Mike Mikula

Chief Engineer for Advanced Manufacturing Ford Motor Company

Mike grew up in the Detroit area with his five siblings. He attended college at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago where completed both a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering. Mike joined Ford Motor Company in 1994 as a process engineer and was selected to participate in its prestigious four-year Manufacturing Leadership Program in 1997. He then held a series of management positions at Ford, including overseeing the $1.6 billion overhaul of manufacturing processes at four different plants to introduce Ford’s award winning EcoBoost engine in 2006. Following that, he then led Ford’s Van Dyke manufacturing plant increase in production from 800,000 units to 1.8 million units per year from 2009 to 2012. Mike was appointed Assistant Plant Manager at Van Dyke in 2014 and Plant Manager of Rawsonville Components Plant in 2016.