Tahira Reid Smith
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088
Purdue University
585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088
Office: ME 2198
Degrees
- B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, '00
- M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, '04
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, '10
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Iowa State University, 2010-2011
Research Interests
- Product design
- Conceptual design
- Decision-making and behavioral psychology
- Integrating human judgments into the design process
- Application areas of interest include (but are not limited to): sustainability, healthcare/medicine, and non-traditional applications of design research.