Michael Childers (PhD) brings diverse management and engineering experience from a wide variety of industries including basic steel, machining, metal fabrication, and plastics manufacturing. In addition to steward, bargaining, financial officer, and leadership courses, Michael's teaching interests include industrial engineering topics such as time study, production standards, lean production, job evaluation, and incentive & gainsharing pay systems. He also has expertise in program evaluation, and assists unions to be more effective in utilizing technology, including teaching computer skills and internet research.