Rate My Professor Yoram Koren

Koren is internationally recognized for conceiving the Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems paradigm in 1995, establishing its scientific foundations, defining its core characteristics, and inventing key technologies such as reconfigurable machine tools—the world's first full-scale version introduced in 2002—and reconfigurable inspection machines, protected by seven U.S. patents among his total of 14. His pioneering contributions also include the world's first computerized real-time adaptive controller for milling machines in 1973, obstacle-avoidance algorithms for autonomous mobile robots including the Vector Field Histogram method (1991), and developments in flexible automation and robotics such as the snake robot (1993). He has authored four books, including Computer Control of Manufacturing Systems (McGraw-Hill, 1983) and Robotics for Engineers (McGraw-Hill, 1985), over 300 scholarly papers with more than 28,000 citations and an h-index of 72 (Google Scholar), and holds numerous patents. A member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering since 2004, Koren is a Fellow of CIRP, SME, ASME, and IEEE, and has received the SME Gold Medal (2007), ASME William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award (1999), ASME/SME Merchant Medal (2006), and University of Michigan College of Engineering Stephen S. Attwood Award (2008).