Keith Stanfill
biography :: conference marerials
Keith Stanfill is the director of the University
of Florida's Integrated Product and Process Design program. Dr. Stanfill has
over ten years industrial experience with United Technologies, including seven
years with Pratt & Whitney and three years with Carrier Corporation. As
an engineer at Pratt & Whitney, he designed gas turbine hardware for fighter
aircraft – most recently the Joint Strike Fighter. At Carrier, he served
as a key resource to the New Product Development Council Steering Committee,
facilitated Design for X (DFx) workshops internationally, developed business
process linkages between new product development and lean manufacturing, and
developed and implemented manufacturing systems software. He received his PhD
in 1995 from the University of Florida Department of Mechanical Engineering.
His interests include technology transfer, product development, design education,
and DFx. He is a registered professional engineer (Florida) and member of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Engineering
Education.