Rate My Professor Shivakumar Raman

Shivakumar Raman serves as the David Ross Boyd Professor, the Morris R. Pitman Professor, and Director of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Shivaji University, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. Raman joined the University of Oklahoma in 1988 as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 1994, and to full professor in 1999. Over his 37-year tenure, he has taught thousands of students in industrial, systems, aerospace, and mechanical engineering courses and directed nine Ph.D. dissertations, 55 master's theses, and 34 undergraduate senior design projects.

His research focuses on manufacturing processes and systems, including manufacturing product metrology, reverse engineering and sustainment, machining process modeling, process sensing and control, metal additive manufacturing, and democratization of manufacturing. As principal or co-principal investigator, he has obtained more than $22 million in research funding from 47 external grants, including 14 from the National Science Foundation, as well as from NASA, the U.S. Air Force, NIST, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, Sandia National Laboratories, and the State of Oklahoma. Notable projects include the Economic Development Generating Excellence grant on Shape Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing, which resulted in a startup company serving the aerospace industry. Raman has published extensively, with papers frequently appearing in journals such as Wear, International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, and Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering; he has authored 71 journal articles and seven book chapters. Key publications include “Mathematical Foundations for Coordinate Metrology and Adaptive Sampling,” Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering (2009), and “Observations in the Flat Lapping of Stainless Steel and Bronze,” Wear (2008). He has earned prestigious honors, including Fellowships from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (2006), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2007), and Society of Manufacturing Engineers (2008); the Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer Award from IISE (1998); the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from SAE (1995); the Dick Aubin Outstanding Paper Award from SME RAPID (2008); Oklahoma Innovator of the Year (2009); and induction into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame (2016). Additionally, he has served as scientific committee chair (Chief Editor) for the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME and on the editorial boards of six international journals.