Bucknell

Faculty/Staff

Keith Buffinton
Steve Shooter
Jeff Gum
Jason Geist

Undergrad Students

Scott Bevan
Matt Kandler
Danielle Renzi
William Rittase
Daniel Snyder

Graduate Students

Christian Hubicki
Brent Noll
David Remy (ETH)


IHMC

Jerry Pratt
Peter Neuhaus
John Carff

 

 

 

Buffinton

 

Biography

Keith W. Buffinton is currently Interim Dean of the College of Engineering at Bucknell University.  He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering summa cum laude from Tufts University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.  Following his graduate studies, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute for Robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.  Prof. Buffinton began his academic career at Bucknell in 1987 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1992 and full Professor in 2002.  From 2003-2007 he was Associate Dean of the College of Engineering.  He has also served as a core faculty member in Bucknell's Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management, for which he was co-director from 2001 to 2004.  In 2003 he received Bucknell’s Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. 

Prof. Buffinton’s scholarly interests range across the areas of multibody dynamics, nonlinear control, mechanical design, systems thinking, engineering management education, and his primary research focus, the dynamics and control of robotic systems.  Prof. Buffinton has published widely and has been recognized with three best paper awards as well as the “Star Performers Award for Innovation” presented by the Small Business Development Center of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and an award for “Outstanding Achievement in Mechanical Engineering Practice” from the Tufts University Department of Mechanical Engineering.  He has also been the recipient of research grants from a number of funding agencies including the National Science Foundation, the Ben Franklin Technology Center of Pennsylvania, the Army Research Office, and most recently the Office of Naval Research.  While on sabbatical from Bucknell during the 2007-08 academic year, Prof. Buffinton held the positions of Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Guest Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.