Martin Hardwick
Professor
Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Hardwick has supervised ten Ph.D. students and numerous masters students. Dr. Hardwick joined RPI in 1989 as an Assistant Professor and has risen through the ranks to be a tenured Full Professor with more than 60 referred papers. Currently he is Acting Head of the department. He has won several NSF grants, was a principle investigator for the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering project, the National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols (NIIIP) project and the NIST ATP Model Driven Intelligent Control of Manufacturing project. Software written by Dr. Hardwick is included in the libraries of many Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing systems where it is used to read and write data defined by the ISO 10303 STEP standards. He received his bachelors and doctorate degrees from Bristol University in the UK.
Research Interest
CAD/CAM/CNC Databases, Data sharing for engineering applications
Publications
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M. Hardwick and D. Loffredo, “STEP-NC AP-238 Deploymentâ€, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 19, No.6, September 2006.
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M. Hardwick and D. Loffredo, “Challenges and Choices in the Specification and Implementation of the STEP-NC AP-238 Standardâ€, ACM/ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol.7, No.3, September 2007.