inventor, researcher, and proponent of cooperative education.
== History ==
Founded as The School of Automotive Trades by Albert Sobey under the direction of the Industrial Fellowship of Flint on October 20, 1919, Kettering University has a long legacy in the automotive industry. The university became known as the Flint Institute of Technology (Flint Tech) in 1923 before being acquired by General Motors in 1926. It was renamed as the General Motors Institute of Technology (General Motors Tech) and eventually the General Motors Institute in 1932.[2]
Once referred to as the "West Point of the Automobile industry," GMI focused on a cooperative education model that combined classroom learning with real-world job experience (following the development of this program at the University of Cincinnati in 1907). GMI also pioneered freshman-level manufacturing courses (Production Processes I & II) and automotive degree specialties. In 1945, the Institute added a fifth-year thesis requirement, granting the school the …
