Sapidis

Nickolas S. Sapidis

Position

Professor

Address

University of Western Macedonia

Department of Mechanical Engineering {www.mech.uowm.gr} 

Bakola & Sialvera Street

50132 Kozani

Greece

Contact Data

Phone (office): +30 24610 56608

Fax: +30 24610 56601

E-mail: nsapidis@uowm.gr

Studies

1993  Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, USA 

1988  M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, USA

1987   M.A. in Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, USA

1985   Diploma in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Department of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Professional Experience

2009 – Present: Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece

2007 – 2009: Professor, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, Ermoupolis, Greece

2001 – 2007: Associate Professor, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, Ermoupolis, Greece

1995 – 2001: Instructor & Researcher, for various periods, with the institutions: University of the Aegean, National Technical University of Athens, University of Athens, Agricultural University of Athens, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Technical University of Catalonia (Barcelona)

1998 – 2000: CAD/CAE Engineer and Naval Architect & Marine Engineer, Marine Technology Development Company S.A., Athens, Greece

1991 – 1993: Consulting Research Scientist, Design Centre, General Motors Research & Development Centre, Warren, MI, USA

Research / Laboratory

• Design of Products and Systems: Mechanical Design, Functional Design, Aesthetic Design, Product Life-Cycle Design, Concurrent Engineering, Reverse Engineering.

• Computer-Aided Design (CAD): Research, Design of Algorithms, and Software Development. Information Systems for Products and Processes. Hybrid CAD Systems combining Solids and Surfaces with Discrete Models. CAD based on Point Clouds. Product Lifecycle Management.

• Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE): Computational Methods for Analysis of Mechanical Structures. Automatic Finite-Element Model Construction, Integration of CAD and CAE systems.

• Solid Modeling: Models for Complex Geometric Objects. Discrete Solid Models and Spatial Subdivisions. Computational Geometry. “Virtual Solid” Modeling of Design Constraints.

• Geometric Modeling of Curves and Surfaces: Bézier, B-spline, NURBS. Interpolation/Approximation of Data with Curves and Surfaces. Aesthetic Design and Analysis of Surfaces. Automatic Fairing of Curves and Surfaces. Surface Modeling based on Point Clouds.

• Virtual Reality and Simulation of Mechanical Systems: CAD Models for Virtual Reality. Simulation of Design & Production Processes. Virtual Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair of Plants.

• Interactive Computer Graphics and Computer Vision: Graphical Models and Acceleration Techniques for Visualization. Range Image Processing. Reverse Engineering of CAD Models from Range Images.

• Industrial Informatics: Software Systems and Standards for Product Data Management. Integration, Optimization and Evaluation of CAD/CAE Systems.

Laboratory of Mechanical Systems:  http://lms.mech.uowm.gr/

Curriculum Vitae

Nickolas S. Sapidis is Professor of “Computational Design and Analysis of Machine Elements” with the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Western Macedonia (Kozani, Greece), where he directs the “Division of Constructions and Materials”. N. Sapidis has been pursuing/supervising research on “Mechanical Design”, “Computer-Aided Design (CAD)”, “Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)”, “Geometric Modeling”, “Virtual Engineering”, and “Computer Graphics”. He is the author of more than 80 papers on the above subjects. His industrial professional experience on CAD/CAE includes the General Motors R&D Center, and the Marine Technology Development Co (Greece). Published research results of N. Sapidis have been independently implemented in industrial CAD systems by R&D teams at M.I.T., Intergraph Corp., General Motors Design Centre, Tribon (AVEVA), and Mercedes-Benz AG. N. Sapidis is a member of the Editorial Board of more than ten international scientific journals, including Computer-Aided Design (Elsevier), Computer-Aided Design and Applications (Taylor & Francis), and 3D Research (Springer). N. Sapidis has served on the Program Committee of more than 100 international conferences, and was an “invited Keynote Speaker” for 7 international conferences.

Course Catalogue

Mechanical Engineering Drawing I

Mechanical Engineering Drawing II

Engineering Statics

Computer-Aided Design

Publications in

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uJRyR_cAAAAJ&hl=en

Selected Publications

2019

1) D. Giagopoulos, A. Arailopoulos, I. Chatziparasidis, N. Sapidis, “Optimum Design of Large-scale Systems Considering Material Nonlinearities and Uncertainties”, Computers & Structures 223, 106102, 2019.

2) N. Gabrielides, N. Sapidis, “Cubic Polynomial and Cubic Rational C1 Sign, Monotonicity and Convexity Preserving Hermite interpolation”, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 357, pp. 184-203, 2019.

2018

2) D. Giagopoulos, I. Chatziparasidis, N. Sapidis, “Dynamic and Structural Integrity Analysis of a Complete Elevator System through a Mixed Computational-Experimental Finite Element Methodology”, Engineering Structures 160, pp. 473-487, 2018.

3) I. Chatziparasidis, D. Giagopoulos, N. Sapidis, “Simulated Dynamic Finite-Element Experiments and Automatic Assembly Synthesis for Mechanical Design Automation”, International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management 11(1), pp. 19-46, 2018.

4) N. Gabrielides, N. Sapidis, “C1 Sign, Monotonicity and Convexity Preserving Hermite Polynomial Splines of Variable Degree”, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 343, pp. 662-707, 2018.

2017

5) I. Chatziparasidis, N. Sapidis, “Framework to Automate Mechanical-System Design using Multiple Product-Models and Assembly Feature Technology”, International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management 10(2), pp. 124-150, 2017.

2016

6) V. Kostas, A. Platis, N. Sapidis, “Performability Assessment of Standalone Photovoltaic Residential Systems”, International Journal of Performability Engineering 12(5), pp. 485-500, 2016.