Interviewed by:
Luke Morris
 Current
Career Information
 Educational
 Work
Information
Environment
 Career
Choice/Path
 Mercer
Education Experience
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 Hoover
Precision:
• Precision Ball
bearings
• Multiple Materials
• Custom orders
• www.hooverprecision.
com
 Quality/Process
Engineer
Luke Morris ISE 288 Alumni Interview
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 Graduated
May 2006
 BSE, Industrial Engineering Specialty
 License/Certifications
 MBA
 Intern: YKK (Macon)
• 5S
• Time Studies
• Managers Assistant
Luke Morris ISE 288 Alumni Interview
Spring 2010
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 Routine
Day
• Production meeting every morning at 9am
 What jobs are hot
 Any past due orders
 Discuss any quality problems encountered
• Supervisor for all quality control hourly
personnel
 Often run into timely miscellaneous issues
 Ex: High percentage of rejects
Luke Morris ISE 288 Alumni Interview
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• Continuous improvement projects
• Manage special product line
 Develop price quotes for customers
 Essential
Job Skills
• Problem Solving
• New situations everyday (customer orders)
 Competitive
Salary
Luke Morris ISE 288 Alumni Interview
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 Benefits
• Insurance
• Bonus program
• 401K
• Close to home
• Not long hours during the week
• Cell phone
• Work Clothes
 Average Work Week
• 40 Hours
Luke Morris ISE 288 Alumni Interview
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 Free Time/Weekends
• Able to leave work at work
• Rarely work weekends
 Interaction
with people outside the
engineering world: Constantly
 Presentations
• Occasional customer presentation
• ASTM(American Society Testing Materials)
Luke Morris ISE 288 Alumni Interview
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 Piers
• Boss: Quality Manager
• Great source of information
 Room
for advancement
 Travel
• Only as needed to vendors or customers
Luke Morris ISE 288 Alumni Interview
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 Since Graduation
• Manufacturing and quality engineering
• Gaining experience
 Family Life
• Married in 2008
• So far no effect on work
 Why ISE
• Enjoyed the material covered
• Felt it was very practice
 Future
• Management position in same company
Luke Morris ISE 288 Alumni Interview
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 Mercer Education
• Really prepared for work force
• Tools learned help with problem solving issues
• Constantly referencing books and projects
 Most useful classes
• Design of experiments
• Statistical quality control
• Human factors engineering
• Computer aided manufacturing
• Operations management
Luke Morris ISE 288 Alumni Interview
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 Least
Helpful Classes
• O-group freshman year
• Calculus Lab
• Engineering Systems Analysis
Luke Morris ISE 288 Alumni Interview
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 Least
Helpful Classes
• O-group freshman year
• Calculus Lab
• Engineering Systems Analysis
Luke Morris ISE 288 Alumni Interview
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 Erin
Roberts
• erinroberts@hooverprecision.com
 Luke
Morris
• Luke.charles.morris@student.mercer.edu
 Dr. Joan
Burtner
• Burtner_J@mercer.edu
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