Associate Professor Joseph J. Brown joined the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Department of Mechanical Engineering in August 2017. Dr. Brown has worked on a diverse array of research since 1999, centered on nanoscale device and materials engineering, including precision assembly, experimental mechanics, research automation, fluid processing, and applications of nanostructures and nanoscale systems. His research currently focuses on new material integration to devices and applications, nanomanufacturing, applied mechanics, and device and system design, including compliant interconnecting mechanical systems. He was previously a Research Scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Mechanical Engineering, and served there as a Lecturer in 2014-2015. He received an A.B. in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College in 2000, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2008 and 2010, respectively. In 2004, he helped found a company that provided nanotube textiles used on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter. He is author of 27 journal articles, 19 conference papers, and 1 book chapter, and he is an inventor of 12 U.S. patents and related international patents. He is a member of ASME, IEEE, MRS, ASEE, AAAS, and Sigma Xi.