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