Carol Smidts
Carol Sophie Smidts is a Belgian engineer who works in the US as a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Ohio State University, where she directs the Reliability and Risk Laboratory[1] and the Nuclear Engineering Program.[2] Her research focus is on reliability engineering and probabilistic risk assessment, originally for applications in nuclear engineering and more recently for applications in software engineering.
Education and career
[edit]Smidts was a student of engineering physics at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where she earned a master's degree in 1986 and completed her Ph.D. in 1991.[3]
After postdoctoral research at the Université libre de Bruxelles, the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, and the University of Maryland, College Park, she joined the University of Maryland Department of Materials & Nuclear Engineering as an assistant professor in 1994, and was promoted to associate professor there in 2000. In 2003 she moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, and in 2008 she moved to her present position at Ohio State University.[3] She became director of the university's Nuclear Engineering Program in 2017.[2]
Recognition
[edit]Smidts was named as an IEEE Fellow in 2017 "for contributions to reliability analysis of high-assurance systems".[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Carol Smidts", People, Ohio State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, retrieved 2023-11-26
- ^ a b Smidts appointed director of Nuclear Engineering Program, Ohio State University College of Engineering, 12 January 2017, retrieved 2023-11-26
- ^ a b "Professor Carol Smidts", Reliability and Risk Laboratory, Ohio State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, archived from the original on 2016-12-15, retrieved 2023-11-26
- ^ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2023-11-26
- ^ Smidts named IEEE Fellow for contributions to reliability analysis of high-assurance systems, Ohio State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 23 May 2017, retrieved 2023-11-26
External links
[edit]- Reliability and Risk Laboratory
- Carol Smidts publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- Belgian engineers
- Belgian women engineers
- American nuclear engineers
- American software engineers
- American women engineers
- Université libre de Bruxelles alumni
- University of Maryland, College Park faculty
- Ohio State University faculty
- Fellows of the IEEE
- 20th-century women engineers
- 20th-century Belgian engineers
- 20th-century Belgian women scientists
- 21st-century women engineers
- 21st-century Belgian engineers
- 21st-century Belgian women scientists