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Career Highlights

Academia

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.

Current research focus is on learning how to manage design freedom in multiscale design (from molecular to reduced order models) to facilitate the integrated design of materials, product and design process chains. 

Current education passion is to create and implement a curriculum for educating Strategic Engineers – those who have developed the competencies to create value through the realization of complex engineered systems for changing markets in a collaborative, globally distributed environment.

Graduated over 90 students with theses; PhD 26, MS 49, BS 19.  Placed 9 of 18 PhDs from GT in academia.

Co-authored 2 text-books, 1 monograph and over 325 technical papers dealing with the design of mechanical and structural systems; ships and aircraft;  includes over 225 refereed publications and over 30 papers that deal exclusively with education.  Writes stories for children.

Service

Associate Chair, Woodruff School Savannah (2005-2008):  Success included defining a vision, attracting, recruiting and mentoring faculty (5 tenure track, 3 visiting), developing undergraduate and graduate labora-tories, growing the undergraduate program substantially, creating three new undergraduate electives and being successful in gaining ABET approval for the new undergraduate degree program at Georgia Tech, Savannah.

Secretary-Treasurer, Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society (1995-2008).  This was the longest tenure of any Secretary-Treasurer in the 90+ year history of the society.  Some highlights:  Most office operations were transitioned from paper, to computer, to the web; the value of the PTS portfolio increased from around $180k to almost $500k; a PTS Scholarship Endowment of $300k was established;  three scholarships were awarded for the first time at the PTS Convention in February 2008.

Founding Director, Systems Realization Laboratory, Georgia Tech (1992-1997).  This was the first occurrence in the Woodruff School of faculty voluntarily deciding to share to gain and adopt the principles of governance embodied in a Learning Organization as proffered by Peter Senge.  In keeping with our motto “Happy people are always successful.  Successful people are not necessarily happy” we defined our mission as striving to provide an opportunity for students, staff and faculty to learn how to rise to their full potential and sought colleagues - colleagues who have a dream and a passion to make a difference and want to be the thought leaders of tomorrow.  http://www.srl.gatech.edu.  Also google "Chapter 26 The Systems Realization Laboratory".

Recognition

Fellow of ASME. 

Associate Fellow of AIAA. 

Life member Phi Kappa Phi. 

ASME International, Design Engineering Division’s Distinguished Service Award:  1999 and 2003. 

ASME Design Automation Committee’s Design Automation Award:  1999. 

2001 Jack M. Zeigler, ‘Woodruff School Outstanding Educator Award’,  Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia. 

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

See Curriculum Vitae Section IV - Scholarly Accomplishments

Students Graduated

See Curriculum Vitae Section III A - Individual Student Guidance

Other Information

"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)

Writes stories for children