The Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability (M&MS) Discovery Themes focus area announces the hire of Ms. Kari Roth as a Senior Technology Integrator.
An experienced engineer and technical program manager with a strong industry background, Ms. Roth will lead projects and manage client relationships within the Materials Innovation Greenhouse (MIG), an open innovation collaboratory translating science and engineering discoveries into economic and societal benefits through strategic partnerships central to the mission of M&MS.
Ms. Roth joins us from Honeywell International where she was a Technical Project Leader of sensing and productivity solutions for over nine years, responsible for the management of multimillion-dollar programs for customers within the medical, industrial, transportation, retail and automotive markets.
Prior to joining Honeywell, she worked for twelve years with Delphi Corporation as a Program Manager and Application/Design Engineer working with next-generation controlled brake and suspension systems. Ms. Roth earned a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Dayton.
Ms. Roth brings a differentiated skillset beyond program management and best practices that will make an immediate impact on the M&MS Discovery Theme and, specifically, the MIG. Her skills and experience in performance improvement, new product design, production, introduction, innovation lifecycle, and voice of the customer engagement are unique and complementary to our existing team. Her addition will yield results in terms of the successful delivery of complex technical programs for our local-to-global partners.
The Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability Discovery Themes focus area is managed by the Institute for Materials Research. For more information:
Discovery Themes: discovery.osu.edu/
Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability focus area: discovery.osu.edu/mms
Institute for Materials Research: imr.osu.edu/