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Alexander Slocum is an American engineer, author, and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Slocum is currently the director of Experimental Study Group and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow

Biography
Slocum received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982, where he remained and received his master's degree in 1983 and PHD in 1985.

Slocum is an active marathoner and triathlete having competed in over 13 Iron Man Races and 5 marathons. He has been competing since 2008.

Honors and awards

 * Massachusetts Professor of the Year (2000)
 * US DoC Bronze Medal Award for Federal Service (1986)
 * NSF (National Science Foundation) Presidential Young Investigator (1987)
 * ASCE Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize (1994)
 * Won the R&D 100 Award, one of 100 best new technical products of the year 12 different times
 * MLK Jr. Leadership Award (1999)
 * ASME Machine Design Award (2008)
 * ASME Thar Energy Award

Select publications

 * Slocum, A. H., FUNdaMENTALS of Design
 * Handbook of Human-centered Design (Japanese), Section 7.3.
 * Slocum, A. H., Precision Machine Design, © 1995, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, MI. (first published by Prentice Hall in 1992).
 * Ito, T., Ichikawa, T., Hanumara, N. C., Slocum, A. H., “Teaching Creativity in Design Through Project-Based Learning in a Collaborative Distributed Educational Setting,” Chapter from Cloud-Based Design and Manufacturing (CBDM), D. Schaefer (ed.) available on-line at (http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-07398-9_9), Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014, pp. 231-282.