William Provancher

William is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics and has been web, publicity and sponsorship chairs for the IEEE Haptics Symposium. William co-developed a haptics course at the University of Utah with Jake Abbott.  He has developed new haptics lab exercises for his course that incorporate the use of CHAI-3D and custom-developed hardware. William has been successful in working with students from several of his haptics class projects to produce publishable research. His lab URL is http://heml.eng.utah.edu/.