SAMMY G. SHINA, P.E. is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and has previously lectured at the University of Pennsylvania's EXMSE Program and at the University of California, Irvine. He is a past chairman of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Robotics/FMS, a founding member of the Massachusetts Quality Award, and a member of the Masschusetts Engineering advisory committee for NTU. He is the author of two best-selling books on concurrent engineering and has contributed two chapters and over 75 technical publications in his fields of research....