IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science
Permanent Commission for History of MMS
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IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science Permanent Commission for History of MMS |
Duty and Goal by IFToMM Constitution and by Laws (2007)
- to promote the republishing of classical works of reference;
- to promote the collection and circulation of material and information in the field of Mechanism and Machine Science;
- to maintain the Archive of the Federation;
- to promote activities and works in the field of the history of Mechanism and Machine Science.
Main Activities
Main activity for near future can be programmed in the following actions:
- - to establish a Commission with several members
- - to solicit papers on History of MMS for Conferences and Journals
- - to circulate information on the Commission;
- - to exchange opinions among the members of the Commission, mainly by e-mail;
- - to organize lectures and/or Workshop on History of MMS;
- - to establish collaboration for historical investigations
- - to maintain the IFToMM Archive
It is worth to remind that a particular interest will be addressed by the PC to the republishing of old works, but the practical activity can be carried out on the basis of specific personal interest of anyone with the available help of members of the PC.
PC Conference Events
- HMM International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms
The HMM Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanism is the conference event of the PC as a forum for international participation with publication of Proceedings. Thus, participation is invited with submission of conference papers that will have historical content but from technical viewpoints. Papers will be revised and after acceptance will be published in a printed volume that will be available for international circulation also after the Symposium.
HMM2000 at Cassino University (Italy) in May 2000 (http://webuser.unicas.it/weblarm/hmm00/index.htm)
HMM2004 at Cassino University (Italy) in May 2004 (http://webuser.unicas.it/weblarm/hmm04/index.htm)
HMM2008 at in Tainan (China-Taipei) in November 2008 (http://www.acmcf.org.tw/hmm2008/index.htm)
- Workshop on History of MMS
Workshops on History of MMS will be organized as meeting events for facilitating presentation of unpublished material, discussion and promotion of interest on historical subjects. Thus, participation will be highly appreciated only with an oral presentation of historical material with technical content of a duration of about 30 minutes or more. Therefore a Workshop can be organized with more informal program and we shall collect material, like presentations, copies of papers and photos, in a CD for the participants. The CD will be given after a Workshop, like we did at Dresden Workshop and previous ones .
Past Workshop on History of MMS
Admont Workshop HMMS at Admont Abbey (Austria) in November 2002
Dresden Workshop HMMS at Dresden Technical University (Germany) in October 2004
Moscow Workshop HMMS at Bauman Technical University of Moscow (Russia) in June 2005
Queretaro Workshop HMMS at Queretaro University (Mexico) in October 2005
Ithaca Workshop HMMS at Cornell University (USA) in September 2006
Bangalore Workshop HMMS at Indian Institute of Science of Bangalore (India) in December 2007
Bookseries on History of Mechanism and Machine Science
http://www.springer.com/series/7481
click here for the flyer
In order to submit a proposal for a
new book pls contact prof Marco Ceccarelli (Editor of the Books series)
Contact persons
PC Chair
Dr.-Ing. Hanfried Kerle
Institute of Machine Tools and Production Engineering
Technical University Braunschweig
Langer Kamp 19 B D-38106 Braunschweig GERMANY
tel: 49(531)351777 fax: 49(531)3540351
h.kerle@t-online.de
Prof Alessandro Gasparetto
(PC responsible for IFToMM Archive)
Prof Francis Moon
(PC responsible for libraries)
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
204 Upson Hall Ithaca, New York, 14853-7501, USA
TEL+1 -607-255-7146 FAX +1 -607-255-1222
e-mail: fcm3@cornell.edu
prof. Marco Ceccarelli
(PC responsible for conference events)
Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics
DiMSAT, University of Cassino
Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr), Italy
Tel + 39-0776299663 fax +39-0776-2993989
e-mail: ceccarelli@unicas.it
Past Chairpersons
Prof Jack Philips (1973-1981)
Australia
Prof Elizabeth Filemon (1982-1989)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Department of Applied Mechanics
Budapest, Pf. 91. Muegyetem rkp. 3
H 1521 HUNGARY
Tel: +36 1 4631367 or 4631369 Fax: +36 1 4633471
e-mail: efilemon@mm.bme.hu
prof. Teun Koetsier (1990-1997)
Dept. of Mathematics and Computers Sciences
De Boelelaan, Vrije University of Amsterdam
Postbus 7161, 1081 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
tel +31-20-4447684; fax +31-20-6427705
e-mail: teun@cs.vu.nl
prof. Marco Ceccarelli (1998-2004)
Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics
DiMSAT, University of Cassino
Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr), Italy
Tel + 39-0776299663 fax +39-0776-2993989
e-mail: ceccarelli@unicas.it
prof. Hong-Sen Yan (2005-2006)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan 70101, TAIWAN, ROC
tel: 886(06)208-2703 fax: 886(06)208-4972
e-mail: hsyan@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Annual Reports of activity
(see attached files)
(reports of previous years are available in the minutes of EC meeting that are store in the IFToMM Archive)
Members and Membership
Currently PC members are appointed for the term 2006-2009.
The list of current PC members is here (click here)
Biographical notes are enclosed in the PC site (click here).
Webpage
IFToMM web site: http://www.iftomm.org
PC web site: http://www.webuser.unicas.it/weblarm/IFToMMpcHistory.htm
Last update: January 2009