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Dr. David Hoeppner, PE., PhD.
Professor
50 S. Central Campus Drive, Rm 2110
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
phone (801) 581-3851
fax (801) 585-5889 or 5-9826
Office e-mail-hoeppner@eng.utah.edu
home office phone-(801) 583-8006
(fax is same number)
home office e-mail-dhoeppner@comcast.net
Introduction
Dr. Hoeppner is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. He served as Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1985-1992. He came to Utah from the University of Toronto where he held the endowed Cockburn Professorship of Engineering Design from 1978-1985 and was Director of the Cockburn Centre for Engineering Design at the University of Toronto. He also was director and founder of the Structural Integrity, Fatigue, and Fracture Research Laboratory at the U. of Toronto. At the U. of Utah he also serves as director the Quality and Integrity Design Engineering Center.
Dr. Hoeppner received his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering Degree from Marquette University in 1958, his Master of Metallurgical Engineering Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1960, and his Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963. He then worked at Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus Laboratories from 1964 to 1969. In 1969, Dr. Hoeppner became a Principal Investigator for fatigue and fracture design and material behavior at Lockheed Corporation and later served as Head of the Fatigue and Fracture Laboratories and Chair of the corporation's Fracture Mechanics Task Group. In 1974, Dr. Hoeppner joined the engineering faculty at the University of Missouri, Columbia, as Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Bioengineering and Nuclear Engineering. While at Missouri, he started one of the first programs on Structural Integrity at a University.
Throughout his career, Dr. Hoeppner has been committed to improving engineering education as well as the practice of engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in three states Wisconsin, Missouri, and Ohio and the Province of Ontario in
Dr. Torch Elliot
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Utah
50 S. Central Campus Drive, Rm 2110
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
phone (801) 581-8981
elliott@arachne.eng.utah.edu
Introduction
EDUCATION:
Ph. D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, 1993
M. S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, 1974
B. S. Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, 1964
Applicable schools while in the Army:
Program Management Course of the Defense Systems
Management College
Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1998 - Research Assistant Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake city, Utah
1996 - 1998 Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake city, Utah
1994 - Assistant Director of the Quality and Integrity Design Engineering Center (QIDEC), MechanicalEngineering Department, University of Utah
1993 - Research Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Utah
1986 - 1993 Lab Manager (as a student) of the QIDEC Complex, instructor, research specialist, teaching assistant
1964 - 1986 Officer,
1959 - 1960 Enlisted,
The Quality and Integrity Design Engineering Center QIDEC) laboratories in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Currently involved in the following research in support of the Air Force aging aircraft program. Experimentation to determine the failure characteristics of titanium Ti-6-4 alloy under multi-axial (axial/torsional) fatigue loading conditions in lab air.This program also involves experimentation to determine the fatigue crack growth characteristics of T -6-4, 6061T651 aluminum alloy and 4340 steel specimens selected to laser surface treatments.
