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Tahira Reid Smith

Arthur L. Glenn Professor of Engineering Education
Associate Department Head for Inclusive Research and Education

Affiliation(s):

Mechanical Engineering

School of Engineering Design and Innovation

201 Reber Building

tpr5404@psu.edu

814-863-1673

Research Website

Education

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2000

Publications

Journal Articles

Jacob G Hunter, Elise Ulwelling, Matthew Konishi, Noah Michelini, Akhil Modali, Anne Mendoza, Jessie Snyder, Shashank Mehrota, Zhaobo Zeng, Anil R Kumar, Kumar Akash, Teruhisa Misu, Neera Jain and Tahira Reid Smith, 2023, "The future of mobility-as-a-service: trust transfer across automated mobilities, from road to sidewalk", Frontiers in Psychology, 14, pp. p.1129583.1-1129583.19

Conference Proceedings

Tahira Reid and Catherine Berdanier, 2023, "Design Sprints in Research: A Novel Approach for Enhancing the Professional Development of Graduate Students"

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

ASME Dedicated Service Award, ASME, March 2025 - March 2025

Featured in "Change Your Game/Cambia Tu Juego" Exhibit, Smithsonian Museum of American History, March 2024

ASME Fellow, ASME, June 2024

Service

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About

With more than 60 faculty members, 330 graduate students, and 1,000 undergraduate students, the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering embraces a culture that welcomes individuals with a diversity of backgrounds and expertise. Our faculty and students are innovating today what will impact tomorrow’s solutions to meeting our energy needs, homeland security, biomedical devices, and transportation systems. We offer B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering as well as resident (M.S., Ph.D.) and online (M.S.) graduate degrees in mechanical engineering. See how we’re inspiring change and impacting tomorrow at me.psu.edu.