Program Advisors

Kenneth J. Cook, P.E., CCE
Chairman/Advisor/Professor
kcook@ltu.edu
248.204.2507

Kenneth J. Cook is chair of the Department of Engineering Technology a long-time engineering executive and an adjunct professor at Lawrence Technological University since 1965. Professor Cook brings to the department years of experience in engineering design, engineering management, and technical marketing. His enthusiasm for teaching, varied industrial contacts, and seeing the success of our students makes him unique in this position.

Earlier career positions with William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, where he started the clinical engineering group in the medical physics and engineering department. Ken was advanced technology center manager for GTE/Valenite, and most recently executive vice president and chief engineer for Vultron/Trans Industries.

For the past 41 years, he has concurrently taught in Lawrence Tech evening programs. His popular senior projects class, the capstone class in which students conceive research, design, manufacture, and assess the market for inventive products, has helped several students earn their own patents and sell their inventions commercially.  

Cook is a registered professional engineer, a certified clinical engineer, and holds some 25 patents of his own. He holds degrees from or attended DeVry Technical Institute, Lawrence Technological Univeristy, Wayne State University, and Oakland University.

Cook also has enjoyed a long side career in magic and has performed in some 35 countries and all but one state, finding his hobby very useful to sales and teaching. A highlight for his students each year is the two-hour magic performance he offers as a congratulatory send-off for them and their guests.

Jerry Cuper
Advisor/Professor
cuper@ltu.edu
248.204.2508

Jerry Cuper is an advisor and instructor in the Engineering Technology Dept. at Lawrence Tech.  For 25 years, he has taught and advised students in the evening programs while working in industry.

His varied industrial experience lends itself to advising and mentoring Engineering Technology students. Cuper worked for over 30 years at Ford Motor Co. in engineering design, engineering management, product planning, testing and development.  Prior to Ford, he worked in design shops and completed an apprenticeship program.  He has designed special machines, transfer line mechanisms, gages and checking fixtures used in automotive production.

Cuper’s passion, enthusiasm, and personalized attention help students to learn and meet their goals.  He is always willing and available to assist in meeting the student needs.

He holds degrees in Master of Business, Bachelor of Science, and in technology.  He obtained these degrees in the evening while working full time. He understands the effort and perseverance required for students to complete their degrees.

Cuper is a sport car enthusiast and has owned 19 Mustangs since 1965, including a supercharged Cobra.

Dr. William L. White
Professor
white@ltu.edu
248.204.2526

William L. White is the former chair of Engineering Technology who has recently returned to the classroom to be a fulltime teaching faculty member. White holds a PhD from Wayne State University and is a journeyman mold maker. He brings nearly forty years of teaching theory and practice to the classroom, that is liberally mixed with manufacturing, industrial safety, and more recently, construction safety. He is a Certified Manufacturing Engineering who has served many positions in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the Society of Plastics Engineers. More recently he was president of the Mid Michigan Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers. He is an evaluator in the Plastics in Automotive Division of SPE, where he is a member of the team that judges new and innovative applications of plastics in the automotive industry.

White started the machine trades program at he Oakland Technical Center, Southeast campus in the early 1970’s. In the early 1980’s he founded the Michigan Plastics Institute, a proprietary school specializing in training designers to become mold and product designers. In 1986, he took a position at Kettering University (formerly GMI) where he was Director of Engineering Laboratories. He moved to LTU in 1997 to become chair of the Engineering Technology department.

In 2001 he completed his PhD. White’s doctoral work examines safety and perceived safety on college and university campuses. He has extensive experience in industrial and construction safety.

Dr. White is interested in amateur radio, flying and old farm tractors.

Dr. Sabah Abro
Director of Focus Hope Programs/Professor
sabah@ltu.edu
248.204.2069

Dr. Abro is an internationally educated Faculty member. He studied at the University of Baghdad to earn a Bachelor degree in Statistics. He holds a graduate diploma from the United Nation’s supported institute of Planning in the Middle East. He went to the University of Wales (University College of Swansea) in the UK for his Masters Degree in Statistics and to Belgium where he was granted a Ph.D in applied Mathematics from the Universite Catholique De Louvain.

He also has international academic experience, he held the position of assistant Professor at Al Mustansiria University in Baghdad, work as a regional expert for the United Nation’s supported Arab institute of Statistics, a position that allowed him to teach in several countries of the Middle East.

Before he joined LTU he served as a Math Program Leader at Focus: HOPE where he was leading the effort of a team from LTU, UDM and WSU to design the math program for the Greenfield coalition for manufacturing engineering education. Dr. Abro also served as an adjunct Faculty at LTU, UDM, WSU and Oakland Community College.

He is also involved in community services, where he led a verity of Educational activities through the Chaldean Federation of America. Dr. Abro is the Founder and the current president of the Mesopotamian American Graduate Association (MAGA).

Angelina D. Card
Administrative Assistant
acard@ltu.edu

Please contact Angelina Card at 248-204-2060 to set up an appointment with an Engineering Technology advisor.