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

 

 

 

Steven

 

Biography

Steven Shooter is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University where he has taught since 1995. He received his PhD from Virginia Tech where he also taught as an Instructor. At Bucknell he teaches the capstone senior design course, mechanical design, and mechatronics. His research interests involve information management for design and the design of mechatronic systems and products. Integral to this research is the exploration of approaches for the capture, storage and retrieval of product development information. He also explores techniques for enhancing innovation and leveraging assets in developing new products and systems. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania and has been the PI on numerous projects with industry involving new product development and the design of production infrastructure. He has designed robotic systems for production and the service industry that include nuclear power plants, space exploration, healthcare, and themeparks.

Professor Shooter is the co-author of “Foundations for Interoperability in Next-Generation Product Development Systems” that was recognized by ASME as one of the most influential papers in computers and information in engineering from 1980-2000. He has been a research faculty fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Design Engineering Technologies Group. As a Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), he worked with the Autonomous Systems Laboratory on mobile robots for planetary exploration. He has been a Visiting Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and participated in four NASA Bluesky workshops to explore solutions to far-reaching problems at NASA. Prior to graduate study he was a Process Engineer for Sony Corporation where he contributed to the start-up of their first compact disc manufacturing plant. He has consulted extensively with the Pennsylvania Small Business Development Center (SBDC) to assist entrepreneurs with new product development enterprises. He developed and implemented an award-winning product development process adopted by all 17 of the state SBDCs. He has received two state Star Performer Awards for Innovation. He has over ninety scholarly publications.