Dr. Hoeppner is President of FASIDE International, Inc. and is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah.  He served as Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1985-1992.  He came to Utah from the University of Toronto where he held the endowed Cockburn Professorship of Engineering Design from 1978-1985 and was Director of the Cockburn Centre for Engineering Design at the University of Toronto.  He was also the director and founder of the Structural Integrity, Fatigue, and Fracture Research Laboratory at the U. of Toronto.  At the U. of Utah he also serves as director of the Quality and Integrity Design Engineering Center.

Dr. Hoeppner received his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering Degree from Marquette University in 1958, his Master of Metallurgical Engineering Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1960, and his Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963.  He then worked at Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus Laboratories from 1964 to 1969.  In 1969, Dr. Hoeppner became a Principal Investigator for fatigue and fracture design and material behavior at Lockheed Corporation and later served as Head of the Fatigue and Fracture Laboratories and Chair of the corporation's Fracture Mechanics Task Group.  In 1974, Dr. Hoeppner joined the engineering faculty at the University of Missouri, Columbia, as Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Bioengineering and Nuclear Engineering.  While at Missouri, he started one of the first programs on Structural Integrity at a University.

Throughout his career, Dr. Hoeppner has been committed to improving engineering education as well as the practice of engineering.  He is a registered professional engineer in three states Wisconsin, Missouri, and Ohio and the Province of Ontario in Canada, and has been very active in numerous technical societies.

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