Biographical Sketch
Education:
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,
GA, 1998
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA, 1995
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1994
Positions
Held:
- Director of the Learning Factory
- The Pennsylvania State University, 1998-Present
- NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Goerge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995-1998
- ICASE Summer Visitor, Multidisciplinary Optimization Branch, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, Summer 1997
- Real-Time Optical Diagnostics Research for Basic Oxygen Steelmaking Process, Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, Summer 1993
- SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, 2005
- Outstanding Research Award, Penn State Engineering Society, 2004
- NSF Career Award
- Outstanding Teaching Award, Penn State Engineering Society, 2002
- Department Head Faculty Award, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, 1999
Affiliations:
- Assistant Professor the Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
- Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- Member, American Society of Engineering Education
- Member, International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO)