Dr. Md Rasedul Islam

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Dr. Md Rasedul Islam teaches mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, where he is an Associate Professor in the Richard J. Resch School of Engineering. His classes include robotics, mechatronics, automatic controls, dynamic systems, programming for engineers, and engineering mechanics. He has been teaching engineering students for more than 13 years.

He started his teaching career at Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET) in Bangladesh, the same school where he earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He finished first in a class of 107 and was awarded the Prime Minister Gold Medal and the University Gold Medal. As a lecturer at KUET, he taught machine design, thermal engineering, aerodynamics, manufacturing, and other courses, ran the Mechatronics and Aerial Robotics Lab, and supervised student design and thesis projects. He also did consulting work for local industry on product design and testing.

He came to Wisconsin for his Ph.D., which he completed at UW–Milwaukee with a 4.00 GPA. His focus was bio-robotics and control, and he minored in mathematics. For his dissertation, he designed and built a robotic exoskeleton to help patients regain movement in their arms and shoulders. He received the Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, the Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship, and several Chancellor Graduate Student Awards.

Much of his research still centers on robots that help people, including rehabilitation devices and wearable exoskeletons. He also works on mobile robot navigation, robotic arms, and control systems, and has recently taken on projects in industrial and space robotics. NASA’s Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium funded one of his recent projects, a computational tool for customizing robotic arms during space missions. His work has been published in Robotica, Sensors, Micromachines, the International Journal of Dynamics and Control, and other journals, as well as in several books on wearable robotics and rehabilitation engineering.

Dr. Islam likes to bring undergraduates into his research, and many of his students have presented and published their work. Some of his former students now teach at universities in the U.S. and abroad. Others work at companies like Intel, Google, Amazon, and MilliporeSigma. He counts their success as one of the best parts of his job.

At UW–Green Bay, he has helped build the robotics, mechatronics, and controls labs so students can work with real equipment alongside their coursework. He coordinates ABET accreditation for the Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Technology programs, sits on the Academic Affairs Council, and has served as a Faculty Senator. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ASME.