Val D. Hawks

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 1985 - present

Associate Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Technology

Classes Taught:

Quality Systems, Production Planning, Computer-aided Design Applications, Introduction to CAD, Design for Manufacture, Technical Management, CAD Systems Management, Engineering Ethics, Department Seminar, Senior Seminar.

Research:

Quality Management and Tools - Quality Methods for Small Manufacturers, Process Capabilities, Production System Optimization, Continuous Improvement Methods, Teaching Methods and Learning Theory in Engineering Education.

Administration:

Chair, Industrial Advisory Committee (5 years); Chair, MFET Co-op Committee (3 years); College Alliance With Industry Committee Chair (1 year) and member (4 years); Assistant Department Chairman/Program Coordinator (8 years); Curriculum Committee (2 years); University Faculty Advisory Council (2nd year of 3 year term).

Leave of Absence (Industrial), Spring of 1987 - Fall 1998

Designed and built prototypes of partial-scale and full scale solid waste processing machine to be included as part of a processing system.  Responsibilities included design, test, production, planning, manufacture, and material separation.

Lehigh University, Ben Franklin Technology Center, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, January 1984 - August 1985

Manager, CAD/CAM Projects

Management of reports, budgets, industrial/university interactions for 30-40 CAD/CAM related projects.  Proposal evaluation for all CAD/CAM projects submitted to the center.  Consulting to various existing and new businesses in the eastern Pennsylvania area in the areas of automation, planning, and implementation.

Xerox Corporation, Rochester, New York, January 1981 - January 1984

Project Engineer, Advanced Products Engineering Pilot Team

Responsibilities included evaluation, implementation, and development of tools for engineering groups investigating and implementing design/manufacturing integration tools, graphical applications, robotics simulation, assembly studies, supplier interfaces  through CAD, and custom software development.  Internal technical advisor to Xerox's 50 million dollar CAD/CAM acquisition project in 1983.

EDUCATION

Lehigh University - M.S., Industrial Engineering, 1986, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Brigham Young University - B.S., Design Engineering Technology, 1980, Provo, Utah

Snow College - A.S., Drafting Technology, 1978, Ephraim, Utah

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Missionary for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Hong Kong, May 1974 - May 1976