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Leadership Development Opportunities for Tenured
Faculty
Sadan Kulturel-KonakAssociate Professor of Management Information
SystemsCoordinator of Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor
ADVANCE Auburn, May 18, 2010
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My BackgroundB.Sc., M.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Industrial
Engineering and Operations Research in Turkey and in the USA
Research- modeling and optimization of complex systems and robustness under uncertainty
Teaching- MIS, IST, and EntrepreneurshipPenn State Berks- started in 2003 and
was tenured and promoted in 2008
Penn State Berks• 52-year-old campus in the system of 155-year-old university• 2,600 undergraduate students with about 800 of them reside on campus• 15 baccalaureate degrees and first two years of 160 Penn State degrees• Mascot: The Nittany Lion
Challenges for Faculty in Undergraduate InstitutionsNo graduate studentsUndergraduates’ technical skillsFew colleagues in the same fieldFinding time (e.g., teaching 9 credits in
a semester)
Research and leadership development opportunities?
What An Academician HasA love of teaching and researchAmbition EnergyIdeasColleagues
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What An Academician NeedsAccepted refereed papersNew course developmentGood teaching reviewsResearch activity / funding Professional serviceTenure and promotion or promotionA life!
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Synergies
Research(and Funding)
Teaching
Service
Student advising, special topics, course projects, teaching cases, undergraduate research,…
Academic journals,funding agencies,seminar/session/conference organization,paper competitions
Personal goals & values
Education activities in professional organizations,education/teaching committees,thesis committees
My View of Undergraduate Research
Teaching with inquiry based experiencesInvaluable faculty-student one-on-one interactionActive learning and a very important integral part of
undergraduate educationStudents’ primary responsibility for the projectReports and presentations are extremely important
outcomes
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Research FocusApplied modeling and optimization in
areas such as facilities design, network design, reliability, supply chain, scheduling, and data mining
Geographically distributed teams (NSF supported)
Stereotyping of IT skills (NSF supported)
Research Many international and interdisciplinary
collaborations
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First Ever Post-doc Researcher at Penn State BerksBerna Ulutas, Eskisehir Osmangazi
University TurkeyMay 2009-May 2010Dynamic Facility Layout Problem
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Service to the Professional Societies
Women in Operations Research and Management Science (WORMS) Forum of INFORMS- President◦ Panels on Life and Work Balance,
Opportunities and Challenges, International Collaborations, Excellence and Diversity in Academia, Best Practices
IIE Reading Chapter- Chapter Director and Assistant Newsletter Editor
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Internal ServiceDiversity CommitteePeer MentoringHiring CommitteesFaculty Affairs CommitteePromotion and Tenure CommitteesResearch Interest GroupNational Survey of Student
Engagement Evaluation CommitteeUndergraduate Research Conference
Committee
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Women in Information Sciences and Technology (WIST) ClubStudents, Faculty and Industry
Partners (i.e., alumni)Lockheed Martin, PJM, CPCU Society,
Elemica
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MentorIST
Surveys to
match mentor-mentee
Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor
Fall 2009
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Entrepreneurship Minor (18 credits in total)
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For the Entrepreneurship Minor
Teaching the gateway (Entrepreneurial Leadership) and Entrepreneurship Capstone courses
Organizing Entrepreneurship Speaker Series
Program and course level assessmentsGrants:
$4,000 from IBM & Greg Flemming $31,700 from National Collegiate Inventors and
Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)- Course and Program grant: Internationalizing Entrepreneurship Education Program
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Institutional SupportCourse releaseSummer supportUndergraduate research support
in the form of funds to pay students
Funds for travel and equipmentMentoring- only available for
promotion and tenure process for Assistant professors
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The Right Balance
What do you like to do?
What are you good at?
What needs to be done?
A Few Final Thoughts!
Know when to initiate a changeTrust your intuitionBe confident and courageousBe willing to resume new roles in different
committees and organizationsMake commitments and honor them
regardlessPay attention to detailsFAMILY IS FIRST!
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Fact or Fairy Tale