This week I am honored to have a special guest on Engineering Design in Omniverse, Dr. Robert Todd. I know him from my time at BYU where he was, among other things, my Formula SAE coach and on my graduate committee. He is very experienced in both industry and academia in the field of engineering design. In this week's show we will have a discussion with him about the most critical elements necessary to affect a successful product and while he comes from an engineering design background, his wisdom applies just as well to other disciplines such as software development.
Dr. Robert H. Todd is an Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University and the founding director of BYU’s Capstone program, Integrated Product and Process Design. Dr. Todd received his PhD from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering Design, where he also received a Post Doctoral fellowship. He taught engineering courses and served in department and college administration at BYU-Idaho (then Ricks College) before spending 10 years in industry in senior technical engineering and management positions with both the General Motors Corporation and the Michelin Tire Corporation in both the U.S. and Europe. His research and teaching interests have included manufacturing process machine design, product design, and the improvement of engineering education in a global setting. Since coming to BYU in 1989, he was the senior author of two manufacturing processes books. One of them Manufacturing Processes Reference Guide, was a best seller used throughout the world. He has authored with his students, more than 100 peer-reviewed technical articles.