Dr. ChaBum Lee was awarded the 2020 Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Lee, who serves as assistant professor in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, received the award for his paper titled “Precision Cutting Tool Wear Monitoring Method by Knife-Edge Diffraction Interferometry.”
The award is given for the best current original paper or papers presented before or published by the ASME during the two calendar years immediately preceding the year of the award.
“I feel honored and happy for such recognition of the award,” Lee said. “This award gives a lot of inspiration to continue doing what I am doing and a positive confirmation that what I am doing is worthwhile. In fact, the machine tool metrology area receives less attention, and only a small number of researchers in the U.S. are investigating this area. I will take that compliment to do even better from now on.”
According to award guidelines, the honored paper should “clearly demonstrate that the science and engineering technologies outlined in the paper resulted in a significant contribution to the manufacturing processes and systems for the design or application of machine tools, gauges, dimensional measuring instruments, or new manufacturing technologies and metrology approaches.”
Lee will have the option to be presented with the award at either the 2020 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in November, or at the 2021 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference in June 2021.