Directories - Faculty - Dr. Timothy Simpson

Dr. Timothy Simpson Director of the Learning Factory Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Industrial Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University 329 Leonhard Building University Park, PA 16802	Phone: 814-863-7136 Fax: 814-865-9693 E-Mail: tws8@psu.edu

Webpage: http://www.mne.psu.edu/simpson

Overview	Publications	Research

Expertise:
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

Honors/Awards:
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)

Department of

Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

Directories - Faculty - Dr. Timothy Simpson

Dr. Timothy Simpson

Director of the Learning Factory Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Industrial Engineering

Director of the Learning Factory
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and
Professor of Industrial Engineering