Dr. Francis Francis is currently a full time member of the mechanical engineering department in Notre Dame University, Louaize, Lebanon. He was graduated, received his PhD, from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
His areas of teaching are: Dynamics of bodies and systems, Science of Materials, Engineering Graphics, Manufacturing Processes and Product Design, Mechatronics, Engineering Instrumentations, Joining processes: Welding, soldering and Brazing. He is supervising many senior research projects concerned with manufacturing and product design, welding approaches etc.
In his research, Dr Francis is investigating Design for Environment at the functional level of product design where the methodology of Quality Function Deployment, Customer requirements, Design for Environment aspects and sustainability issues are taken into consideration at the first stage of product life cycle. Presently, Dr Francis is expanding his research to focus on “socially conscious E-Learning process” and E – Learning obstacles in the Third World”.
Dr. Francis has worked as a Manufacturing Management Specialist at the Advanced Manufacturing Center at the Australian Technology Park, Sydney, Australia. Also, Dr. Francis was the Research and Production Manager of the Australasian Production and Inventory Control Society Quarterly Journal of Enterprise Resource Management, Sydney, Australia.

Ph.D. in Engineering, Mechanical engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia. 2003.

M.E. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Technology, Australia, 1997.

B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Rostov on Don, Russia. 1987.

Refereed Journal Articles

Francis, F. (2001) Total Quality Management for a Sustainable Future. Journal of Enterprise Resource Management, (APICS), Australia, First Quarter, pp.28-35.

Francis, F. (2000) An Evaluation of Environmental Impact of Australian Manufacturing Industry- A focus on Energy Usage. Journal of Enterprise Resource Management (APICS), Australia, First Quarter, pp.67-77.

Conference Proceedings

Francis, F. (2009) Environmentally Conscious Quality Function Deployment – A New Approach for Green Manufacturing, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA09), pp.340-343, NDU, Lebanon.

Francis, F. (2009) Total Quality Management – A Tool for Design for Environment, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA09), pp.351-354, NDU, Lebanon.

Francis, F. (2008). Electrochemical Machining of Non-ferrous Alloy: (Al Mg Cu O5), International Conference on Non-Ferrous Metals (NF-MET 2008), Moscow, Russia.

Francis, F. (2008) Electrochemical Machining of Ferrous and Non-ferrous Alloys, FAME 2008, International Conference on Fascinating Advancement in Mechanical Engineering (FAME 2008), India.

Francis, F. (2008). “Thermoelectric Plates Cutting Tool Cooling – A case of Cast Iron, International Conference on Minerals to Materials (M2M 2008), Cairo, Egypt.

Francis, F. (2008) Socially Conscious E-Learning Process. International Conference on Technology Communication and  Education, Kuwait, April 7-9.
Francis, F. (2008) Total Quality Management: A Tool for Sustainable Development. First International Conference on Engineering Management (ICEM-2008), Pakistan.

Francis, F. (2007) Environmentally Conscious Quality Function Deployment: A Tool Intelligent Processing and Manufacturing of Materials for Sustainable Manufacturing. Sixth International Conference on, (IPMM-2007), Salerno, Italy June 24-29.

Francis, F. (2005) Environmental Metrics: A Filter to Green Product planning. First Middle East International Conference on Advances in civil, Mechanical and Material Engineering, Amman University, Jordan, December 7-9.

Francis, F. (2004) The Elaboration Process: A Tool for Uncovering Unspoken Environmental Customer Requirements for Product Development. International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ICME – 2004), Kuwait, December 5-8.