The Learning Foundation in Mechatronics (LFME), based in Athens, Greece, is a non-profit organization established in 2012 by Prof. Demosthenes (Demos) Theodoros Tsahalis, after his resignation in 2011 from a full-professorship position in the University of Patras, Greece, a position he held since 1988.
LFME’s establishment, with its objective of studying / promoting the synergies of sciences and technologies towards creating / providing systems / products serving the mankind in the broadest sense under the “all-encompassing” term of “mechatronics”, came as a natural consequence of the professional activities and experiences of Prof. Tsahalis.
A precursor event was the establishment by Prof. Tsahalis of two series of biennial conferences, specifically: International Conference “from Scientific Computing to Computational Engineering, IC-SCCE, started in 2004, and International Conference in “Experiments \ Process \ System Modeling \ Simulation \ Optimization”, IC-EPSMSO, started in 2005.
The success of these two conference series strengthened the motivation for establishing LFME, which will also be the organizer of these conferences.