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RESEARCH GROUP NEWS AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY
2025
May 2025: Eddie Thant received the prestigious and highly competitive Provost’s Student Academic Achievement Award! He is 1 of the 13 awardees this year! Congratulations to Eddie!
May 2025, Dr. Jahan received the "Shreya and Amit Jain CEC Outstanding Researcher Award" 2025.
May 2025, Dr. Jahan is a co-PI in a recently funded Rapid Grant from Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) of $325k.
March 2025, Dr. Jahan received Miami University CFR grant about about $72k as a Co-PI.
March 2025, Dr. Jahan received Miami University CFR grant of about $36k as a PI.
March 2025, Braden Cowger received prestigious 'OSGC/NASA Graduate Research Fellowship' to complete his MS as a research assistant. Congratulations to Braden!
January 2025, Chang Liu has successfully defended his MS thesis. He will join the PhD program at Case Western Reserve University! Congratulations and all the best to Chang!
2024
December 2024, Regis Rugerinyange has successfully defended his MS thesis. He will join Honda Motor Company as an Engineer from January 2025.
December 2024, Dr. Jahan is a co-PI on a funded proposal from ODHE of $1,000,832. PI: Dr. Chun Liang; Co-PIs: Dr. Jessica Sparks, Dr. Jennifer Blue, Dr. Muhammad Jahan, Dr. Tereza Jezkova.
September 2024, Dr. Jahan has been listed in the top 2% of World's Scientists by the Stanford University report for five years in a row, since 2019.
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7
July 2024, Nabin Bastola has successfully defended his MS thesis. He will join as a PhD student at University of Florida from Fall 2024.
July 2024, Joshua Adjei-Yeboah has successfully defended his MS thesis. He will join as a PhD student at Tennessee State University from Fall 2024.
May 2024, Sk Md Alimuzzaman has successfully defended his MS thesis. He is already working as an Engineer at Schreiber Foods.
March 2024, Sk Md Alimuzzaman received NSF travel grant to attend ASME MSEC & SME NAMRC joint conference at UT Knoxville in June 2024. Congratulations Alim!
January 2024, Dr. Jahan has been elected a Fellow of ASME!
2023
November 2023, Dr. Jahan presented an invited keynote speech at the ICMSM 2023 International Conference on Materials Science and Manufacturing, November 17-18, 2023, Turkey, (Virtual mode).
October 2023, Dr. Jahan has been listed in the top 2% of World's Scientists Stanford University report for four years in a row, since 2019.
https://ecebm.com/2023/10/04/stanford-university-names-worlds-top-2-scientists-2023/
July 2023, Nafi successfully defeded his MS thesis. He will join Purdue University as a PhD student. Congratulations Nafi!
July 2023, David successfully defeded his MS thesis. He will join University of North Texas as a PhD student. Congratulations David!
July 2023, Mahmud successfully defeded his MS thesis. He will join The Schaefer Group as a Mechanical Engineer. Congratulations Mahmud!
May 2023, Collin Butler received NASA Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) Scholarship! Congratulations Collin!
March 2023, Mahmud Karim received NSF travel grant to attend ASME MSEC & SME NAMRC joint conference at Rutgers in June 2023. Congratulations Mahmud!
2022
September 2022, Dr. Jahan has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Manufacturing Processes (JMP), Elsevier, published by Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
September 2022, Dr. Jahan has been listed in the top 2% of World's Scientists Stanford University report from three years in a row, since 2019. https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4?fbclid=IwAR3Uwp93KH22n7dxSmewrzv13SYANrZOdEa-hWcgD3NK2fNkVO7-1CsOY8k
April 2022. Dr. Jahan received competitive Miami University Committee on Faculty Research (CFR) grant totaling about $25k + 1 year tuition waiver for a graduate student ($33k).
2021
December 10, 2021. Mahmudul Hassan successfully defended his MS thesis. He will be starting his PhD journey from Spring 2022.
Dr. Jahan is a co-PI on a funded research grant of $150,000 (PI: Dr. Asma Perveen) that allows collaboration between Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and Miami University, USA.
Dr. Jahan gave a Keynote Speech (online) at the "12th International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterization (ICMPC 2021), 6th - 9th Oct, Chandigarh, India".
Dr. Jahan received a funding of $25,000 from LAM Research Corporation for competitive proposal under "Unlock ideas program".
August 2021, Dr. Jahan has been listed in the top 2% of World's Scientists Stanford University report for the year 2020. He was in the list in 2019 as well.
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3
Dr. Jahan has been listed as one of "Top Scholar in 2019" in the recent Stanford University report on "Top 2% of the World's Researchers". Dr. Jahan is one of more than 20 Miami University faculty included in the list. Miami University News: https://www.miamioh.edu/news/top-stories/2021/06/miami-professors-among-top-2-percent.html?_ga=2.114793988.2019336045.1622580657-216644714.1622326468
The Capstone Project advised by Dr. Jahan won the "Best Manufacturing Project, 2021" Award. Congratulations to the SOFIDEL team!
Greg Fetter received NASA Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) Scholarship! May 3, 2021. Congratulations Greg!
Dr. Jahan received "University Assessment Award" for significant contribution to the assessment of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program (as the Graduate Program Director). April 16, 2021.
Dr. Jahan received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, February 19, 2021
2020
The Capstone Project advised by Dr. Jahan won the "Best Manufacturing Project, 2020" Award. Congratulations to the TEXTRON team!
Our project with M K Morse was extended for one more year with additional funding of $35,000. Thanks to MK Morse for their continued collaboration.
Dr. Jahan has been selected to serve as the track co-chair for the Material Removal Track for SME's NAMRC 2021. He also serves as the scientific committee member of SME NAMRC for 2020-2022.
Dr. Jahan will continue serving as a track co-chair for the Advanced Manufacturing track of ASME's IMECE 2021 conference.
Dr. Jahan is now the graduate program director in the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering department at Miami University.
Asif Rashid has successfully defended his MS thesis. He will start his PhD at Georgia Tech from August 2020. Congratulations and All the Best to Asif!
Asif Rashid has been recognized by the Miami University Graduate School with "Graduate Students' Achievement Award". His name will be listed in the Graduate School webpage with other honorees of 2020.
Christina Praprost won prestigious Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) scholarship for conducting research with Dr. Jahan FY 2020-21.
Dr. Jahan will give an invited talk at the 7th International Forum on Sustainable Manufacturing in the symposium "Emerging Researchers at Sustainable Manufacturing Showcase" to be held at Lexington, KY on September 17th - 18th, 2020.
Nick Cococcetta has successfully defended his MS thesis and completed all the requirement of MS in Mechanical Engineering. He will be joining General Motors (GM) from July 1, 2020. Congratulations Nick!
Dr. Jahan is serving as an Acting Graduate Program Director for Spring 2020 for the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program.
2019
Dr. Jahan has been elected as a Track co-chair for Advanced Manufacturing track at IMECE 2020 to be held in Portland, Oregon. He successfully organized the Advanced Machining and Finishing topic for last two years, which was the biggest topic among all the topics in Advanced Manufacturing track.
Dr. Jahan has been invited to serve in the technical committee as well as an invited keynote speaker at International Conference & Exposition on Mechanical, Material and Manufacturing Technology (ICE3MT 2020), which will be held at CVR College of Engineering (UGC Autonomous Institution), Hyderabad, INDIA, during June 12-13, 2020.
Dr. Jahan received competitive Tech Fee grant of $75,000 from Miami University.
Dr. Jahan has been invited to serve in the technical committee of the International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Manufacturing and Automation (CFIMA 2020 www.cfima.org), January 13-15, 2020, Athens, Greece.
Dr. Jahan has been invited to serve in the technical committees of ICMAA2020 & ICAMD2020 conferences to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, February 26-29, 2020.
Dr. Jahan has been invited to serve in the technical committee of International Conference on Frontiers of Mechatronics (ICoFM 2020 www.icofm.org) to be held in Athens, Greece, January 13-15, 2020.
Dr. Jahan received an industry grant of $35k for one year with potential for renewal for another year or two.
Dr. Jahan is serving in the technical committee of the 6th International Conference on Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering (ICMME 2019), Nov 9 - 11, Wuhan, China.
Dr. Jahan is serving as the symposium co-organizer of Non-conventional Machining in ASME MSEC 2019 and 2020.
Dr. Jahan is serving as the topic organizer for Advanced Machining and Finishing topic in ASME IMECE 2018 and 2019.
Dr. Jahan has been included in the Scientific Committee of North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC 2020).
Dr. Jahan will be serving in the technical committee of AMSE 2020, International Conference on Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, March 28-31, 2020 Osaka, Japan.
Dr. Jahan will be serving in the Technical Committee of 2019 6th International Conference on Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing (ICMMM 2019) to be held in Boston, USA from October 12-14, 2019.
Dr. Jahan will be serving in the Technical Committee of 2019 International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing and Materials Engineering (MMME 2019) and 2019 International Conference on Mechanical, Electronic and Robotics Engineering (MERE 2019), which will be held in Wuhan, China during November 9th-11th, 2019.
Dr. Jahan will be serving in the Technical Committee of ICMMME 2020 (The 5th International Conference on Manufacturing, Material and Metallurgical Engineering | www.icmmme.com) to be held in Osaka, Japan from March 28-31, 2020.
Dr. Jahan will be serving in the Technical Committee of 2019 IEEE 7th International Conference on Mechatronics Engineering (ICOM), 30th-31st October 2019 at the Putrajaya International Convention Center, Putrajaya, Malaysia.
Dr. Jahan has been invited to provide keynote speech at International Conference on Advancements in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME 2020), Aliah University, Kolkata, India, 16 - 18 Jan, 2020. Dr. Jahan respectfully turned down the invitation due to schedule conflict.
Dr. Jahan will be serving in the Technical Committee of “International Conference on Advancements in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME 2020)”. The conference will be hosted on 16 to 18 January, 2020.
Dr. Jahan will be serving in the Technical Committee of 10th International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Technology (ICMST 2019), Sabah, Malaysia, August 9-11, 2019.
2018
Dr. Jahan received competitive Tech Fee grant of $22,000 from Miami University.
Md Rashef Mahbub won one of the "Top three best oral presentations" award in the Miami University Graduate Research Symposium held on Nov 9th.. He will receive $300 prize and a certificate of best presentation. Congrats to Rashef!
Chong Liu won the "Best Presentation Award" at the 2018 Dayton Engineering Science Symposium (DESS 2018) organized by ASME Dayton Section. Congrats to Chong!
Dr. Jahan received a grant of $5200 from the Nazarvayev University, Kazakhstan for conducting research on EDM of ceramics.
The book co-edited by Dr. Jahan titled "Micro Electrical Discharge Machining Processes - Technologies and Applications" published by Springer Nature, is available online at https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811330735#aboutAuthors.
Dr. Muhammad Jahan accepted an invitation to join the Technical Committee of ICMMME 2019 (The 4th International Conference on Manufacturing, Material and Metallurgical Engineering, Chengdu, China, March 22-25, 2019.
Dr. Muhammad Jahan accepted an invitation to join the Technical Committee of ICAMME 2019: International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering 2019, Bhubaneswar, India, March 15-17, 2019.
Dr. Muhammad Jahan accepted an invitation to join the Technical Committee of "7th International Conference on Nano and Materials Science (ICNMS 2019)", San Francisco, CA, USA January 4 - 7, 2019.
Miami University College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) has published a story on Chong's research: "Student performs micro-electrical discharge machining on Bulk Metallic Glass" http://miamioh.edu/cec/news/2018/08/undergrad-chong-research.html
Ashutosh becomes the first graduate of LAMP at Miami University and joined Uchiyama Marketing & Development America LLC in Novi, Michigan, August 1, 2018. We wish Ashutosh all the best in his new endeavor!
Ashutosh Khatri successfully defended his MS thesis and completed all the requirement for this MS in Mechanical Engineering, July 18, 2018. Congrats Ashutosh!
Miami University College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) has published a story on Craig's research: "Craig Hanson's materials research might affect how we study DNA"
http://miamioh.edu/cec/news/2018/05/craig-hanson-glass.html
Craig Hanson received 'Best Presentation Award' at the Dayton Engineering Sciences Symposium! He will receive the award plaque at the AIAA/ASME Honors & Awards Banquet.
Dr. Jahan has been invited to serve in the Technical Committee of 2018 9th International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Technology (ICMST 2018), Aug 11 to 13, 2018, UTM, Malaysia.
Dr. Jahan has been invited to serve in the Technical Committee of 2018 Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies (IEMT 2018), September 21-23, 2018. Phuket, Thailand.
Roan received highly competitive NASA/Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) Graduate Fellowship to complete his MS research with Dr. Jahan.
Graduate student Ashutosh and undergraduate student Roan received "NSF-sponsored Student Travel Grant" to present their papers in 2018 MSEC/NAMRC conferences in June 2018.
Dr. Jahan received Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) Faculty Research Initiation Grant Proposal (FRIGP) Grant as single PI ($5000 for 1 year, Cost share $5000).
Chong Liu received Undergraduate Summer Scholarship to work with Dr. Jahan during Summer 2016. March 2017.
Dr. Jahan is a co-PI in a funded grant of $52,000 (PI: Dr. Asma Perveen) that allows exchanging students between Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and Miami University, USA to work on a collaborative research project.
2017
Dr. Jahan received "Outstanding Reviewer Award" from 5 Elsevier Journals in 2017: International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Precision Engineering, Tribology International, and Measurement.
Dr. Jahan received Miami University Committee for Faculty Research (CFR) grant that includes summer salary, graduate student support and research expenses (~$53,000).
Undergraduate student Ann Rumsey received Miami University URA grant to work on her research in Spring 2018.
Graduate student Ashutosh Khatri won "Honorable Mention" for the poster competition at 6th International Forum on Sustainable Manufacturing, Lexington, KY on December 7th - 8th, 2017
Dr. Muhammad Jahan is a Co-PI in a funded RAPID grant that allows Miami University to acquire Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics facilities using the support from Ohio Higher Education, Total funding: $399,357. Other co-PIs for the grant are: Drs. Michael Bailey-Van Kuren, Giancarlo Corti, Zhijiang Ye, Ayodele Abatan, Mert Bal, and Reza AbrishamBaf.
Dr. Jahan has been invited to be a member of Technical and Advisory Committee in the International Conference & Exposition on Mechanical, Material and Manufacturing Technology (ICE3MT2018), which will be held in Hyderabad, INDIA, during June 13-15, 2018.
Dr. Jahan was invited and selected for travel grant to present his research at "Emerging Researcher in Sustainable Manufacturing Showcase" at 6th International Forum on Sustainable Manufacturing, Lexington, KY on December 7th - 8th, 2017
Dr. Jahan will give an invited talk at the 6th International Forum on Sustainable Manufacturing in the symposium "Emerging Researchers at Sustainable Manufacturing Showcase" to be held at Lexington, KY on December 7th - 8th, 2017
Dr. Jahan chaired a session at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2017) at Tampa, Florida, Nov 3 - 9, 2017
Dr. Muhammad Jahan is a Co-PI in a grant from a local industry, Grant total: $63,651, Other Co-PIs are Drs. James Moller and Timothy Cameron.
Undergraduate student Ann Rumsey received Miami University Honors Research Grant to conduct research with Dr. Jahan, July 2017
Dr. Muhammad Jahan received invitation to contribute to two book chapters to be published by Springer and Wiley. June 2017
Dr. Muhammad Jahan received competitive Tech Fee grant of $52,841 from Miami University. May 2017
Dr. Muhammad Jahan volunteered in Talawanda Science Week. The students learned Casting Process and made casting part using wax by themselves. May 2017
Craig Hanson and Lijian Li received "Undergraduate Research Award" from Miami University to work on their research projects with Dr. Jahan, May 2017
Dr. Muhammad Jahan received an invitation to join the Technical Committee of "6th International Conference on Nano and Materials Science (ICNMS 2018)", Orlando, Florida, January 19 - 21, 2018.
Dr. Muhammad Jahan's research project was selected as one the NSF discovery projects that could provide strong return on investment. Dr. Jahan was interviewed by NSF on the current status and future prospect of the research project, April 2017.
Ann Rumsey won prestigious Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) scholarship for conducting research with Dr. Jahan FY 2017-18, April 2017.
Roan Kirwin received Undergraduate Summer Scholarship to work with Dr. Jahan during Summer 2016. March 2017.
Dr. Jahan received an invitation to contribute a book chapter to be published by Springer, March 2017.
Miami University press release about joining EET.
http://miamioh.edu/news/campus-news/2017/02/jahan-lift-expert-team.html
Press release from LIFT and APLU regarding the EET members: "LIFT, APLU Convening Education Experts to Translate Manufacturing Research Into Developing Technology-Savvy Workforce" https://lift.technology/project/lift-aplu-convening-education-experts-translate-manufacturing-research-developing-technology-savvy-workforce/
Dr. Muhammad Jahan received an invitation to join the Advisory and Editorial Committee of “International Conference on Mechanical, Materials and Renewable Energy” (ICMMRE 2017), Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), December 8 - 10, 2017.
Dr. Muhammad Jahan received an invitation to contribute a book chapter to be published by Taylor and Francis, February 2017
Dr. Muhammad Jahan received invitation to join “Expert Educator Team (EET)” for LIFT manufacturing institute, APLU, and the NCMS. January 2017.
2016
Dr. Muhammad Jahan received “Outstanding Reviewer Award” certificate from Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Elsevier, October 2016
A conference paper co-authored by Dr. Jahan (First author: Asma Perveen) won the "Best Paper Award" at ICAMT 2016 conference, Oct 7-8, Venice, Italy.
RESEARCH GROUP NEWS AT WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY (Aug, 2012 - Jul, 2016)
2016
Graduate student Farshid received the "Outstanding Graduate Student of the Department" for 2016
Undergraduate student Bradley Logsdon received "Outstanding Undergraduate Students for Advanced Manufacturing Program" in 2016
Graduate Student Farshid Alavi was winner of the graduate research session in WKU Research Conference 2016
https://www.wku.edu/studentresearch/2016_src_session_winners.pdf
The news of winning 2016 Warner Award has been shared at the Ogden College and WKU Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/wkuogdencollege/photos/a.360932383940758.88402.107594509274548/1122936631073659/?type=3&theater
Dr. Jahan received 2016 Warner Professional Practice Award from Epsilon Pi Tau
http://www.wku.edu/ogden/news/index.php?view=article&articleid=4002
2015
Dr. Jahan won "Most Prolific Proposer" and "Early Investigator Award" from the Office or Research and Sponsored Program, WKU
https://wkunews.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/osp-awards-2015
Research has been highlighted in the KY-NSF-EPSCoR website and their Facebook and Twitter pages.
Graduate student Pegah Kakavand received "ASME Student Travel grant" from ASME to attend MSEC 2015 conference at Charlotte, North Carolina.
Dr. Jahan was interviewed by the KY-NSF-EPSCoR for including the proposed research in their success stories.
Dr. Muhammad Jahan received KY-NSF-EPSCoR grant of $25,000
https://www.wku.edu/ams/news/index.php?view=article&articleid=3681
2014
The news of winning "Best Paper Award" at ATMAE 2014 conference has been shared at the WKU News website
http://wkunews.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/ams-atmae-2014/
The news of winning "Rudisill Award" from Epsilon Pi Tau society has been shared at the Ogden College/University website and Facebook page (Facebook link by Ogden College)
The news of winning the "Best Paper Award" has been shared by the Facebook page of MSETM program
https://www.facebook.com/#!/wkumsetm (Status on Nov 24, 2014)
Graduate student Pegah Kakavad won 1st prize at the Graduate Research Competition at Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS) 2014 Annual Conference.
Graduate student Dawood Abdulhameed received 3rd prize at the Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Conference 2013.
Jack won 1st prize at UG Research competition at KAS 2014 conference (Facebook link shared by Gatton Academy)
Jack working on the "Summer Internship Research Grant" during summer 2014 (Facebook link shared by Gatton Academy)
2013
Dr. Jahan received 2013 WKU Research and Creativity Grant RCAP
http://wku.edu/sponsoredprograms/documents/rcap/rcap_fy14_awardee_list.pdf
Graduate student Mychal-Drew Moses received 3rd prize at the Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Conference 2013.
Scanning Electron Microscope approved by NSF (Shared at the university website about receiving the NSF-MRI grant for SEM as PI)
Dr. Jahan received NSF MRI grant as PI to acquire a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), funded amount $196,000
2012
New microscope will allow for improvements in research (Shared at the university website about receiving NSF-MRI grant for TEM as Co-PI)
http://wkuherald.com/news/new-microscope-will-allow-for-improvements-in-research/article_06d97de8-1f38-11e3-9b80-0019bb30f31a.html
Dr. Jahan is a Co-PI in a funded NSF MRI proposal to acquire Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), funded amount $425,000
Dr. Jahan received 2012 WKU Research and Creativity Grant RCAP
http://wku.edu/sponsoredprograms/documents/rcap/rcap_awardees_2012.pdf
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