Welcoming New Editor for Mechanisms: Qiaode Jeffrey Ge

Abstract

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Qiaode Jeffrey Ge, Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University, has been appointed by the ASME Design Engineering Division (DED) and the ASME Technical Committee on Publications and Communications (TCPC) to serve as a new Editor in the area of mechanisms for Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD), effective from January 2021, for 5 years.The “Editor for Mechanisms” is a newly created position to further improve the quality and impact of JMD publications by enhancing the technical editorial leadership in the areas related to mechanisms. Over the past 20 years, JMD has continued to expand, evolving from the Journal of Mechanisms, Transmissions, and Automation in Design with a focus on mechanism theory and machine design, to its current broad scope covering a wide range of topics in engineering design research. Today, JMD has the largest number of annual submissions (close to 1000) among all ASME Journals, covering eight diversified topics in (1) design automation, (2) design of direct contact systems, including cams, gears, and power transmission systems, (3) design education, (4) design of energy, fluid, and power handling systems, (5) design innovation and devices, (6) design for manufacturing and the life cycle, (7) design of mechanisms and robotic systems, and (8) design theory and methodology.