Kashmiri Lal Mittal was employed by the IBM Corporation from 1972 through 1993. Currently, he is teaching and consulting worldwide in the broad areas of adhesion as well as surface cleaning. He has received numerous awards and honors including the title of doctor honoris causa from Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland. He is the editor of more than 160 books dealing with adhesion measurement, adhesion of polymeric coatings, polymer surfaces, adhesive joints, adhesion promoters, thin films, polyimides, surface modification surface cleaning, and surfactants.

S. K. Panigrahi, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune, India. He has worked as an international visiting academic with the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. With over 27 years of extensive teaching, research, training, and administrative experience, Dr. Panigrahi is currently focused on advanced finite element methods, nonlinear finite element analyses, and modeling engineering structures with functionally graded/monolithic adhesively-bonded joints. His publications include over 190 research articles and peer-reviewed scholarly papers, four books, a monograph, and many conference proceedings, including a series of lecture materials.