|
CONTACT INFORMATION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE |
_______________________________________Monday June 7thWilliam Grogan : Capstone Power
William Grogan was named WPI’s first Dean of Undergraduate Studies in 1970 and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1990. In that role, he led the development of the WPI Plan (including the Major Qualifying Project, MQP), which combines theoretical study with project-based problem solving. He was also instrumental in implementing the WPI Global Studies Program, and helped develop multiple off-campus project centers, both nationally and internationally.
Grogan graduated from WPI in 1945 and served in the U.S. Navy as an electronics officer (both during WWII and the Korean War). He returned to WPI to earn a master’s degree in electrical engineering and began teaching in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1946. For the next 20 years, Grogan taught at WPI, working his way up to the rank of professor by 1962, while consulting and developing patents for the U.S. Department of the Navy in Washington, D.C., and General Electric in Pittsfield, Mass., every summer. Grogan has been recognized with major awards from ASEE, the IEEE, and WPI. Tuesday June 8thAlice Phinney : Industry Perspective of Senior
Alice Phinney is a Sr. Engineering Manager at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado. She manages the Pointing, Tracking, and Sensors Technology group which is comprised of 290 mechanical, optical, thermal, structural, and detector engineers. She is responsible for the functional management of the group, which covers: providing the right people to programs at the right time, insuring the correct skill and experience within the discipline groups, balancing manpower with program needs (hiring and force reduction), professional development, salary management, and process improvement.
Alice came to engineering relatively late in life, graduating with her BS in ME from the University of Colorado, at 28. She worked for 5 years at Boeing, in Everett, Washington, on 767s and 747s prior to coming to Ball Aerospace. At Ball for almost 19 years, Alice has worked on a variety of programs including the mechanical lead for the Impactor Spacecraft (smashed into comet Tempel 1 for a science experiment). Alice also has a BA in Biology from the University of Colorado. Wednesday June 9thKeynote Panel : International Teams
Alan R. Parkinson Alan R. Parkinson is a professor of mechanical engineering and currently serves as dean of the Ira. A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at Brigham Young University. The college is home to 3300 students in 11 programs. Previous to his appointment as dean he was an associate dean from 2003 to 2005 and chair of mechanical engineering from 1995 to 2001. He received his PhD and MS degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and BS and MBA degrees from Brigham Young University.
During his tenure as dean, the college has implemented numerous international programs, including technical study abroad programs, international capstone projects, international internships, and a chapter of Engineers Without Borders. He is currently conducting research on cross-cultural virtual engineering design teams. Other areas of research interest include design automation, optimization methods and robust design. In 2003, he received the Design Automation Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his work in robust design and design optimization. Prof. Parkinson was elected to Fellow status in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2004.
David Wilson David Wilson has always been a proponent of hands-on project based learning in Engineering Education. In his role as Director for Academic Marketing at National Instruments, he ensures that National Instruments continually delivers technologies that enable educators to do engineering with real-world experiments. He also mentors students in his spare time with senior design/capstone projects that are innovative and representative of hands-on project based learning.
Wilson has been with NI since 1991 where he has held the positions as the Michigan-area district sales manager, the director of data acquisition marketing, the international sales director for Japan, and in 2005, director of International Marketing. Wilson holds a BS degree in applied physics from the State University of New York at Geneseo. |
QUICK LINKS
CONFERENCE SPONSORS |
|
