David G. Ullman - Designing quality into product development

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David Ullman has a unique history of teaching, research and professional practice. He has taught the design process to over 1000 students in university classrooms and at over twenty major corporations. He has written what is considered to be the best text on the design process. He has founded two successful corporations and developed products for them. He has a reputation for designing simple solutions to problems and believes that in simplicity is elegance. Throughout his career he has strived to practice what he preaches, and preach what he has personally researched and used in practice.
  • Author of The Mechanical Design Process 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill,2003.
  • Author of 12 Steps to Robust Decisions, Trafford, 2001.
  • President, Robust Decisions Inc, a company helping clients make decisions by design.
  • Founder and former president for BikeE Corporation, the world’s largest manufacturer of recumbent bicycles during Ullman’s tenure.
  • Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design at Oregon State University.
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
  • Founder and first chairman of the ASME Design Theory and Methodology Committee.
  • Consultant for Boeing, Hewlett Packard, Schlumberger, Metronic, Tektronix, Sequent, Lucent, Mentor Graphics, Harley Davidson, Novellus, Freightliner and others.
  • Developer of Accord, the software enabler of robust decision-making
  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering Design, The Ohio State University, 1978.
  • MS Aerospace Controls, University of Cincinnati, 1970.
  • Certified Expert in Taguchi's Methods for Robust Design, 1997.
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