Sheri D. Sheppard
Sheri D. Sheppard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1956[1] |
| Nationality | File:Flag of the United States.svg United States |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Awards | U.S. Professors of the Year award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | engineering design |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
Sheri D. Sheppard (born 1956) is the Burton J. and Deedee McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate Education; Associate Vice Provost of Graduate Education; and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Curriculum, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University.[2] She focuses her teaching on engineering design for undergraduate and graduate students. In November 2014, the Carnegie Foundation bestowed on her the U.S. Professor of the Year award.[3]
Early life and education
Sheppard graduated from William Horlick High School in Racine, Wisconsin in 1974 and aimed to study law. As she explained, "...my father said that he would fund law school if I majored in engineering."[4] She earned a B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1978, and by that time she had become passionate about engineering. She went to the University of Michigan–Dearborn, and earned an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor in 1985.[5]
Career
Sheppard has held positions in Detroit, working at Chrysler Corporation and also at Ford Motor Company's Scientific Research Lab. She started at Stanford as an assistant professor on the Mechanical Engineering faculty in 1986. Sheppard was promoted to associate professor in 1993, and achieved the rank of professor in 2005.[6] Sheppard was chair of Stanford's Faculty Senate from 2006 to 2007.[7] Between 1999 and 2008, she also served as Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she had responsibility for the Preparations for the Professions Program (PPP) engineering study and report.[6]
Research
Sheppard has studied fatigue and fracture of structural components, producing technical papers, reports, and textbooks on "weld fatigue and impact failures, fracture mechanics and applied finite element analysis."[8] She has also led studies of engineering education, including the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field.[6] Sheppard has been principal investigator on multiple National Science Foundation grants focused on engineer educational methods, including Synthesis Coalition (1986–1995), founding the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (2003–2009) and the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (2011–2016).[6]
Honors
The Carnegie Foundation named Sheppard 2014 U.S. Professor of the Year, "for her innovative approach to teaching undergraduate students in a hands-on, problem-solving way that transforms large classes into small group learning laboratories".[3][9] She is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering[10] and the American Society for Engineering Education.[11]
References
- ↑ "United States U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1". ancestry.com. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
- ↑ "NAE Website - Sheri Sheppard". www.nae.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Stanford mechanical engineer Sheri Sheppard named U.S. professor of the year". Stanford University. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ↑ "U.S Professor of the Year Awards - Sheri Sheppard - Acceptance Speech". www.usprofessorsoftheyear.org. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
- ↑ "Sheri Sheppard's Profile - Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Curriculum vitae, Sheri D. Sheppard" (PDF). Stanford University. 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
- ↑ "Boothroyd, Sheppard to join Office of Vice Provost for Graduate Education". Retrieved 2016-08-03.
- ↑ "Sheri Sheppard - Open". NCIIA 18th annual conference. Venturewell. 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
- ↑ "U.S Professor of the Year Awards - 2014 U.S. Professors of the Year National Winners". www.usprofessorsoftheyear.org. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
- ↑ "ASME Fellows" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-02.
- ↑ "List of Fellows: American Society for Engineering Education". www.asee.org. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
External links
- Profiles.stanford.edu
- U.S. Professor of the Year (video, 3:10 minutes)
- EngineerGirl profile - Sheri Sheppard
- Stanford University faculty
- American mechanical engineers
- American women engineers
- Living people
- University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
- American women academics
- Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Fellows of the American Society for Engineering Education
- 1956 births
- 21st-century American women engineers
- University of Michigan–Dearborn alumni
- William Horlick High School alumni
- 21st-century American women
- Engineers from Wisconsin
- People from Racine, Wisconsin