Ming-Tzer Lin, Graduate Institute of Precision Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan. Cesar Sciammarella, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. Horacio D. Espinosa, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA. Cosme Furlong, WPI-ME/CHSLT, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, USA. Luciano Lamberti, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy. Phillip Reu, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA. Michael Sutton, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA. Chi-Hung Hwang, Taiwan Instrument Technology Institute, NARLabs, Hsinchu, Taiwan.