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The snowboard was invented by an engineer? With some engineering twists and turns along the way, the snowboard has become a marvel of geometry, chemistry, and biomechanics. Since the snowboard allows deft turns, ski manufacturers have quickly adopted some of the snowboard innovations, enabling skiers to turn with less effort.

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Dr. Todd

Thursday, 30 August 2007

After a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford, teaching and administration for 8 years at BYU-Idaho (Rick’s College), he spent 10 years in senior technical and management positions with both the General Motors Corporation and Michelin in the U.S. and France. In 1989, Professor Todd returned to academia to teach at BYU. While in industry he was responsible for over 40 design and manufacturing development projects using an interdisciplinary team approach. Professor Todd helped develop BYU’s Capstone Program in 1990 and was its founding director. He teaches manufacturing processes, capstone and a graduate course in manufacturing process machine design. His research areas include product development, manufacturing processes, process machine design and the improvement of engineering education. He has served as an ABET engineering program evaluator and a member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET. He is a recipient of the Karl G. Maser Excellence in Teaching Award at BYU and is a Fellow in the American Society of Engineering Education.