• Ph.D –University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana – Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering, 2006
• M.S. – University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana – Business Administration, 2003
• M.A. – Naval War College – National Security and Strategic Studies, 1994
• M.E. – University of Virginia – Electrical Engineering, 1988
• U.S. Naval Submarine School and Nuclear Propulsion Program, 1982
• B.S. – University of California, Berkeley – Engineering Physics, 1981

• ENGR 221 Entrepreneurial Engineering
• ENGR 322 Engineering Project Management
• ENGR 322 Circuits and Instrumentation
• CISE 321 Introduction to Brewery Systems and Engineering

• 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
  

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.