ADDRESS:                                                                                    

Engineering and Technology Management Department               

Portland State University                                                          

Portland, Oregon  97207-0751, USA

Phone : (503) 725-4660                                                             

Fax     : (503) 725-4667                                                             

e-mail : kocaoglu@etm.pdx.edu                                                

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D   -  Operations Research and Systems Management Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1976.

MSIE  -  University of Pittsburgh, 1972

MSCE -  Lehigh University, 1962

BSCE -  Robert College (Turkey), 1960

 

EXPERIENCE:

 

Academic

1987 - Present : Professor and Chairman, Engineering and Technology Management Department, Portland

State University, Portland, OR

1976 - 1987     : Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of Engineering Management

Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

1975 - 1976     : Visiting Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, University of  Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh, PA

1974 - 1975     : Lecturer, Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

1971 - 1974     : Graduate Assistant, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh, PA

 

Industrial

1971 - Present:  President, TMA (Technology Management Associates): Management and training

consultant to technology-based companies and government agencies such as

Westinghouse, Brown Boveri, United Nations, Crucible Steel Co., Tektronix, OECO, II-Morrow, Cascade Microtech.

1971 - Present:  Consultant to universities for Engineering/ Technology Management Programs (University

of Kansas, University of Alaska, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Old Dominion University, University of Ottawa, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Marmara

University and Bogazici University)

1979, 80, 87  :   Consultant -  U.N. TOKTEN Program for Technology Transfer and R&D Management in

Developing Countries.

1997             :   Consultant/Speaker - U.N. Program on Management of Technology Education in S.E. Asia

1969 - 1971   :   Project Engineer - United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., Philadelphia, PA

1963 - 1966   :   Project Engineer - United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., Philadelphia, PA

1966 - 1969   :   Partner - TEKSER Engineering, Turkey.

 

Service on National Committees

1997 - 2000    :  NRC Committee to evaluate decision making processes in the DOE  nuclear waste disposal

and decommissioning program

1994              :  NIST Committee to evaluate the Manufacturing Centers

1988              :  NSF/NAE Committee on Management of Technology

1987 – 2001   :  Various NSF committees to evaluate proposals and centers

 

Other

1990 - Present:  President and CEO, PICMET (Portland International Conference on Management of

Enginering and Technology)

 

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

¨ Established Engineering Management Program (EMP) in the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh in 1976. The program helped define the scope and boundaries of Engienering Management as a new discipline throughout the country as well as overseas. The enrollment grew to 310 graduate students in ten years. Business Week featured the EMP in an article on the emergence of the Engineering Management discipline.

 

¨ Started a new Engineering Management Program with 13 part-time students at Portland State University in 1987. Since then, the program has grown to become the Department of Engineering and Technology Management (ETM) in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. It now has five full-time and 9 part-time faculty members, offers four Masters degrees and the Ph.D. degree. Enrollments have grown to 130 at the Masters level, 25 at the Ph.D. level. The students come from more than thirty countries. The department has awarded about 300 Masters degrees and 10 Ph.Ds, and currently awards about 40 degrees per year. Five of the department’s graduates have been inducted in the “College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni”. The demand for the ETM offerings has been increasing constantly. The student credit hours has grown more than 300% in the last five years. 

 

¨ Became the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management in 1986. The journal established its leadership, and achieved the premier position among the research journals in the field. A 1995 study conducted by a University of Michigan team among researchers, evaluating 29 prestigious journals in technology management-related areas found the following rankings for the Transactions:

 

Read by the researchers:     1st among TIM (Technology and Innovation Management) journals

% of the contents read:       1st among TIM journals

Cited by the researchers:     1st among TIM journals

Submitting papers:              1st among all journals

Papers accepted/published: 1st among all journals

Overall rating:                      1st among all journals

 

¨ Started PICMET (Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology) in 1991. It has since become by far the largest and, arguably, the most prestigious technology management conference throughout the world. Attracting 650-700 participants from academic institutions, industrial organizations, R&D labs and government agencies in more than 40 countries every two years, PICMET has become the focal point for information dissemination on on-going and emerging research and implementation issues in technology management.

 

EXTERNAL FUNDING:

1991 – 2004:     PICMET (Total registrations and other income: About $ 1.5 million, including

approximately half a million dollars funding from industry and government agencies)

1986 – 2002:     IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Editorial Office funding from IEEE

(Approximately half a million dollars)

1991 – 1992:     Tektronix Research Fellowship for the EMP ($10,000)

1990 – 1991:     Principal Investigator for INTEL-funded project on Evaluation of Product Development

             (Funding: $25,000)

1990 – 1991:     Portland State University Faculty Development Fund ($16,424)

1988 – 1990:     Principal Investigator for IEEE - funded project for Research and Education in

                        Engineering/Technology Management (Funding: $8,000)

1986 – 1987:     Co-Principal Investigator for the DOE-funded research project for the Design of A

                        Strategic Management System for Reactor Systems D&T Department (Funding:

                        $391,782).

1985 – 1987:     Principal Investigator for the GM Technical Manpower Planning Model project - Packard

Electric Division (Funding:  $107,871).

1982 – 1983:     Principal Investigator for the Research in Engineering Management  project (Funding:

$4,000 from IEEE plus support from the University of Pittsburgh Research Development

Fund).

1979 – 1980:     Co-Principal Investigator for the USDA-funded research project for the Evaluation of the

Southern Pine Beetle Progam  (Funding: $152,391).

1978 – 1979:     Co-Principal Investigator for the USDA-funded research project for Program Evaluation of

the USDA Combined Forest Pest R&D Program (Funding: $189,594).

1977 – 1979:     Co-Principal Investigator for the DOE-funded research project for the Design and

                        Implementation of an Energy Research Management System for the Pittsburgh Energy

Research Center (Funding: $122,805).

1973 – 1976:     Investigator for the LEAA-funded research project for the Development of an Information

System for Field Operations in Law Enforcement Agencies.

 

AWARDS / RECOGNITIONS:

2004                 Outstanding Professor, Portland State University College of Engineering

2002                 Distinguished Research Mentor, National Science Council, Taiwan, R.O.C.

2001                 Keynote speaker, International Conference on Technology Management, Seoul, Korea

2000                 Outstanding Professor, Portland State University College of Engineering

1999                 IEEE Millennium Medal for Leadership in Engineering Management

1998                 IAMOT (International Association for Management of Technology) Technology Management

Award

1994                 IEEE Centennial Medal for contributions to the academic and research components of

                  Engineering Management

1992                 Keynote speaker, Technology Manzagement Conference, Taipei, Taiwan

1991                 IEEE Fellow for leadership in the development of Engineering Management Discipline

1986 - 2002       Who Is Who In The World , Who Is Who In America, Who Is Who In Education, Who

 Is Who in Science and Engineering, and more than a dozen other reference

 publications

1986                 Outstanding Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering

1985                 Outstanding Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering

 

GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT:

1987 - present:  Management of Engineering & Technology

1988 - present:  Decision Making in Engineering and Technology Management

1990 - present:  Project Management

1976 - 1990:      Operations Research

1982 - 1987:      Technology Planning and Forecasting

1982 - 1987:      Management of Innovation

1976 - 1982:      Engineering Economic Analysis

1976 - 1980:      Simulation