Hank Hall has a BSIE degree from North Carolina State University and a MSIE degree (with thesis) from Purdue University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, a ’Certified Manufacturing Engineer’ from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, as well as a Senior Member of SME.

Hank has 30 years of experience in private industry, with over 20 years of project management experience in managing 40 new product development and product redesign projects which utilize in house manufacturing, US and NAFTA suppliers, and the Asian supplier base. He has taken numerous business trips to Asia and Mexico at various project milestones for many of these projects. He is fully experienced in effectively communicating and interacting with all levels of US, Asian and Mexican suppliers -- from ISO 9001 first level vendors down to small sub vendors. He has extensive experience and knowledge in Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Quality Control, and Purchasing. His experience and knowledge in these areas comes through in his course lectures, examples, and quiz problems.