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S. Jack Hu is currently a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he also received his MS and Ph.D. He is a research leader for the Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems at the University of Michigan. His teaching and research interests are in assembly, manufacturing systems, and quality. He has published more than 100 papers in professional journals and conferences. He is a member of SME and a fellow of ASME. He received his B.S. from Tianjin University, China.

Hoda A. ElMaraghy, Ph.D., P.Eng. is currently Canada Research Chair in Manufacturing Systems, Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Centre at the University of Windsor. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME), Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) and Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Her teaching and research interests are in manufacturing systems design, modelling, flexibility, reconfiguration, control, quality, inspection, assembly, process planning, and robotics. Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy published more than 350 papers in scientific and professional journals and conferences, edited 2 books and contributed to 13 other books. She is a member of Editorial Boards of four Scientific and Engineering Journals.

She received a mechanical engineering Bachelor degree from Cairo University, Egypt and Masters and Ph.D. degrees from McMaster University, Canada where she became a Professor and founding Director of the Flexible Manufacturing Systems Centre until joining the University of Windsor as the Dean of Engineering in 1994.

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Hu, S.J., ElMaraghy, H.A. Contributing Authors. Int J Flex Manuf Syst 17, 323 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10696-006-9032-y

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