Behrokh Khoshnevis
is a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering
and Civil & Environmental Engineering, and is the
Director of the Center for
Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT) and
Director of Manufacturing
Engineering Graduate Program at USC. He is active in
CAD/CAM, robotics and mechatronics related research projects that
include the development of novel Solid Free Form, or Rapid
Prototyping, processes (Contour Crafting
and SIS),
automated construction of civil structures, development of
mechatronics systems for biomedical applications (e.g.,
restorative dentistry, rehabilitation engineering, haptics devices
for medical applications), and autonomous mobile and modular robots
for assembly applications on earth and in space. He routinely
conducts lectures and seminars on invention and technology
development. He is a Fellow member of the
Institute of
Industrial
Engineers
, a Fellow member of the
Society for Computer Simulation, and a Senior member of the Society
of Manufacturing Engineering. His inventions have received
extensive worldwide publicity in acclaimed international media and have been
the subjects of numerous radio and television programs. The automated
construction invention, Contour Crafting ,
was selected in 2006 as one of top 25 best inventions from more than 4000
candidate inventions by the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the History
Channel's Modern Marvels program.
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