 2003 and 2004. He was also the MED program committee chair for ASME IMECE 2005, and organized 37 sessions in manufacturing engineering.

He has published 130 articles in journals, conference proceedings and edited books. As a PI or Co-PI, he has received funding, from external agencies totaling $6.1 Million. He has received 12 separate grants from the NSF (10 as PI). He has developed two laboratories for instruction/ research within the department. For undergraduates, he supplements this training with a "hands-on" laboratory conducted in collaboration with the Moore-Norman Technology Center.

He is a recipient of the IIE Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer Award (1998), SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (1994), ASEE (Midwest) Section Outstanding Teaching Award (2000), SAE Ralph Teetor Educational Award (1995), ASME Fellow Award (2006), IIE Fellow Award (2007), IIE Student Chapter's Outstanding Professor (five times - 1997, 1998, 2002, 2004 and 2006; voted by the IE students), OU Regents' Award for Superior Teaching (1997), University of Oklahoma Students Association (UOSA) Outstanding Faculty Award (Engineering) (2000), and OU College of Engineering's Engineering Excellence Distinguished Lecturer Award (four times - 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998). He also was an invited participant to the Oklahoma Outstanding Professors Academy in 1999-2000.

Research Activities

• Form and geometry verification of parts in manufacturing, reverse engineering
• Adaptive methods for sensing and metrology in manufacturing
• Tribology in machining and scalability, surface metrology
• Modeling of machining processes for systemic functions and integration
• Bio-manufacturing and osseo-metrology