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 Dundar Kocaoglu is Professor and
Chairman of the Engineering and Technology Management Department at
Portland
State
University
, and President and CEO of PICMET (Portland International Conference on
Management of Engineering and Technology). His research areas include technology
management, project management, R&D management, decision theory,
hierarchical decision modeling, evaluation and selection of emerging
technologies, and resource optimization. He has received a total of
approximately one million dollars in research grants and contracts from
government agencies and industrial corporations. Dr. Kocaoglu has supervised
more than 300 Masters students, and supervised or participated in the doctoral
committees of more than thirty Ph.D students since 1980. For a list of the Ph.D.
students and dissertation titles that he has supervised click
here.
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 about 160 students
working toward the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Prior to 1987, Dr. Kocaoglu was the
director of a similar program for 11 years at the
University
of
Pittsburgh
.
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 manage
me
nt since 1973. His clients include Westinghouse, Brown Boveri, IBM, Intel
Corporation, Tektronix, II-Morrow, Cascade Microtech, several other small-to-
me
dium sized technology-based companies, more than 10 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 improve
me
nt of U.S. Depart
me
nt 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 over forty articles,
delivered keynote speeches and presented more than 100 papers on engineering and
technology management in international conferences. He is the author, editor or
co-editor of seven books titled, Engineering
Management (Mc-Graw-Hill, 1981), Technology
Management: The New International Language (IEEE, 1991),
Management of R&D and Engineering (Elsevier, 1992), Innovation
in Technology Management (PICMET, 1997), Technology and Innovation
Management (PICMET, 1999), Technology
Management in the Knwoledge Era (PICMET, 2001) and Technology Management for Reshaping the World (PICMET, 2003). He
served as the Editor-in-chief of IEEE
Transactions on Engineering Management from 1986 through 2002, 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, and IEEE
Millenium Medal, all of which were awarded for "leadership in the
development of the Engineering Management discipline". He 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.
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