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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 media such as New York Times, Los
Angeles Times, Sunday Times, Business Week, Der Spiegel, New
Scientist, Discover and Wired Magazines, and national and
international television and radio networks such as ABC, CBS, NBC,
PBS, Discovery channels of US, Canada, Germany and BBC World
News. 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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