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Alexandria MoseleyAge: 23Graduate, Oregon State UniversityNewberg, ORAlexandria Moseley distinguished herself asa manufacturing leader during her collegecareer at Oregon State University.She recently graduated with two bachelor’sdegrees, one in industrial engineering and theother in manufacturing engineering. Alexandria saidshe chose the two degrees because she found them tobe a “good balance of theory and hands-on work.” And,she proudly noted, “I have spent a lot of time in machineshops, even smaller machine shops.”But her double major and straight As weren’t allthat set her apart. Alexandria has been an ambassadorfor the manufacturing industry and a leaderas the chair of her SME student chapter, wrote KarlR. Haapala, Ph.D., assistant professor, School ofMechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineeringat OSU. “She is a wonderful student, communitymember, leader, and most importantly, person,”Haapala wrote. “Alexandria has positively influencedour School and College.”Alexandria’s leadership has been recognized before.National Engineers Week 2012 recognized her as oneof the “15 New Faces of Engineering—College Edition,”which was sponsored by SME. She has received severalscholarships, including the SME Directors Scholarship,in 2010 and 2012.In addition, she is participating in the MECOP program,which places high-achieving students into two6-month industry internships during their last two yearsof school. While interning at A-dec and Welch Allyn fora total of 15 months, she used lean principles to reducerework, identify root causes of quality issues, andimprove the flow of finished good production processes.She helped save over $17,000 per year in direct laborat A-dec and helped uncover a 3% defect rate in amajor product line at Welch Allyn.UNDER THIRTYShe also served the College and School as a researchassistant, teaching assistant, and as an OSU EngineeringAmbassador. She has spent the past four years raisingawareness of career paths in manufacturing amonghigh school and college students. Whether giving acampus tour or presenting to a classroom, she emphasizedthe key roles that industrial engineers and manufacturingengineers play in sustaining the economy.As chair of the SME student chapter, she facilitateda series of club events that developed technical andprofessional skills of engineering students. She volunteeredto assist with the 2011 SME North AmericanManufacturing Research Conference and a project tomachine key chains for the 2011 Beaver Open Houseto hand out to prospective students. She was also aguest speaker at the 2012 SME Annual Conference inCleveland, OH.Alexandria lamented the fact there “were so few”women in her classes, but she thinks that is changingquickly because of many new outreach efforts. And sheherself tells potential students that manufacturing andengineering is really about design, which has a lot ofappeal to her peers. “I tell them … every product is notonly designed but engineers design the way it is built.”Alexandria’s next steps are to pursue a master’s degreein engineering management at Technical Universityof Denmark in Copenhagen.“I would like to work in operational management,”she said. “I’d like to manage a production facility ormany production facilities.” In particular, Alexandriasaid that she is interested in food production andautomation.Despite her achievements, Alexandria says she isn’tso much scientific in her thinking as logical and processfocused. “I have always been logically oriented,” shesaid. “I do experiment with crafts and cooking.” METHIRTY UNDER THIRTY PROFILES6 ManufacturingEngineeringMedia.com | July 2013
Sri AtluruAge: 28Sandvik Machining SolutionsMebane, NCGiven his technical achievements in the fieldof manufacturing, it may be difficult to believethat Sri Atluru is just 28 years old.For example, Sri designed and helpedimplement a prototype “supervisory system” for theSmart Machine Platform Initiative (SMPI), which wasinitiated by the Coalition on Manufacturing TechnologyInfrastructure and TechSolve, Inc., to revamp theUS manufacturing sector. The program was fundedby the US Army.“Various integration and next-generation automationsolutions that Sri worked on during the programwere demonstrated live and real-time to a number ofdefense and industry leaders between 2007–2010,”Radu Pavel, Ph.D., Machining/GrindingResearchEngineer at TechSolve, Inc.,wrote in his letter nominatingSri, who worked at TechSolvefrom 2007–2011. ”He was the principal author oftechnical papers concerning the automation concept,which were presented in conferences sponsored bySME and ASME.”What’s more, Sri has also made noteworthycontributions to MTConnect, which aims to addressthe long-standing gap in machine communicationstandards by advocating an XML-based open-sourcestandard.“Sri developed one of the first working MTConnectadapters to run on real CNC machines in 2008,” Pavelwrites. Sri also has authored technical papers aboutMTConnect’s implementation and applications. Sri alsoaddressed energy conservation and management issuesin his MTConnect work. Because of his credentialsand expertise, Sri was selected to lead a group session"Sri developed one of the first workingMTConnect adapters to run on realCNC machines in 2008."UNDER THIRTYabout compressed air energy at the first MTConnectconference in 2011.In an interview with Manufacturing Engineering, Srisaid his love of engineering and manufacturing comesnaturally.“I’ve had a lifelong interest,” Sri said, furtherexplaining that many of his family members “were mechanicalengineers back in India.”He also credits great mentors at TechSolve for his advancement.“They were good at molding me,” he said.Sri holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in mechanicalengineering from BITS-Pilani, India, and a master’sdegree in industrial engineering from the Universityof Cincinnati, where he is also currently working on adoctorate degree in mechanicalengineering.Atluru believes that manyof the challenges facing themanufacturing industry arenot so much technology challenges, but software challenges,which is where he wants to focus his attentionsin the future.“The manufacturing industry doesn’t have widespreadaccess to software with good architectureand design,” he said. “I have a manufacturing background,but I also have a good understanding ofsoftware development.”And while he thinks the “manufacturing in the US isreally advanced,” he thinks it could be more so. “Theydon’t implement as many new things on the shop flooras they could. There is a mismatch between what ispossible and what is done.”Sri would like to see the rigid manufacturing cultureloosen up and be more innovative.“I think I’ve begun to see that happen,” he said. METHIRTY UNDER THIRTY PROFILES7 ManufacturingEngineeringMedia.com | July 2013
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