MIMIC Fair

  

Dorene Perez has been teaching at IVCC since 1987 and was an originator of the MIMIC project.  She is the CAD/CAE Program Coordinator and teaches Engineering Graphics, Drafting, CAD and Animation classes.  She is co-leader of the Tech Prep Team at IVCC and the Principal Investigator for the National Science Foundation grant awarded to IVCC for the MIMIC project.  Before coming to IVCC, she served as a CAD manager in industry for five years.

 

Jim Gibson is the Program Coordinator of Electronics.  He received his B.S. and M.S. from Illinois State University and has been teaching since 1989.  His students placed in state competitions for seven years in a row. In 2005, he was named Outstanding Faculty by the National Association of Industrial Technology.  He is still involved in the electronics industry as a troubleshooter and trainer.  He is co-Principal Investigator for the NSF grant awarded to IVCC for the MIMIC project.

Bob Reese has been a business professor at IVCC 11 years.  He received his B.S. in Finance from Northern Illinois University and his M.B.A. from Bradley University. He has a Master Online Teacher Certificate from the University of Illinois.  He is listed in Who's Who Among American Teachers and has been the recipient of the Bradley University Presidential Scholarship, the Northern Illinois University Foundation Scholarship and the Illinois General Assembly Scholarship.  He has served as the President of the MBA Association.