Dr. Janis Terpenny

Dr. Terpenny's research interests focus on the early stages of engineering design, including: design process and methodology, enabling technologies, representations, and knowledge systems that lead to reduced costs, improved quality and satisfaction, and reduced time to market of innovative high value products and systems. Dr. Terpenny is also interested in the effects of interdisciplinary design teams, human-centered design and industry collaboration on student learning, motivation, recruitment and retention in engineering.

Dr. Terpenny was an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has several years of industrial work experience with General Electric where she completed the two-year information systems management program (ISMP) and worked as a systems analyst, receiving a management recognition award for outstanding performance. She has been the principal or co-principal investigator on numerous NSF grants and industry funded projects, has published several book chapters, and over 50 peer reviewed journal and conference proceedings papers. She is a member of ASEE, ASME, IIE, SWE, and Alpha Pi Mu and currently serves as the Design Economics area editor for The Engineering Economist.

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Janis Terpenny is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education with affiliate faculty positions in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial & Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech.
Dr. Terpenny is the site director at Virginia Tech of the NSF Center for e-Design, a multi-university NSF industry-university cooperative research center. She is also the director of the Systems Modeling and Realizations Technologies Lab at Virginia Tech.

Dr. Terpenny's research interests focus on the early stages of engineering design, including: design process and methodology, enabling technologies, representations, and knowledge systems that lead to reduced costs, improved quality and satisfaction, and reduced time to market of innovative high value products and systems. Dr. Terpenny is also interested in the effects of interdisciplinary design teams, human-centered design and industry collaboration on student learning, motivation, recruitment and retention in engineering. Dr. Terpenny was an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has several years of industrial work experience with General Electric where she completed the two-year information systems management program (ISMP) and worked as a systems analyst, receiving a management recognition award for outstanding performance. She has been the principal or co-principal investigator on numerous NSF grants and industry funded projects, has published several book chapters, and over 50 peer reviewed journal and conference proceedings papers. She is a member of ASEE, ASME, IIE, SWE, and Alpha Pi Mu and currently serves as the Design Economics area editor for The Engineering Economist. Return