Dr. Sankar Jayaram invited to present a keynote speech at the Fifth INTUITION International Conference
Dr. Sankar Jayaram was
invited to present a keynote speech at the Fifth
INTUITION International Conference - Virtual Reality in
Industry and Society: From Research to Application,
held at Turin, Italy, from Oct 6 thru Oct 8 2008. Cost
effective VR technologies are now becoming available
and will revolutionize the manner in which the products
of the future will be designed and manufactured.
Virtual manufacturing is the utilization of VR in all
of its guises as a means for providing useful
engineering data at all of the stages of the product
manufacturing lifecycle from specification and
conceptual design through manufacturing to product
support and disposal.
A goal of the conference and the Virtual Manufacturing
workshop was to provide an opportunity for researchers
and industry practitioners from the European Union and
USA to meet together in one forum to explore both
state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice in
virtual manufacturing in the widest technological and
applications context. Dr. Jayaram’s talk focused
on the integration of virtual manufacturing related
technologies into everyday engineering tools to provide
exciting and innovative solutions. Several key
challenges and solutions were presented using examples
from industry and research organizations.
Dr. Sankar Jayaram is a Professor in the School of
Mechanical and Materials Engineering and also an
Affiliate Professor in the School of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State
University. Dr. Jayaram has a PhD in Mechanical
Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1989 and has been at
Washington State University since 1993. He was the
Associate Director of the ACSYNT Institute of Aircraft
Design at Virginia Tech and is currently the Director
of the Virtual Reality and Computer Integrated
Manufacturing Laboratory at Washington State
University. He has also been a co-founder of several
companies providing services and products in the areas
of virtual reality, CAD customization, engineering
software solutions, and CAD data translation.
Dr. Sankar Jayaram has been an active researcher in
applying virtual reality methods for engineering design
and manufacturing. He was a member of the ISO standards
committee for computer graphics standards representing
USA and the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI). Dr. Jayaram was a co-founder of the Virtual
Environment and Systems technical area for the ASME
(American Society of Mechanical Engineering)
organization and headed that technical area in the
international DETC Conference. He also served as the
first Associate Editor in Virtual Environments for the
Journal JCISE, a Transaction of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
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