Alberto Cuitino 

Dr. Alberto Cuitino, Professor and Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers, is currently the Site Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems, which brings together a cross-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists as well as industry leaders to improve the way pharmaceuticals, foods and agriculture products are manufactured..C-SOPS is advancing the scientific foundation for the optimal design pharmaceutical products with advanced functionality while developing the methodologies for their active control and manufacturing.Dr. Cuiti?o received a Civil Engineering Diploma from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1986, and a MS degree in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. degree in Solid Mechanics from Brown University in 1992 and 1994, respectively. His research interests include pharmaceutical manufacturing, material modeling and simulations, dislocation mechanics, fracture in metal single crystals, granular materials, mechanical behavior of solid foams and folding patterns in thin filmsDr. Cuiti?o served as editor of Mechanics a publication of The American Academy of Mechanics and as subject editor for Applied Mechanics of Latin American Applied Research.

Title:  Educating the Maker Generation for the Digital Economy

 Jivka Ovtcharova 

Jivka Ovtcharova has been a full professor and head of the Institute for Information Management in Engineering (IMI) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since 2003. Since 2004 she has been director of Process and Data Management in Engineering in the field of Intelligent Systems and Production Engineering at the Research Center for Computer Science (FZI) in Karlsruhe. She holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering as well as in computer science and worked in the Fraunhofer Society and in the automotive industry. Prof. Ovtcharova is founder of a Lifecycle Engineering Solutions Center, an Industrie 4.0 Collaboration Lab at KIT, a Tongji Sino-German I4TP Lab, a French-German Institute for Industry of the Future including VR/AR/AI and the Nanjing LetsTech AI & Digital Twin Center. Her competence fields are Artificial Intelligence, Click&Build and Talents Training complement for AI-driven cross-border creation and sharing, increase competitiveness through real-time handling connectivity of machines, software, processes and individual humans. Talents are trained for Design Thinking, Systems Engineering. AI/VR/IoT Campuses and Platforms support Accelerators and Start-Ups. Her latest project is called CAIT "Center for Artificial Intelligence Talents".
Prof. Ovtcharova is Keynote Speaker, Member of the European Senate of Economics and various committees on digitization and AI, among others of the AI-42 Market Intelligence Ltd. She is one of the "25 women of the digital future" in Germany and one of the "InspiringFifity“ women of the DACH countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

Title: Practical Report on German Hands-on Education and Qualification in Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence Use-Case: Shopfloor Execution System (SES) 

 Peihua Gu 

Peihua Gu is currently the Executive Director, Center for Emerging Engineering Education Research and Application, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University. He was Provost, Vice-President and Dean of Engineering, Shantou University between 2005-2018; Head of the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and Associate Dean of Engineering (1997-2005), the University of Calgary, Canada. Since 1999, have been actively involved in engineering education transformation through founding Canadian Design Engineering Network in Canada and through CDIO, engineering education accreditation and Emerging Engineering Education initiative in China. Professor Gu is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering and CIRP since 2004 and Chairman of Academic Committee of China Engineering Education Accreditation Association and President of China CDIO Alliance.

Title: New Industrial Revolution and New Engineering Education Transformation and Innovation - Design and Implementation of Tianjin University Plan

Habibou Maitournam

Habibou Maitournam is currently director of the Department of Mechanics at ENSTA Paris, and director of IMSIA (Institute of Mechanical Sciences and Industrial Applications). He is professor at l'ENSTA Paris  and Ecole Polytechnique.
He obtained his engineer degree at  Ecole des Ponts-Paris, and performed his PhD at LMS, Ecole Polytechnique.
His research focuses on the behavior of inelastic structures under cyclic loadings, including direct cyclic methods, the thermomechanical behavior of materials and structures, the evaluation of fatigue lifetime and modeling of processes. They are widely used by the automotive and rail industries. He supervised more than twenty PhD theses in collaboration with industry. 
He received, in 2009, the Plumey Award from the French Academy of Sciences, and in 2018 the PSA SteL Lab award. In 2011-2012 he was Clark B. Millikan Visiting Professor at Caltech.

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 Chan IL Park 

Chan IL Park, who received a B.S., an M.S., and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Seoul National University, worked as a staff research engineer at the Advanced Engineering & Research Institute of Hyundai Motor Company for eight years and a researcher at CAD/CAM Laboratory of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He held positions as a post-doc. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for one year, a visiting scholar at the Georgia Tech. for one year, Ohio State University and University of Colorado.He was a dean of the College of Engineering at Kangnung National University for two years, a director of Technology Support Center for Small & Medium-sized Industries at Kangnung National University for two years, and president of Gangneung-Wonju National University faculty association for two years. He was president and chairman of KSME (The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers) education division and committee for four years, vice-president of KSME for two years, chief vice-president of KSME for one year. Currently he is president of KSME and a professor in the precision mechanical engineering at Gangneung-wonju National University. His research interests are gear dynamics, plate, shell, optimal design, and acoustics.

Title: The Bridges between the classical education and new technology of mechanical engineering in South Korea

 John Allport 

John Allport gained a BEng degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham in 1985 as a Student Apprentice with the National Coal Board. He later worked in open cast mining in Australia before taking a role designing and installing centrifugal separation systems for the chemical and oil industries.
Following another career change, John then gained over 25 years experience in the field of automotive engineering, covering a range of components, including crankshaft dampers, drive couplings, balance shafts, suspensions and turbochargers. During this time, he completed a PhD in Computer Aided Engineering of Elastomeric Engineering Components at Bradford University, having been awarded an Industrial Fellowship of the Royal 1851 Commission. John has also been awarded over 20 patents covering various aspects of dampers, couplings, bearings and turbochargers.
In November 2013, he was appointed Professor of Automotive Engineering at the University of Huddersfield having spent the previous 11 years at Cummins Turbo Technologies, most recently as Training and Talent Development Leader, and prior to that as Worldwide Manager and Functional Excellence Leader - Applied Mechanics.  As part of the role, John is Director of the Turbocharger Research Institute at the University.  The Institute was established to conduct research and develop training to support companies at the forefront of this world leading technology.
John is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, serving on several Committees and Panels. He has chaired the Academic Standards Committee, and has almost 20 years experience in accreditation of degree courses. He also acts as an accreditor for the Cyprus Agency of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education.  An active promoter of engineering in schools, particularly in widening gender diversity, John works with the Institutions of Primary and Secondary Engineers to develop the pipeline of potential Engineers for the future.

Title: Engineering the future of Technical Education in the UK.

    Makoto Yamamoto 

Dr. Makoto Yamamoto received his BS, MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1982, 1984 and 1988, respectively. He previously worked at the IHI Corporation in Tokyo as an aerodynamic design engineer of a jet engine. Then he joined the Tokyo University of Science in 1990. Since 2004, he has been a professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In the university he was a dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 2009 to 2010, and a vice president, who was responsible for education and entrance examinations, from 2014 to 2018. Since 1980s’, he has been investigating modeling of flow physics and its application to engineering flow problems, and recently he is focusing on multi-physics flow problems in engineering, especially in a jet engine. He is a member of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering (JSME), the Gas Turbine Society of Japan (GTSJ), the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics (JSFM), the Japan Association of Computational Mechanics (JACM), the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He served a lot of Executive Committees of the societies, and for his distinguished works (more than 200 technical papers, more than 400 proceedings papers and 19 books) he has received 12 awards from the societies in Japan. Now, he is a chief of Human Resource Development and Activity Support Committee of JSME.

Title: Activities of Engineering Education in the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineer

 陈志辉 

Ir. Dr. Tan Chee Fai has more than 20 years of working experience in the advanced manufacturing engineering industry. Currently, Ir. Dr. Tan is Vice President, Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM). He is the Fellow, ASEAN Academy of Engineering & Technology (AAET) and Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM). In addition, he is the foreign Senior Member, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES). For Industry, he is the Chief Technical Officer of Robolab Technology Sdn Bhd and Vice President, MSM International Limited. He is actively involved in strategic and technical consultation to assist Malaysia Industries towards the 4th Industrial Revolution. He has led various Industry, University, and Malaysia Government as well as International funded projects such as EU FP7 and UNESCO Grant. With the knowledge and experience, Ir. Dr. Tan has contributed as Keynote Speaker in various important international engineering events such as World Robot Conference (WRC), World Intelligent Manufacturing Summit (WIMS) and ICE-IEM Future Engineers Conference. He was the UNESCO Individual Specialist to assess on engineering education at APEC Economy. He is an Engineering Educational Mentor for Federation of Engineering Institutions of Asia and the Pacific (FEIAP) for Asia and the Pacific Region as well as Africa Economy. Ir. Dr. Tan also actively involve as Malaysia Engineering Accreditation Council Panel of Evaluator to access on Mechanical Engineering Programme. He is a qualified HRDF Trainer, NIOSH Trainer, and HRDF Recognition Prior Learning (RPL) Assessor. Based on his contribution to the engineering community especially IEM since the year 1998, Ir. Dr. Tan was awarded as the 2014 JCI Ten Outstanding Young Malaysian Award Honoree on Humanitarian and Voluntary Services Category. In the following year, Ir. Dr. Tan also received Ahli Mangku Negara (A.M.N.) [Member of the Order of the Defender of the Realm] bestowed by His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (The Supreme Head of Malaysia) in 2015.

Title: 4th Industrial Revolution: Globalization and Challenges Faced by Future Mechanical Engineering Graduates

 Otthein Herzog 

Prof. Otthein Herzog: Fellow of acatech and Fellow of GI (German National Computer Society)
Dr. Herzog worked with IBM Germany from 1977-1993 in software development and research. From 1993-2009, he served as Chaired Professor for Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University Bremen, Germany, heading the Artificial Intelligence Research Group. In 1995, he founded and directed the TZI - Centre for Computing and Communication Technologies with 160 full-time researchers in 2009. Since 1998, he is affiliate professor at the George Mason University, Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory. Since 2010 he is the Wisdom Professor of Visual Information Technologies at Jacobs University Bremen. Since 2015, he is Summit Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Urban Planning at the CIUC, Tongji University, Shanghai. He is also a member of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Strategy Advisory Expert Committee.

Title: “Systems Engineering for Industrie 4.0”