Dr. Janis Terpenny
Janis Terpenny

Office:

630 McBryde Hall

Mailing Address:

660 McBryde Hall

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Tel: (540) 231-9538
Fax: (540) 231-6903

email-terpenny@vt.edu     

 

Systems Modeling and Realizations Laboratory
Systems Modeling And Realization Technologies Laboratory
 

 
 
NSF Center for e-Design
 
NSF Center for e-Design

 

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Title: Associate Professor

  2006 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow
NSF Advance Professor

Education:
Ph.D. Industrial and Systems Engineering, December 1996
M.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering, July 1981
B.S. Mathematical Sciences, May 1979

Teaching Interests: Engineering Design Process and Methods, Preparing Future Professors as Engineering Design Educators, Engineering Economics, Systems Engineering, Operations Research

Research Interests: Engineering Design Education: the effects of project types on student learning, engagement and retention; methods to increase student understanding and ability to solve problems that are real, ill-defined and complex, and to work in interdisciplinary teams.
Engineering Design Process and Methods: representation, capture and reuse of knowledge and information in design; the optimal design of product families and platforms; and methods to predict and plan for obsolescence in products and systems.

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