Jonathan Colton came to the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1985, after completing his S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He serves as director of the Institute-wide Center for Polymer Processing. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Industrial Design of the College of Architecture. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in design and manufacturing. He is principal researcher on projects sponsored by - among others - National Science Foundation, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Education, NATO, Ford, General Motors, General Electric, Schlumberger, U.S. Navy, and Lockheed-Martin Corp. He has spent a year as a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London. Dr. Colton serves on the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Colton is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Society of Plastics Engineers, has been a Woodruff Faculty Fellow, and has received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the SAE Teetor Award, and the SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. Dr. Colton received a NASA Space Act Award. He has received the outstanding paper award from the Rapid Prototyping Journal. In 2007, he was named the Jack M. Zeigler Outstanding Educator Award, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Georgia.
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981
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