Faculty & Staff
Dr. Keith Hekman
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Electrical & Computer Engineering
(616) 526-7095
(616) 526-6501 FAX
kah8@calvin.edu
Office: EB 101
Weekly schedule
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Educational background
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997
Keith A. Hekman teaches classes both in the Electrical and Mechanical Concentrations. Keith graduated from Calvin College with a B.S. in Engineering (mechanical concentration) in 1992. He completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1997. Keith was the first Calvin Engineering alumnus to be admitted into Georgia Tech, his performance paved the way for other Calvin grads applying and attending GT.
Professional experience
For the past 8 years Keith has been teaching in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the American University in Cairo (Egypt) in the areas of: Dynamics, Vibrations, Automatic Control, Mechanism Design and Numerical Methods. While teaching at AUC Keith performed research in collaboration with faculty at Georgia Tech in the areas of control in manufacturing processes and command shaping in control.