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Chip Ferguson

Chip Ferguson

Professor

College of Engineering and Technology

Engineering and Technology

Contact Information

Email: cferguson@wcu.edu
Phone: 828.227.2775
Office: 220 Belk Building

Biography

Dr. Chip W. Ferguson is a Full Professor in the College of Engineering and Technology at WCU. In other roles, he served as the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology (CET) for well over a decade as well as program director, department head, school director, and interim dean for another decade. He has received numerous awards including WCU鈥檚 Innovative Scholarship Award; The Chancellor鈥檚 Meritorious Award for Engaged Teaching; CET鈥檚 Board of Governor鈥檚 Faculty Teaching Award; CET鈥檚 George Reeser Outstanding Faculty Award (1 of 4 in 25 years); CET鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising; and the MARC Industries Inc. Association for Rehabilitation Centers Directors Award. He has led (PI) or co-led (Co-PI, collaborator) multiple grant projects totaling over 4.5 million in external funding from the National Science Foundation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Department of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Golden LEAF Foundation. In 2012, he was named a Research Faculty Affiliate at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute. Dr. Ferguson also led multiple externally funded engineering design projects involving students who developed new products for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, U.S. Army Research Office, ORNL, UF Shands Cancer Hospital, MARC, and several companies, where two of the design projects resulted in U.S. patent applications. He has published more than forty articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and in 2022 he and three co-authors were awarded the Journal of Engineering Technology鈥檚 Best Paper Award. Dr. Ferguson鈥檚 past industry experience involved the design and development of hydrostatic drives and automated fluid power systems.

Education

  • EDD, 蘑菇短视频, Educational Leadership - Higher Education Curriculum and Instruction
  • MS, University of Southern Mississippi, Mechanical Engineering Technology
  • BS, University of Southern Mississippi, Mechanical Engineering Technology

Teaching Interests

Engineering design graphics, 3D constraint-based computer modeling, engineering fundamentals, engineering statics, strengths of materials, fluid power, and new product design and development.

Research Interests

Applied research areas include product design and development, SoTL research areas include STEM education, undergraduate research, Project Based Learning, and Spatial visualization skills development