Alumni

Franklin W. Taylor

MS ME, 2001
WSU VRCIM Lab

Advisor: S. Jayaram, PhD

Allow me to introduce myself! This is a picture of my wife, Shannon, and I.

I performed R&D in the VRCIM lab adapting VADE for simulation of heavy machinery assembly. I worked very closely with Mr. Tatsuki Mitsui, a fellow graduate student and visiting engineer from Komatsu. I earned an MS in ME from WSU in Spring 2001.

I am currently working for the Itronix Corporation in Spokane, WA. Itronix is a world leader in the design and manufacture of rugged laptop, handheld and tablet PCs. These are machines that function while being frozen, baked, soaked, shaken and dropped. They also have excellent wireless performance, offering integrated Bluetooth, WiFi, WAN and GPS.

I work as a mechanical design engineer for Itronix’s handheld and tablet division. I enjoy the creative outlet and the challenges the work provides.

Feel free to contact me at work or home. I’ll be happy to hear from you.

Work phone: (509) 742-1289
Work email: taylorf@itronix.com
Home email: taylors@gocougs.wsu.edu

When I’m not working at the office, you can almost guarantee that I’m working at home—helping Shannon raise our four beautiful daughters or fixing this or that.

Here are my kids:

Isobel, 4.	Emily, 3.
Claire, 1	And baby Josephine, born 6/23/04.