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Changes editorial board
Mechanism and Machine Theory 41 (2006) 1017–1018
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Editorial
Changes editorial board
Within the endeavour of continuously involving new internationally renowned researchers in the editorial process of this journal, we feel delighted and honoured to announce three new colleagues from the field of mechanism and machine science who have accepted our invitation of joining the editorial board of Mechanism and Machine Theory. In this setting, we first of all welcome Professor Lo´pez-Caju´n, from Universidad Auto´noma de Queretaro, Me´xico, as official IFToMM representative in the editorial board. Professor Lo´pez-Caju´n is member of the Executive Council of our associated scientific society IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science, and shall represent the interests of this federation in the editorial board besides supporting the journal in the editorial process of papers submitted in the areas of mechanism design, cams and parallel manipulators, where he has contributed a large number of renown papers. We thank Prof. Lo´pez-Caju´n for kindly accepting to join this editorial board, for which we feel very honoured. Likewise, we welcome Professor Jorge Angeles, from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, as editor for the large area covering of robotics, gears, mechanisms, cams, parallel manipulators, as well as kinematics and dynamics of machinery. Professor Angeles has contributed numerous publications in these areas, and thus we feel grateful and lucky to be able to count on Professor Angeles expertise in supporting our quest for continuous improvement of the quality and renown of this journal. Finally, we welcome Professor Gabor Stepan from the Department of Applied Mechanics of the University of Technology and Economics Budapest, as a specialist in vibrations, analytical mechanics and machine tool and vehicle dynamics. Professor Stepan is Head of Department and Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and he has also published a large number of papers of high international renown in the fields mentioned above. Hence we feel honoured and happy that he is willing to support this journal in the selection of papers related to the fields mentioned above. On the other hand, we acknowledge with regret the retirement of two of our esteemed colleagues, Professor Marco Ceccarelli and Professor Gregory Chirikjian, who due to intensive extraneous responsibilities in the international scientific community have asked to be relieved from the responsibility of continuing in the editorial board of this journal. Professor Ceccarelli, from the University of Cassino, Italy, has served as interim IFToMM representative during the first phase of the extended Editorial Board, and has asked to pass this function to Professor Lo´pez-Caju´n in order to be freed from additional commitments in parallel to his function as Secretary General of IFToMM. In the name of the scientific community of Mechanism and Machine Theory, we transmit our most sincere thanks to Professor Ceccarelli for the excellent editorial work he contributed during the first year of the new organisation of this journal. The second colleague to whom we regretfully say goodbye to is Professor Gregory Chirikjian, from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Professor Chirikjian has been indispensable in the selection process of papers related to molecular kinematics and theoretical as well as computational kinematics, and it is thus a great loss that we will not be able to count on his expertise in the future. Nevertheless, in the one year in office, Professor Chirikjian attracted some important articles in these areas, and thus we sincerely thank Professor Chirikjian for the excellent work he accomplished for this journal.
0094-114X/$ - see front matter Ó 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2006.06.004
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Editorial / Mechanism and Machine Theory 41 (2006) 1017–1018
A further novelty in this issue is the printing of a short communication concerning our associated society IFToMM. It is a pleasure to announce that such IFToMM Bulletins shall become a regular channel of information for the IFToMM community through this journal, and we look forward to foster this important channel of information in the spirit of the fruitful and excellent cooperation that traditionally exists between this journal and IFToMM. Editor In Chief Andre´s Kecskeme´thy University of Duisburg-Essen, Inst. of Mechatronics and Sys. Dyn., D-47057 Duisburg, Germany Tel.: +49 203 379 3344; fax: +49 203 379 2494 E-mail address: [email protected]
Mechanism and Machine Theory www.elsevier.com/locate/mechmt
Editorial
Changes editorial board
Within the endeavour of continuously involving new internationally renowned researchers in the editorial process of this journal, we feel delighted and honoured to announce three new colleagues from the field of mechanism and machine science who have accepted our invitation of joining the editorial board of Mechanism and Machine Theory. In this setting, we first of all welcome Professor Lo´pez-Caju´n, from Universidad Auto´noma de Queretaro, Me´xico, as official IFToMM representative in the editorial board. Professor Lo´pez-Caju´n is member of the Executive Council of our associated scientific society IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science, and shall represent the interests of this federation in the editorial board besides supporting the journal in the editorial process of papers submitted in the areas of mechanism design, cams and parallel manipulators, where he has contributed a large number of renown papers. We thank Prof. Lo´pez-Caju´n for kindly accepting to join this editorial board, for which we feel very honoured. Likewise, we welcome Professor Jorge Angeles, from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, as editor for the large area covering of robotics, gears, mechanisms, cams, parallel manipulators, as well as kinematics and dynamics of machinery. Professor Angeles has contributed numerous publications in these areas, and thus we feel grateful and lucky to be able to count on Professor Angeles expertise in supporting our quest for continuous improvement of the quality and renown of this journal. Finally, we welcome Professor Gabor Stepan from the Department of Applied Mechanics of the University of Technology and Economics Budapest, as a specialist in vibrations, analytical mechanics and machine tool and vehicle dynamics. Professor Stepan is Head of Department and Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and he has also published a large number of papers of high international renown in the fields mentioned above. Hence we feel honoured and happy that he is willing to support this journal in the selection of papers related to the fields mentioned above. On the other hand, we acknowledge with regret the retirement of two of our esteemed colleagues, Professor Marco Ceccarelli and Professor Gregory Chirikjian, who due to intensive extraneous responsibilities in the international scientific community have asked to be relieved from the responsibility of continuing in the editorial board of this journal. Professor Ceccarelli, from the University of Cassino, Italy, has served as interim IFToMM representative during the first phase of the extended Editorial Board, and has asked to pass this function to Professor Lo´pez-Caju´n in order to be freed from additional commitments in parallel to his function as Secretary General of IFToMM. In the name of the scientific community of Mechanism and Machine Theory, we transmit our most sincere thanks to Professor Ceccarelli for the excellent editorial work he contributed during the first year of the new organisation of this journal. The second colleague to whom we regretfully say goodbye to is Professor Gregory Chirikjian, from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Professor Chirikjian has been indispensable in the selection process of papers related to molecular kinematics and theoretical as well as computational kinematics, and it is thus a great loss that we will not be able to count on his expertise in the future. Nevertheless, in the one year in office, Professor Chirikjian attracted some important articles in these areas, and thus we sincerely thank Professor Chirikjian for the excellent work he accomplished for this journal.
0094-114X/$ - see front matter Ó 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2006.06.004
1018
Editorial / Mechanism and Machine Theory 41 (2006) 1017–1018
A further novelty in this issue is the printing of a short communication concerning our associated society IFToMM. It is a pleasure to announce that such IFToMM Bulletins shall become a regular channel of information for the IFToMM community through this journal, and we look forward to foster this important channel of information in the spirit of the fruitful and excellent cooperation that traditionally exists between this journal and IFToMM. Editor In Chief Andre´s Kecskeme´thy University of Duisburg-Essen, Inst. of Mechatronics and Sys. Dyn., D-47057 Duisburg, Germany Tel.: +49 203 379 3344; fax: +49 203 379 2494 E-mail address: [email protected]