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Ramy Harik PhD

Chief Manufacturing Officer, Nephron Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Ramy Harik, a Fulbright Scholar, holds the position of Chief Manufacturing Officer at Nephron Pharmaceuticals heading the engineering teams of Smart Manufacturing, Design & Robotics, Process Planning, Quality Standards and Facility Planning. Dr. Harik is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina and a researcher at the McNAIR Center for Aerospace Innovation and Research. Ramy is the principal investigator of the neXt (new and emerging X technologies) research team. His education joins Mechanical Engineering (BS/MS), Automated Manufacturing (MS) and Industrial/Mechanical Engineering (PhD). He mainly teaches courses in Manufacturing, Smart Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Prototyping, Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM). Dr Harik is an Associate Editor of the SME Manufacturing Letters and CADA international journal. He is the author of the “Introduction to Advanced Manufacturing” textbook by SAE. He was granted more than 10 million USD in funding from NASA, Boeing, National Institute of Health, Toray, SC Department of Commerce, South Carolina Research Authority, Siemens, Fokker Aerostructures, Dassault Aviation (funded as a student) and several other agencies. He is the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Undergraduate Research award from the University of South Carolina, the 2018 Samuel Litman Distinguished Professor award from the College of Engineering and Computing at the University of South Carolina, and the 2016 Outstanding Young Educator Award from Pi Tau Sigma Honor Society at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Harik was the chair of CAD’10, the ACE’15, ACE’16 and ACE’17 Technical Symposiums, the PLM’16 International Conference, and the technical co-chair of the largest composites show in the United States CAMX 2020. He was listed as amongst the 20 most influential professors in Smart Manufacturing by SME’s Smart Manufacturing Magazine in 2020. In 2022, Dr. Harik will have his second book released: “Manufacturing vs Corruption: Who Wins?” to be published by SAE.


Appearances

  • Thumbnail for Concurrent Session: Learnings from COVID - Innovations for Parenteral Productivity/Capacity
    Date
    November 2, 2021
    Concurrent Session: Learnings from COVID - Innovations for Parenteral Productivity/Capacity|The COVID pandemic has led to a spotlight focus on parenteral operations capabilities and capacity as the industry responded in an unprecedented manner to the need to innoculate billions of people…

    Session Leader

    Speaker Image for Jennifer Clark
    VP, Sales and Account Relationship Management, CAI

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Matt Hall
    Technical Affairs Director, Corning Pharmaceutical Technologies
    Speaker Image for Mevluet Yilmaz
    Director of Sales – Pharma North America, OPTIMA Machinery Corporation
    Speaker Image for Ramy Harik
    Chief Manufacturing Officer, Nephron Pharmaceuticals
    Speaker Image for Lane Hapke
    Vice President of Manufacturing Operations, Ampio Pharmaceuticals Inc