Biography
Taylor Greenwood joined BYU as an Assistant Professor in 2025. His current research focuses on designing "soft" mechanisms and metamaterials, developing methods to fabricate the designs, and investigating novel methods to actuate the designs in different environments. Before joining BYU, Dr. Greenwood was a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State (2024-2025) in the Engineering Design and Optimization Group, where he developed magneto-active compliant mechanisms for generating rapid motion. During his PhD at the University of Utah (2020-2024) in the Kong Research Group, his research focused on developing soft robots and soft shape-changing metamaterials for biomedical applications. Prior to his PhD, Dr. Greenwood received his BS (2017) and MS (2020) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from BYU, where his graduate research focused on 3D printing low-viscosity and low-modulus silicone.
Office Hours
Winter 2026
Wednesday: 10-10:50am
Friday: 9-10:50am
Research Interests
Soft materials and structures, soft robots, multi-stability, mechanical metamaterials, biomedical devices, magnetic actuation, extrusion-based additive manufacturing.Teaching Interests
Computer Aided Design, Design of Mechanical Systems, Kinematics, Compliant MechanismsEducation
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering , University of Utah (2024)
- MS, Mechanical Engineering , Brigham Young University (2020)
- BS, Mechanical Engineering , Brigham Young University (2017)
Memberships
- Tau Beta Pi Honor Society (2015 - Present)
- ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers), (2024 - 2025)