ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

The College has 150 full-time employees, including 105 teaching faculty; over 3,000 students (app. 70% undergraduate and 30% graduate).  9 Undergraduate programs, 10 Master's programs, and 7 Doctoral programs.  In FY 2010, total expenditure by all units affiliated with the College exceeded $40M, of which 65% was resourced by the sponsored programs.  Engineering endowment exceeds $28M and there are 10 endowed chairs or named professorships.

Departments: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Engineering Management and Systems Engineering; Engineering Technology; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering.  Divisions: Engineering Fundamentals, Naval ROTC.

Departmental Institutes: Coastal Engineering; Lean Institute; Lasers and Plasma Engineering; Ship Maintenance, Repair and Operations; Transportation Research; and Sustainable Development; Multidisciplinary Parallel and Vector Computations. 

Enterprise Centers: Applied Research Center; National Center for System of Systems Engineering.

Former Centers: Langley Full Scale Tunnel, Advanced Engineering Environments, Virginia Applied Technology and Professional Development Center. 

Affiliated Centers:  Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, Frank Reidy Center for Bioelectrics Research; Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport; ODU Business Gateway.

Dean, May 2002 to Present (Interim Dean until April 2004)

Associate Dean, 1999 to 2002

Research and Academic Affairs (Graduate and Undergraduate)

Graduate Program Director, 2003 to 2004

Global Engineering Master's Program;
International Network of Higher Education in Engineering (INHEE) - consisted of eight European universities and Old Dominion University

Associate Director, MPVC, 1993 to 1997

Multidisciplinary Parallel and Vector Computations Center

Department of Aerospace Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

Chair (Acting), July 2002

9 faculty members and 2 staff members; department offers master's and doctoral programs in aerospace engineering, engineering mechanics and has a unique program in experimental methods.

Director, Computational Facilities, 1997 to Present

Network of 30 SUN workstations, 2 SGI workstations, 45 Windows-based or Macintosh computers.

Division of Engineering Fundamentals, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

Director, August 2000 to July 2002

Around 500 students in freshman and sophomore years of engineering and engineering technology; offers several courses common to all undergraduates; advising, mentoring, peer mentoring and tutoring services; manages about 12 sections of "Explore Engineering and Technology" courses per year; each semester-long course consists of three modules of team projects from different engineering disciplines.

Department of Engineering Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

Chair (Acting), July 2000 to June 2001

20 faculty members and over 600 students in four programs: Civil Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology, and General Engineering Technology.

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Graduate Program Director, 1990 to 1993

21 faculty members; 45 Ph.D. students and 85 Master's students.

Director, Computational Facilities, 1989 to 1990

Network of 20 SUN workstations, 4 SGI workstations, 20 Windows-based or Macintosh computers.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia