Leadership
School director and professor
Areas of expertise:
- Digital twins as training tools
- Industry 4.0
- Digital twins
- AI in manufacturing
Associate director
Areas of expertise:
- Digital twins as training tools
- Industry 4.0
- Digital twins
- AI in manufacturing
Research programs director
Areas of expertise:
- Human-robot collaboration
- Dynamics systems modeling and control
- Wearable robots
- Soft robots
- Aerial robots
Laboratory assistant director
Areas of expertise:
- Semiconductor manufacturing
- Metal additive manufacturing
- Nanomanufacturing
Program chairs
Program chair
All manufacturing engineering programs
Areas of expertise:
- Neuro-symbolic AI in design and manufacturing
- Semantic interoperability
- Ontology engineering and knowledge-based engineering
- Digital supply chains
- Digital manufacturing and Industry 4.0
- Engineering design theory and methodology
Program chair
Bachelor’s robotics and autonomous systems programs
Master’s robotics and autonomous systems programs
Areas of expertise:
- Digital twins as training tools
- Industry 4.0
- Digital twins
- AI in manufacturing
Thomas Sugar
Associate Dean and President’s Professor
Barrett Honors College – Polytechnic
Program chair
Doctoral systems engineering
Doctoral robotics and autonomous systems