Heather Beardsley holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Syracuse University, and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kentucky. From 1995 to 1998, she worked as a Research Scientist at the Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems at the University of Kentucky, investigating the on-line monitoring of thermal processes in arc welding for penetration control. She received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kentucky in 1998, focusing on controlling the mass and heat transfer during gas metal arc welding for solid freeform fabrication.
Since 1998, Dr. Beardsley has been with the Automation & Robotics Research Institute at The University of Texas at Arlington where her research areas have included machine vision and infrared based monitoring of thermal processes, control of liquid metal jet processes, and finite-element analysis for modeling heat and fluid flow in liquid metal. Dr. Beardsley has also been involved with the design of automation and assembly processes for solar panels and the development of detection techniques for microcracking in solar cells.
Contact:
hbeardsley@arri.uta.edu |
