Mary C. Emplaincourt

Instructor/Program Coordinator
Mechanical Engineering Department
Mail Stop 9552, 210 Carpenter Building
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Telephone: (662) 325-8787
Fax: (662) 325-7223
E-mail: emplaincourt@me.msstate.edu
 

Education

  • M.S., Industrial Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1984
  • M.A., History, The University of Alabama, 1976
  • B.A., Political Science/History/Mathematics, The University of Alabama, 1973

Experience Record

  • 1990-Present,  Instructor/Program Coordinator, IE/ME Departments, College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
  • 1986-1990,  Manufacturing Engineering Manager, MotorGuide/Fisher Marine, Zebco/Brunswick Aluminum Boat Division, Brunswick Corporation, Starkville, MS
  • 1986-1990,  Executive-In-Residence, School of Management, College of Business and Industry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
  • 1984-1986,  Industrial Engineering, Chromalox, Division of Emerson Electric, Vernon, AL
  • 1979-1984,  Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Industrial Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
  • 1975-1979,  Teacher of Mathematics, Grades 7-12, Oktibbeha County School System, Starkville, MS
  • 1973-1974,  Teacher of Mathematics, Grades 7-12, Tuscaloosa School System, Tuscaloosa, AL

Specialty Areas

        Engineering Economy, Production Management, Work Methods, Manufacturing Processes

Research Summary

    Mrs. Emplaincourt is currently teaching manufacturing processes and engineering economy. One of her primary objectives in the manufacturing processes course is to tour industries in the state with her students. A benefit derived from this outreach is that she has made direct contact with many companies in the state and is often privilege to information about changes that are being experienced and problems being encountered. As a result and if the situation merited it, she would recommend people to be contacted who could offer solutions.

    While teaching she received a grant from a company in Mississippi to develop and teach a fifteen-week course on improving productivity to 150 employees. Also, while teaching, she has worked in the state as a private consultant dealing with organizations as diverse as a leading catfish processing plant and a boiler manufacturer, verifying, as well as, developing production standards.

    When she worked as a manufacturing engineer in industry, one of her major areas of responsibility, as head of a manufacturing engineering department, was to coordinate projects that not only analyzed the economic impact of new product design but also directed activities that put new products into production ready for shipment to the customers.


Selected Recent Publications

    "An Analysis of the Manufacturing Processes and Standards at Cleaver Brooks Boilers," A Report Prepared for Cleaver Brooks Boilers, Greenville, MS, 1994.

    "An Analysis of the Catfish Processing Production Standards at Delta Pride," A Report Prepared for Delta Pride, Indianola, MS, 1992.

    "Soaring into the Future: Building a Productive Workplace," Prepared Employee Training Material for Air Cruisers, Liberty, MS, 1991.

    "Minimize the Number of Tardy Jobs with Precedence Constraints in a One Machine Job Shop," Masters Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1984.