Kwun Lon Ting, Ph.D.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Office: Brown Hall 211
Phone: (931)362-3362
Fax: (931)362-6345
E-mail: kting@tntech.edu

Degrees:
B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), National Taiwan University, 1972
M.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Clemson University, 1977
Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), Oklahoma State University, 1982

National Science Foundation Projects (Principal Investigator)

1. Theory and Practice of Point-Line Kinematics, National Science Foundation, REU Supplement, $6,000, 2005
2. Theory and Practice of Point-Line Kinematics, National Science Foundation, DMI-0219859, $243,000, Aug. 1, 2002 - July 31, 2005
   Link: http://www.tntech.edu/cmr/projects/pointlineproject/
3. High Performance Network Connection for Tennessee Technological University, National Science Foundation $200,000, October 1, 2003 to September 30, 2005 (Co-PI)
4. Acquisition of Research and Education Equipment for Geometric Design and Manufacturing Integration, National Science Foundation, $304,143, August 1, 2003 to January 31, 2005
   Link: http://www.tntech.edu/cmr/Projects/PointLineProject/NSFlab.ppt
5. VW NURBS, Offset Surfaces, and Gouging-Free CNC Tool Path Generation, National Science Foundation, $154,270, October 1, 1997-March 31, 2001
6. Integration of Parameter and Tolerance Design for Off-Line Quality Control, National Science Foundation, $152,942, September 1, 1995-March 31, 1999
7. Instantaneous Pencil Trajectories of single and Multiple Degree-of-Freedom Linkages and Manipulators, National Science Foundation, $100,000, 1993-1996
8. Mobility Study of Multiple Degrees of Freedom Linkages, National Science Foundation, $100,000, 1991-1993
9. On the Decoupled Motion of Robot Manipulators, National Science Foundation, Research Initiation Award, $48,000, 1983-1985

Recent Journal Publication (2004-)

1. “SMA Actuated Compliant Bistable Mechanisms,” Journal of Mechatronics, 14 (2004) 421-437 (with H. Ishii)
2. “Instantaneous Point, Line, and Plane motions Using a Clifford Algebra,” Machine Design and Research (ISBN1006-2343), special issue, July, 2004, pp. 107-110
3. “On the Basis Screws and Screw Systems of Point-Line and Line Displacements,” Journal of Mechanical Design, January 2004, Vol. 126, No.1, pp. 56-62 (with Y. Zhang)
4. “Rigid Body Motion Characteristics and Unified Instantaneous Motion Representation of Points, Lines, and Planes,” Journal of Mechanical Design--July 2004 , Volume 126, Issue 4, July 2004, pp. 593-601 (with Y. Zhang)
5. "On Point-Line Geometry and Displacement" Mechanism and Machine Theory,
   Volume 39, Issue 10, October 2004, pp. 1033-1050
6. “Topological Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms with Control Strategy,” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 127, No. 4, July 2005
7. “Path Generation with Singularity Avoidance for Five-Bar Slider-Crank Parallel Manipulators,” Mechanisms and Machine Theory, 40 (2005) 371-384
8. “On Realization of Mechanisms with Spherical Joints,” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 127, No. 4, July 2005
9. “Characteristics of Point-line Trajectories,” Journal of Mechanical Design (in press)
10. “ Subdivision Surface Based Finish Machining,” International Journal of Production Research (in press)
11. “Shape and Size Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms Using Wide Curve Theory,” Journal of Mechanical Design (in press)
12. “On Higher-Order Point-line and the Associated Rigid Body Motions,” Journal of Mechanical Design (in press)

Recent Presentation (2004-):

1. “ Characterization of Instantaneous Point-Line Motions,” The Theoretical and Computational Kinematics Symposium of the 2004 ASME IDETC/CIE Conferences, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2004
2. “Geometric Properties of Point-line Trajectories,” The Theoretical and Computational Kinematics Symposium of the 2004 ASME IDETC/CIE Conferences, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2004
3. “Spatial Distance of Point-Lines,” The Theoretical and Computational Kinematics Symposium of the 2004 ASME IDETC/CIE Conferences, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2004
4. “N-Bar Rotatability Laws,” invited speaker, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, Dec. 2004
5. Theory and Practice of Point-Line Kinematics, Proceedings of NSF Design, Service and manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, Birmingham, AL, January , 2005.
6. Acquisition of Research and Education Equipment for Geometric Design and Manufacturing Integration, Proceedings of NSF Design, Service and manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference , 2005
7. “Point-Line Distance Under Riemannian Metrics,” Paper No. DETC2005-84637, ASME 2005 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computer and Information in Engineering Conference, September 24 - 28, 2005, Long Beach, California USA
8. “Wide Curve Based Geometric Optimization of Compliant Mechanisms,” Paper No. DETC2005-84605, ASME 2005 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computer and Information in Engineering Conference, September 24 - 28, 2005, Long Beach, California USA
9. Spanning Tree Based Topological Optimization of Compliant Mechanisms,” Paper No. DETC2005-84608, ASME 2005 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computer and Information in Engineering Conference, September 24 - 28, 2005, Long Beach, California USA 
10. “N-Bar Rotatability Laws,” seminar speaker at University of Pittsburgh, March 2005
11. “Theory and Practice of Point-Line Kinematics,” seminar speaker at National Chung-Hsing University & Taipei University of Science and Technology, sponsored by National Science Council of Taiwan, May 2005
12. “N-Bar Rotatability Laws,” seminar speaker at National Taiwan University & National Sun Yat-Sen University, sponsored by National Science Council of Taiwan, May 2005

Honors and Services

• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 2005-
• Member, ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee, 2005-
• South-Pointing Chariot Award, National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1999-2000
• Chair, Theoretical and Computational Kinematics Symposium, 2006 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference
• Editor, Journal of Applied Mechanisms and Robotics, 1993-1999
• Member, Mechanism and Transmission Committee, the Chinese Academy of Mechanical Engineering, 2002-
• Honorary Member, Editorial Committee, Machine Design and Research, China, 2001-
• Kinslow Outstanding Engineering Research Award, Tennessee Tech University, 1992, 1997
• Roth Award, National Conference on Applied Mechanisms and robotics, 1993
• Who's Who in the South and Southwest
• Who's Who in Science and Engineering
• Outstanding Service Award, Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1989
• Outstanding Young Men of America, 1986
• Co-Director and Paper Review Chairman, National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1989-1991
• Technical Committee, National Applied Mechanisms and Robotic Conference, 1989-1999
• Engineering consulting:
  • Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, OH
  • Exponent Failure Analysis Association, Menlo Park, CA
  • Remington Firearms, Inc. KY
  • Medex Inc., Atlanta, GA
  • Automation Tool, TN

Laboratory:

  NSF Geometric Design and Manufacturing Integration,
Link: http://www.tntech.edu/cmr/Projects/PointLineProject/NSFlab.ppt