Peter E. Chapin graduated from The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in 1994 with a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has been working in the gear industry for over 22 years. The first six years were spent at J.I. Case (Case Tractor/CNH) in Racine, WI, as a manufacturing engineer of both gear production and general machining, including stints as Production Supervisor and Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor. Chapin has worked for almost 16 years as an Application Engineer at The Gleason Works, currently serving as Lead Application Engineer of Gleason's Cylindrical Application Engineering Department in Rochester, NY.