Jeff Hill is an Associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Brigham Young University. Prior to BYU, he worked for Sandia National Laboratories for 10 years, reaching the level of principle member of the technical staff. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from BYU in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and then received a PhD degree from Pennsylvania State University in 2011. During his time at Sandia, he focused on developing methods to protect electronics during harsh mechanical environments. His current work continues to focus on mitigating the damaging effects of harsh impacts, including developing methods for high energy absorption as well as determining methods for experimentally testing these damaging environments.
