Helmi Attia is a Principal Research Officer and former Manager of Advanced Material Removal Processes, at the Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Centre of the National Research Council Canada. Before joining the NRC in 2002, he was a Principal Research Engineer at Ontario Hydro Research, and Manager of Fabrication Technology at Spar Aerospace Technology Ltd. He is an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University and an Adjunct Professor of Industrial and Materials Science, at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Helmi is a Fellow of the College International pour la Recherche en Productique (CIRP), Fellow of SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers), Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Fellow of IAAM (International Association of Advanced Materials). He is the recipient of ‘The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal’ (2013), and the prestigious ‘ASME Blackall Machine Tools and Gage Award, (1989). He received numerous recognitions from ASME and ASTM for being the principal organizer and editor of symposia related to manufacturing and tribology. Helmi is on the editorial board of several international journals Helmi Attia is recognized in the areas of machining, thermal deformation of machine tools, and fretting wear/fatigue. To his credit, Helmi has authored/coauthored some 270 papers in archival journals and refereed conference proceedings, four book chapters, and more than 125 technical research reports.