Iqbal Shareef

Dr. Iqbal Shareef has a BS, MS, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering with specialization and research interests in Design for Manufacturability, Advanced Manufacturing Process, and Tribology. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in these areas for last 3 decades. Prior to his doctoral work he worked at NASA Langley for a year on Optimal Temperature Curing Cycles for Polyamide-imide thermosetting amorphous polymers for use on space shuttle tiles. For last ten years he has been working at NASA Glenn Research Center on civilian and military related projects. Iqbal’s civilian related projects include the work done on determining the survivability of the wear damaged Solar Alpha Rotary (SARJ) located in the International Space Station (ISS). More recently he has worked on James Webb Telescope’s (JWST) Micro Shutter Assembly (MSA) oscillatory mechanism, and the effect of moisture exposure on Molybdenum disulfide coated gears in the Dual Wheel Mechanism of JWST.