Technology and Innovation Management
BIO:
Dundar F. Kocaoglu is Founding Chairman and Professor of the Engineering and Technology Management Department at Portland State University, Director of RISE (Research Institute for Sustainable Energy), and President and CEO of PICMET (Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology). His research areas include decision theory, technology management, project management, innovation management, technology evaluation, R&D management, and resource optimization.
Dr. Kocaoglu received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Robert College in 1960, M.S. in Structural Engineering from Lehigh University in 1962, M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1972, and Ph.D. in Operations Research and Systems Management, also from the University of Pittsburgh in 1976. He joined Portland State University to start the Engineering Management Program in 1987. The program has become the Engineering and Technology Management Department. It now has more than 250 graduate students, including about 40 pursuing their PhD degrees. Prior to 1987, Dr. Kocaoglu was the director of a similar program at the University of Pittsburgh. He has supervised 26 PhD dissertations in the two universities.
Dr. Kocaoglu has worked in industry as an engineer and project manager from 1962 to 1971. He has been a consultant on engineering and technology management since 1973. His clients include Westinghouse, Brown Boveri, IBM, Intel Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, Tektronix, II- Morrow, Cascade Microtech, several other small-to-medium sized technology-based companies, more than 20 universities, R&D Centers and the United Nations. He has served in National Research Council committees for the evaluation of the NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology) manufacturing centers, and for the improvement of U.S. Department of Energy decision making processes for nuclear waste disposal and decommissioning. He has also been an NSF (National Science Foundation) reviewer for research proposals, and served on NSF panels for the evaluation of research centers.
Dr. Kocaoglu has published about a hundred papers, delivered keynote speeches and made more than 200 presentations on engineering and technology management in international conferences. He is the author, editor or co-editor of six books. He was the Editor-in-chief of *IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management* from 1986 to 2003, and the Series Editor of John Wiley Book Series in Engineering & Technology Management from 1985 through 1998. Dr. Kocaoglu is the recipient of the IEEE Fellow Award, IEEE Centennial Medal, IEEE Millennium Medal and PICMET Fellow Award, all of which were awarded for "leadership in the development of the Engineering Management discipline". He was also named Distinguished Research Mentor by the National Science Council of Taiwan. Dr. Kocaoglu is listed in *Who Is Who In The World, Who Is Who In America, Who Is Who In Education, Who Is Who in Engineering, American Men and Women in Science* and more than a dozen other reference publications.
