Leveraging Rehabilitation Needs Into Freshman Engineering Design Projects

Bruce Ankenman, Northwestern University Bruce Ankenman received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MS and PhD. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to his graduate work, he worked for five years as a design engineer for an automotive supplier in Ohio. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. His research interests include the statistical design and analysis of experiments. Although much of his work has been concerned with physical experiments, recent research has focused on computer simulation experiments. Professor Ankenman is currently the director of the freshman engineering and design course (EDC) and was awarded the Outstanding Advisor of the Year at McCormick in 2001. He serves as a department editor for IIE Transactions and as an associate editor for Naval Research Logistics.