Placid M. Ferreira is the Tungchao Julia Lu Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at Illinois. From 2003 to 2009, he was the director of the Center for Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (Nano-CEMMS), an NSF-sponsored Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center after which he served as the Head of the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at Illinois until August 2015.  He graduated with a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in 1987, M.Tech (Mechanical) from IIT Bombay, 1982 and B.E. (Mechanical) for University of Bombay in 1980. He has been on the mechanical engineering faculty at Illinois since 1987, serving as the Associate Head for graduate programs and research from 1999 to 2002. From 2009 to 2015 he served as Department Head for Mechanical Science and Engineering.

Nanomanufacturing at the University of Illinois

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Placid M. Ferreira, Jay R Roloff (2019), "Manufacturing at the Nanoscale: Challenges and Opportunities," https://nanohub.org/resources/30182.

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1. advanced manufacturing
2. materials
3. nanomanufacturing
4. nanoMFG Node