134 Material Research Laboratory
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Telephone (814) 863-8035
Fax (814) 865-2326
E-mail KenjiUchino@psu.edu

Kenji Uchino, one of the pioneers in piezoelectric actuators, is Director of International Center for Actuators and Transducers and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State University. He is also the Founder and Senior Vice President & CTO of Micromechatronics Inc., State College, PA. After being awarded his Ph. D. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, he became a Research Associate in the physical electronics department at this university. Then, he joined Sophia University, Japan as an Associate Professor in physics in 1985. He then moved to Penn State in 1991. He was also involved with Space Shuttle Utilizing Committee in NASDA, Japan during 1986-88, and Vice President of NF Electronic Instruments, USA, during 1992-94. He is the Chair of Smart Actuator/Sensor Study Committee sponsored by Japanese MITI. He was also the associate editor for Journal of Advanced Performance Materials, J. Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures and Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. His research interests are in development of solid state actuators for precision positioners, ultrasonic motors, etc. He has authored 550 papers, 54 books and 26 patents in the ceramic actuator area. He was also awarded his MBA degree from St. Francis University (2008), and authored a new textbook,“Entrepreneurship for Engineers”. He is a Fellow of American Ceramic Society from 1997, and also is a recipient of the SPIE Smart Product Implementation Award (2007), R&D 100 Award (2007), ASME Adaptive Structures Prize (2005), Outstanding Research Award from Penn State Engineering Society (1996), Academic Scholarship from Nissan Motors Scientific Foundation (1990), Best Movie Memorial Award at Japan Scientific Movie Festival (1989), and the Best Paper Award from Japanese Society of Oil/Air Pressure Control (1987).   

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