Education:

• MBA, Business Administration, Meredith College
• MS, Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University
• BS, Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University
• Undergraduate studies, Virginia Tech

Specialized training: Windows: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint; CAD: SolidWorks and AutoCAD; Wake Tech: EPIC-certified, Blackboard, accessibility training, EPIC Peer Review, SoftChalk

Professional experience: More than 35 years of job-related experience, including 19 years in full-time positions at Wake Tech, with primary responsibility in engineering education; 10 years of in-house training with industry in fields of Lean Manufacturing, quality control, CAD and team building; 19 years in development and manufacturing engineering. Has held positions such as development engineer, manufacturing manager, design engineer, senior research and development engineer, department head/senior professor and dean of BEST division.

Education: Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University, concentration in Ultrasonic Imaging; MS in Electronic Engineering from Washington University; BS in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology; graduate studies in mathematics at the University of Missouri

Specialized training: Digital Electronics, embedding programming with FPGAs (field-programmable gate array) and micro-controllers Biomedical Instrumentation, HTML coding, C Programming, ultrasound imaging with medical applications, signal processing for radar and infrared imaging with military applications; EPIC Certified Instructor

Professional experience: Over 28 years of work-related experience

Education: Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, MS in Chemical Engineering, both from the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota

Specialized training: Design of Experiments and Formulations, “Working towards Inclusive Spaces”, Augsburg University

Recognitions: Six U.S. patents, eight conference presentations, 3M Chairman’s Environmental, Health & Safety Leadership Award, Member of the Society of Plastics Engineers and the Society of Rheology

Professional experience: 25 years of industrial experience in research and development, mostly with plastics materials, such as adhesives, superhydrophobic coatings, and UV-cured materials