Mitchel Keil
Mitchel Keil
Professor
Office:
(269) 276-3365
Location:
F-222 Floyd Hall, Mail Stop 5336
Mailing address:
Engineering Design, Manufacturing and Management Systems
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5336 USA
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5336 USA
Education:
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990.
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, 1984.
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1978.
Teaching Interests:
- Design for manufacturability.
- Automated interference elimination in spatial mechanisms.
- Design of packaging for shock isolation.
- Automatic routing of flexible elements.
Bio:
Research projects
- Design of a mold distortion tester for foundry systems.
- Characterization of materials for mechanical shock isolation.
- Automatic Routing and dynamic simulation of brake hose.
- Reverse engineering.
- Vehicle simulation.