Dr. Dinesh Verma named Dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology
HOBOKEN , N.J. ― Stevens Institute of Technology’s Provost & University Vice President, Dr. George P. Korfiatis, has announced the appointment of Dr. Dinesh Verma as Dean of The School of Systems and Enterprises (SSE), recently founded as the fourth distinct school within the Institute.
Dr. Verma had previously served as Associate Dean for Executive Education and Outreach in Stevens’ Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering.
“Dinesh’s distinguished career in education and industry has prepared him for this very crucial position at Stevens, and I know that the entire Institute community wishes him well and looks forward to his leadership in this unique venture, the School of Systems and Enterprises,” said Korfiatis.
SSE was founded in March 2007 in recognition of the pivotal role played by complex systems in the 21st century. “Given society’s inevitable march toward conceiving systems and enterprises of ever increasing complexity, The School of Systems and Enterprises is the next logical progression for Stevens as one of the leading technological universities in the world,” said Stevens President Harold J. Raveche. “This school will complement our three existing schools with its emphasis on systems integration and enterprise management and optimization.”
“Stevens is uniquely positioned to be a focus of academic and research opportunities that grow from the critical need to manage the development, deployment and behavior of complex systems and enterprises,” said Korfiatis. “The concept of ‘systems of systems’ is the future, not only of engineering, but of all major industry in the public and private sectors, and this concept will play a decisive role in the continuing transformation of the American high-tech economy well into the 21st century.”
Dean Verma also announced the following leadership team and organizational roles within the new school:
Dr. John Farr will serve as the Associate Dean of Academics, overseeing all matters related to undergraduate, graduate and doctoral academic programs.
Dr. Michael Pennotti will act as the Associate Dean for Professional Programs and will have primary responsibility for the oversight and delivery of the professional development and graduate education programs as they pertain to industry and government partnerships.
Ralph Giffin will serve as Director of Business Operations and Administration, managing the day to day operations of the school, and coordinating all related industry, government and corporate relationships.
Dr. Kate Abel has been named Director of Undergraduate Studies, and will handle matters related to undergraduate programming and academic advisement.
Beth Austin DeFares will act as the Associate Director of Outreach and Communications, interfacing with students, faculty and industry partners in areas of marketing and client account management.
Elaine Chichizola will serve as the Executive Assistant to the Dean, and will be responsible for the administrative support and coordination of the Dean’s Office.
Verma announced further that, as part of the new school’s ongoing efforts to develop a national and international network of collaborators and sponsors, the following agreements and appointments had been concluded:
Dr. Anthony Barrese, Distinguished Service Professor, will become the Director of the Global Institute for Systems Engineering, Architecture, and Test, (SEAT), overseeing an alliance of academics and industry practitioners in developing Systems Engineering and Architecture competency development solutions to multinational corporations, and
Dr. Arthur Pyster , former Senior Vice President for SAIC and Deputy Chief Information Officer for the FAA, will join the school as a Distinguished Research Professor, and Director of the Applied Systems Thinking Institute (ASysT), in collaboration with Randy Beardsworth, ANSER Vice President of Human Capital and Corporate Communications.
Dr. Dinesh Verma received his doctorate and Master of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. In addition to serving as Dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises, he is also a Professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens. During his six years at Stevens he has successfully proposed research and academic programs exceeding $20 million in value. Verma concurrently serves as Scientific Advisor to the Director of the Embedded Systems Institute in Eindhoven , Holland . Prior to this role, he served as Technical Director at Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems, in Manassas , Va. , in the area of adapted systems and supportability engineering processes, methods and tools for complex system development and integration.
Before joining Lockheed Martin, Verma worked as a Research Scientist at Virginia Tech and managed the University’s Systems Engineering Design Laboratory. While at Virginia Tech and currently, Verma serves numerous companies in a consulting capacity, including Eastman Kodak, Lockheed Martin Corporation, L3 Communications, United Defense, Raytheon, IBM Corporation, Sun Microsystems, SAIC, VOLVO Car Corporation (Sweden), NOKIA (Finland), RAMSE (Finland), TU Delft (Holland), Johnson Controls, Ericsson-SAAB Avionics (Sweden), Varian Medical Systems (Finland), and Motorola.
He served as an Invited Lecturer from 1995 through 2000 at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. His professional and research activities emphasize systems engineering and design with a focus on conceptual design evaluation, preliminary design and system architecture, design decision-making, life cycle costing, and supportability engineering. In addition to his publications, Verma has received two patents and has another pending in the areas of life-cycle costing and fuzzy logic techniques for evaluating design concepts.
Verma has authored more than 85 technical papers, book reviews, technical monographs, and co-authored two textbooks: Maintainability: A Key to Effective Serviceability and Maintenance Management (Wiley, 1995), and Economic Decision Analysis (Prentice Hall, 1998). He is a co-Editor of a forthcoming textbook on Space Systems Engineering.
He is a Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), a senior member of SOLE, and was elected to Sigma Xi, the honorary research society of America . He serves as on the Core Curriculum Committee of the Delft University ’s Space Systems Engineering Program ( Holland ) and as an advisor to the Systems Engineering Center of Expertise at the Buskerud University College ( Norway ). He was honored with the Doctorate Honoris Causa from Växjö University ( Sweden ) in January 2007.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University, is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
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