Award Year
2000
Graduation Year
1983
Department
Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Award Category
Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers
Biography
John Robinson graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1983. He went to work for Masonite Corporation as a Project Engineer directly after graduation and was promoted to Engineering Superintendent after three years. In 1994 John was transferred to one of International Paper Company's plants in Georgia with the responsibility to make a profit which the plant had not done for some time.
He had great success here and accomplished the job in less than a year. In 1998 he became one of Masonite Corporation's youngest plant managers. He is highly regarded as an outstanding engineer within Masonite Corporation and International Paper Company's engineering community.
Degrees
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 1983