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: MS in Engineering from North Carolina State University, BS in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University

Specialized training: Industry certifications, software, EPIC Certified Instructor

Recognitions: North Carolina State University School of Engineering Distinguished Alumni

Professional experience: 40+ years of industrial experience. Worked for Lockheed, Kodak, Lord Corporation, Assurance Technologies and Automation Innovation. Built robotic and automated systems for fabrication and inspection of plans, trains, and automobiles that are 1986 or newer.

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