2018 Panelists
2018 BPart Panelists
Janet Allen, PhD
Professor, John and Mary Moore Chair
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
The University of Oklahoma
I have spent most of my career in academia and look forward to sharing my experience. I was a member of the research faculty at Georgia Tech for 13 years and then obtained a tenure track position and was both an associate professor and a professor. At the University of Oklahoma where I now hold the John and Mary Chair.
David Ullman, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering
Oregon State University
Life Fellow, ASME
Ullman has worked in industry as a design engineer; he has done research in government labs; he started two companies with one producing products he designed and growing to 30 employees and $6M in revenue per year, the other supported by government grants; he works as a consultant; he is a technical author; and an academic.
Patrick Little, Sc.D
J. Stanley and Mary Wig Johnson Professor of Engineering, Chair of the Faculty
Harvey Mudd College
Professor Little joined the faculty at Harvey Mudd in 1996 after a career that included several years as a terminal superintendent for a Class I railroad, co-founding a transportation consulting and software firm, and teaching in a Massachusetts state prison. His more recent interests are focused on engineering design and ways to increase creative capacity of STEM students.
Mike Yukish, PhD
Head, Manufacturing Systems Division
Applied Research Lab/Penn State University
Asst. Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Dr. Michael Yukish is the Head of the Manufacturing Systems Division at Applied Research Laboratory of The Pennsylvania State University, where the focus of his research is on design and decision making. B.S. in Physics, Old Dominion University in 1983; M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 1997; and Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2004. He is also a retired officer and aviator in the US Navy Reserve, with over 1800 flight hours operating various high performance aircraft. His path to a PhD and a research career was non-traditional, returning to academia following 10 years out of college working in industry and as a pilot in the military. He earned his PhD while working two jobs, raising three kids, and conducting his own research and leading a team of twelve scientists and engineers.
