Responding to Emergencies Using Local Industry: Service Learning with Manufacturing Engineers

Dr. Daniel Waldorf is a Professor in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Cal Poly State University. He received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering in 1996 from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. At Cal Poly he teaches mainly in the manufacturing processes area, including Manufacturing Process Design, Tool Engineering, Computer-Aided Manufacturing, and Quality Engineering. He worked for two years in Chicago as a Quality/Manufacturing Engineer at ATF, Inc., a supplier of specialty coldformed and machined components for automotive applications. His research interests are in cutting tool design and machining process modeling and monitoring. He is the lead instructional faculty in the manufacturing engineering program. His publications are mainly in tool wear modeling and engineering education activities. He recently served as conference chair for a 2005 manufacturing engineering education conference at Cal Poly. Dr. Waldorf is a member of ASEE, SME, and EWB.