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Semaan Amine
Semaan Amine
Assistant Professor
Semaan Amine received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the Lebanese Universiy in 2007. He received his Master’s and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Nantes – France in 2008 and 2011, respectively.
His PhD thesis dealt with the geometrical analysis, characterization of singular configurations and conceptual design of parallel robots.
He was employed as a part time university instructor in several institutions, for instance, Ecole Centrale de Nantes – France, ISTIA Angers – France, American University of Science and Technology (AUST) – Lebanon, Notre Dame University (NDU) – Lebanon, and Beirut Arab University (BAU) – Lebanon.
He is currently a full-time Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at BAU, Debbieh Campus.
Teaching
- Dynamic Systems, Control
- Machine Design I
- Mechanics of Materials
- Dynamics
- Mechanical Vibrations
- MCHE411 – Mechanical Design II.
- MCHE 412 – Dynamic Systems, Modeling and Analysis.
Research
Research Interests
Parallel Robots, Algebraic Geometry, Robot Singularity, Synthesis of Parallel Mechanisms, Robot Kinematics/Dynamics, Vehicle Dynamics & Control.
International Journal Publications
Amine, S., Tale Masouleh, M., Caro, S., Wenger, P., and Gosselin, C., “Singularity Conditions of 3T1R Parallel Manipulators with Identical Limb Structures”, ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 4(1), No. 011011, 2012, pages 1–11, 2012.
Amine, S., Tale Masouleh, M., Caro, S., Wenger, P., and Gosselin, C., “Singularity Analysis of 3T2R Parallel Mechanisms using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra and Grassmann Line Geometry”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 52, pages 326–340, 2012.
Amine, S., Caro, S., Wenger, P., and Kanaan, D., “Singularity Analysis of the H4 Robot using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra”, Robotica, 2011.
Amine, S., Tale Masouleh, M., Caro, S., Wenger, P., and Gosselin, C., “Singularity Analysis Of The 4-RUU Parallel Manipulator Using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra”, Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, 35(4), pages 515–528, 2011.
International Conference Papers
Amine, S., Nurahmi, L., Wenger, P., and Caro, S., “Conceptual Design of Schoenflies Motion Generators based on the Wrench Graph”, Proceedings of the ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2013-13084, Portland, Oregon, USA, August 4-7 2013.
Amine, S., Caro, S., and Wenger, P., “Constraint and Singularity Analysis of the Exechon”, XI International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions (MTM) and the International Conference on Robotics (Robotics’12), Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 6–8, 2012.
Amine, S., Tale Masouleh, M., Caro, S., Wenger, P., and Gosselin, C., “Singularity Analysis of the 4-RUU Parallel Manipulator based on Grassmann-Cayley Algebra and Grassmann Geometry”, Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2011-48226, Washington, DC, USA, August 29-31 2011.
Amine, S., Tale Masouleh, M., Caro, S., Wenger, P., and Gosselin, C., “Singularity Analysis of 5-DOF Parallel Mechanisms 3T2R using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra”, 13th IFToMM World Congress in Mechanism and Machine Science, Guanajuato, México, June 19-25 2011.
Amine, S., Tale Masouleh, M., Caro, S., Wenger, P., and Gosselin, C., “Singularity Analysis of the 4-RUU Parallel Manipulator using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra”, The 2011 CCToMM Symposium on Mechanisms, Machines, and Mechatronics, Montreal, Québec, Canada, June 2-3, 2011.
Amine, S., Kanaan, D., Caro, S., and Wenger, P., “Constraint and Singularity Analysis of Lower-Mobility Parallel Manipulators with Parallelogram Joints”, Proceedings of the ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2010-28483, Montreal, Québec, Canada, August 15-18 2010.
Amine, S., Kanaan, D., Caro, S., and Wenger, P., “Singularity Analysis of Lower-Mobility Parallel Robots with an Articulated Nacelle”, Advances in Robot Kinematics: Motion in Man and Machine 2010, Part 5, pages 273-282. Springer, 2010.
Activities
- Reviewer for Mechanism and Machine Theory – Journal – Elsevier.
- Member of the BAU Engineering Projects Day committee for the academic year 2015-2016.
- Member of the BAU University Ranking committee for the academic year 2015-2016.
- Assisted in preparing the Faculty of Engineering senior students to the BAU Job Fair 2016.
- Assisted in the BAU Open House event for Postgraduate Students.
Awards
- Supervisor of the senior project entitled: “Design of a paper waste packing machine” which received a “LIRA Fund Award for Youth Innovative Projects 2016”.