Faryar Etesami
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Department
Portland State University
Portland Oregon
Telephone 503-725 3261,
e-mail: etesamf@pdx.edu
Employment
(1986-Now) Associate
Professor, Portland State University
(2000-2001) ESCO Corporation
(sabbatical)
(1984-1986) Assistant Professor, Portland State University
Education
(1984) Ph.D. Mech. Engr, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
(1980) M.S. Mech. Engr, University of Wisconsin -
Madison
(1978) B.S. Mech. Engr, Shariff University –
Tehran
Automatic
Dimensional Inspection of Machine Part Cross-sections using Fourier Analysis –
Completed 1984 under supervision of Professor John J. Uicker
Jr.
Publications
Etesami, F. and Uicker, J., "Automatic Dimensional Inspection of
Machine Part Cross-Sections Using Fourier Analysis", Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Vol. 29, Feb.
1985.
Etesami, F. and Zarefar, H., "An Approach to Mechanical Design Using a
Network of Interactive Expert Systems," Proceedings of the 2nd ASME
Computers in Engineering Conference, Boston, MA, August 1985.
Lawley, T.J., Zarefar, H., and Etesami, F., "PAGES: A parallel axis
gear drive expert system,"
Proceedings of 3rd ASME Computers in Engineering Conference, Chicago,
IL, July 1986.
Etesami, F., "On the
Theory of Geometric Tolerancing," Proceeding of 4th ASME computers in
Engineering Conference, New York, NY, August 1987.
Etesami, F. and Ganter, M., "Precision Modeling of Smooth surfaces
from Boundary Contour Representations," Proceedings of the 4th ASME
Computers in Engineering Conference, New York, NY, August 1987.
Etesami, F.,
"Construction of Manufactured Parts from Measurements," Proceedings of 14th NSF Conference on
Manufacturing Systems, Ann Arbor, MI, October 1987.
Etesami, F., "Tolerance
Verification through Manufactured Part Modeling," Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol.7, No.3, October 1988.
Etesami, F., and Qiao, H.,"Analysis of
2D Measurement Data for Automated
Inspection", Journal of
Manufacturing Systems, Vol 9, No.1, March 1990.
Etesami, F., "Position
Tolerance Verification using Simulated Gaging", Proceedings of the ASME Design Automation
Conference 1989.
Etesami, F., "Position
Tolerance Verification using Simulated Gaging", The
International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 10, No. 4, August 1991.
Etesami, F. and Rajkumar D.,
"Decomposition of Measured Contours into Geometric Features",
Proceedings of the AMSE Design Automation Conference, Chicago, 1990.
Etesami, F., "A
Mathematical Model for Geometric Tolerances", Proceedings of the 17th NSF
Design and Manufacturing Systems Grantees Conference, Austin, TX, January 1991.
Etesami, F., "A
Mathematical Model for Geometric Tolerances", ASME Journal
of Mechanical Design, March 1993.
Etesami, F, “Locating Precision
of Fit Datums”, Proceedings of the ASME 2008 International Design Engineering
Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference,
IDETC/CIE 2008, August 3-6, 2008, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Etesami, F, “Characterizing
the Accuracy of FDM Rapid Prototyping Machines for Machine Design Applications”,
Proceedings of the ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress
& Exposition, November 15-21, 2013, San Diego, California, USA
Etesami, F. “Toward
Automating the Specification of Geometric Tolerances for Design for Fit
Applications in Machine Design”.
Proceedings of CATA-2017, March
20-22, 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Etesami, F., “A Designer
Guided Tolerance Specification for Fit Assurance.” Proceedings of CATA-2018, March 19-21, 2018,
Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Etesami, F., Mullens C., Sahli R., and Webb, T., “Improving the Performance of 3D
Printed Molds for Plastic Injection Molding” Proceedings of CATA-2019, March
2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Ecosystem for Engineering
Design Learning—A Comparative Analysis.
Baldur Steingrimsson, Robert Jones, Faryar Estesami and Sung Yi, The
International Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 33 Number 5 2017.
Book
Design for Fit –
Applications of Geometric Tolerancing to Machine Design, self-published pdf
online book. Date of publication
2015. Available to download for free
from my PSU web site.
Grants
1985 - National Science Foundation
DMC-8505112 ($63960)
1989 - National Science Foundation
DMC-8821910 ($40000)
1999 - Oregon Metals Initiative and
Boeing-Portland ($35000)
2005 - NCIIA – Design of an Expandable Wheelchair ($10,000)
2006 - NCIIA – Design of an Expedition Walker ($10,000)
(2017-2019) PI on the Rapid
Tooling project with OMIC ($26000)
Current Co-PI on Connection
Testing project with OMIC (Dr. Yi is PI)
Current Co-PI on Gear
Testing project with OMIC (Dr. Wern is the PI)
Service to Profession
1995 – 2013 ASME Oregon
Chapter College Liaison