6.( Or' VT  . 8 4 4m' icik 2f Harry West Dvan Assoclate   Professor Departmcut of Mechanical Engineering Institute of Technology Massachusetts Biogmphical Sktch Hanry West joined the MIT facultyin 1986 Fcconducts rsrarch on thc design ad ofmobotc Imanipulstrs and intelligeut Iachines He developed the conccptof contO algorithms ad programming braced manipulators, und has continucd t0 develop (chniqucs 6 Coahle Iobotic devices I0 take advintage of constzints in the environnrcnt Qucntly hois devcloging ncthods foi Bogrmming tbots by buman demonstration methods for quantifying the complaxity of mechnicltasks Professor Wet also conducts rescarch on drsien edncation Fe dcvclors compctitive idergraduate level hands-on deslgn expcriences for teaching thedsig poasttk eplication of tese _rlmips @ high-school scizncc edcation In and is exploring the collaboration tith faculyy fron Tokyo hnsitute %f Technology k startcd te 1990 i Intcmational Design Congress for Iesearch and edrcation jn intemnatonal collaborative dign Thc Intcmatonal Desien Congress isnov iit fout year and has bcrn joinad by Cambridge Univcrsity_England; Toctnische Hochschule Datmsradt Gerany; Seoul Brazi National University, Kotca; ad U-Poli Sao Paulo = havc rngcd from intreductory mechanical design cOUscs t0 graduate Fis leaching 4Cas Dr: West hasbccn fcatued 0u severi national courses in kinemaics ard robouics [elevision programs,in the USA Japan and thc UK teaching drsign and working wih MIT undcrgduates On dcsigu project In 1980 Hanzy West eamed his B A dgree in Enginccring at Emmanrel Collsge,_ Bntish National Enginecring Scbola. From 1980 Cambridgc Univecsity whcre be was Jobn F Kennedy Scboler fron Britain t0 MIT: Be eamned t0 1982 Dr: Wcst was Technology and Policy in 1984 and a PhD. m Mechmical Engincering i SM &gre in 1986 hucua 1 6elalo< k fu Vo [TaD Cr/Zu/i LnVTLKOJ AISTQ czoc Laz U7 :C
6.( Or' VT  . 8 4 icik 4m' 2f Dvan Harry West Assoclate   Professor Departmcut of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Biogmphical Sktch Hanry West joined the MIT facultyin 1986 Fcconducts rsrarch on thc design ad contO ofmobotc Imanipulstrs and intelligeut Iachines He developed the conccptof braced manipulators, und has continucd t0 develop algorithms ad programming (chniqucs 6 Coahle Iobotic devices I0 take advintage of constzints in the environnrcnt Qucntly hois devcloging ncthods foi Bogrmming tbots by buman demonstration methods for quantifying the complaxity of mechnicltasks Professor Wet also conducts rescarch on drsien edncation Fe dcvclors compctitive hands-on deslgn expcriences for teaching thedsig poasttk idergraduate level and is exploring the eplication of tese _rlmips @ high-school scizncc edcation In 1990 i collaboration tith faculyy fron Tokyo hnsitute %f Technology k startcd te Intcmational Design Congress for Iesearch and edrcation jn intemnatonal collaborative dign Thc Intcmatonal Desien Congress isnov iit fout year and has bcrn joinad by Cambridge Univcrsity_England; Toctnische Hochschule Datmsradt Gerany; Seoul National University, Kotca; ad U-Poli Sao Paulo = Brazi Fis leaching 4Cas havc rngcd from intreductory mechanical design cOUscs t0 graduate courses in kinemaics ard robouics Dr: West hasbccn fcatued 0u severi national [elevision programs,in the USA Japan and thc UK teaching drsign and working wih MIT undcrgduates On dcsigu project In 1980 Hanzy West eamed his B A dgree in Enginccring at Emmanrel Collsge,_ Cambridgc Univecsity whcre be was Bntish National Enginecring Scbola. From 1980 t0 1982 Dr: Wcst was Jobn F Kennedy Scboler fron Britain t0 MIT: Be eamned SM &gre in Technology and Policy in 1984 and a PhD. m Mechmical Engincering i 1986 hucua 6elalo< Vo k fu 1 czoc Laz [TaD U7 :C Cr/Zu/i LnVTLKOJ AISTQ