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Geoffrey Tsai

Geoffrey Tsai, assistant teaching professor

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