Professor and John Henry Towne Department Chair
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania
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Kevin T. Turner is a Professor and the John Henry Towne Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Turner also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Material Science and Engineering and serves as the research director for the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (IoT4Ag). Turner received his BS from the Johns Hopkins University and SM and PhD from MIT. Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, he was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has received numerous awards, including the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, the ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award, the SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, the Adhesion Society Young Adhesion Scientist Award, and the NSF Career Award. He is a member of ASME and IEEE, and Vice President of the Adhesion Society. He has published more than 190 peer-reviewed articles. Turner’s research is at the nexus of mechanics, manufacturing, and materials. Ongoing research efforts in Turner’s group include the development of materials with tunable adhesion and stiffness, engineering fracture-resistant heterogeneous and architected materials, and design and manufacturing of low-cost printed sensors for IoT applications.