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. Marco Cocconcelli
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia marco.cocconcelli@unimore.it |
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell'Ingegneria Via G. Amendola, 2 42122 - Reggio Emilia ITALY |
| Deputy chair |
Prof. Irem Aslan Seyhan
Bartın University iaseyhan@bartin.edu.tr |
Department of Philosophy
Bartın University Yeni Sokak No:47 74100 Merkez/Bartın TURKEY |
Members
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Name | Affiliation |
| Australia | Prof. Nong Zhang | University of Technology Sydney |
| Brazil | Prof. DSc. Agamenon Rodrigues Eufrasio Oliveira | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| China-Beijing | Prof. Baichun Zhang | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| China-Beijing | Prof. Yibing Fang | 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 | Assoc. Prof. Thomas G. Chondros | University of Patras |
| Greece | Prof. Evangelos Papadopoulos | National Technical University of Athens |
| Italy | Prof. Alessandro Gasparetto | University of Udine |
| Italy | Prof. Giovanni Mimmi | Universitа degli studi di Pavia |
| Italy | Prof. Marco Ceccarelli | University of Rome Tor Vergata |
| Italy | Prof. Walter Franco | Politecnico di Torino |
| 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. Juan Carlos Jáuregui Correa | Autonomous University of Queretaro |
| Netherlands | Prof. Teun Koetsier | Vrije University of Amsterdam |
| Poland | Prof. Janusz Wawrzecki | Academy of Humanities and Economics In Lodz |
| Poland | Prof. Józef Wojnarowski | Silesian University of Technology |
| Poland | Prof. Teresa Zielinska | Warsaw University of Technology |
| Russia | Asst. Prof. Pavel A. Andrienko | Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University |
| Russia | Asst. Prof. Valentin Tarabarin | Bauman Moscow State Technical University |
| Russia | PhD. Denis Kozlikin | St.Petersburg State Polytechnic University |
| Russia | Prof. Alexander Evgrafov | St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University |
| Russia | Prof. Olga Vladimirovna Egorova | Bauman Moscow State Technical University (MGTU) |
| Serbia and Montenegro | Prof Dr-Ing. Nenad Zrnic | University of Belgrade |
| Spain | Alejandro Bustos Caballero | Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) |
| Spain | Prof. Francesc Ferrando Piera | Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona |
| Spain | Prof. Higinio Rubio Alonso | 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 | Prof. Dr. Melek Dosay Gökdoğan | Dil ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakülyesi, Ankara University |
| Turkey | Prof. Gokhan Kiper | İzmir Institute of Technology |
| UK | Prof. Jian Dai | King’s College, London |
| US | Prof. Gordon Pennock | School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University |
| US | Prof. Pierre Larochelle | South Dakota School of Mines & Technology |
| USA | Prof. Bahram Ravani | University of California-Davis |
| USA | Prof. Francis Moon | Cornell University |
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