UNDER THIRTY - Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Kimberly JungAge: 18StudentHolland, MIKimberly Jung graduated from Holland HighSchool this spring with AP testing credits forhistory and English that will enable her to takepackage engineering classes in her first yearnext fall at Michigan State University. In consideringa career path, Kim researched the field of packagingand discovered its many interesting aspects includingdiversity of materials used and ecological and economicimplications that make it an especially challengingcareer choice.Last year, when Kim transferred to Holland High, heraffinity for the STEM disciplines of science, technology,engineering and math, so important in manufacturing,were evident to school guidance counselors who madeher aware of the challenges and benefits of joining HollandHigh’s FIRST (FRC) Robotics Team 74. HollandFIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science andTechnology) Robotics was founded in 1995 to inspirean appreciation of scienceand technology.“FIRST FRC is atremendous experientialSTEM learningactivity for high school students. Specifically, it is aworldwide annual competition between teams composedof high school students and community adults.The purpose of the program/competition is to worktogether to solve a very difficult technical challenge ina short period of time. The end result is a 120-poundrobot, designed, developed, built, programmed andused in the competition six weeks after the rules areannounced,” said Adam Rolinski of Tiara Yachts Inc.,Kim’s nominator.Kim joined and in 18 months developed a passionfor programming, fabrication and wiring the robot andbecame proficient at writing the control system andUNDER THIRTYmonitoring code for the robot using National InstrumentsLABView software. “I have come to know Kimthrough our interaction on the Holland High School’sFIRST (FRC) Robotics Team 74. Last summer, shescheduled classes with the team’s lead adult programmerwho was available to teach and guide herand others interested in programming. Kim demonstratestremendous leadership skills regularly applyingthem through her work and service to our team.She is well spoken, diligent and she does what shesays she will do, immediately and well. She achievesthrough a combination of delegation, teaching, encouragingothers and personal effort. She has builton her experiences and developed ways to help herand the other students succeed,” Rolinski said.Kim was elected by her student peers to be theteam’s assistant student captain and in that role hasguided a group of six rookie students through this year’srobot development season,teaching, coachingand writing the bulkof this year’s code tocontrol the robot. Inaddition, Kim added to her skills by learning projectmanagement methods including scope identification,communication plans, resource planning, timelinedevelopment, risk assessment methodology and contingencyplanning. She used these skills to plan, track,and develop the control systems code and then implement,troubleshoot, improve and finalize it.Before heading off to college, Kim committed to theteam to teach all interested students control systems,code writing, debugging and implementation. This is agreat service to the team in succession planning andskill development for the students who will attend thesummer sessions. ME"I immediately liked robotics programming. It’shands on and you could see what changes inthe program could do for control of the robot."THIRTY UNDER THIRTY PROFILES15 ManufacturingEngineeringMedia.com | July 2013