Jack Zable
Industry Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design
303-492-3410
Jack.Zable@Colorado.EDU
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
- M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering, City College of New York
Professional Recognition
- Endowed Chaired Professor - Industry Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design, 2006
- Originator and former Director of department's Industry/University Cooperative Project Center (I/UCPC)
- Fellow – American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998
- Member of IBM Academy of Technology, 1990
- 26 patents filed and published with US Patent Office
- 16 Corporate Awards from IBM for Outstanding Technical ions
- 61 Invetions published in IBM Technical Bulletin
Research Interests
- Design of Medical Devices
- Sports Equipment Engineering and Design
- Design Methods
Sports Equipment Engineering – (a) Involved with the measurement of golf club performance (trajectory, impact location, impact force, etc). (b) Involved with the determination of ski velocity, the dynamic coefficient of friction between ski and snow, etc.
Design of Medical Devices – (a) Involved with the design of various types of non-invasive surgical instruments. (b) Involved with the development of a murmur detection device. (c) Involved with the design of an edema monitoring system. (d) Involved with the development of a device to improve prostate cancer detection.
High Speed Mechanisms – (a)Involved with the testing and determination of disk drive robustness . (b) Involved with the design of high speed printer mechanisms involving paper incrementing, print actuation, etc.
Color and Image Printing – (a) Involved with the development of algorithms to improve the quality of printed color images. (b) Involved with the development of devices used for measuring printed color and image quality.
Selected Publications
- Paul Miller, Jack Zable et al, “Development of a Prototype that Measures the Coefficient of Friction between Skis and Snow”,Engineering of Sport 6, Volume 1, PP 305-310, 2006
- Mark Buzek and Jack Zable, “Versatile Disk Drive Shock Tester”, Journal of Information Storage and Processing Systems, vol. 2, pp. 169-177, 2000.
- J.L. Zable and Y.C. Lee, An Overview of Impact Printing,” IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 651-668, Nov. 1997.
- Two chapters in Text book “Output Hardcopy Devices”, Chapters 5 and 6, pp. 117-168, Academic Press, 1988.
Representative Patents
- H.C. Lee, Larry Teklitz and J. Zable, “Gray Scale Calibration Tool for Setting the Density of a Printer,” U.S. 6,268,932 B1, July 31, 2001
- Jack Zable, Carroll Francis Hamill, “Non-Integer Scaling of Raster Images with Image Quality Enhancement,” U.S. 6,195,473 B1, Feb. 27, 2001.
- Dennis C. Estabrooks, Jack Zable, “PQE for Font Vs. Large Dark Patch,” U.S. 6,177,978 B1, Jan. 23, 2001.