ASME Congressional Fellow - KC Morris

KC Morris is a former 2018-2020 ASME Congressional Fellow who served in the office of the Honorable Tom Reed, U.S. House of Representatives, where she worked on Advanced Manufacturing and other public policy issues. KC leads the Information, Modeling, and Testing Group in the Engineering Lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). For 30 years KC has contributed her expertise in computing and engineering information systems to the standards that form the basis for today's digital manufacturing capabilities. Her current work focuses on infusing smart technologies into the manufacturing sector while ensuring that new practices lead to more competitive and sustainable manufacturing. This includes identifying and developing techniques for designing, testing, and evaluating smart manufacturing systems and standards. The research has resulted in new standards within ASTM International where she serves on the executive committee of E60 Committee on Sustainability and is vice-chair of ASTM E60.13 on Sustainable Manufacturing. The standards are also driving new research directions for defining reusable abstractions of manufacturing processes highlighted through a competition at the MSEC/NAMRC conferences—ASME’s Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC) and SME's North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC). KC has over 75 publications and graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in Political Science and from Illinois Institute of Technology with an MS in Computer Science.

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