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Charlie Hackett

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charles.m.hackett@dartmouth.edu

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Overview

Charlie Hackett is an engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and business operations professional with 35 years experience in commercial, industrial, academic, and civil service roles. He is currently at Dartmouth part-time to teach engineering product design and development with a focus on manufacturing, reliability, and environmental sustainability.

Research Interests

Engineering education; product development; design for manufacturing; materials processing; fluid dynamics; aerothermodynamics

Education

  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University 1996
  • MS, Aerospace Engineering, Penn State University 1989
  • BS, Aerospace Engineering, University of Notre Dame 1987

Selected Publications

  • Hackett, C.M. "DFMA: An Enabler of a Lean Enterprise," 34nd International Forum on Design for Manufacture and Assembly, October 1-2, 2019, Boothroyd and Dewhurst, Kingston, RI.
  • Hackett, C.M., Pavlik, R. and Ortakales, J., "Designing Great Products and Building High Performing Teams with DFMA," Proceedings of 32nd International Forum on Design for Manufacture and Assembly, June 6-7, 2017, Boothroyd and Dewhurst, Kingston, RI.
  • Hackett, C.M. and Jaccaci, A.J. "Designing Lean Learning to Position Hypertherm for Growth," 9th Annual Northeast Shingo Prize Conference, September 24 & 25, 2013, Hyannis, MA.
  • Yin, Fei, J. Schein, C. M. Hackett, and J. Heberlein, "New Diagnostic Methods for the Investigation of Cathode Behavior in a Plasma Cutting Torch," 14th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Institute of Plasma Physics, Prague, Czech Republic, Aug. 2-6, 1999.
  • Hackett, C.M. and Settles, G.S., "Turbulent Mixing of the HVOF Thermal Spray and Coating Oxidation," in Thermal Spray Industrial Applications, ed. by C.C. Berndt and S. Sampath , 1994, ASM International, pp. 307-312.
  • Gai, S., N. Mudford, and C.M. Hackett, "Heat Flux and Shock Shape Measurements on an Aeroassist Flight Experiment (AFE) Model in High Enthalpy Free-Piston Shock Tunnel," AIAA 92-3907.

Patents

  • Plasma arc torch having an electrode with internal passages | 8680425
  • Composite electrode for a plasma arc torch | 7659488
  • Configurable nozzle baffle apparatus and method | 6667459
  • Apparatus and method of improved consumable alignment in material processing apparatus | 6424082

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