Personnel
Director, Amy Hasvold
Amy Hasvold, Director.
Manufacturing Specialist, Ryan Koontz
Ryan Koontz, Manufacturing Specialist. Ryan has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from SDSM&T. Ryan completed his B.S. degree in 1998 and M.S in 2001. His master’s thesis was a study of spark-induced disturbance in
a supersonic flow. After his masters degree, he stayed on as an instructor for the ME department until the position of Manufacturing Specialist opened in 2002. As the Integrated Manufacturing Specialist for CAMP, Ryan assists students, faculty, and
staff with design and manufacturing of parts for use in CAMP sponsored projects. In 2017 he completed his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering, where he studied the relationship between how students complete engineering design problems and their
emotional intelligence. In addition to applying this research to educate design engineers, he also acts as producibility engineer for all senior design projects and other student projects which involve the use of CAMP’s advanced manufacturing lab
or CAT lab.