About James P. Dycus

BSME 1966, UMR

Jim joined Honeywell, FM&T (Bendix) in 1966 and worked as project lead on a number of electromechanical device product development projects. Upon his promotion to Engineering Projects Manager, he was given responsibility for company-wide engineering simulation and analysis, engineering support, equipment acquisition, and introduction of new technologies in a 120,000 ft2 machining department at FM&T.  Jim has served on the Industrial Advisory Board for the Mechanical Engineering department at UMR for a number of years. Outside of his internal duties at FM&T, he served as Site Manager for the National Machine Tool Partnership. In that capacity he served on an ad hoc group with representatives from Sandia National Lab, Lawrence Livermore Lab, Y-12, and Los Alamos National Lab. The partnership supported an interface to the Association of Manufacturing Technologies and The National Tooling and Machining Association with the objective of providing both short term and CRADAlength technical assistance on multi-lab projects to the machine tool industry. He retired after 35 years at Honeywell in June of 2002.