Harriet Black Nembhard was born on December 7,1967 and is the President of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California.
12 Facts About Harriet Nembhard
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Harriet Nembhard studied Industrial and Operation Systems at the University of Michigan, earning a master's degree and a PhD in 1994.
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Harriet Nembhard's PhD thesis, A Transient Period Control Methodology for Continuous Mix Manufacturing, looked at control methods in manufacturing systems.
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Harriet Nembhard was an assistant professor at Auburn University until 1998.
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Harriet Nembhard designed models to gain insight into statistical control.
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Harriet Nembhard joined Pennsylvania State University as an associate professor in 2004 and was appointed director of the Center for Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems.
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Harriet Nembhard uses statistics and productivity to develop systems engineering approaches to improve healthcare, and is a certified Six Sigma black belt.
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In 2011 Harriet Nembhard was promoted to professor and made the co-director of the National Science Foundation Centre for Health Organisation Transformation.
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Harriet Nembhard led the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from 2015 to 2016.
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Harriet Nembhard was awarded the Clinical and Translational Science Award for her work on the treatment of people with Parkinson's disease.
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Harriet Nembhard was part of a multi-institution National Science Foundation CAREER Award that studies health inequities, launching the EMpowering People to achieve Optimal Well-being through Engineering Research Center that will help communities address inequality.
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In 2018 Harriet Nembhard was made a Drexel University ELATE at Drexel faculty fellow.