Arshad Noor Siddiquee is Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. He received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His research areas are materials structure property correlation, welding engineering, machining and optimization of design and process parameters using fuzzy modeling. He has published more than 75 articles in national and international journals. He served as Assistant Director of All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) from 2005-07.