FMMC Faculty and Staff

     The FMMC personnel are dedicated to advancing technical innovation in the furniture industry through university-based, multidisciplinary, research and technical assistance. Center personnel also participate in the BSIE, Furniture Manufacturing Option which prepares undergraduate engineering students for careers as engineers and managers for the furniture industry.

FMM Center Adminstration

Center Director
Dr. Russell E. King
Program Assistant V
Jean Rollins

Extension and Technical Assistance
The center employs three full-time extension personnel specializing in the areas of casegoods manufacturing, upholstery manufacturing, and testing and evaluation.

Extension Specialist
Mr. Steve Walker
Upholstery
Mr. John Summey
Testing and Evaluation
Dr. Harvey West

Faculty
The following Industrial and Systems Engineering faculty are associated with the Center and either have teaching responsibilities for furniture classes or have direct responsibility for furniture related research.

Professor and Center Director
Dr. Russell E. King
Associate Professor
Dr. Denis Cormier
Henry Armfield Foscue Professor and Associate Director
Dr. C. Thomas Culbreth
James T. Ryan Professor
Dr. Thom J. Hodgson

Research Associates

The team of research associates is responsible for defining and conducting furniture related research, maintaining the Center's research facilities, and developing technology transfer programs to dissiminate research results to the furniture industry.

Furniture Mfg. Lab Director
Mr. Ron Aman