Advances in Product Design Engineering / Management and Industrial Engineering (PDF)

Dr Panagiotis Kyratsis is Associate Professor in the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. He is the Director of the Institute of Traditional Architecture and Cultural Heritage, University Research Centre "TEMENUS" (urc.uowm.gr) and Director of the Computational Design and Digital fabrication research Laboratory. Dr Panagiotis Kyratsis received his Ph.D. in the area of CAD-based manufacturing process simulations from the Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece. He holds a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki-Greece, and he received his M.Sc. in Automotive Product Engineering and M.Sc. in CAD/CAM from Cranfield University-UK, in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He has been involved in a number of industrial projects, and he has a great deal of expertise in both the design and the manufacturing aspects of product development. His main research interests include manufacturing, machining, CAD/CAM/CAE systems, product design, reverse engineering and prototyping.

Nikolaos Efkolidis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. He received his Ph.D. in the area of Sustainability "Development of Sustainable Methodologies in Product Design, Manufacturing and Education", from the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He holds a diploma in Industrial Design from the University of Western Macedonia, Greece, and a M.Sc. in Product Design and Management, from the University of Liverpool, UK. His main research interests include product design, sustainable design, manufacturing, machining, CAD/CAM/CAE systems, reverse engineering and prototyping. He is Co-Founder of the Computational Design and Digital fabrication Lab (CODE+) and heptahedron.studio.

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