Steven Anton, Ph.D.

Dr. Steven R. Anton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering and the director of the Dynamic and Smart Systems Laboratory at Tennessee Tech University. Dr. Anton is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University (2006), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2008 and 2011, respectively). Following his graduate work, Dr. Anton held a two-year postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The central theme of his research involves characterizing the dynamic response of smart material systems for sensing, energy harvesting, and structural health monitoring. By combining expertise in structural dynamics, behavior of active materials, experimental mechanics and signal processing, his research aims to discover new phenomenon associated with the dynamics of smart materials. Dr. Anton’s current areas of research include developing a self-powered joint force and angle sensing "smart" total knee replacement, studying vibration-based human building interaction with integrated vibration sensors within smart buildings, and harvesting ambient energy to provide power to low-power electronics. Dr. Anton has received funding to support his research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), among others, with over $3M of funding as principal investigator, including the prestigious NIH R01 award and AFOSR Young Investigator (YIP) Award. He has over 90 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Anton is dedicated to training the next generation of researchers and has been an active participant in NSF REU, RET, and NRT grants at Tennessee Tech.