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Placid M. Ferreira
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Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor
Director, the Nano-CEMMS Center
Professor
Contact Information
- Office: 148 Mechanical Engineering Building
- Mailing Address:
148 Mechanical Engineering Building
1206 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801 - Phone Number: 217-333-0639
- Fax Number: 217-244-6534
- Email Address: pferreir AT illinois.edu
Research Description
Professor Ferreira's research focuses on industrial automation, particularly computer-controlled machine tools, nanopositioning and nanosensing, computational geometry and solid modeling as they relate to automated process planning and the discrete-event control of large-scale, flexibly automated systems.
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