NIMS appoints four new board members

Joanna Dowling, Neil Ashbaugh, Ryan Spielman, Stephen B. Leonard

The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS), Fairfax, Va., has appointed four new industry leaders to the NIMS board of directors. They will each serve for three years.

Joanna Dowling is the director of The Custom Group Center for Manufacturing Technology, a manufacturing training facility in Woburn, Mass. She has more than 25 years of experience in the manufacturing industry.

Neil Ashbaugh is president/CEO of New Century Careers in Pittsburgh. He has more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing. Neil learned the manufacturing trade through apprenticeships and became a journeyman grinder and machine operator.

Ryan Spielman is director of manufacturing (Lincoln Campus – Industrial Division) at Woodward Inc. in Fort Collins, Colo. He started his career in manufacturing in 1995 in a small machine shop. In 1998, he joined Woodward Governor as a machinist.

Stephen B. Leonard is operations/program manager for the Digital Foundry, Penn State, in New Kensington, Pa., a digital manufacturing demonstration and educational facility. He has been a practicing industrial designer for more than 35 years.