Axiomatic Design in Large Systems (PDF)

Professor Amro M. Farid received his Sc. B. in 2000 and his Sc. M. 2002 from the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department. He went on to complete his Ph.D. degree at the Institute for Manufacturing within the University of Cambridge (UK) Engineering Department in 2007. He has varied industrial experiences from the automotive, semiconductor, defense, chemical, and manufacturing sectors. He is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering at the Thayer school of Engineering at Dartmouth and leads the Laboratory for Intelligent Integrated Networks of Engineering Systems (LIINES). The laboratory maintains an active research program in Smart Power Grids, Energy-Water Nexus, Transportation-Electrification, and Industrial Energy management. He is also a Research Affiliate at the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department. He has made active contributions to the MIT-Masdar Institute Collaborative Initiative, the MIT Future of the Electricity Grid Study, and the IEEE Vision for Smart Grid Controls. He currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Council of Engineering Systems Universities (CESUN), the Executive Committee for Axiomatic Design, the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Smart Grids, the IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems, the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Technical Committee on Industrial Agents, and the ASME Dynamics Systems & Control Division.

Prof. Nam Suh was the 13th and 14th President of KAIST. During his tenure (2006-2013), the worldwide reputation of KAIST was significantly improved. In 2014, KAIST was the second highest ranked university in Asia. In engineering, its worldwide ranking is around 20.
Doctor Suh has spent most of his professional career at MIT, where he is the Cross Professor Emeritus. He was the Director of the Park Center for Complex Systems, and the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT. In 1984-1988, Doctor Suh was a Presidential Appointee