John Ochs
biography :: conference marerials
John Ochs has been a professor of mechanical
engineering at Lehigh since 1979. He founded and directed the Computer-Aided
Design Labs in the mechanical engineering and mechanics department from 1980
to 2001. He won the Dupont Young Faculty Award (1979-1983) and Lehigh’s
Outstanding Young Faculty Award (1985). From 1985 to 1995, Ochs did extensive
industry consulting and was involved in the start-up of three companies. He
directs the university’s Integrated Product Development (IPD) program,
a multi-phased program in business, engineering and arts and sciences students
work together to design, produce and market a new product.