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Career Highlights

Design experience  spans mechanical, aeronautical, structural, and industrial engineering. 

Teaching experience spans courses in engineering design, naval architecture, solid mechanics, operations research and computer science. Committed to developing a design pedagogy that is rooted in Decision-Based Design and adaptive action learning.  It is in this context that he enjoys innovating and experimenting with ways in which design can be learned and taught.

Research focus is on learning how to manage design freedom associated with the design, deployment, operation and support of open and sustainable engineering systems, that is, how can one do more with less. 

One of the principal developers of the Decision Support Problem technique, the associated DSIDES software and the DSPT Workbook for implementing integrated product and process development.  The DSIDES software has been sold ($100k a copy) and has been used in major projects at the BF Goodrich Company in Ohio, the Directorate of Naval Architecture, Department of Defence in Australia and the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN).

Publications Co-authored 2 text-books and over 300 technical papers dealing with the design of mechanical and structural systems; ships and aircraft; includes over 150 refereed publications and 30 papers that deal exclusively with education.  Writes stories for children. (see Publication Section)

Conference Organization Conference Chair, ASME Design Theory and Methodology Conference, 1994.  General Co-Chair (with Harvey Lipkin of Georgia Tech) ASME Design Technical Conferences, 1998.  CoChair (with Ashok Belagundu of Penn State), Engineering Foundation sponsored Optimization in Industry Conference, 1997, 1999.  General Co-Chair (with Dan Schrage of Georgia Tech) AIAA Multidisciplinary Design and Analysis Symposium, Atlanta, 2002.

Editorial / Advisory Boards  Engineering Optimization;  Engineering Valuation and Cost Analysis;  Concurrent Engineering:  Research and Applications.

Honors Fellow of ASME.  Associate Fellow of AIAA.  Member SNAME, RINA, ASEE.  Life member Phi Kappa Phi.  National Secretary-Treasurer Pi Tau Sigma.  Elected member AIAA Technical Committee on Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (1993-97).  Georgia Tech:  Director, Systems Realization Laboratory (1992-97);  Member, Institute Strategic Planning Committee on Sustainability (1996-97);  Member, Institute Undergraduate Committee (since 1997);  Chair, ASME Design Engineering Division H&A Committee (since 1997).  ABET Reviewer since 1996.

Future And what does Farrokh Mistree want to do in the future?  He wants to have fun - fun in defining the emerging science-based discipline of design.  Fun in providing an opportunity for highly motivated and talented people  to learn how to achieve their dreams.

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"Cinderella, Professors, and Change in the Wal-Marting World of Higher Education," Annual Woodruff School Zeigler Outstanding Educator Lecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, March 27, 2002. (Video)