Marc Hoit - NC State CIO

Dr. Marc Hoit is the Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and CIO at NC State University.  Hoit held numerous administrative positions at the University of Florida including Interim CIO, Director of Student PeopleSoft Implementation, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Administration and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering.  He is a Professor of Structural Engineering in the Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Department at NC State.  Hoit received his B.S. from Purdue University, M.S. and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.  He was the PI for DIGGS, an international standard XML schema for transferring transportation information and data, funded by the Federal Highway Association.  His structural engineering research developed the computer program, FB-MultiPier, which performs non-linear analysis of bridge piers, superstructure and pile foundations subjected to dynamic loading. Dr. Hoit lead an effort to create a Freshman introduction to engineering that was comprised of hands on activities in order to introduce Freshman and HS students to the different types of engineering as well as the engineering solution process.  

Between 1990-2000 he was active SUCCEED was an NSF funded Educational Coalition charged to improve engineering education. There were 4 other such coalitions. SUCCEED was a partnership with NC State, University of Florida, GA Tech, Va Tech, Florida State, NC A&T. Here are the Hands On activities used in that course with instructor directions. Dr. Hoit is the Co-Principal Investigator for the NCB-Prepared Grant from Homeland Security (With Chapel Hill and SAS) which is developing early warning systems for health security concerns.  He has been an Educause board member as well as Chair of the SURA IT Committee. 

Dr. Hoit has been dedicating effort towards facilitation in supporting strategic plan development as well as training others to facilitate. His initial training was in 1995. Since then, he has lead the development of strategic plans for many engineering groups including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Infrastructure Advancement Institute (IAI), American Segmental Bridge Institute (ASBI), American Association of Environmental and Environmental Science Professors (AEESP). He and his training partner created the Facilitri.org organization to help in leadership development and train others to facilitate including IAI, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) and others.

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