Professor Tugrul Daim

In an era where technology acquisition has become a necessity for the survival of any type of organization, selecting the right technology is even much more critical. Evaluation of technologies should not be taken lightly. Many organizations in the past failed to recognize the multiple perspectives and had to yield to technically inferior competitors. These multiple perspectives include technical, economic, environmental, social and political. This talk will review technology evaluation research and practice in sectors which are likely to impact the new decade including healthcare, energy, smart cities, transportation and robotics.

Biography:

Tugrul U Daim is a Professor and the Director of the Technology Management Doctoral Program in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University. US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, and many other regional, national and international organizations have funded his research. He has published over 200 refereed papers and more than 20 books. He was the adviser for 17 PhD graduates who are now in leading positions in government, industry and academia. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Prior to joining PSU, he had worked at Intel Corporation for over a decade in varying management roles. During his tenure at PSU, he has acted as a Strategic Consultant to the Chief Technology Innovation Officer of Bonneville Power Administration a part of US Department of Energy. He is a member of the R&D Advisory Board for TUPRAS, the largest industrial firm in Turkey. He also consulted to many other international, national and regional organizations. He is also a visiting professor at the Nottingham Trent University. He has given keynotes and distinguished speaker lectures at conferences, companies, universities and research centers around the world. He was given the Research Publication Award by the International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT) and Fellow Award by the Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) both in 2014. He has been a Leading Research Fellow at National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow since 2018. He was awarded Honorary Chair Professor title by Chao Yang University of Technology in 2019 and Extraordinary Professor title by University of Pretoria in 2008.