Awards and Grants

Associate Editor, North America and reviewer for New Technology, Work Employment international journal, 1998-2015.

Elected to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, March 17, 2013.       

Honored by the EMU Women’s Commission by their awarding of their 2012-13 student scholarships in my name, June 21, 2012.

College of Technology nominee and recipient of the Eastern Michigan University Alumni Association’s Teaching Excellence Award, Fall, 2001.

Invited Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, AUTO21, a Canadian Centre of Excellence project sponsoring applied interdisciplinary research on the Canadian automotive industry, funded by the government of Canada and  supported by Canada’s leading automotive and steel industry firms and universities, 2002-2015.

Guest Scientist, The Science Center Berlin for Social Research, 1995.  Funded invitation to collaborate with Dr. Ulrich Jürgens and other colleagues on a cross-national study of product development strategies and structures in the automotive industry.

Evaluation of the Labor Participation in Modernization Program:  $297,000 grant  awarded by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 1995-97.  Two-year study of the effectiveness of the federally-sponsored Manufacturing Extension Partnership’s efforts to increase union leader awareness of regional manufacturing extension center services and support jointly-designed modernization projects.

Sectoral Training Partnerships in Canada: Building Consensus Through Policy and Practice:  $4,500 Canadian Studies Faculty Research Award by the Government of Canada, 1993 for a study of the decision-making practices of a subset of labor-management sectoral training councils in Canada.

Socio-Technical Joint Committee Project:  $50,000 grant awarded in 1989 by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to establish plant-level structures designed to improve employee participation in technical and organizational decision-making in a unionized setting.

Strategic Education Project:  $37,500 grant awarded in 1989 by the Governor’s Labor-Management Partnership Project to develop two educational modules and a dissemination strategy for its Strategic Education Program.

Skills Demand Analysis Project:  $60,000 grant awarded in 1989 by the Michigan Modernization Service to study job skill requirements and training issues in the Michigan machine tool builder industry.

UAW-Chrysler PEL: $3,500 awarded in 1989 by Eastern Michigan University to develop education materials and deliver two presentations on labor and technology issues to participants in the first national UAW-Chrysler Paid Educational Leave program.

Selected as one of ten university labor educators nationally to participate in a two-week study tour of Japan, September, 1985.  The tour was funded and sponsored by the Japan Foundation, in cooperation with the Japan Institute of Labor.