Kamlakar Rajurkar 
                    
                     K.P 
                      
                      Rajurkar received his MS degree in Mechanical Engineering 
                      
                      in 1978 and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering 
                      
                      Mechanics in 1981, both from Michigan Tech. He received his 
                      
                      BS degree with honors from Jabalpur University, India, in 
                      
                      1966. Dr. Rajurkar is Mohr Professor of Engineering at the 
                      
                      College of Engineering and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 
                      
                      and is the Director of the Nontraditional Manufacturing Research 
                      
                      Center, Professor of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering 
                      
                      Department, and Chairman of the Manufacturing Systems Program 
                      
                      of the College of Engineering and Technology, University of 
                      
                      Nebraska-Lincoln. In the past he has worked as Associate Professor 
                      
                      at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and as Assistant Professor 
                      
                      at Michigan Technological University. Dr. Rajurkar has more 
                      
                      than 70 refereed publications and nearly 80 technically edited 
                      
                      papers which were published in conference proceedings. Dr. 
                      
                      Rajurkar serves as a reviewer for several professional journals 
                      
                      and is an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Engineering 
                      
                      for Industry and Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the 
                      
                      NAMRI/SME. He is also on the Board of Directors of the North 
                      
                      American Manufacuring Research Institute. Dr. Rajurkar has 
                      
                      received awards for research and teaching and in 1995 was 
                      
                      awarded the Machine Tool and Gage Award of the American Society 
                      
                      of Mechanical Engineers.  
                     
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