His teaching and research areas include manufacturing processes, production systems, automation, material handling, facilities planning, and work systems. He has received a number of teaching awards at Lehigh University, as well as the Albert G. Holzman Outstanding Educator Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers (1995) and the SME Education Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (2001). His publications include over 75 technical articles and ten books (listed below). His books are used throughout the world and have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. The first edition of the current book Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing received the IIE Joint Publishers Award (1996) and the M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Textbook Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (1996).
Dr. Groover is a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the North American Manufacturing Research Institute (NAMRI), and ASM International. He is a Fellow of IIE (1987) and SME (1996).
Introduction and Overview of Manufacturing | |
Material Properties and Product Attributes | |
The Nature of Materials | |
Mechanical Properties of Materials | |
Physical Properties of Materials | |
Dimension, Surfaces, and their Measurement | |
Engineering Materials | |
Metals | |
Ceramics | |
Polymers | |
Composite Materials | |
Solidification Processes | |
Fundamentals of Metal Casting | |
Metal Casting Processes | |
Glassworking | |
Shaping Processes for Plastics | |
Rubber Processing Technology | |
Shaping Processes for Polymer Matrix Composites | |
Particulate Processing of Metals and Ceramics | |
Powder Metallurgy | |
Processing of Ceramics and Cermets | |
Metal Forming and Sheet Metalworking | |
Fundamentals of Metal Forming | |
Bulk Deformation Processes in Metalworking | |
Sheet Metalworking | |
Material Removal Processes | |
Theory of Metal Machining | |
Machining Operations and Machine Tools | |
Cutting-Tool Technology | |
Economic and Product Design Considerations in Machining | |
Grinding and other Abrasive Processes | |
Nontraditional Machining and Thermal Cutting Processes | |
Property Enhancing and Surface Processing Operations | |
Heat Treatment of Metals | |
Surface Processing Operations | |
Joining and Assembly Processes | |
Fundamentals of Welding | |
Welding Processes | |
Brazing, Soldering, and Adhesive Bonding | |
Mechanical Assembly | |
Special Processing and Assembly Technologies | |
Rapid Prototyping | |
Processing of Integrated Circuits | |
Electronics Assembly and Packaging | |
Microfabrication Technologies | |
Nanofabrication Technologies | |
Automation Technologies for Manufacturing Systems | |
Integrated Manufacturing Systems | |
Manufacturing Engineering | |
Production Planning and Control | |
Quality Control and Inspection | |
Index | |
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