Service

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH

  • Member of UMD Cluster Hire Task Force – goal of increasing faculty diversity at UMD. 2021 to present

  • Council Member of Employees of Color and American Indians (EOCAI). 2021 to present

  • Member of UMD E-Learning Steering Committee. 2016 - 2014

  • UMD International Leadership Team (ILT) - Defining mission and vision. 2013. Volunteer, UMD Campus Preview. 2016 - 2013

SWENSON COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  • Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE) Executive Committee. 2021 – 2017

  • SCSE Annual Engineering Day. 2016

  • Chair, SCSE Technology Advisory Committee. 2012 -2011

  • Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Proposal Review Committee. 2016

  • SCSE Advisory Committee to the Research and Scholarship Subcommittee of Shared Campus Governance. 2015

  • Academic Administration Unit Change Team (AAUCT), representing SCSE, Spring 2015

  • Member of E-Learning Committee. 2015 - 2013

  • Chemical Sciences and Advanced Material Science and Engineering Building Committee. 2014 - 2013

        • Led the group to design the Industry and Academic partnership lab space.

        • Led of the group to design curriculum for masters in material engineering program.

  • Member Swenson College of Science and Engineering Dean Search Committee. 2014

  • Member SCSE Multicultural & Diversity Committee. 2014 - 2013

  • SCSE Engineering Day Volunteer. 2013, 2012

  • SCSE Freshman Orientation. 2013

  • Tenure Review Committee for Civil Engineering Department. 2012

  • SCSE Academic Standing Committee. 2012

  • Reviewer, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Proposals. 2016, 2014, 2012

  • SCSE Advisement and Registration Advisor. 2015

  • SCSE Freshman Orientation. 2015

  • Reviewer, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Proposals. 2010

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Department Committee Leadership Positions

  • Chair, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Search Committee. 2016

  • Chair, Equipment Committee, MIE Department. 2016 - 2012

  • Organizer, Group advising for over 250 students (Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior) in MIE Dept in spring 2016

  • Coordinator, MIE Department for SCSE Engineering Day. 2016

  • MIE ABET Host as Industrial Engineering Program Representative meeting with IE PEV.. 2015

  • Chair, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Faculty Search Committee, Two positions. 2012


Department Committee Membership

  • Mechanical Engineering program committee. 2019 - 2002

  • Industrial Engineering program committee. 2019 - 2001

  • Masters Mechanical Engineering program committee. 2019 - 2016

  • MIE Equipment committee. 2019 - 2002

  • MIE Department Head Search committee. 2016

  • Mechanical Engineering Faculty Search Committee. 2015

  • Mechanical Engineering Faculty Search Committee. 2014 - 2013

  • Mechanical Engineering Faculty Search Committee Member. 2011

  • Academic Adviser to average of 55 MIE students on their course registration and academic standings. 2019 - 2001.

  • Meeting with Prospective Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Students and their family members to give tours and discuss programs. 2019 - 2001

  • MIE Group Advising of over 250 students (Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior. 2016

PUBLIC AND EXTERNAL SERVICE

  • Board of Director, Lifestone Health Care Inc., Proctor, Minnesota. 2014 - Present

  • 4th Degree Member, Knights of Columbus, Duluth Minnesota. 2009 - Present

  • Summer Soccer Coach, Stella Maris Academy. 2016

INTERNATIONAL

  • Organizing Committee Member “2nd International Conference and Exhibition on Materials & Engineering” held on “19-21 November 2018 in San Diego”, USA. 2018

  • Dean’s Representative at the international collaboration effort to initiate collaborative research and academic program with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana (KUNST). This effort led to development of joint study abroad program on global sustainability between UMD and KUNST by Dr. Enemuoh 2011

NATIONAL COMMITTEE SERVICE

  • Cohort for Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Game Changer Academies for Advancing Research Innovation. 2021-22.

  • Organizing Committee Member “2nd International Conference and Exhibition on Materials & Engineering” held on “19-21 November 2018 in San Diego”, USA. 2018.

  • Lousiana Board of Regent, Out-of-State Experts Participating in the In-Depth Mail Review of Research Proposals Submitted Under the Research Competitiveness Subprogram (RCS) of the Board of Regents. Support Fund Research and Development (R&D) Program. 2013 - 2015

  • Reviewer for Louisiana Board of Regent’s Research Competitiveness Subprogram, an EPSCoR-style grants program to stimulate competitive research. 2016.

  • Panelist on the Mechanical Engineering 2 panel for the 2014 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Evaluation Meeting. The virtual panel meet on January 2015. Reviewed 31 levels 1, 2, and 3 proposals. 2014 -2015

  • Reviewer - National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2015, The Eastern Washington University, April - May 2015

  • National Society of Black Engineers Advisor 2007 - present.

  • NSF Reviewer: U.S-Egypt Cooperative Research. 2015


REGIONAL

  • Section Chair, ASEE North Midwest Conference, University of Minnesota, Duluth, 2011

  • American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Regional Conference Planning Committee. 2011

  • Co-planned and co-host the President’s Interdisciplinary UMD Conference on Sustainable Operations in collaboration with Northeast Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnership. 2009

JOURNAL AND CONFERENCE PAPER PEER REVIEWER

  • ASEE Midwest Conference University of Arkansas

  • Elsevier - HELIYON

  • 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing

  • Bioresources at NCSU

  • Journal of Polymer Composites

  • Journal of Manufacturing, USA

  • Journal of Material Mechanics

  • Journal of Computational Material Science

  • Journal of Materials

  • American Society of Engineering Education (National and Regional)

  • Mechanical Engineering Division, ASEE Manufacturing Engineering Division,

  • Journal of Polymer

  • Journal of Composites

  • Journal of Material Science

  • Internal Publication of University of Malaysia, School of Mechatronic.

TEXTBOOKS REVIEW

  • Three chapters for Springer Editorial Board on “Statistical Quality Assurance Methods for Engineers, Second Edition, by Stephen B. Vardeman and J. Marcus Jobe

  • Newell-Materials Science & Engineering Textbook, John Wiley & Sons Inc Publishing

  • Evaluating Sustainable Development: Giving People a Voice in Their Destiny”, by Okechukwu Ukaga and Chris Maser, Published by Stylus Publishing, 2003

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

  • American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT). 2007 - Present

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). 2005 - Present

  • American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).m2002 - Present