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Dr. Okwudire worked on improving the productivity and quality of metal-cutting based manufacturing. Machine tools, which are used for metal cutting, vibrate when they travel at high speeds. Such vibrations reduce the quality of manufactured products. He modeled the vibratory behavior of high-speed machine tools and designed controllers which suppress the vibrations thereby improving the speed and quality of metal cutting.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD) - graduated in 2009

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