Kathryn W. Jablokow is an American engineer focused on engineering education, the engineering design process, and the cognitive psychology of engineering creativity. She is a professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering at the Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies,[1] and a program director for engineering research initiation in the Division of Civil, Mechanical & Manufacturing Innovation of the National Science Foundation.[2]
Education and career edit
Jablokow is the youngest of three children of Herman R. Weed (1922–2022), a biomedical engineer and professor of electrical engineering at the Ohio State University; her mother was a teacher of German.[3] She was educated in electrical engineering at Ohio State, earning a bachelor's degree in 1983, master's degree in 1985, and Ph.D. in 1989.[1][3] Her graduate research, involving the design of large machines that walk, was supervised by David E. Orin, and she also counts Robert E. Fenton as a faculty mentor.[3]
She was a NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at RWTH Aachen University before returning to the US to join the Penn State faculty in 1990.[1] At Penn State Great Valley, she was associate chief academic officer from 2017 to 2020; she began a two-year term at the National Science Foundation in 2021.[3]
Recognition edit
In 2009, Jablokow was named an ASME Fellow.[4] She was the 2016 winner of the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b c Kathryn W. Jablokow, Penn State Great Valley, retrieved 2022-07-14
- ^ "Kathryn Jablokow", Staff directory, National Science Foundation, retrieved 2022-07-14
- ^ a b c d Horns, Ryan (1 May 2021), A journey from dreams to fruition: Alumna Kathryn Jablokow, Ohio State University, retrieved 2022-07-14
- ^ ASME Fellows list (PDF), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, retrieved 2022-07-14
- ^ Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, retrieved 2022-07-14; Top design engineering award presented to Penn State Great Valley professor: Jablokow becomes second woman to receive Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award, Pennsylvania State University, 24 August 2016, retrieved 2022-07-14
External links edit
- Kathryn Jablokow publications indexed by Google Scholar