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Raman

 Shivakumar Raman, Ph.D.
David Ross Boyd Professor
School of Industrial Engineering
University of Oklahoma
Phone: (405) 325-3721
Fax: (405) 325-7555
Email: raman@ou.edu

Biography

Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering), Pennsylvania State University , 1989.
M.S. (Mechanical Engineering), University Of Texas at Arlington , 1985.
B.E. (Mechanical Engineering), Shivaji University , 1983.

Dr. Shivakumar Raman, a tenured full-professor in IE, is a David Ross Boyd Professor, and John A. Myers Professor in Engineering. Earlier, he held a S.R. Noble Foundation Presidential Professorship.  He teaches courses in the areas of materials, manufacturing processes and metrology. He is an Elected Fellow of 3 major societies: SME, ASME and IIE. He is the current Scientific Committee Chair (Chief Editor) for the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME (NAMRI/SME) and also serves on its Board of Directors (2008-2010).

He has served 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.

At the international level, 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), SME Fellow Award (2008), and SME Dick Aubin Outstanding Paper Award (2008).  At OU he has won the IIE Student Chapter's Outstanding Professor (5 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 (4 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

20 Selected Journal Publications (2000-Present)

  1. Kim, W.-S. and Raman, S., “On the Selection of Flatness Measurement Points in CMM Inspection,” International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, Vol. 40, 2000, pp. 427-443.
  1. Gupta, M. and Raman, S., “Machine Vision Assisted Characterization of Machined Surfaces,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 759-784, 2001.
  1. Schlegel, R.E., Grant, H. F., Raman, S. and Ravindran, A., “Assessing the Interference between Wireless Phones and Hearing Aids” Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 301-308, 2001.
  1. Malyscheff, A., Trafalis, T.B. and Raman, S., “From Support Vector Machine Learning to the Determination of the Minimum Enclosing Zone,” Computers and Industrial Engineering, 42(1), 2002, pp. 59-74.
  1. Raman, S. and Chellaperumal, J., ”Reexamining the Machining Frictional Boundary Conditions Using Fractals,” Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B, Vol. 216, No. B7, 2002, pp. 993-998.
  1. Raman, S., Longstreet, A. and Guha, D., "A Fractal View of Tool-chip Interfacial Friction in Machining,” Wear, Vol. 253, No. 11-12, 2002, pp. 1111-1120.
  1. Badar, A., Raman, S. and Pulat, S., “Intelligent Search-based Selection of Sample Points for Form Error Estimation,” Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 125, No. 2, 2003, pp. 263-271.
  1. Prakasvudhisarn, C., Trafalis, T.B. and Raman, S., “Support Vector Regression for Determination of Minimum Zone,” Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 125, No. 4, 2003, pp. 736-739.
  1. Prakasvudhisarn, C. and Raman, S., ”Framework for Cone Feature Measurement using Coordinate Measuring Machines,” Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 126, No. 1, 2004, pp. 169-177.
  1. Badar, A., Raman, S. and Pulat, S., “Experimental verification of manufacturing error pattern and its utilization in form tolerance sampling,” International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, Vol. 45, No.1, 2005, pp. 63-73.
  1. Badar, A., Raman, S., Pulat, S. and Shehab, R.L., “Experimental Analysis of Search-Based Selection of Sample Points for Form Estimation,” Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 128, No. 1, 2005, pp. 96-103.
  1. Aguirre, J. and Raman, S. “Torus Inspection Using Coordinate Sampling,” Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 128, No. 1, 2005, pp. 84-95.
  1. Balakrishna, P. and Raman, S., “An Integrated Approach for the Estimation of Spherical Form Tolerance” Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2006, pp. 172-183.
  1. Kilic, D.S. and Raman, S. “Observations of the Tool-chip Boundary conditions in Turning of Aluminum Alloys,” Wear, Vol. 262, No. 7-8, pp. 889-904, 2007.
  1. Collins, C.E., Fay, E.B., Aguirre-Cruz, J. and Raman, S. “Alternate Methods for Sampling in Coordinate Metrology” Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B,  Volume 221, Number 6, 2007, pp. 1041-1052.
  1. Kilic, B., Aguirre-Cruz, J. and Raman, S.“Inspection of the Cylindrical Surface Feature after Turning Using Coordinate Metrology” International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, Volume 47, Issues 12-13, October 2007, pp. 1893-1903
  1. Raman, S., Basu, A. and Kilic, D.S. “Analysis of Fractal Frictional Contact in Machining,” Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B, Volume 221, Number 7, 2007, pp. 1119-1128.
  1. Balakrishna, P., Raman, S., Trafalis, T., and Santosa, B. “Application of Support Vector Regression to the Problem of Determining the Minimum Zone Sphericity,” International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Volume 35, Numbers 9-10, January 2008, pp. 916-923.
  1. Aguirre-Cruz, J.A. and Raman, S., “Mathematical Tolerance Verification of N-Sided Prisms Using Fourier Analysis” International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Volume 36, Numbers 1-2, February 2008, pp. 114-131.
  1. Deshpande, L.S., Raman, S., Sunanta, O., and Agbaraji, C. “Observations in the Flat Lapping of Stainless Steel and Bronze” Wear, Volume 265, Nos. 1-2, 2008, pp 105-116.