Todd, Judith A.

Professor

Office phone: (814) 865-0583
Office address: 118H Research Building West
E-mail: jtodd@psu.edu

July 2002 – Present Department Head, P. B. Breneman Chair, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics

June 2001 – June 2002 Associate Dean for Research, Armour College of Engineering and Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
Aug 1996 – June 2002 Iron and Steel Society Professor, Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
Feb 1990 – June 2002 Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (1995–2001), Professor (1997) of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, MMAE, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
Jan 1982 – Feb 1990 Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Akhlesh Lakhtakia and Judith A Todd (Jan 2013) “Controlled Chaos could be Key to Photonics Innovation,” SPIE Professional, 8(1), pp. 20–21.
Akhlesh Lakhtakia and Judith A Todd, Eds. (Aug 2012) “Photonic Innovations and Solutions for Complex Environments and Systems (PISCES),” SPIE Proceedings, 8482, pp. 87 pp.
Abdalla Nassar, Ravindra Akarapu, Stephen M Copley, and Judith A Todd (Apr 2012) “Investigations of Laser-Sustained Plasma and its Role in Laser Nitriding of Titanium,” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 45(18), pp. 10 pp.
Brian Borawski, Jogender Singh, Judith A Todd, and Douglas Wolfe (2011) “Multi-layer coating design architecture for optimum particulate erosion resistance,” Wear, 271, pp. 2782–2792.
Brian Borawski, Judith A Todd, Jogender Singh, and Douglas Wolfe (2011) “The influence of ductile interlayer material on the particle erosion resistance of multilayered TiN based coatings,” Wear, 271, pp. 2890–2898.
Ravindra Akarapu, Abdalla Nassar, Stephen M Copley, and Judith A Todd (2010) “Numerical Model of a Laser-Sustained Argon Plasma,” Journal of Laser Applications, 21(4), pp. 163–168.

Association for Women in Science, Fellow, 1996 (1990 – Present)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow, 2001 (1984 – Present)
ASM International, Fellow, 1997 (1978 – Present)
U.S. Patent 6,285,449, W. A. Ellingson, J. A. Todd and J. Sun. Optical Method and Apparatus for Detection of Defects and Microstructural Changes in Ceramics and Ceramic Coatings (4 Sept 2001)
U.S. Patent 5,022,957, S. M. Copley, Hongyi Tao and J. A. Todd. Post Treatment to Improve the Strength of Laser Shaped Silicon Compound Ceramics (11 June 1991)

Chartered Engineer, (C. Eng. â€“ professional engineer) Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, United Kingdom, 1978

2006 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, National Science Foundation (17 Nov 2007)
ASME Distinguished Service Award and ASME Board of Governors Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (25 July 2007)
Vanadium Award, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, United Kingdom. (1990)

President (2009), (Board Member 2005–2010), Society of Engineering Science (Jan 2005 – Dec 2010)
Congress Chair for the 2010 U. S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Penn State, June 27 â€“ July 2, 2010, U. S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2006 – 2010)