Janis Terpenny

Janis Terpenny is the 145th President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). An ASME Fellow and active volunteer for more than 20 years, she also currently serves as a program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF), on temporary assignment from George Mason University, where she is a professor of systems engineering and operations research, as well as mechanical engineering. Previously, Dr. Terpenny served as program director for the Division of Undergraduate Education at the NSF, dean of engineering at the University of Tennessee and department head of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Penn State University and at Iowa State University. She was co-founder and director of the Center for e-Design, an NSF IUCRC center comprised of seven universities and over 30 industry members. Dr. Terpenny has nine years of industry work experience with GE, including a two-year corporate management program. She founded, and for 10 years chaired or co-chaired, the B