Education
Moore completed her thesis, A Vibrational Analysis of Secondary Chlorides, under the supervision of Samuel Krimm at the University of Michigan in 1972.
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A native of Atlantic City, New Jersey, Moore moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1952 to attend the University of Michigan. She earned a bachelor"s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1958 and her master"s degree in 1961. While working toward her doctoral degree, she also held positions at technology firms in Ann Arbor including KMS Industries and Datamax Corporation.
She also held engineering positions at Bendix Aerospace Systems, Barnes Engineering, and Sensor Dynamics, where she was responsible for the theoretical analysis.
This work was applicable to important questions in the vibrational study of macromolecules. After receiving her doctorate, Moore worked at the University of Michigan as a research scientist until 1977, continuing spectroscopic work on proteins.
In the five years following her dissertation, she published more than thirty papers with Krimm and collaborators. She was hired by Ford Motor Company in 1977 as an assembly engineer
Moore expanded Ford"s use of Japanese engineering and manufacturing methods in the 1980s.
In 1991, Ebony magazine named Moore as one of their 100 "most promising black women in corporate America".
