Joseph Timothy Foley

Assistant Professor

Contact

foley@ru.is
CV

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Bio

Dr. Joseph Timothy Foley (MIT BSc ‘99, MEng, ‘99, PhD ‘07) has worked as a researcher and designer in a large variety of fields with a heavy emphasis on infrastructure and mechatronics. His graduate research at MIT focused on integrating RFID into smart devices in a scalable and secure way. He worked as a postgraduate researcher in the Environmentally Benign Manufacturing group at MIT in partnership with SKF, investigating methods of reducing the impact and energy usage of manufacturing processes. At iRobot’s Government and Industrial division, he developed shape-changing robots as the technical lead for the Harvard-MIT-iRobot DARPA ChemBots team. This research resulted in a US patent on the manufacture of enhanced Shape Memory Alloy springs, a topic he still is researching.

He is now an assistant professor at Reykjavik University teaching topics in mechatronics and mechanical design. He has integrated Axiomatic Design into the courses he currently teaches to provide students with a common framework for the heavily multi-disciplinary nature of modern computer-controlled manufacturing and smart devices. His research interests include aircraft maintenance automation, product design, embedded smart devices, wireless communication, physical security, and engineering-artist collaborations. His most recent developments in Axiomatic Design research include Creative Axiomatic Design (CIRP DC 2016), Desirable Complexity (ICAD 2017), and Axiomatic Design as an Ontology (CIRP DC 2017). In addition, he was the head organizer for the 12th International Conference on Axiomatic Design 2018 at Reykjavík University.