Emily DeRocco
EDeRocco@nam.org
President, The Manufacturing Institute 
Senior Vice President, National Association of Manufacturers

Emily DeRocco is president of The Manufacturing Institute and senior vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). She oversees the education, workforce, innovation, and research affiliate of the NAM. In 2001, DeRocco became the assistant secretary of labor, managing a $10 billion investment in the nation’s workforce. She created and implemented regional economic development initiatives in thirty-nine regions across the nation during her tenure, using talent development strategies to drive competitive advantage for America’s businesses.

Pamela Frugoli
frugoli.pam@dol.gov
O*NET/Competency Assessment Team Leader
United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration

Reginald Brown is the director of the Office of Modernization and HR Line of Business with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The vision of the HR Line of Business is to produce cost-effective and interoperable human resource solutions to support the strategic management of human resources. Brown leads the push for transformation needed to enable human resource staff to focus on strategic management of human resources and move from the tasks that are administrative in nature.

Thomas Kearney
tkearne@alleghenypower.com
General Manager, Operations
Allegheny Power Co.

Thomas Kearney is the general manager of operations at Allegheny Power Co., where he manages the construction, operation, and repair of the power lines in Allegheny's central Pennsylvania territory. During his thirty-one years at the company, he has held eleven positions in engineering, customer services, economic development, human resources, and operations at seven locations throughout Pennsylvania.

Doug Mechlenburg is the chief technology officer and vice president of advanced research at Philips Healthcare Respironics, where he develops diagnostic and therapeutic devices for the home healthcare and sleep apnea market. He has twenty-seven years of experience in technical and leadership capacities, developing electromechanical medical devices, resulting in more than fifty new product releases and twenty-four patents.

Richard Dodaro
Richard.dodaro@shawgrp.com
Vice President, Engineering
Shaw Power Group

Richard Dodaro is the vice president of engineering at the Shaw Group Power Division, a provider of power plant engineering, procurement, and construction services for fossil, nuclear, and renewable fuels. Dodaro is responsible for all discipline engineering and design, as well as project engineering management and engineering materials. He has more than thirty-five years of experience in refining, petrochemical, chemical, coal gasification, pharmaceutical industries, power plants, and air quality control systems for existing plants.

Mark Stratton
mstratton@sme.org
Member and Industry Relations Manager, Manufacturing Education and Research
Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Mark Stratton is a member and industry relations manager with the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). He serves the leadership of the Manufacturing Education and Research Community of the SME Technical Community Network. Their initiatives focus on curriculum development, assessing the quality of manufacturing education programs through accreditation, supporting the presentation and publication of manufacturing research, and a variety of recognition programs in education and research. He also works directly with membership consultants and chapters in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

Keith Hjelmstad is the university vice president and dean of the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University. As dean, he administers the science, engineering, technology, and management programs within the innovative environment of the Polytechnic campus and ensures that the learning and discovery that takes place there align with the needs and aspirations of our technology-driven society. As university vice president, he serves on the university’s leadership team, and he champions further development of programs, activities, facilities, and community relations for the Polytechnic campus.

John Giancola is the national dean of the College of Engineering and Information Sciences for DeVry University. Giancola has been involved with the engineering technology programs at DeVry University as faculty, chair, program dean, dean of academic affairs, and now the national dean of the newly formed College of Engineering and Information Sciences. He is responsible for the ABET-accredited Electronic, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering Technology bachelor’s degree programs delivered at more than twenty-three locations in the United States and Canada and online.

H. Öner Yurtseven is the dean of the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Yurtseven teaches electrical engineering courses on circuits, signals and systems, control systems, signal processing, and engineering ethics. He has consulted in the areas of international engineering and technology education and the accreditation of engineering and technology programs.

David Wormley is the Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering at Penn State and has recently completed a term as president of the American Society for Engineering Education. Specializing in mechanical engineering, Wormley’s expertise is in the areas of dynamic systems and control with application to transportation, energy production and conversion, and fluid actuation systems.

Dennis Depew is the dean of the College of Technology at Purdue University. He has served as head of the Department of Industrial Technology, university coordinator of Excellence 21, and assistant dean of the Graduate School. He has worked as a technical consultant for Fortune 500 companies on the subject of quality and productivity improvement and has acted as the principal investigator or co-principal investigator for more than $3 million dollars in external grants to support academic programs and applied research projects in his department and college.

Owe Petersen is the department chair and a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. His technical work covers optical data links, integrated circuit technology, RF semiconductor components, and semiconductor component reliable. He is a senior member of IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in electrical engineering.

H. Fred Walker
hfwalker@rit.edu
Dean, College of Applied Science and Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology

H. Fred Walker is dean of the College of Applied Science and Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His industrial experience includes twelve years in airborne weapons systems integration and automation, supervision and administration, project management, and program management in countries throughout the Pacific Rim, Australia, and Africa. His research agenda is focused on enhancing the competitiveness of manufacturers through appropriate technology and operating practices.

Tom Gregory is the associate vice president for instruction at the Pennsylvania College of Technology (PCT), where he is responsible for new program development and curriculum, faculty orientation and development, transfers and articulations, program reviews, and Middle States accreditation. He has also served as an instructor in the electrical technology department, director of instructional technology, faculty development specialist, and dean of construction and design technologies at PCT.

Edward Wilson is the associate dean of engineering at DeVry University’s College of Engineering and Information Sciences. He has served as a consultant/evaluator for the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and as an IEEE program evaluator and a member of the Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET. Wilson has coordinated and supported TAC of ABET visits to fifty-seven DeVry engineering technology programs since 2003.

Dianna Phillips is dean of the technical education division at Monroe Community College (MCC) in Rochester, New York. She recently co-chaired a task force examining engineering programs at MCC. Phillips is keenly interested in all matters pertaining to technical education including curriculum models; faculty role, responsibilities, and rewards in technical environments; and reciprocal relationships with industry.

Venancio Fuentes is the department chair of the engineering technologies/engineering science department at County College of Morris in Randolph, New Jersey. His responsibilities include development in program areas related to electronics, engineering technology, mechanical engineering technology, engineering science, telecommunications systems, aviation, and fire science.