About me...
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About Me
Dr. King is a full professor at Kettering University formerly GMI Engineering & Management Institute, Flint, MI, since Fall, 1991. She set up a CAD-CAE laboratory and taught CAD and CAE courses at Lawrence Technological University for 10 years. Since joining Kettering University, she has set up a CIM environment (called SuperCell) and has concentrated her efforts in teaching CIM and Robotics using the environment and other equipment in the CIM Laboratory. She formed a subcell of the SuperCell and fitted the equipment into a trailer and called the unit CIM on Wheels (CIMoW) which is used for teaching at Kettering and will be used for road demonstrations and hands-on workshops for pre-college students, community college students, Flint community and the greater Detroit area.
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For four summers, Dr. King was on a travel grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to do consulting in manufacturing at GINTIC Institute of Manufacturing Technology (an affiliate of Nanyang Technological University) in Singapore. GINTIC’s primary goal is to work with industries to research, develop and install automated or semi-automated manufacturing systems at the workplace. |
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She is also working on vertical and horizontal integration of manufacturing courses in engineering curricula. In this field, she is mainly focusing on developing a unique, novel model with strategic processes, teaching tools and materials to vertically integrate MFgE courses and horizontally integrate the ME and IE courses. |
She has received many research and equipment grants from NSF, including Ford Motor Company, Sun Microsystems, Staubli Unimation, FASTech Integration, Fanuc Robotics and other hardware and software companies. She is a member of SME, ASEE, ASME and is on the ASME Board on Pre-college Education.
For information, please contact Dr. King at 1-800-955-4464 ext. 7850 or the Department Secretary at ext. 7941.