2020 Issue

46 Claudia Arenas Claudia Arenas works as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt for Cummins Inc. She has over 10 years of experience in the manufacturing industry spanning from controls, process engineering and new product introduction to quality assurance and project management. She has led a wide range of process improvement projects in manufacturing, sales and service areas. She graduated with a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky in 2010 and a master’s in interdisciplinary engineering with a concentra- tion in business management from Purdue University and the Kelley School of Business in 2019. Caite Beck Caite Beck has worked for Northrop Grumman as a structural design engineer for the metals, seals and joints group for one year in Promontory, Utah. Her pre - vious role was as a supply chain quality engineer for Northrop Grumman for 2.5 years. During these two roles, Caite has worked on NASA, commercial and government aerospace programs. Origi- nally from Houston, Texas, Caite moved to Utah by way of Illinois after receiving her B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016. She completed her M.S.E. with a concentration in aerospace engineering from Purdue University in 2019 and is currently pursuing her MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Jacob Dahlberg At the time of writing this paper, Jacob was a senior pursuing a B.S. in aerospace engineering from Purdue University. He has participated in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Purdue Automotive Performance Associ- ation (PAPA), Purdue Club Tennis, and a five-session co-op with Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation in Savannah, Georgia. He started full time as a service engineer with Gulfstream in January 2020. Elle Stephen For the last three years, Elle has been working at Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico as an R&D engineer devel- oping machining processes for nuclear material. Before that, she lived in Indiana (born and raised) and spent 4.5 years working for Honeywell Aerospace as a product design engineer qualifying aircraft fuel controls. She obtained her B.S. in aerospace engineering from Purdue and is currently pursuing an M.S.E. focused on systems engineering. Dave Templeton Dave has been a lead ground test engi- neer at Sikorsky Aircraft (part of Lock- heed Martin) in Stratford, Connecticut, for six years. He was previously a rotors and blades structural analysis engineer at Sikorsky for five years. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Cornell Univer- sity. He has also obtained his MBA from the University of Connecticut and an M.S. in aerospace engineering from Purdue University. Vlad Bleoca Vlad Bleoca has been a designer at General Motors for the past five years. During this time, he has obtained a DFSS Green and Black Belt certifications and also began his master’s in systems engineering at Purdue University. Prior education includes a bachelor’s in engineering technology from the University of Windsor and an associate degree in mechanical engineering automotive product design from St. Clair College. Vlad resides in Windsor and com- mutes to the General Motors Corp. Warren Tech Center in Warren, Michigan. In his free time, he enjoys backcountry camping, traveling, wrenching on cars, playing sports and staying active. The fourth and final recommendation to the ODA is to use a broader spectrum of easily accessible and obtainable mediums to communicate the recycling program to the attendees of ODA events. These additional mediums could include pictures on bins, billboards and “word-of-mouth” by event vendors as well as other forms of media. The use of a large variety of mediums allows for recycling informa- tion to be effectively communicated across different groups and be catered to whatever method is most effective for the target audience (Kaplowitz, Yeboah, Thorp, & Wilson, 2009). While the largest hindrance to a large-scale educa- tion or advertising campaign is usually related to monetary limitations, implementing small-scale improvements to the Communication System can also be effective. Scan the QR code to read more.