Lance Curtis

Lance R Curtis is a PhD student in the Reliability Engineering program at the University of Maryland and an adjunct professor at Howard Community College. Previously, he worked in industry as a materials engineer for The M&P Lab (Schenectady, NY) conducting metallurgical evaluations and failure analyses and for GE Power (Greenville, SC) as a reliability engineer modeling gas turbines for electrical power production. He earned his BS in metallurgical engineering and his MS in mechanical engineering from the University of Idaho in 2001 and 2003, respectively. Mr. Curtis’s research interests primarily center around the entropic characterization of failure mechanisms, particularly fatigue in metals, as well as metallurgical/mechanical failure analysis; modeling damage accumulation, reliability, resilience, and uncertainty; and engineering education. He is a member of ASME, ASM International, the Society for Risk Analysis, ASEE, and an associate of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers.