William (Bill) Slonaker

William (Bill) Slonaker is the Department Chair for HVAC, Building Construction, Building Construction Management at Ivy Tech Community College, Kokomo Campus, in Indiana. He has been married for 25 years, has six children, ages 40, 39, 38, 37, 15 and 11 (the youngest two are adopted), and four cats, two rabbits and a dog. He was a non-traditional student, taking his first college course at age 35 and starting his teaching career at nearly age 50. Bill has served on many committees during his tenure at Ivy Tech, including the Indiana Commission on Higher Education (CHE) Appointment Committee, Statewide Faculty Council, Statewide HVAC Curriculum Chair, Statewide BCTI Assistant Chair, and K-14 Advisory Board.

Bill is working with Ruilan Guo, Frank M. Freimann Collegiate Professor of Engineering of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Notre Dame, and graduate research assistant Daniel Hardesty on EARTH Thrust 1, Project 1.1.