Carolyn Seepersad
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Carolyn Conner Seepersad is an American mechanical engineer, Woodruff Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, and editor-in-chief of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.[1] Topics in her research include additive manufacturing, stereolithography, the integration of design simulation with rapid prototyping, and the use in vibration isolation and impact protection of 3d structures with unusual mechanical properties such as anisotropic or negative stiffness.[2]
Seepersad was the youngest of three sisters in a farming family in Valley Fork, West Virginia; her father was a retired Air Force non-commissioned officer.[3] She majored in mechanical engineering at West Virginia University, graduating in 1996. She went to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a combined bachelor's and master's degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 1998.[1][4] It was at Oxford that she met her husband, Clyde Seepersad, another Rhodes Scholar from Trinidad and Tobago.[5][6] Next, she went to Georgia Tech for doctoral study in mechanical engineering, earning another master's degree in 2001 and completing her Ph.D. in 2004.[1][4]
She became an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005.[2] She was founding director of the Center for Additive Manufacturing and Design Innovation there,[4] before returning to Georgia Tech in 2023 to take her present position as Woodruff professor.[7]
She became editor-in-chief of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design in 2023.[1][8]
