
Volume 4 No.1, Winter 2000	ISSN# 1523-9926

Author Biographies

Cole, William E.

William E. Cole received his Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering Degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and his Doctor of Philosophy from the Pennsylvania State University. He has over twenty years of industrial experience developing industrial process equipment at The United Technologies Research Center and Thermo Electron Corp. Dr. Cole is now using this industrial experience to help educate the next generation of engineers.

Buchanan, Walter

Walter Buchanan is Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology and Director of the School of Engineering Technology at Northeastern University. He received his BSE and MSE from Purdue University, and his Ph.D. and J.D. from Indiana University. Walt is a P.E. in five states, and is Chair of ETD. He has written over 70 papers, and is a Member of TAC of ABET and Chair of IEEE's Committee for Technology Accreditation Activities.

Koukos, Antonis

Antonis Koukos received his diploma in electrical engineering from the University of Patra, Patra, Greece in 1989. In 1993 he received his doctoral diploma from National Technical University of Athens, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and then worked for Hellenic Air force Research and Technology Center for two years, during his military obligation service.
Since 1995 he is a member of the teaching faculty of the Technological Educational Institutions of Piraeus, Greece (1995-1996) and Chalkis, Greece (1995 up-to-date) respectively. He has taught electronics, microcomputers, digital systems, computer networks, data transfer systems and, artificial intelligence.

Mr. Koukos has been cooperating with Planning S.A., Apotelesma S.A. and other engineering and consulting firms since 1995. He worked in various research and development projects for National Technical University of Athens (1990-1992). Among the significant projects he has worked for, is the project of informatics and telecommunications infrastructure development of the Agricultural University of Athens (1997).

His research interest include electronics, VLSI systems, telecommunications systems, ATM Networks traffic and flow control, www based services, artificial intelligence applications and, decision support systems.

Mr. Koukos is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG) as well as member of other associations and scientific committees.

Kitto, Kathleen L.

Kathleen L. Kitto is a Professor in and Chair of the Engineering Technology Department at Western Washington University. Since arriving at Western Washington University in 1988 her primary teaching areas have been in the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program and her research interests have been in the development of devices for the differently-abled and in finite element analysis of complex components. She received both her MS and BS degrees from the University of Montana/Montana Tech and previously worked for many years in industry primarily developing instrumentation systems and advanced materials.

McKell, Eric K.

Eric K. McKell is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Western Washington University. He received a B.S. in MET in 1992 and M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering in 1997, both from Brigham Young University. His teaching interests are in CNC machining, Tool design, parametric modeling, and collaborative engineering. He has two years experience as a machinist with a small job shop and three years as a Manufacturing Engineer with The Boeing Company.

Morse, Julia

Julia Morse is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Systems Technology Department within the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering and Technology at The Peter Kiewit Institute of Information Science, Technology and Engineering in Omaha, Nebraska. She teaches lecture and laboratory courses in the areas of computer-aided manufacturing and automation for Manufacturing Engineering Technology and Industrial Technology undergraduate programs. Ms. Morse earned a B.S.I.E. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Auburn University, where she also worked with Auburn Industrial Extension Service. Her work in industry includes engineering experience in quality control, industrial engineering, and design and development functions for automotive parts manufacturers in North Carolina and Germany.

Polonskii, Mikhail M.

Mikhail M. Polonskii was born in Stavropol, Russia, on 3 de October, 1956. He received the M.Sc. degree from the High Technical School named after Baumann of Moscow in 1978, and the Ph. D. degree from the State University of Technology (STANKIN), Moscow, in 1992. At present he is Adjunct Professor at Electrical Engineering Department of Universidade de Passo Fundo, Brazil. His research interests include Mechatronics, Engineering Education and Music Visualization.

Siyambalapitiya, Sarath B.

Sarath B. Siyambalapitiya received Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (Operations Research) from the University of Newcastle, Australia and currently attached to the Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. His research interests include multi objective optimization, production planning and scheduling, engineering and mathematics education.

Sohail Anwar

Sohail Anwar obtained a Ph.D. in Industrial and Vocational Education from The Pennsylvania State University in December 1995 and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in May 1982. He completed additional graduate course work in control theory and applied mathematical sciences at the University of Texas at Arlington during 1982-1984. Since August 1992, Sohail Anwar has been serving as an Assistant Professor of Engineering and the Department Coordinator of Electrical Engineering Technology at Penn State Altoona. Since 1996, he has also been serving as an invited professor of electrical engineering at IUT Bethune, France. He is the Subscriptions Editor of the Journal of Engineering Technology (JET) and an associate editor of the Journal of Pennsylvania Academy of Science.