Neil A. Duffie

Neil A. Duffie received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1980, M.S. in Engineering in 1976, and B.S. in Computer Science in 1974, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He is Professor Emeritus and past Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His main research interests are distributed system control and manufacturing system and process automation. Professor Duffie is a Fellow of ASME, CIRP and SME. He served on the Council of the CIRP, its Editorial Committee, and is past chair of its Scientific Technical Committee for Production Systems and Organizations. He is a Past President of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (2008). In 2008 he was Mercator Guest Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany. He also has been a visiting researcher at the University of Stuttgart, Jacobs University, Cranfield University, James Cook University, and the AIST Mechanical Engineering Laboratory in Japan. In 2012 he received the SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal for publishing significant seminal research findings based on the application of modern control theory to manufacturing operations leading to a better understanding of processes, equipment and facilities. He is the author of the book Control Theory Applications for Dynamic Production Systems: Time and Frequency Methods for Analysis and Design. From 2013 to 2019 he was the Editor-In-Chief of the SME Journal of Manufacturing Systems.