Katja Hölttä-Otto is a Finnish mechanical engineer and an expert in modular product design.[1] She has worked as an engineering processor in Finland, Singapore, the US, and Australia; she is Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Melbourne.[2][3]
Education and career
editHölttä-Otto earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology (now part of Aalto University) in 2000, and completed a Ph.D. there in 2005.[2] While doing her doctoral studies, she was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in its Center for Innovation in Product Development.[4] Her dissertation, Modular Product Platform Design, was supervised by Kalevi "Eetu" Ekman.[5]
She became an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the US, in 2005.[4] She was an associate professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and at Aalto University in Finland before taking her present position as Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Melbourne, in its Department of Mechanical Engineering.[2]
At UMass Dartmouth, she was honored in 2012 by the Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality for her support of women students in engineering.[6] At Aalto University, she became chair of the Professors' Council in 2017.[7]
Recognition
editHölttä-Otto was elected as an ASME Fellow in 2023.[8]
References
edit- ^ Luovuutta voi opettaa, sanoo tuotekehityksen professori Katja Hölttä-Otto [Creativity can be taught, says professor of product development Katja Hölttä-Otto] (in Finnish), Aalto University, 26 January 2016, retrieved 2024-08-22
- ^ a b c "Katja Hölttä-Otto, Advisory Board, Past Associate Editor", Journal of Mechanical Design companion website, ASME, retrieved 2024-08-22
- ^ "Prof Katja Holtta-Otto", Find an expert, University of Melbourne, retrieved 2024-08-22
- ^ a b "Katja Hölttä-Otto", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, 23 January 2006, retrieved 2024-08-22
- ^ Modular Product Platform Design, Helsinki University of Technology, 2005, retrieved 2024-08-22
- ^ "UMass Dartmouth honor four women", The Sun Chronicle, 30 March 2012, retrieved 2024-08-22
- ^ Katja Hölttä-Otto named chair of the Professors' Council, Aalto University, 16 August 2017, retrieved 2024-08-22
- ^ All Fellows (PDF), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, March 2024, retrieved 2024-08-22
External links
edit- Katja Hölttä-Otto publications indexed by Google Scholar