MechSE Department Head and Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor Placid Ferreira has been named ASME Fellow, the group's highest membership grade of distinction. The ASME Board of Governors confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements.
Written by Meredith Staub
MechSE Department Head and Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor Placid Ferreira has been named ASME Fellow, the group's highest membership grade of distinction. The ASME Board of Governors confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements. Nominated by their peers, ASME Fellows have had 10 or more years of active practice and at least 10 years of continuous active corporate membership in ASME.
Ferreira received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Bombay in 1980, and his master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay in 1982. His Ph.D. is in industrial engineering, received from Purdue University in 1987. He has been the MechSE Department Head since 2009 and Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor since 2003. He was previously the MechSE Associate Head for Graduate Programs. He is also an affiliate of the Micro-Nanotechnology Laboratory at Illinois and has been since 2009.
Ferreira specializes in nanomanufacturing, 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. His work has been published in countless scientific journals and publications, and he is currently working to develop a novel metal patterning technique.