Faculty Research Interests
Mesut Akdere's Research Interests
- Human Resource Development
- Leadership Development
- Talent Development
- Organization Development & Change
- Training and Workforce Development
- Quality Management
- Global Human Resources
- Performance Management
- Employee Engagement
Thomas Capozzoli's Research Interests
- 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
Kari Clase's Research Interests
- Biotechnology
- Proteomics
- Bioinformatics
Brett Crawford's Research Interests
- Organization Theory
- Institutional Theory
- Environment
- Qualitative Reseach Methods
- Stigma
Alexander Crispo's Research Interests
- Organizational change
- Appreciative inquiry
- Facilitation
- Reflective conversation
- Team dynamics
- Collaborative teaching & learning
Beverly Davis's Research Interests
- Human behavior and technology-related research
- Techno-ism; individual and organizational
- Workplace development: Technology, psychological Contracts, and leadership
Nathalie Duval-...'s Research Interests
- Multidisciplinary entrepreneurship education
- Entrepreneurship within engineering education
- Environments and conditions that foster entrepreneurial activity among students
- Student intellectual property policy and practice
- Program evaluation and assessment
- Women and leadership
- Market and technology assessment
Sandra Dye's Research Interests
- Conflict Management/Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) - Organizations
Michael Dyrenfurth's Research Interests
- Technological Innovation
- International technological education
- Technological workforce development
- Technology teacher education
- Career and technical education
- Engineering & engineering-related technology education
- Technological problem-solving and learning
- Science and technology studies
- Technology education & Technological Literacy
- Third-party evaluation
- Assessment and testing
Stephen Elliott's Research Interests
- Biometrics
- Standards
- Distance education
Jeremiah Johnson's Research Interests
- Online Communities
- Collective Preference
- Anonymity
- Identity
- Big Data
- Security
- Open Innovation
- Social Media
Todd Kelley's Research Interests
- 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
Chad Laux's Research Interests
- Lean Six Sigma
- Food Security
- Quality Management Systems
- International quality standards
Linda Naimi's Research Interests
- Global, legal, technological and ethical challenges of organizational leadership
Kathryne Newton's Research Interests
- Supply Chain Management Operations
- Graduate Education
- Human Resource Development
- Industrial Training
- Quality Management
Jon Padfield, PhD's Research Interests
- Law Enforcement Technology
- Innovation in technology start up companies
- Lean Six Sigma / Process Optimization
Edie Schmidt's Research Interests
- Operations Management related to ID
- Inventory Management
- e-Commerce
- Logistics
- Project management
- Problem-based learning
- Course and curriculum development
Matthew Stephens's Research Interests
- Statistical quality control
- Design of experiments
- Total productive maintenance
- Production facilities planning
- Productivity management
Mathias Sutton's Research Interests
- Engineering economic analysis
- Transportation & logistics
- Statistical methods in technology
- Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC)
- Adult education and distance learning strategies
Rodney Vandeveer's Research Interests
- 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
Mihaela Vorvoreanu's Research Interests
- Socio-cultural impacts of new communication technologies: social media, Web 2.0
- Social media culture, principles, social norms
- The use of social media in education
- The use of social media in the enterprise
- The use of social media for public relations
- Online identity management
- Web user experience
