John B. Ochs
Phone: (610) 758-4593
Fax: (610) 758-6224 

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Director CAD/CAM Laboratories
Director Integrated Product Development (IPD) Program

Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 1979

Education:
Ph.D. Acoustics, Pennsylvania State Univ., 1980
M.S. Engineering Acoustics, Penn. State Univ., 1976
B.S. Mathematics, Villanova University, 1971

Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Director and Founder, Computer-Aided Design Labs in MEM Department, 1980-present
Expert witness on noise and vibration, on CAD/CAM and patent infringements, 1985-present
Editorial Advisory board of the Journal of Robotics and Computer- Integrated Manufacturing, 1995-1999
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Unigraphics Users Group, 1995
Board of Directors and founder LVCS, Inc., 1985-1992
Silent Partner in NEO Products, Inc., 1995-present
Director Lehigh's Integrated Product, Process and Project (IPD) Development Program, 1999-present
Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Division of the American Society For Engineering Education, 2003

Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.:
Research in new product development processes, geometric dimensions and tolerances, acoustics
CAD/CAM and new product development consultant to over 30 companies

Scientific and professional societies of which a member:
ASME
SME
Unigraphics Users Group
Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi

Honors and awards:
DuPont Young Faculty Award
Outstanding Young Faculty Award
Curriculum Innovation Award - ASME 1996
Two IPD Teams present at the Smithsonian Instsitute, Washington, D.C. NCIIA student team exhibit and conference March 2001
One IPD Team present at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., NCIIA student team exhibit and conference, March 2002.
One IPD Team present at the Museum of Science, Boston, MA, NCIIA student team exhibit and conference, March 2003.
LU nomination for Case Professor of the Year Award

Recent PhD and MS Thesis and/or Projects Supervised:
(contact department for a copy)
2004 - Pramot Pipat, PhD Thesis" Optimization in Rapid Prototyping Processes" (.pdf 1.57 MB)
2002 - Yu Zhang, MS Thesis: "Mechanical Property of Fused Deposition Parts"