Recent Courses Taught
MGT 425: Introduction to Project Management
MGT 420: Management of Technology and Innovation
COB 487: Strategic Management

ENGR 221: Management of Technology I: Systems Analysis and Project Management.

Research and Professional Interests
Primary research areas are management of technology, innovation, knowledge management and decision analysis.

Co-Principle Investigator NSF Award 0933948: IEECI Exploratory Grant: Integrating Developmental Instruction in Sustainability Contexts into an Undergraduate Engineering Design Curriculum.

Key Publications
Harper, S. R. and Thurston, D. L., 2009, Network Effects in Decision Analysis,  The Engineering Economist, 54:1, 22-49.
Harper, S. R. and Thurston, D. L., 2008, Stranded Environmental Impacts and Electrical Power System Redesign, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 130:3, 031101 (9 pages).
Harper, S. R., Thurston, D. L. and Krein, P. T., 2007, The Effects of Dynamic Residential Load Participation: Penetration Levels for Operational Impact on Reliability, International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 3:221-234.
Luo, X, and Harper, S. R., The Unintended Consequence of the Law: An Institutional Explanation for Stock Options in CEO Compensation, Working paper, June 2007.

Campus and Community Involvement
Engineering Faculty Search Committee, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Management Committee; Editorial Board, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management; Editorial Board, International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems;
Ad Hoc reviewer for AOM conferences, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and Human Relations 

Experience
Previously, was a Division Officer, a Department Head, and an Executive Officer on nuclear submarines in the U.S. Navy, a Naval Material Professional, a Certified Department of Defense Systems Engineer and Program Manager, an Assistant Professor of Naval Science at the University of Virginia, and a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.