Dr. Peggie Ward Koon is the youngest child of Mrs. Irene
Clark Ward and the late Enoch Ward, Sr. She was brought
up in Augusta, Georgia, where she participated, along with
her other siblings, in integrating the public school system in
Richmond County.  She graduated from the Academy of
Richmond County High School in Augusta, Georgia.    

Dr. Koon is currently a Manager of IS Plant Systems and
adjunct professor. She is the Membership Chair for the
Management Division of ISA, a Senior Member of ISA, and a
member of the IEEE. Dr. Koon is a General Motors Scholar
and Graduate Fellow; she received her undergraduate degree
from Smith College (Northampton Massachusetts) and has
completed graduate studies at Georgia Tech (Atlanta,
Georgia) and Kennedy-Western University (Cheyenne,
Wyoming), where she received her doctorate degree in
Management Information Systems.

Dr. Peggie Ward Koon

About the Author

Dr. Peggie Ward Koon has authored nine technical publications, including "CIM Capitalizes on
Distributed Controls", InTech Magazine (1995); "GAMMA g -- Graniteville’s Application Modules for
Manufacturing Automation", IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Magazine(1995);
"Managing More With Less -- A Real-time Example of Optimized Resource Allocation" ,ISA
Transactions Magazine (1996); "Textile firms automate to survive; here’s how Avondale Mills does
it", InTech Magazine (1998); "IT Management: Century 21", Industrial Computing Magazine (2001),
Industrial Computing Online (2001); and a variety of articles on issues in textile manufacturing
including partnering, process automation and process control, SPC/SQC, and IT management for
such organizations as the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA) and the Textile
Fiber & Film Industry Applications Society of the IEEE.