Ahmed Abu Hanieh

Ahmed Abu Hanieh
pbAhmed M. Abu Hanieh,nbsp;/b/p
pAssociate professor works in the department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at Birzeit University since 2004 and worked as the department chairman for three years. Participated in more than seventeen research and capacity building projects. Worked on international projects like Tempus projects where one of them aims at establishing a new Master program in sustainable engineering in Birzeit University (ME-Eng) and another Tempus project in the field of modern car maintenance (CODE). He also participated in Erasmus Mundus (Avempace II and Avempace III) and Erasmus plus credit mobility projects with different EU universities like University of Barcelona in Spain and Sapienza University in Italy. Has very tight relationships in research and capacity building with Technical University of Berlin (TUBerlin), Free University of Brussels (ULB), University of Ljubljana (UL), University of Lrsquo;aquila (UNIVAQ) and University of California ndash; Davis (UCDAvis)./p
pActs as a Palestinian Higher Education Reforms Expert (HERE) since 2015 till now. Involved in Quality Improvement Fund (QIF) projects funded by the International Bank. Supervised two Doctorate students in European Universities. Supervised several Bachelor graduation projects and Master theses. He is a board member in the Higher Council for Innovation and Excellence in Palestine. He participated in the judgement of severallocal and international innovation competitions like Made in Palestine, Intel Science competition and First Lego League. Founder of specialized associations like the Palestinian Solar and Sustainable Energy Society (PSSES) and active member in similar associations. The author of two books, seventeen journal articles and 32 conference papers. Volunteer reviewer for more than 17 international specialized journals and conferences. Teaching interests in Mechanical Vibrations, Fluid Power Control, Dynamics, Measurements and Sustainable Engineering courses./p
pfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;bspan style=font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font face=ArialPublications:/font/span/b/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;biuspan style=font-size: 12pt;font face=ArialBooks/font/span/u/i/b/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pul type=disc style=margin-top: 0in;font face=Times New Roman size=3/fontli style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3;bspan style=font-size: 12pt;Ahmed Abu Hanieh, /span/bispan style=font-size: 12pt;Fluid Power Control, Hydraulics and Pneumatics, /span/ispan style=font-size: 12pt;Cambridge International Scientific Publishers, UK, 2012 (ISBN 978-1-907343-14-8). /span/lifont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/ulpfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pul type=disc style=margin-top: 0in;font face=Times New Roman size=3/fontli style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3;bspan style=font-size: 12pt;Ahmed Abu Hanieh/span/bspan style=font-size: 12pt;, /spanispan style=font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;Active Isolation and Control of Vibrations, via Stewart platform/span/ispan style=font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, Germany, 2009span style=mso-spacerun: yes;nbsp; /span(ISBN 970-3-639-13671-5)./span/lifont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/ulpfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/ph2 style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;iuspan style=font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;span style=text-decoration: none;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/span/u/i/h2pfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/ph2 style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;iuspan style=font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;font face=ArialJournal articles/font/span/u/i/h2pfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;span lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font face=Arial size=3nbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in;span lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial size=31-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font size=3Ahmed Abu Hanieh/font/span/bspan lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font size=3, Sadiq AbdElall and Afif Hasan, Sustainable Development of Stone and Marble Sector in Palestine, Journal of Cleaner Production (JCLEPRO), Accepted for publication in October 2013./font/span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;span lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font face=Arial size=3nbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; 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text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in;span lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial size=34-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font size=3Ahmed Abu Hanieh/font/span/bspan lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font size=3, Orientation of Solar Photovoltaic Panels in Desert Regions,/fontifont size=3 International Review of Automatic Control (IREACO), Praise Worthy Prize/font/ifont size=3, Volume 1, Number 3, pp 347-354, September 2008./font/span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;span lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font face=Arial size=3nbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; 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Preumont, M. Horodinca, I. Romanescu, B. de Marneffe, M. Avraam, A. Deraemeker, F. Bossens and/font /spanspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;span style=mso-spacerun: yes;nbsp;/span/spanbspan lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font size=3A. Abu Hanieh,/font /span/bspan lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font size=3A six-axis single stage active vibration isolator based on stewart platform,/font ifont size=3Journal of Sound and Vibration,/font/ifont size=3 vol 300, pp 644-661, 2007./font/span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt -0.55pt;span lang=EN-GBfont face=Arial size=3nbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.85pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 21.3pt;span lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial size=37-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan lang=EN-GBfont size=3A. Abu-Hanieh/font/span/bspan lang=EN-GBfont size=3, M. Horodinca and A. Preumont, Six-degrees-of-freedom parallel hexapods for active damping and active isolation of vibrations,/fontspan style=mso-spacerun: yes;font size=3nbsp; /font/spanifont size=3Journal de Phisique IV, vol 12, Pr11-41, December/font /ifont size=32002./font/span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;span lang=EN-GBfont face=Arial size=3nbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 21.3pt; text-indent: -21.85pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 21.3pt;span lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial size=38-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanspan lang=EN-GBfont face=Arialfont size=3A. Preumont, A. Francois, F. Bossens and/font bfont size=3A. Abu-Hanieh/font/bfont size=3, “Force feedback versus acceleration feedback in active vibration isolation”,/font ifont size=3Journal of sound and vibration/font/ifont size=3, vol. 257 no. 4, pp 605-613, October 2002./font/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/ph2 style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/h2pfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/ph2 style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;iuspan style=font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;font face=ArialConference proceedings /font/span/u/i/h2pfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial1-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanspan style=font-size: 12pt;font face=ArialAfif Hasan and bAhmed Abu Hanieh/b, Engineering Education for Sustainable Development: Case of Palestine, 9supth/sup World Congress on Engineering Education, 24-25 October 2013, Beirut, Lebanon./font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial2-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan style=font-size: 12pt;Ahmed Abu Hanieh/span/bspan style=font-size: 12pt;, Afif Hasan, Sadiq AbdElall and Peter Krajnik, Role of Resource Efficiency in Engineering Education, i11supth/sup Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing 2013, CIRP, 24-26 October 2013, Berlin, Germany./i/span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial3-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan style=font-size: 12pt;Ahmed Abu Hanieh/span/bspan style=font-size: 12pt;, Sadiq AbdElall and Afif Hasan, Stone and Marble Sector in Palestine, Model for Sustainability, i10supth/sup Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing 2012, CIRP,/i 31 October – 2 November 2012, Istanbul, Turkey./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 6.8pt 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial4-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanfont face=Arialspan style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;S. AbdElall, bA. Abu Hanieh/b, M. Amer, H. Arman, I. Hammad, A. Hasan, A. Ramahi, span style=mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;Shaping the Engineering Qualifications for Improving Living Standards and Resources Efficiency, /span/spanispan style=font-size: 12pt;10supth/sup Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing 2012, CIRP,/span/ispan style=font-size: 12pt; 31 October – 2 November 2012, Istanbul, Turkey./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;span style=font-size: 12pt;span style=mso-spacerun: yes;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial5-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan lang=FR-BE style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-BE;Ahmed Abu Hanieh/span/bspan lang=FR-BE style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-BE; and Afif Hasan, Cooperation of Faculty of Engineering at Birzeit University with Local Industry, /spanispan style=font-size: 12pt;Cultivating Innovation in Strategic Public-Private Sector Partnerships, /span/ispan style=font-size: 12pt;October 15, 2011, Birzeit, Palestine./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span lang=FR-BE style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-BE;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial6-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan lang=FR-BE style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-BE;Ahmed Abu Hanieh/span/bspan lang=FR-BE style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-BE;,New Experience in Education, iCases of Excellence in Higher Education,/i Ibn Rush unit, Birzeit University, 11 October 2011, Birzeit, Palestine./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;span lang=FR-BE style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-BE;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span lang=FR-BE style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR-BE;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial7-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan lang=FR-BE style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-BE;Ahmed Abu Hanieh/span/bspan lang=FR-BE style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-BE;, Amelioration de l’efficacite de l’energie solaire, iSeminaire National de Lancement du Projet, Eau, Environnment, Energie et Climat/i, Agence Universiatire de la Francophonie (AUF), span style=mso-spacerun: yes;nbsp;/span18 – 20 April, 2011, Beirut, Lebanon./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;span lang=FR-BE style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-BE;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial8-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan style=font-size: 12pt;Ahmed Abu Hanieh/span/bspan style=font-size: 12pt; and Jamal Siam, Sun Tracking Smart System, iThe 4supth/sup international conference on advanced concepts in Mechanical Engineering ACME 2010/i, Iasi, Romania, 17-18 June, 2010./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial9-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan style=font-size: 12pt;Ahmed Abu Hanieh, /span/bspan style=font-size: 12pt;Solar Photovoltaic Panels Tracking System, iProceedings of Advances in Dynamical Systems and Control/i, Sfax, Tunisia, 3-6 May, 2010./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial10-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan style=font-size: 12pt;Ahmed Abu Hanieh/span/bspan style=font-size: 12pt;, Automatic Orientation of Solar Photovoltaic Panels to increase efficiency, iCairo International Conference on Energy and Environment (ee11)/i, 15-18 March, 2009, Hurgada, Egypt./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; 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Abu Hanieh/span/bspan style=font-size: 12pt;, Vibration Isolation of Hand-Held Tool, /spanifont size=3The 6/fontsupfont size=2th/font/supfont size=3 Jordanian International Mechanical Engineering Conference (JIMEC’6), University of Jordan,/font /ifont size=3Amman-Jordan,/fontspan style=mso-spacerun: yes;font size=3nbsp; /font/spanfont size=322-24 October 2007./font/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial12-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan style=font-size: 12pt;Ahmed Abu Hanieh/span/bspan style=font-size: 12pt;, Active-Passive Vibration Isolation of Rotating Hand-Held Tools, i11supth/sup International Conference on Hand-Arm Vibrations (HAV 2007)/i, iAssociazone Italiana di Acoustica, AIA/i, Bologna, Italy, 3-7 June 2007./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;bspan style='font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'span style=mso-list: Ignore;13-span style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/span/bbspan style=font-size: 12pt;font face=ArialAhmed Abu Hanieh/font/span/bspan style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arial, Mechatronics in Palestinian Birzeit University,/font /spanbispan style='font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;'font size=3Scientific Research Outlook amp; Technology Development in the Arab World (SRO4)/font/span/i/bbspan style='font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;'font size=3,/font ifont size=3Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF),/font/ifont size=3 Damascus, Syria, 11-14 December 2006./font/span/b/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial14-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan style=font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO;Ahmed Abu Hanieh/span/bspan style=font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO; and Andre Preumont, Frequency reduction for the purpose of vibration isolation, iRobotica 2006/i, Iasi, Romania, 7-9 September 2006./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style='font-family: Arial,Italic,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'span style=mso-list: Ignore;15-span style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;Ahmed Abu Hanieh/span/bspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;, Andre Preumont, Frequency reduction for the purpose of vibration isolation, 3suprd/sup IEEE international conference on mechatronics ICM 2006, Budapest, Hungary 3-5 July 2006. /span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;bspan style='font-family: Arial,Italic,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'nbsp;/span/b/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style='font-family: Arial,Bold,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'span style=mso-list: Ignore;16-span style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanbspan style='font-family: Arial,Italic,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'A. 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Bossens, /spanspan style='font-family: Arial,Bold,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'Actuator Design for a Six-Axis Active vibration Isolator for Space Applications, iActuator 2004/i, Bremen Germany, 14–16 June 2004./span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;span style='color: black; font-family: Arial,Bold,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'nbsp;/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial17-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;A. 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Preumont, Microgravity test of a 6 d.o.f. active vibration isolator, In i6supth/sup National Congres on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (NCTAM)/i, Gent, Belgium, May 2003. /span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial18-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font face=ArialMihaita Horodincab, Ahmed Abu Hanieh /band Andre Preumont, Passive damping of local modes on soft six-axis vibration isolator, iInternational Conference of Manufaturing systems /i(iICMS 2003)/i, Iasi, Romania, September 2003./font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial size=319-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;Ahmed Abu Hanieh/span/bspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;, Mihaita Horodinca and Andre Preumont, Zero-G test of active vibration isolator based on Stewart platform, i22supnd/sup Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control,/i Lommel, Belgium, March 2003. /span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp align=left style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 17.0pt;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial size=320-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanfont face=Arialfont size=3N. 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Preumont, Piezoelectric Stewart Platform for General Purpose Active Damping Interface and Precision Control,/font ispan lang=EN-GB style=mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 17.0pt;font size=3Sponsoring and exhibitor packages for the 3/font /span/iispan lang=EN-GB style=mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;font size=3e/font /span/iispan lang=EN-GB style=mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 17.0pt;font size=3International Conference of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology/font/span/ispan lang=EN-GB style=mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 17.0pt;font size=3, Euspen, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 2002./font/span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial21-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;A. Abu-Hanieh/span/bspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;, M. Horodinca, A. Preumont N. Loix and J.Ph. Verschueren, Stiff and Soft Stewart Platforms for Active Damping and Active Isolation of Vibrations, iActuator 2002/i, Bremen, Germany, June 2002./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial22-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;font face=ArialM. Horodinca, bA. Abu-Hanieh/b and A. Preumont, A soft Six Degrees of Freedom Active Vibration Isolator Based on Stewart Platform, iInternational Symposium on Active Control of Sound and Vibration, Active 2002/i, ISVR, Southampton, UK, July 2002./font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial23-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;A. Abu-Hanieh/span/bspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;, M. Horodinca and A. Preumont, Six-degrees-of-freedom parallel robots for active damping and active isolation of vibrations,span style=mso-spacerun: yes;nbsp; /spani1supst/sup Conference: Model-Experiment Interactions in Solid Mechanics, /i/spanispan style=font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;IME, /span/iispan style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;span style=mso-spacerun: yes;nbsp;/span/span/ispan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;Besancon, France, July 2002./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial24-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;A. Abu-Hanieh/span/bspan lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;, M. Horodinca and A. Preumont, A soft-Actuator Active Hexapod for the Purpose of Vibration Isolation,span style=mso-spacerun: yes;nbsp; /spaniInternational Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, /iLeuven, Belgium, September 2002./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial25-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan style=font-size: 12pt;A. Abu Hanieh/span/bspan style=font-size: 12pt;, A. Preumont and N. Loix, piezoelectric Stewart platform for General purpose Active damping and precision control, i9supth/sup European Space Mechanism and Tribology Symposium,/i Liege , Belgium, September, 2001./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;span style=font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial26-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/spanfont face=Arialbspan style=font-size: 12pt;A. Abu Hanieh/span/bspan style=font-size: 12pt;, A. Preumont and N. Loix, Six-axis Active damping and precision pointing interface based on Stewart platform, iInter-Active 2001 on-line conference (Active control of sound and vibration)/i, Southampton, UK, November 2001./span/font/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;span style=font-size: 12pt;font face=Arialnbsp;/font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3/font/pp style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;spanspan lang=EN-GB style=mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;span style=mso-list: Ignore;font face=Arial size=327-/fontspan style='font: 7pt/normal Times New Roman; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;' /span/span/span/spanbspan lang=EN-GBfont face=Arial size=3Ir. A. Abu Hanieh/font/span/bspan lang=EN-GBfont face=Arial size=3, Prof. A. Preumont and Dr. N. Loix, “Piezoelectric Stewart platform for general purpose active damping interface and precision control”,/font font size=3bispan style='font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;'European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP/span/i/b/fontfont face=Arial size=3 , Issue 480, pp 331-334, 2001./font/span/ppfont face=Times New Roman size=3br/font/ppbr/p