Timothy W. Simpson, Ph.D. is a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Penn State University and the co-director of the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D), a DARPA-funded manufacturing demonstration facility for additive manufacturing (www.cimp-3d.org). His research and teaching interests include product family and product platform design, design innovation and entrepreneurship, and additive manufacturing, and he has authored more than 250 technical publications and edited 2 textbooks in these areas.
