Mission & Organization
The Permanent Commission for the History of Mechanism and Machine Science envisions to bring thoughts and developments from ancient to modern previous times back to consciousness of current research and teaching to spark new developments through the tapping of arcane wisdom. To this end, the Permanent Commission for the History of Mechanism and Machine Science supports the republishing and refurbishing of classical works of reference, the dissemination of historic material in the area of mechanism and machine science, and the promotion of activities in the field of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science and supervises and implements the archiving procedures of the Federation. New members in the Permanent Commission for the History of Mechanism and Machine Science, in particular of young researchers, are very welcome.
New applications for membership in the Permanent Commission for the History of Mechanism and Machine Science can be submitted to pc-and-tc-affairs@iftomm-world.org.
Leadership
Function | Name | Affiliation |
Chair | Prof. Alessandro Gasparetto |
DPIA – Dipartimento Politecnico di Ingegneria e Architettura
Università degli Studi di Udine Via delle Scienze 206 33100 Udine ITALY alessandro.gasparetto@uniud.it |
Deputy chair | Prof. Yibing Fang |
Institute for the History of Natural Science
Chinese Academy of Science 55 Zhong-guan-cun East Road 100190 Beijing CHINA yibing@ihns.ac.cn yibingfang@126.com |
Members
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Name | Affiliation |
Australia | Prof. Nong Zhang | Hefei University of Technology |
Brazil | Prof. DSc. Agamenon Rodrigues Eufrasio Oliveira | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
Brazil | João Carlos Mendes Carvalho | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia |
China-Beijing | Prof. Baichun Zhang | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
China-Beijing | Prof. Zhen Lu | Beihang University |
China-Taipei | Prof. Tsung-Yi Lin | Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology (STUST) |
China-Taipei | Prof. Yu-Hsun Chen | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology |
France | Dr. Raffaele Pisano | Lille University |
Germany | Prof Dr-Ing. Burkhard Corves | RWTH Aachen University Aachen |
Greece | Prof. Evangelos Papadopoulos | National Technical University of Athens |
Greece | Assoc. Prof. Thomas G. Chondros | University of Patras |
Italy | Prof. Walter Franco | Politecnico di Torino |
Italy | Prof. Giovanni Mimmi | Universitа degli studi di Pavia |
Italy | Prof. Marco Ceccarelli | University of Rome Tor Vergata |
Japan | Hidetaka Kuroki | Hiraiwa Sangyo Co. Ltd |
Korea | Prof. Jae Kyung Shim | Korea University |
Korea | Prof. Moon Hwo Seo | Konkuk University |
Lithuania | Prof Dr. Rymantas Tadas Tolocka | Kaunas University of Technology |
Mexico | Prof. Mario Acevedo | Universidad Panamericana |
Netherlands | Prof. Teun Koetsier | Vrije University of Amsterdam |
Poland | Prof. Józef Wojnarowski | Silesian University of Technology |
Poland | Prof. Teresa Zielinska | Warsaw University of Technology |
Poland | Prof. Janusz Wawrzecki | Academy of Humanities and Economics In Lodz |
Russia | Prof. Alexander Evgrafov | St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University |
Russia | PhD. Denis Kozlikin | St.Petersburg State Polytechnic University |
Russia | Prof. Olga Vladimirovna Egorova | Bauman Moscow State Technical University (MGTU) |
Russia | Asst. Prof. Pavel A. Andrienko | Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University |
Russia | Asst. Prof. Valentin Tarabarin | Bauman Moscow State Technical University |
Serbia and Montenegro | Prof Dr-Ing. Nenad Zrnic | University of Belgrade |
Spain | Prof. Francesc Ferrando Piera | Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona |
Spain | Prof. Higinio Rubio | University Carlos III of Madrid |
Spain | Prof. Juan Carlos Fortes Garrido | Universidad de Huelva, Campus de la Rabida |
Spain | Prof. Juan I Cuadrado | Universidad Politécnica de Valencia |
Spain | Prof. Rafael López García | University of Jaen, Campus las Lagunillas |
Turkey | Dr. Irem Aslan Seyhan | Kutlubey-Yazıcılar Kampüsü, Bartin University |
Turkey | Prof. Dr. Melek Dosay Gökdoğan | Dil ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakülyesi, Ankara University |
UK | Prof. Jian Dai | King’s College, London |
USA | Prof. Bahram Ravani | University of California-Davis |
USA | Prof. Francis Moon | Cornell University |
USA | Prof. Gordon Pennock | Purdue University, West Lafayette |
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