Dr. K.P. 'Raju' Rajurkar is the director of the Center for Nontraditional Manufacturing Research and a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering. His research areas include: Modeling and Analysis and Control of Traditional and Nontraditional Manufacturing Processes.
Virwani, K., Malshe, A.P., Rajurkar, K. P. "Understanding sub-20nm Scale Breakdown Behavior of Liquid Dielectric", Physical Review Letters, 99, 017601, 2007.
Virwani, K., Malshe, A. P., Rajurkar, K. P. "Tool Wear in Nano Scale Electro Machining", Accepted for publication at the Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 56/1, 2007.
Sundaram, M. M., and Rajurkar, K. P., "Micro Electro Discharge Machining by Uniform Tool Shape Method", Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME, Vol. 35, 2007, pp. 137-144.
Hu, X., Yu, Z., and Rajurkar, K.P., "Experimental study of tool wear in micro Ultrasonic machining," Accepted at the Transactions of North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME, Vol. 35, 2007, pp. 129-136.
Ananthanarayanan, A., Gupta, S. K., Yu, Z., and Rajurkar, K. P., "Development of In-Mold Assembly Process for Realizing Mesoscale Revolute Joints", Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME, Vol.35, 2007, pp 303-310.
• The IMSE department welcomes Jeffrey Woldstad as our new department chair. Dr. Woldstad most recently was Senior Associate Dean for the College of Engineering at Texas Tech University. 1-5-09
• Dr. Paul Savory has been appointed interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Extended Education & Outreach 1-5-09
• Dr. Susan Hallbeck has returned from a 6-month sabbatical in the Netherlands where she worked for an ergonomics design firm 1-5-09
