William G. Pierce, P.E. was born in Sharon, Massachusetts on June 19, 1952. At eight years of age, Bill’s father moved his family to Dunedin, Florida, where his father was employed as a consulting engineer, while continuing to work on several patents he had developed.

It was during Bill’s years in junior and senior high school, in Dunedin, that he embraced the Scottish heritage of the town and his neighbors; and it was there, in the 10th grade, that he met his future wife, Janet Elaine Owens.  Janet played the bagpipes and was the Pipe Major for both the High School Band and the Dunedin Pipe and Drum Corps.

Upon his graduation from high school, Bill and his family moved to Ohio where he followed in his father’s footsteps with an interest in Engineering. In 1970, Bill pursued his higher education by enrolling in the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and also, in the Air Force ROTC.

Bill’s high school sweetheart, Janet, transferred to UC for her sophomore year, and the two were married in Ohio in 1972. With the help of engineering co-op sessions and summer employment, Bill and Janet worked their way through school and graduated on time – Janet, with a degree in Education and Bill, with a Mechanical Engineering degree.

After earning his Bachelors of Science Degree, Bill attended summer camp with the Air Force and received his commission as a 2nd Lieutenant.  With the Vietnam War ending by the mid-1970’s, Bill and a number of his graduation class of officers never made it to flight school. After six years of waiting for a flight school opening, and working in the private sector with an entry level engineering assignment, the Air Force reassigned Bill to inactive reserve status.

The six years of engineering experience Bill had gained, however, led to an opportunity for him to start his own engineering consulting firm. With an award of a three-month contract valued at $15,000, and without any other commitments, Bill left his employment with a manufacturing firm to run his own business. Within six years, Pierce Processing, Inc. was an established multi- million dollar firm headquartered in Cincinnati, with branch offices in Louisville, KY and Detroit, MI, and employed more than fifty professionals. Additionally, Bill received three United States Patents for research and development during the mid to late 1980’s.

In the mid 1990’s, Bill turned his attention to a profession for which he has developed an enormous passion – education. He earned a Master’s Degree in Education from the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, and for ten years he has taught mathematics to high school and college students.

Bill and Janet have three children, a daughter, Mary and two sons, Geoffrey and Stephen. Today, Mary has completed graduate program in Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis and lives in Huntsville, Alabama, Stephen is also in Huntsville working on the International Space Station and in graduate school continuing his Mechanical Engineering studies, and Geoffrey is an Electrical Engineering student at the alma mater of his parents. Janet, after a 15-year hiatus to raise their family, has returned to the classroom and teaches fourth grade at St. Francis de Sales School in Lebanon, Ohio.