Russell Miles, senior lecturer, decision sciences, Paul College of Business and Economics
"Growing up in East Rochester, New Hampshire, my friends and I would often go exploring in an old abandoned shoe factory near my house. Well, technically, it was trespassing, but it was fun, and I was fascinated by the dusty old machines. Around that time, my dad was a quality engineer at Sanders Associates (now BAE Systems) in Nashua. One of my earliest memories is visiting his engineering lab and touring the factory floor. When I was around 8, we were on vacation in North Carolina and my dad took us on a tour of a cigarette factory. The automated production line was loud and exciting. Basically, I’ve wanted to work in factory operations since I was a kid.
