Bob Rhoads Email & Phone Number

Columbus, OH, US

• Serve as program director in the Engineering Education Innovation Center (EEIC) for senior capstone design programs across the College of Engineering. In this position, the following job functions are performed:
• Teach engineering design to senior engineering students.
• Develop innovative engineering design curriculum based on current education pedagogy.
• Support current engineering capstone courses in respective departments.
• Develop collaboration among departments for multidisciplinary capstone projects.
• Coordinate/strengthen industry partnerships for capstone projects.

• Served as program coordinator and faculty for the Pathways to Engineering program for high school juniors and seniors. The program offered select high school students the opportunity to earn an associates technical.
• Modified curriculum to meet the needs of high school students.
• Coordinated courses and faculty to achieve student success.
• Promoted program to area high schools including students, teachers, parents and administrators.
• Taught several engineering courses to cohort of high school students.

• Served as program advisor and faculty including classroom and laboratory instruction, assessment of student learning, cooperation and participation in curriculum development, academic advisement, student recruitment.
• Developed new course in project management (based on PMI’s PMBOK) including textbook selection, course outline development, and assessment evaluation.
• Taught CAD courses utilizing AutoCAD and AutoDesk Inventor software to create 2D and 3D models and drawings according to geometric tolerance and dimensioning standards to mechanical, architectural and electrical.
• Educated technology students in problem solving and process control techniques including SPC, Six Sigma, TQM, 5S and PDCA.
• Taught machine design course including mechanical component analysis and design.

• Worked interactively with process and manufacturing departments to modify existing and develop new CRT glass mold equipment.
• Developed 4 new product types in record time schedules that required only one engineering test run to produce samples for OEM customer testing.
• Utilized Unigraphics CAD software to create 2-D drawings and 3-D solid models.
• Served as Project Manager for new CRT glass products including developing schedules, coordinating production runs, testing at customer plants and modifying mold equipment design with multi-disciplined team members.
• Worked on ISO procedure documentation of the Mold Department that included process flowcharts, written work instructions and written inspection procedures.
• Served as Mold Dept. Manager during manager’s absence for vacations and illnesses directing 7 salaried and 30 unionized employees.

• Managed entire production line improvements including process, mold equipment, downtime, and plant equipment design modifications for quality and productivity improvement. Also, served as a technical liaison between.
• Supervised/managed Process Control Shift Engineers that included annual evaluations, daily direction and hiring process.
• Performed in-depth analysis of process variables using SPC techniques (i.e. correlation analysis, x-bar r charts, trend charts, histograms, etc).
• Established and implemented an operator-training program including a manual and a handbook of corrective actions for glass funnel defects.
• Coordinated approval testing of new items with plant staff and customers.
• Presented customer defects to plant supervision in Pareto charts.

Mba, General Business Administration

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering