Tim Simpson

Interim Head of the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design & Manufacturing · The Pennsylvania State University · company speakers →

Dr. Timothy W. Simpson is the interim Head of the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs and Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design & Manufacturing at Penn State. He is the co-Director of CIMP-3D, and he helped launch the world’s first online and resident graduate program in Additive Manufacturing & Design, growing it to more than 200 participants from over 80 different companies in four years. He has received over $50M in support of his research and has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings, and he was lead editor on two textbooks. He specializes in metal AM and Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM), and he has helped educate and train over 700 practitioners to date. He is a monthly columnist for Additive Manufacturing Media and Modern Machine Shop. He also serves as the Educational ADDVisor SM for The Barnes Global Advisors, a team of experts helping organizations industrialize AM. He has received numerous awards for outstanding research and teaching at Penn State, including the 2019 Teaching and Learning with Technology Impact Award for helping making 3D printing available to all 100,000 Penn State students. He is a recipient of ASME's Joel & Ruth Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award, Design Automation Award, Robert E. Abbott Award, and Ben C. Sparks Award as well as the ASEE Fred Merryfield Design Award. He is a Fellow in ASME and an Associate Fellow in AIAA. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell.

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