Sayed A. Nassar is a fellow of ASME, the John F. Dodge Chair of Engineering, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and founding director of the Fastening and Joining Research Institute (FAJRI), Oakland University (OU), Rochester, Michigan. He is also the founding director of the OU site of funded NSF IUCRC Center for Composite and Hybrid Material Interfacing (CHMI) which has two more sites at Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee¿Knoxville. At OU, Dr. Nassar teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in design, solid mechanics, and material joining; his current research is predominantly in the area of material joining, where he supervised more than 35 PhD and MS theses and published more than 300 peer¿reviewed papers on the subject. Dr. Nassar holds seven US and International patents and is the founding president of University Research and Engineering Consultants (UREC LLC), Northville, Michigan. He is currently the chair of Fastening and Joining Committee, Design Division of ASME. Dr. Nassar received his MS and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (Structural Mechanics) from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. John H. Bickford is a private consultant, Middletown, Connecticut. He was formerly vice¿president of Raymond Engineering, Inc., and manager of its Bolting Products Division in Middletown, Connecticut.
