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Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Industrial Engineering
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814-865-9693
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814-863-7136
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Biography:
Research Interests: Engineering design and design methodology, statistical approximations and design of experiments, and product family and product platform design.
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
on April 7, 2011 - 16:08 tsimpson