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Geoffrey Tsai
Assistant Teaching Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering
Contact
2324 Engineering II
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070
Honors
Luis de Florez Award for Outstanding Ingenuity and Creative Judgement, MIT; Graduate Fellowship for Design and Invention, James Dyson Foundation
Research
Tsai's primary focus at UC Santa Barbara is to contribute to the Mechanical Engineering Department's design program by leading design-focused classes for first-, second-, and third-year undergraduate students. He is interested in early-stage design process, idea generation, creativity, and how products and people interact.
Education
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS Massachusetts Institute of Technology