Katherine Smith is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Technology in the Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University. She holds a Ph.D. in Modeling and Simulation Engineering, an M.S. in Computational and Applied Mathematics, and B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics all from Old Dominion University.  She was previously a Research Assistant Professor in Digital Shipbuilding at Virginia Digital Maritime Center at Old Dominion University’s Office of Enterprise Research and Innovation and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics.