 |
 |
 |
ETI's Instructors
ETI Dimensional Engineering Mentors Michael
Adcock
Michael developed fuel tanks, fuel injectors, evaporative emissions equipment, electronic throttle bodies, and a patented pressure damper for Visteon. He also spent nearly a year with Dana, designing axle components and assemblies. In more than seven years as a designer, Michael has worked with solid modeling, engineering drawings, and the language of GD&T on a daily basis. He has seen the problems that result from a poor understanding of dimensioning and tolerancing, and he understands the benefits of the functional dimensioning philosophy based on the ASME Y14.5 Standard. Michael is a full-time Dimensional Engineering Mentor for ETI.
Roy has a thorough knowledge of manufacturing processes, including injection molding, stampings, casting, forgings, and machining. He has experience in tool and die design, special machines, and in fixtures for machining and testing. He understands the challenge that faces today’s manufacturers to achieve higher quality at lower cost. In his most recent role with a major automotive supplier, Roy was responsible for gage and CMM holding fixture design, procurement, and approval. He worked closely with supplier and product quality engineers and gage / fixture builders to insure that all gages and CMM holding fixtures met GD&T and GR&R requirements per OEM and industry quality standards. He has also helped quality engineers assess measurement methods of part GD&T requirements.
Dan Carlson
Robert
Charlton Brent Davis
Charles (Don) Holder Don began his GD&T journey in 1978 as one of the first in his division to be trained. Since then, he has taught numerous workshops on GD&T and provided technical support for applying GD&T on engineering drawings. Dale MacPherson
His work assignment
also includes software testing and development for embedded GD&T
tools. Areas of design experience include: manual transmission design,
gear design, drive line component and system design and packaging,
throttle control system and component design, shift control system
and component design, clutch system and component design. Dale is a member of the General Motors GD&T task team (the team authored the GM Addendum to ASME Y14.5). He is also an ASIG (Aircraft Special Interest Group) tolerancing module JAD (Joint Application Development) team member —an industry-wide team that directs software developers for embedded GD&T). Dale is a
registered General Motors University instructor. He has an Associate's
Degree in Tool Fixture and Die design, and a certificate in electro-mechanical
engineering technology. He has been teaching courses in GD&T
fundamentals, advanced concepts, and tolerance stacks since 1999.
He has taught within General Motors and at major automotive suppliers
in North America, Australia, and Asia. Daniel Meyers Dan has an indepth knowledge of the ASME Y14.5M-1994 and ISO 1101 Standards, and over fourteen years of experience with VisVSA 3D tolerance analysis. He has served as chairman of the Delphi Dimensional Management Team since 1999. Christopher
Nolan
Christopher has taken several design courses at the Ford Training Development Center. He has been certified in detailed drawing, descriptive geometry, and trigonometry by the Batavia School of Drafting. He is also a member of Visteon's Engineering CAD Standards and GD&T Technical Committees. He is also a supplier member of Ford's GD&T Committee. Christopher
has been a corporate instructor for Visteon for five years, teaching
GD&T fundamentals, advanced concepts, and tolerance stacks.
Dave Slopsema Dave has a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Michigan.
Carl Wargula |
Michael
Adcock has an AAS in CAD design from ITT Technical Institute and
is an active member of ASME. He lived and worked in Brazil for two
years, where he became fluent in Portuguese.
Roy Cross has 30 years of experience in the automotive industry. His design experience includes detailer, designer, design leader, and checker. His product knowledge includes brakes, wheels, drive train, HVAC, and engine cooling. He is an active member of ASME and SME societies.
Bob Bourland has worked in the design field for over 50 years. His experience includes detailer, designer, test technician, checker and drafting supervisor, and chief draftsman. He worked for seven years as a design leader for one of the world's largest automotive companies, and most recently audited new program drawings per the ASME 1994 Standards and the GM Special 2001 and 2004 Addendum Standards. 
Dan Carlson graduated from Michigan Technological University Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Engineering Degree. His background in automotive design includes checking, tolerance analysis, and supplier coordination using GD&T, giving him a solid grasp of the topic. Dan has been an adjunct instructor for Baker College. His background includes operating his own engineering design firm. Mr. Carlson has been teaching since 1993.
Bob
Charlton has worked in Manufacturing Quality Assurance as a Quality
Manager and Director for over twenty years. He holds a degree
in Business Administration from Wayne State University and has
a Journeyman's card as a Toolmaker. 
Brent Davis is a Senior Design Engineer, GDT Representative for Ford Motor Company Automatic Transmission Operations (ATO). He has over twenty years in automotive product design and automotive tooling design.
Don Holder has over 33 years of Product Engineering experience at one of the world’s largest automobile corporations. His responsibilities have included detailing plus designing and checking automatic transmission component drawings. He has also held various leadership positions. 
Dale MacPherson
has over thirty years in automotive product design. He works for
General Motors Powertrain division as a Senior Product Designer
in Dimensional Engineering, providing GD&T consulting and training
for GMPT. 
Dan Meyers is an ASME-certified Senior GD&T Professional specializing in dimensional management and variation analysis. He has over thirty years of experience in mechanical design as a drafter, designer, checker, and dimensional management mentor. 
Christopher
Nolan is a Product Design Checker and GDT Senior at Visteon Corporation.
He has over twenty years of experience in automotive product design
and automotive tooling design. His design services have been used
by Ford Motor Company and GM Powertrain.
Dave Slopsema is a design supervisor
with one of the world's largest manufacturing corporations. He began his engineering career performing Finite Element Analysis, and his recent experience includes 12 years designing engine components and subsystems. 
Carl
Wargula has been teaching Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
since 1980 and has also taught other industrial topics including
Blueprint Reading and SPC. Carl's industrial experience is in
Powertrain and Aerospace industries. He holds a Bachelor of Science
degree from University of Wisconsin.