Dr. Seyed Ali Niknam, Associate Prof

Sustainable and Clean Manufacturing
Machining of Composites and Metals
High Performance Manufacturing

	E-mail: saniknam[AT]iust.ac.ir
	Phone: 98-21-77240540 Ex: 8913
	Fax: 98-21-77240488
	Zip Code: 16846-13114
	School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology, Narmak, Tehran, Iran

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Education

	Postdoctoral ّFellowship: École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Université du Québec, Canada
	Postdoctoral ّFellowship: Polytechnique Montreal, Université de Montreal, Canada, 2018
	PhD: School of Mechanical Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Université du Québec, Canada, 2013
	MSc: School of Mechanical Engineering, Brunel University London, United Kingdom, 2008
	BSc: School of Mechanical Engineering, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom, 2004

Research of Interest

	High performance manufacturing/machining of composites and metals
	Modeling, Simulation and Optimization (FEM, CAD/CAM/CAPP) of the Advanced Manufacturing Processes
	Design, development and machinability evaluation of metal matrix composites (MMCs)

	Sustainable and clean manufacturing
	Process monitoring, control and optimization using statistical theories, experimental and artificial intelligence (AI) methods
	Condition monitoring and health diagnosis

Experiences

Professional Experiences

Associate Professor- Iran University of Science and Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering (2023-ِDate)
Assistant Professor- Iran University of Science and Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering (2016-2023)
Adjunct Professor- Polytechnique Montreal, Canada (2019-Date)
Visiting Professor– ETS, Montreal, Canada (Summer 2019)
FQRNT Research Fellow- Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Lecturer and Faculty Member-Dawson College Montreal, Canada
Invited Lecturer- Nanjing College of Chemical Technology, Nanjing, China
Postdoctoral Research fellow- ETS, Montreal, Canada
Ph.D. Candidate- ETS, Montreal, Canada
R&D Engineer- Center of Advanced Manufacturing & Enterprise Engineering ,UK

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Review and Editorial activitie

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mech Engineering science
Journal of Cleaner Production
Journal of Measurement
Journal of Manufacturing Processes
Journal of Engineering Fracture Mechanics
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Journal of Composite Structures
Journal of Advances in Nano Research

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Delivered Talks at International Conferences

Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME) Forum 2010, Victoria, B.C, Canada, 7-9 June 2010.
28^th annual Seminar of the Canadian Machinery Vibration Association (CMVA). Quebec City, QC, Canada, 27-29 October 2010.
COM 2011, Montréal, QC, Quebec, Canada, 2-5 October 2011.
ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, CL, USA, 11-17 Nov 2011.
20^th Annual Int. Conf. Mechanical Engineering (ISME 2012), Shiraz, Iran, 16-18 May 2012.
1^st International Conference on Virtual Machining ProcessTechnology, CIRP Sponsored Conference, Polytechnique Montréal, QC, Canada, May 28 – June 1, 2012.
ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, TX, USA, 9-15 Nov 2012.
ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC2013), Madison, WIS, USA, 10-14 June 2013.
International Conference on Aluminium (INALCO 2013), Montréal, QC, Canada, 21-22 October 2013.
CIRP Manufacturing Systems (CMS), Windsor, ON, Canada, 28-30 April 2014.
13^th National Manufacturing Conference, November 2016, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
The 6th International Conference on Virtual Machining Process Technology (VMPT 2017), Polytechnique Montréal, QC, Canada, 29 May-June 02, 2017.
13th National Manufacturing Conference, November 2017, Arak, Iran.
8th CIRP Conference on High-Performance Cutting (HPC 2018), Budapest, Hungary.June 25-27, 2018.
17th National Conference and 6th International Conference on Manufacturing Engineering, Tehran, Iran, March 2021.

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Honor And Awards

	Distinguished Professor (Teaching Performance), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Academic year 2023-2024
	FIR 2022, ETS, Montreal, Canada (Sep 2022)
	FIR 2019, ETS, Montreal, Canada (June 2019)
	Research Grant (Young Assistant Professors), 200,000,000Rials-Iran National Elites Foundation
	FQRNT Post-Doctoral Fellowship, $70,000 (Ranked First in Quebec among all Candidates in the category of Mechanical and Civil Engineering)
	Ph.D. studentship and tuition fees waiver support, $27,000 p.a. (3yrs)
	FRQNT Research scholarship (1000$- Awarded 4 times)
	Internal scholarship (bourses internes), $5,000 p.a
	International mobility and exchange program scholarship, $5,000

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Courses Taught

	Course	Course Plan
Graduate	Control and Measurement Systems of Machine Tools
Graduate	Advanced CAD/CAM
Undergraduate	Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems
Undergraduate	Numerical Control Machines
Undergraduate	Manufacturing workshop

Publications

S.A, Niknam., W, Wygowski,., M,Balazinksi,. and V, Songmene. (2014) Milling Burr Formation and Avoidance, in Machinability of Advanced Materials (ed J. P. Davim), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. doi: 10.1002/9781118576854,Ch2.
S.A, Niknam., Y.Zedan and V, Songmene. (2014) Machining Burrs Formation & Deburring of Aluminium Alloys, Light Metal Alloys Applications, Dr. Waldemar A. Monteiro (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-1588-5, InTech, DOI: 10.5772/58361..
S.A, Niknam., R,Khettabi.,and V, Songmene. (2014) Machinability and Machining of Titanium Alloys: A Review in Machining of Titanium alloys, Machining of Titanium Alloys, Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology, pp 1-30.(ed. J. P. Davim),ISBN 978-3-662-43901-2; Springer Heidelberg, DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-43902-9.

M.Memarianpour,SA.Niknam.,S, Turrene, M. Balazinski., “Initial Tool Wear Mechanism in Dry and Lubricated Turning of Inconel 718”. Proceedings of the International Conference, ICERA 2018, Dec 1-2, Vietnam.
SA.Niknam, J.Kouam, V.Songmene.,M.Balazinski.,” Dry and Semii-Dry Turning of Titanium Metal Matrix Composites (Ti-MMCs)”. 8th CIRP Conference on High Performance Cutting (HPC 2018), June 25-27, 2018, Budapest, Hungary.
SA.Niknam ., M.Saberi ., A,Sousanabadi.,” Study the effects of cutting parameters on surface roughness and cutting forces when ball end milling steel 2205”. 14^th National Manufacturing Conference, October 24-26, 2017, Arak, Iran. (In Persian)
S.Badri ., SA.Niknam.,”Study the effects of cutting parameters on Acoustic emission signals using wavelet analysis”. 14^th National Manufacturing Conference, October 24-26, 2017, Arak, Iran. (In Persian)
SA.Niknam., A,Sousanabadi ., M.Saberi.,”Study the effects of cutting parameters on surface roughness and cutting forces when ball end milling steel 304”. 14^th National Manufacturing Conference, October 24-26, 2017, Arak, Iran. (In Persian)
SA.Niknam, A.Tiabi, V.Songmene.,“ Proposing A New Edge Finishing Index, So-Called Burr Edge Occupancy”, 25^th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ISME 2017), Tehran, Iran, May 2-4, 2017.
SA.Niknam, AR. Asgari, M.Balazinski.“Study the tool wear mode in Carbide and PCD tools when face milling Titanium metal matrix composite (Ti-MMC)”, The 6^th International Conference on Virtual Machining Process Technology (VMPT 2017),Montreal, QC, Canada, 29 May-June 02 , 2017.
M.Memarianpour, SA.Niknam, M.Balazinski.“The Initial Tool Wear Mechanism in High Speed Turning of Inconel 718”, The 6th International Conference on Virtual Machining Process Technology (VMPT 2017), Montreal, QC, Canada, 29 May-June 02 , 2017.
SA.Niknam, N.Barari, H.Kiani.,“Study the effects of MQL on exit burr and surface roughness when drilling 6061-T6 aluminium alloys”,13^th National Manufacturing Conference, November 8-10, 2016, Bandar Abbas, Iran. (In Persian)
SA.Niknam, N.Barari, H.Kiani.,“Study the effects of MQL on cutting force and chip formation when drilling 6061-T6 aluminium alloys”,13^th National Manufacturing Conference, November 8-10, 2016, Bandar Abbas, Iran. (In Persian)
S.A, Niknam., V, Songmene.,“Analysis of friction and burr formation in slot milling”.,CIRP Manufacturing Systems (CMS), Procedia CIRP, Volume 17, 2014, Pages 755–759.
S.A, Niknam., V, Songmene., “Deburring and edge finishing of aluminium alloys”.,International conference on Aluminium (INALCO 2013), Montreal, Canada, 21-22 October 2013.
S.A, Niknam., V, Songmene.,“Experimental investigation and modelling of milling burrs”., ASME 2013, International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference MSEC2013., Madison, Wisconsin, USA, June 10-14, 2013.
S.A, Niknam., V, Songmene.,“Analysis and optimization of exit burr size and surface roughness in milling using desirability function”., ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE-86201).,Houston, TX, USA, Nov 9-15, 2012, ISBN: 978-0-7918-4519-6.
Y, Zedan., S.A, Niknam., A, Djebara ., and V, Songmene.,“Burr size minimization when drilling 6061-T6 aluminum alloy”., ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE-86412)., Houston,TX, USA, Nov 9-15, 2012, ISBN: 978-0-7918-4519-6.
S.A, Niknam., V, Songmene.,“Statistical investigation on burrs thickness during milling of 6061-T6 aluminium alloy”., 1^st International Conference on Virtual Machining Process Technology ,CIRP Sponsored Conference, École Polytechnique, Montréal, Canada, May 28 – June 1, 2012.
S.A, Niknam.,Y, Zedan., and V, Songmene., “Burr formation during milling of wrought aluminum alloys”., 20^th Annual Int. Conf. Mechanical Engineering-( ISME 2012-3476)., Shiraz, Iran, 16-18 May 2012.
S.A, Niknam., A, Tiabi., I, Zaghbani., R, Kamguem and V, Songmene.,“Milling burrs size estimation using acoustic emission and cutting forces”., ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE-63824)., Denver, CL, USA, Nov 11-17, 2011.
S.A, Niknam., R, Kamguem ., A, Djebara and V, Songmene.,“Milling burr size estimation using acoustic emission and cutting forces”., student research presentation day (Poster), COM 2011, 2-5 October 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
A, Rahideh, M .H, Shaheed and S.A, Niknam ,.“Nonlinear two DOF dynamic modelling of a TRMS using an adaptive network based inference system”., 14^th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR 2011), Paris, France, 6-8 Sep. 2011.
S.A, Niknam. R, Kamguem, and V, Songmene.,“Spectral analysis of slot milling using Acoustic Emission”., 28^th annual CMVA seminar., Québec city, QC, Canada, 27-29 October 2010.
S.A, Niknam.,Y.H. Joe, Au ,and V, Songmene.,“Bearing Condition monitoring in low rotating speed machine using Acoustic Emission”., Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering Forum 2010., Victoria, B.C, Canada, 7-9 June 2010.
S.A, Niknam.,V, Songmene.,“The influence of Bearing Operational Conditions on Acoustic Emission Parameters”., Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering Forum 2010, June 7-9, 2010., Victoria, B.C, Canada, 7-9 June 2010.
R,Kamguem., V,Songmene., S.A, Niknam ,and J.P,Kenné., “Assessing the influence of machining process on Acoustic Emission parameters”., Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering Forum 2010., Victoria, B.C, Canada, 7-9 June 2010.
S.A, Niknam., S.M, Rezaei, and V, Songmene.,“Sensitivity of Acoustic Emission to lubrication on bearing surfaces”., 6^th conference in Maintenance, Tehran, Iran, 8-9 June 2010.
S.A, Niknam., S.M, Rezaei, and V, Songmene.,“A review on bearing faults diagnosis using Acoustic Emission”., 6^th conference in Maintenance, Tehran, Iran, 8-9 June 2010.

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