Joseph Slater
Professor And Dean at Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Slater is a engineering dean and professor with three decades of academic and research experience, currently leading Tennessee Tech’s College of Engineering through a period of rapid growth in facilities, enrollment, and research funding. He blends deep technical expertise in turbomachinery and structural vibration with strategic leadership—overseeing new building projects, tripling research awards to over $38M in FY23, and boosting freshman retention to around 80%. His career includes program and workforce development roles that forged hundreds of employer partnerships and created new graduate offerings, reflecting a strong focus on industry-aligned education and experiential learning. An active open-source contributor and “Pythonista in training,” he couples practical lab investments and national program launches (NAE Grand Challenge Scholars) with hands-on research in reduced-order modeling, nonlinear dynamics, and near-space experimentation.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering at University at Buffalo
Github Skills (98)
atom-editor10
table-of-contents10
restructuredtext10
beautifier10
python10
testing10
commonmark10
haskell10
vibration10
nonlinear10
markdown10
signal-processing10
markup-language10
mechanical-engineering10
prettify10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
josephcslater/vitae
Jan 2019 - May 2021
python tools for building curriculum vitae and other documents from bibtex file.
Contributions:52 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 4 months
bibtexpython
josephcslater/mousai
May 2017 - Jul 2022
Harmonic balance solvers
Contributions:288 commits, 7 PRs, 272 pushes in 5 years 2 months
solversharmonic-balancebalanceharmonicvibration
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