David Nembhard

Professor of Engineering

Nembhard’s work lies at the intersection of human factors, operations management, and production systems, with a primary focus on human learning. He has made significant contributions to human factors and management sciences through the design of learning systems that account for individual differences in skill levels, learning, forgetting, temporal motivation, cognition, personality, and modes of communication. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense and various industry partners.

Nembhard has mentored and funded 15 PhD students, nine of whom now serve as academic faculty. Before joining Harvey Mudd College, he directed the industrial and manufacturing engineering graduate programs at Penn State University and held faculty positions at Auburn University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Oregon State University, and the University of Iowa.