We want to honor and thank four outstanding Associate Editors, Robert Landers, Wei Li, Eric Marsh, and Burak Ozdoganlar, whose terms recently expired. Their service and commitment to JMSE have been exemplary, and we are grateful for their contributions to the current and future health of the journal and the manufacturing engineering community.
Robert G. Landers is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of modeling, analysis, monitoring, and control of manufacturing processes and alternative energy systems; and he has over 100 refereed publications. He received the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award in 2004 and the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering Best Paper Award in 2014, is a Fellow of ASME, a senior...
