1. Leadership Development Opportunities for Tenured Faculty Sadan Kulturel-Konak Associate Professor of Management Information Systems Coordinator of Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor ADVANCE Auburn, May 18, 2010

2. 2 My Background B.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 Entrepreneurship Penn State Berks- started in 2003 and was tenured and promoted in 2008

3. 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

4. Challenges for Faculty in Undergraduate Institutions No graduate students Undergraduates’ technical skills Few colleagues in the same field Finding time (e.g., teaching 9 credits in a semester) Research and leadership development opportunities?

5. What An Academician Has A love of teaching and research Ambition Energy Ideas Colleagues 5

6. What An Academician Needs Accepted refereed papers New course development Good teaching reviews Research activity / funding Professional service Tenure and promotion or promotion A life! 6

7. Synergies 7 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

8. My View of Undergraduate Research Teaching with inquiry based experiences Invaluable faculty-student one-on-one interaction Active learning and a very important integral part of undergraduate education Students’ primary responsibility for the project Reports and presentations are extremely important outcomes

9. Research Focus Applied 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) 9

10. Research Many international and interdisciplinary collaborations

11. First Ever Post-doc Researcher at Penn State Berks Berna Ulutas, Eskisehir Osmangazi University Turkey May 2009-May 2010 Dynamic Facility Layout Problem 11

12. 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 12

13. Internal Service Diversity Committee Peer Mentoring Hiring Committees Faculty Affairs Committee Promotion and Tenure Committees Research Interest Group National Survey of Student Engagement Evaluation Committee Undergraduate Research Conference Committee 13

14. Women in Information Sciences and Technology (WIST) Club Students, Faculty and Industry Partners (i.e., alumni) Lockheed Martin, PJM, CPCU Society, Elemica 14

15. MentorIST 15 Surveys to match mentor-mentee

16. Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor Fall 2009

17. Entrepreneurship Minor (18 credits in total) 17

18. For the Entrepreneurship Minor Teaching the gateway (Entrepreneurial Leadership) and Entrepreneurship Capstone courses Organizing Entrepreneurship Speaker Series Program and course level assessments Grants:  $4,000 from IBM & Greg Flemming  $31,700 from National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)- Course and Program grant: Internationalizing Entrepreneurship Education Program 18

19. Institutional Support Course release Summer support Undergraduate research support in the form of funds to pay students Funds for travel and equipment Mentoring- only available for promotion and tenure process for Assistant professors 19

20. The Right Balance 20 What do you like to do? What are you good at? What needs to be done?

21. A Few Final Thoughts! Know when to initiate a change Trust your intuition Be confident and courageous Be willing to resume new roles in different committees and organizations Make commitments and honor them regardless Pay attention to details FAMILY IS FIRST! 21

22. Fact or Fairy Tale 22