National Science Foundation, NSF
Funding text 1: The conducted workshop was supported by a Department of Defense (DoD) grant under the Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program (DMCSP) by the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA). The authors would like to express their gratitude to the following partners for their support of the Alabama IMaDE initiative: The Alabama Community College System, Alabama Robotic Technology Park, Intelitek, TransfrVR, and Mercedes-Benz U.S. International. The authors would also like to extend their gratitude to the other members of Alabama IMaDE, namely Dr. Nima Mahmoodi, Radley Scott, and Sorosuh Korivand. Alabama IMaDE aims to motivate early manufacturing education, as well as to further the development of the local manufacturing workforce through new education paradigms based on state-of-the-art educational technologies such as virtual reality, online platforms, interactive software, and others.; Funding text 2: Dr. Nader Jalili joined Southern Methodist University (SMU) as its next Dean of Lyle School of Engineering in March 2023 from the University of Alabama where he was a Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was formerly a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Department Chair for Graduate Studies and Research, and Director of Northeastern University Piezoactive Systems Laboratory at Northeastern University. An ASME Fellow and former Chairs of both ASME Mechanical Engineering Department Heads and Chairs (MEDHC) and ASME Southeast Mechanical Engineering Department Heads (SMEDH), Dr. Jalili is an innovative leader and researcher, known for bringing the resources of engineering education and research to undergraduate and graduate students, industry partners and community outreach programs. An active researcher, Dr. Jalili has been PI or Co-PI on more than $17 million in external funding, including grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Defense in the domain of vibration, control and acoustics. He is the author or co-author of more than 350 peer-refereed technical publications, including 135 journal papers, two textbooks and five book chapters. A fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Jalili has chaired numerous society committees and edited several engineering academic journals. In addition, he is the recipient of more than 30 international, national and institutional awards for his research, leadership, teaching and service. In his four years as the Head of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama, Dr. Jalili led a significant increase in external research awards and enrollment as well as the creation of the Alabama Initiative on Manufacturing Development and Education (Alabama IMaDE®), designed to better prepare future highly skilled workers through a convergence of education, research and service. The Alabama Initiative has guided multiple research projects in the core areas of automation, human-robot collaboration/integration and augmentation and has partnered with numerous outreach programs to promote new career paths for middle and high school students in the region.
U.S. Department of Defense, DOD
Funding text 1: The conducted workshop was supported by a Department of Defense (DoD) grant under the Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program (DMCSP) by the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA). The authors would like to express their gratitude to the following partners for their support of the Alabama IMaDE initiative: The Alabama Community College System, Alabama Robotic Technology Park, Intelitek, TransfrVR, and Mercedes-Benz U.S. International. The authors would also like to extend their gratitude to the other members of Alabama IMaDE, namely Dr. Nima Mahmoodi, Radley Scott, and Sorosuh Korivand. Alabama IMaDE aims to motivate early manufacturing education, as well as to further the development of the local manufacturing workforce through new education paradigms based on state-of-the-art educational technologies such as virtual reality, online platforms, interactive software, and others.; Funding text 2: Dr. Nader Jalili joined Southern Methodist University (SMU) as its next Dean of Lyle School of Engineering in March 2023 from the University of Alabama where he was a Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was formerly a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Department Chair for Graduate Studies and Research, and Director of Northeastern University Piezoactive Systems Laboratory at Northeastern University. An ASME Fellow and former Chairs of both ASME Mechanical Engineering Department Heads and Chairs (MEDHC) and ASME Southeast Mechanical Engineering Department Heads (SMEDH), Dr. Jalili is an innovative leader and researcher, known for bringing the resources of engineering education and research to undergraduate and graduate students, industry partners and community outreach programs. An active researcher, Dr. Jalili has been PI or Co-PI on more than $17 million in external funding, including grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Defense in the domain of vibration, control and acoustics. He is the author or co-author of more than 350 peer-refereed technical publications, including 135 journal papers, two textbooks and five book chapters. A fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Jalili has chaired numerous society committees and edited several engineering academic journals. In addition, he is the recipient of more than 30 international, national and institutional awards for his research, leadership, teaching and service. In his four years as the Head of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama, Dr. Jalili led a significant increase in external research awards and enrollment as well as the creation of the Alabama Initiative on Manufacturing Development and Education (Alabama IMaDE®), designed to better prepare future highly skilled workers through a convergence of education, research and service. The Alabama Initiative has guided multiple research projects in the core areas of automation, human-robot collaboration/integration and augmentation and has partnered with numerous outreach programs to promote new career paths for middle and high school students in the region.
U.S. Department of Energy, USDOE
Funding text 1: The conducted workshop was supported by a Department of Defense (DoD) grant under the Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program (DMCSP) by the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA). The authors would like to express their gratitude to the following partners for their support of the Alabama IMaDE initiative: The Alabama Community College System, Alabama Robotic Technology Park, Intelitek, TransfrVR, and Mercedes-Benz U.S. International. The authors would also like to extend their gratitude to the other members of Alabama IMaDE, namely Dr. Nima Mahmoodi, Radley Scott, and Sorosuh Korivand. Alabama IMaDE aims to motivate early manufacturing education, as well as to further the development of the local manufacturing workforce through new education paradigms based on state-of-the-art educational technologies such as virtual reality, online platforms, interactive software, and others.; Funding text 2: Dr. Nader Jalili joined Southern Methodist University (SMU) as its next Dean of Lyle School of Engineering in March 2023 from the University of Alabama where he was a Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was formerly a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Department Chair for Graduate Studies and Research, and Director of Northeastern University Piezoactive Systems Laboratory at Northeastern University. An ASME Fellow and former Chairs of both ASME Mechanical Engineering Department Heads and Chairs (MEDHC) and ASME Southeast Mechanical Engineering Department Heads (SMEDH), Dr. Jalili is an innovative leader and researcher, known for bringing the resources of engineering education and research to undergraduate and graduate students, industry partners and community outreach programs. An active researcher, Dr. Jalili has been PI or Co-PI on more than $17 million in external funding, including grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Defense in the domain of vibration, control and acoustics. He is the author or co-author of more than 350 peer-refereed technical publications, including 135 journal papers, two textbooks and five book chapters. A fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Jalili has chaired numerous society committees and edited several engineering academic journals. In addition, he is the recipient of more than 30 international, national and institutional awards for his research, leadership, teaching and service. In his four years as the Head of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama, Dr. Jalili led a significant increase in external research awards and enrollment as well as the creation of the Alabama Initiative on Manufacturing Development and Education (Alabama IMaDE®), designed to better prepare future highly skilled workers through a convergence of education, research and service. The Alabama Initiative has guided multiple research projects in the core areas of automation, human-robot collaboration/integration and augmentation and has partnered with numerous outreach programs to promote new career paths for middle and high school students in the region.
Office of Economic Adjustment, OEA
Funding text 1: The conducted workshop was supported by a Department of Defense (DoD) grant under the Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program (DMCSP) by the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA). The authors would like to express their gratitude to the following partners for their support of the Alabama IMaDE initiative: The Alabama Community College System, Alabama Robotic Technology Park, Intelitek, TransfrVR, and Mercedes-Benz U.S. International. The authors would also like to extend their gratitude to the other members of Alabama IMaDE, namely Dr. Nima Mahmoodi, Radley Scott, and Sorosuh Korivand. Alabama IMaDE aims to motivate early manufacturing education, as well as to further the development of the local manufacturing workforce through new education paradigms based on state-of-the-art educational technologies such as virtual reality, online platforms, interactive software, and others.; Funding text 2: Dr. Nader Jalili joined Southern Methodist University (SMU) as its next Dean of Lyle School of Engineering in March 2023 from the University of Alabama where he was a Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was formerly a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Department Chair for Graduate Studies and Research, and Director of Northeastern University Piezoactive Systems Laboratory at Northeastern University. An ASME Fellow and former Chairs of both ASME Mechanical Engineering Department Heads and Chairs (MEDHC) and ASME Southeast Mechanical Engineering Department Heads (SMEDH), Dr. Jalili is an innovative leader and researcher, known for bringing the resources of engineering education and research to undergraduate and graduate students, industry partners and community outreach programs. An active researcher, Dr. Jalili has been PI or Co-PI on more than $17 million in external funding, including grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Defense in the domain of vibration, control and acoustics. He is the author or co-author of more than 350 peer-refereed technical publications, including 135 journal papers, two textbooks and five book chapters. A fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Jalili has chaired numerous society committees and edited several engineering academic journals. In addition, he is the recipient of more than 30 international, national and institutional awards for his research, leadership, teaching and service. In his four years as the Head of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama, Dr. Jalili led a significant increase in external research awards and enrollment as well as the creation of the Alabama Initiative on Manufacturing Development and Education (Alabama IMaDE®), designed to better prepare future highly skilled workers through a convergence of education, research and service. The Alabama Initiative has guided multiple research projects in the core areas of automation, human-robot collaboration/integration and augmentation and has partnered with numerous outreach programs to promote new career paths for middle and high school students in the region.
