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Holli Burgon


  • Phone: 801-581-3036
  • Email: H.Burgon@utah.edu
  • Office: 1620 WEB

Focused on helping people do their best work, Holli teaches professional communications to undergraduates. Her Ph.D. research focused on technology innovators’ career success strategies. While a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Illinois College of Engineering, Holli studied the cultivation and assessment of creative capacity. As a coach and consultant, she has helped individuals and organizations grow talent and leadership potential. Holli’s teaching and research interests include leadership, practical wisdom, career and talent development, and creativity and innovation.

Stephanie Menhart


  • Phone: 801-646-5991
  • Email: s.menhart@utah.edu
  • Office: 2883 WEB

Stephanie teaches professional communication to undergraduates in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her Ph.D. research focused on the impact of generative AI on communication and workplace practices. Her research and teaching interests include emerging technology, the future of work, media psychology, and ethical technology development.

Russ Askren


  • Phone: (801) 587-3723
  • Email: russ.askren@utah.edu
  • Office: 1603 WEB

Russ spent more than 20 years in the software development industry working in the area of large system administration and integration in both technical and managerial roles. His classroom focus is upon workplace writing and presentation, engineering ethics and the role of technology and engineering in society. Russ holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in philosophy with a specialization in applied ethics. His interests focus upon the application of philosophy to public policy in the areas of technology, business, medicine and global justice

Joseph Kirchhoff


  • Email: joseph.kirchhoff@utah.edu

Research Interests:
Advanced composite manufacturing
Process monitoring and in-situ sensing
Inverse problems and state estimation
Digital twins for manufacturing
Google Scholar Citations

Erik Andersen


  • Email: erik.andersen@utah.edu

Research & Teaching Interests:
Engineering Educational Pedagogy
Wireless Power Transfer
Engineering Design Process
System Dynamics

John Murray


  • Email: john.murray@utah.edu

Research Interests:
Reacting Flows
Hypersonics
Plasmas
Laser Spectroscopy

John Bolke


  • Email: john.bolke@utah.edu

Advisor for Robotics, Systems, and Engineering Management graduate students.
Helps students develop educational plans and assisting them from admission to graduation. Assists students with matters relating to academics, such as, course planning, registration, student record management, tuition benefit enrollment, graduation, and thesis and dissertation formatting.

Mark Plecnik


  • Email: m.plecnik@utah.edu
  • Office: 2342 MEK

Research Interests
AI tools for the kinematic design of robots
Computational invention
Swimming, hopping, flapping, and running robots
Deployable drones
Robot arms and grippers
Parallel mechanisms

Declan Picot


  • Email: declan.picot@utah.edu