NAMRI | SME Founders Lecture The NAMRI | SME Founders Lecture was established to honor individuals who served on the NAMRC Scientific Committee from 1973 to 1981 and those members who founded NAMRI | SME when it was officially established, as well as other distinguished contributors to manufacturing who have been actively involved with NAMRC. Lecturers 2026“Everlasting Feast of Manufacturing Science and Technology”Steven Y. Liang , PhD, FSME, FASME, FAET 2025 “An Overview of Advances in Machining Science of Aerospace Materials”Ramulu Mamidala, PhD, FSME, FASME, FSEM, FASM 2024Numerical Modeling of Manufacturing Processes: A Historical PerspectiveRajiv Shivpuri, PhD, FSME 2023How Did We Get Here, and What Are We Going to Do?Scott Smith, PhD, FSME 2022On the 50th anniversary of NAMRI – A time to reflect Shiv G. Kapoor, PhD, FSME, 2003 NAMRI | SME President, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignKornel F. Ehmann, PhD, FSME, 2004-2005 NAMRI | SME President, Northwestern University 2021"A Student’s Perspective on the Early Days of NAMRC"Warren R. DeVries, PhD, FSME 2019"A Reminiscence of the Great Machining Years (1980s – 2000s)"Chi-Hung Shen, PhD, FSME 2018"Prospects in Manufacturing Engineering"John C. Ziegert, PhD, FSME, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 2017"On the Path to Ultraprecision Machining"Don A. Lucca, PhD, FSME 2016"Standing on the Shoulders of NAMRI/SME Giants"Ralph L. Resnick, FSME 2015"Advances in Manufacturing Over 43 Years of NAMRC"David A. Dornfeld, PhD, FSME, University of California at Berkeley 2014Founders Lecture and M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Medal of ASME/SME Recipient Presentation"Riding the US 'Manufacturing Renaissance' Wave: How to 'hang ten' in doing your part!"Dean Bartles, PhD, FSME, Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute 2013"The 30-Year Trek to Sustainable, Scalable Manufacturing: Are We There Yet?"Delcie R. Durham, PhD, FSME, PE, University of South Florida 2012"The Engineer's High Privilege"J T. Black, PhD, FSME, Auburn University 2011"How to Conduct Research—The Rumford Way"Ranga Komanduri, PhD, FSME, Oklahoma State University 2010"Creating the New Manufacturing Paradigm for the New Century"Yoram Koren, ScD, FSME, University of Michigan 2009"A Few Observations Regarding Force Calculations for a Simple Forming Process"Klaus J. Weinmann, Michigan Technological University 2008Stephen Malkin, ScD, FSME, University of Massachusetts 2007"NAMRC – Ruminations and Revelations"Marvin F. DeVries, PhD, FSME, CMfgE, PE, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2006"Road Map for Tube Making: From Tube Sinking to Tube Drawing with Floating Plugs"Betzalel Avitzur, PhD, Lehigh University 2005Geoffrey Boothroyd, PhD, FSME, Boothroyd Dewhurst Inc. 2004Alan Male, PhD, FSME, PE, University of Kentucky 2003Lucjan Kops, ScD, McGill University 2002"Whither Manufacturing"John Schey, PhD, FSME, CMfgE, PE, University of Waterloo 2001Milton C. Shaw, PhD, FSME, PE, Arizona State University 2000Taylan Altan, PhD, FSME, Ohio State University 1999No record of Founders Lecture. May have been replaced by these "Special Lectures" since NAMRC was held at UC-Berkeley. Special LectureJoseph Frisch, University of California at Berkeley Special Lecture"A Short Review of Metal Processing at UC Berkeley Since WWII"Erich G. Thomsen, FSME, PE, University of California at Berkeley 1998"Visioneering Manufacturing for the Twenty-First Century"John G. Bollinger, PhD, FSME, PE, University of Wisconsin 1997"NAMRC I to NAMRC XXV: Reflections of a Founding Member"Serope Kalpakjian, PhD, FSME, Illinois Institute of Technology 1996"Machine Tool Research"Jiri Tlusty, PhD, FSME, McMaster University 1995"Fifty Years of Chip Making"Branimir von Turkovich, PhD, FSME, PE, University of Vermont 1994First occasion of luncheon lecture by a founding member"From NAMRC to NAMRI – A History of the Early Days"William B. Rice, PhD, FSME, PE, Queens University, and Marvin F. DeVries, PhD, FSME, CMfgE, PE, University of Wisconsin-Madison
