Dr. Alaa Elwany will be working in the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, this fall. |
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Dr. Alaa Elwany, associate professor of the Wm Michael Barnes ’64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, will be serving as a 2021-22 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Foundation Swanson Fellow, one of the ASME Federal Government Fellowships.
Elwany will be working in the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, starting Sept. 1, 2021.
Established in 1973, the ASME Federal Government Fellowship program allows selected ASME members to devote a year to providing engineering and technical expertise to policymakers the United States Congress, the White House or another federal agency, while also providing engineers with the unique opportunity to directly participate in the policymaking process.
“It is such an honor to be selected as an ASME Federal Government Fellow. The opportunity to serve in the executive branch and contribute to maintaining the United States’ position as a global leader in advanced manufacturing technologies is incredibly exciting,” Elwany said. “I would like to thank ASME for selecting me to this prestigious fellowship and the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, where I will be serving, for the opportunity.”
Elwany received his doctoral degree in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in production engineering from Alexandria University. His research interests include modeling, analysis, optimization and control of advanced manufacturing processes with emphasis on metal additive manufacturing. He was named ASME’s Outstanding Manufacturing Engineer in 2020 and the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer in 2016. He has led and co-led numerous research projects on advanced manufacturing from leading federal agencies and industrial organizations.
More information on this year’s ASME Federal Government Fellows can be found at ASME.org.
Elwany will be working in the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, starting Sept. 1, 2021.
Established in 1973, the ASME Federal Government Fellowship program allows selected ASME members to devote a year to providing engineering and technical expertise to policymakers the United States Congress, the White House or another federal agency, while also providing engineers with the unique opportunity to directly participate in the policymaking process.
“It is such an honor to be selected as an ASME Federal Government Fellow. The opportunity to serve in the executive branch and contribute to maintaining the United States’ position as a global leader in advanced manufacturing technologies is incredibly exciting,” Elwany said. “I would like to thank ASME for selecting me to this prestigious fellowship and the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, where I will be serving, for the opportunity.”
Elwany received his doctoral degree in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in production engineering from Alexandria University. His research interests include modeling, analysis, optimization and control of advanced manufacturing processes with emphasis on metal additive manufacturing. He was named ASME’s Outstanding Manufacturing Engineer in 2020 and the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer in 2016. He has led and co-led numerous research projects on advanced manufacturing from leading federal agencies and industrial organizations.
More information on this year’s ASME Federal Government Fellows can be found at ASME.org.