Faculty Research Interests

Dr. Erin Bowen

  • Human factors & psychology in high-technology organizations
  • Statistics and Data integration for organizational effectiveness
  • SPSS & LISREL software use for organizational data analysis
  • Qualitative & Quantitative analytics; Survey design, validation, and analysis
  • Aviation psychology
  • Distance education

Dr. Donald Buskirk

  • International education, training, structure, and standards
  • Industrial safety education
  • Industrial materials processing
  • Total Quality Management/secondary schools
  • International education/technical training

Prof. Thomas K. Capozzoli

  • The causes of workplace and school violence and how to reduce or prevent such incidents from happening
  • The application of team concept as integrated with lean manufacturing in the workplace
  • The application of conflict management to ensure the success of workplace teams

Dr. Kari Clase

  • Biotechnology
  • Proteomics
  • Bioinformatics

Prof. Al Crispo

  • Organizational change
  • Appreciative inquiry
  • Facilitation
  • Reflective conversation
  • Team dynamics
  • Collaborative teaching & learning

Prof. Beverly J. Davis

  • Human behavior and technology-related research
  • Techno-ism; individual and organizational
  • Workplace development: Technology, psychological Contracts, and leadership

Dr. Nathalie Duval-Couetil

  • Multidisciplinary entrepreneurship education
  • Environments and conditions that foster entrepreneurial activity among students
  • Program evaluation and assessment
  • Women and leadership
  • Market and technology assessment

Dr. Michael J. Dyrenfurth

  • Technological literacy
  • Technological workforce development
  • International technological education
  • Technology teacher education
  • Career and technical education
  • Engineering & engineering-related technology education
  • Technological problem-solving and learning
  • Science and technology studies
  • Technology education
  • Third-party evaluation
  • Assessment and testing

Dr. Stephen J. Elliott

Dr. Todd Kelley

  • Construct of design and cognition capabilities within K-12 students
  • Design-based instruction and STEM topics at the primary and secondary level
  • Expert / novice design and problem solving observational protocol assessments
  • P-12 sTem Initiative

Dr. Chad Laux

  • Six Sigma
  • Lean manufacturing
  • Quality management
  • International quality standards
  • Food traceability and safety

Dr. Linda L. Naimi

  • Global, legal, technological and ethical challenges of organizational leadership

Dr. Edie Schmidt

  • Operations Management related to ID
  • Inventory Management
  • e-Commerce
  • Logistics
  • Project management
  • Problem-based learning
  • Course and curriculum development

Dr. Matthew Stephens

  • Statistical quality control
  • Design of experiments
  • Total productive maintenance
  • Production facilities planning
  • Quality
  • Productivity management

Dr. Mathias Sutton

  • Production cost analysis
  • Transportation & logistics
  • Statistical methods in technology
  • Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC)
  • Adult education and distance learning strategies

Prof. Rodney C. Vandeveer

  • Discovery of emerging leadership strategies allowing organizations to compete in the global environment
  • Application of human and organizational behavior skill in the development of a more effective workforce
  • Researching and writing case studies for the classroom and training use
  • Researching the development of greater participative management culture leading to a transformational organization