Wayne J. Book

HUSCO/Ramirez Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control

Professional Biography

Wayne J. Book was born in San Angelo Texas in 1946. He holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (BSME, '69) and M.I.T. (MS, '71, Ph.D. '74) in Mechanical Engineering.

Wayne Book has been on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology since 1974 and was promoted to Professor in 1986. In 2001 he was named HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Professor in Fluid Power and Motion Control. He teaches courses in system dynamics, controls (including motion control), robotics and manufacturing systems. His research includes the design, dynamics and control of high speed, lightweight motion systems, robotics, fluid power and motion control and haptics. He holds five patents on robotics related inventions and has published over 200 refereed papers and has advised 29 Ph.D. graduates. He is cofounder of CAMotion, Inc., a startup company to commercialize the results of some of this research on motion systems. He is part owner of Sentrinsic, LLC, a startup commercializing a unique sensor concept resulting from his research. He was Senior Technical Editor of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, is a founding member and in 2008 the chairman of the management committee of the ASME-IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics and active in the administration of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD), the ASME Fluid Power Systems Technology (FPST) Division, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and the American Automatic Control Council. He was General Chairman of the 1993 IEEE International Robotics and Automation Conference (ICRA). He was the founding director of Georgia Tech's multidisciplinary Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems (CIMS) Program from 1983 to 1988 and the leader of the CIMS team that won the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s University LEAD award. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He received Georgia Tech’s award for Outstanding Faculty Leadership for development of Graduate Research Assistants in 1987, and an ASME Dedicated Service Award in 2003 and the ASME DSCD Leadership Award in 2004. Most recently he serves as Thrust Leader and Executive Committee member of the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power awarded in 2006 to a combination of five core universities.

Phone: 404-894-3247

FAX: 404-894-8496

E-mail: wayne.book@me.gatech.edu

Postal: Wayne Book

Room 202, J.E. Love Jr. Bldg

School of Mechanical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA 30332-0405

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