Meet the Faculty
Dr Lawrence Wolf
Program Director - Masters of Manufacturing Engineering Technology
OIT/Portland
Metro Center
7726 SE Harmony Road
Portland, OR 97222
Tel: Appointments: 503-821-1250; Direct Line: 503-821-1257
Fax: 503-786-5040
E-mail: lawrence.wolf@oit.edu
Home Page: http://www.oit.edu/faculty/lawrence.wolf
Biography:
Lawrence J. Wolf is a professor of the Oregon Institute of Technology and a distinguished service professor of the Oregon University System.
After experience in the army and the aircraft, petroleum, and chemical industries, he began his academic career in 1964 as the founding head of the MET program at the St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley. As a research fellow he completed his doctorate in engineering at Washington University and then became an associate professor at the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia from 1972 to 1974. He was appointed a dean at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, directing a joint project with MIT in Iran, after which he returned to St. Louis in 1975 as the associate dean of instruction. He headed the Department of Manufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision at Purdue University, Calumet, from 1978 to 1980, then served for ten years as the dean of the College of Technology of the University of Houston. After a sabbatical year working on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Wolf joined the Super Conducting Super Collider project in Texas. It was while at the SSC that he was contacted to become the president of Oregon Institute of Technology. He retired from administration in 1998, designated as a president emeritus. Wolf served a sabbatical year with the Boeing Company extending the BS in MfgET program to the Seattle sites and working with Product Life Management software in design and manufacturing. He teaches now in Portland and continues to be active internationally and of service to other universities, industry, and government.
Wolf received his B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering and his DSc in structural engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. He maintains PE licenses in Oregon and Missouri and is a member of the ASME and of the SME. He is an elected fellow of the ASEE, ASME, and ABET. From the ASEE he has received the McGraw Award, a Centennial Award, and the Distinguished Service Award. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, Tau Alpha Pi, Epsilon Pi Tau, and the AAUP. In 06 he was named a life member of the ASEE. In 07 he was elected a life fellow of the ASME, and received an EngineeringVISION Award from Engineering.com.
He has over 60 publications the most recent being as a contributing author and steering committee member for the newly released ABET 75th Anniversary Retrospective. ISBN 978-0-9799910-0-4.
Wolf currently serves on the Mechanical Engineering Body of Knowledge Study Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He also serves on the Manufacturing Engineering Leadership Forum of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Michael J. Flaman, CMfgE
Instructor
Portland Community College; Machine Manufacturing Engineering Department
E-mail: mflaman@pcc.edu
Hung Nguyen
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Dr. Geoffrey J. Peter
Program Director
OIT/Portland
Metro Center
7726 SE Harmony Road
Portland, OR 97222
Tel: Appointments: 503-821-1250; Direct Line: 503-821-1254
Fax: 503-786-5040
E-mail: geoffrey.peter@oit.edu
Biography:
Dr. Geoffrey J. Peter is a licensed Professional Engineer in Oregon and Washington State in the areas of Mechanical and Nuclear engineering and has over 20 years industrial experience. He is a Consultant Engineer and specializes in computational fluid dynamics, thermal and structural analysis, nuclear shielding, thermal hydraulics, and nuclear criticality analysis. His recent industrial experience includes as Nuclear/Mechanical Engineer at the Hanford, Washington, DOE Site and as Lead Thermal/Fluid Analyst at ASML Lithography Inc., Wilton, Connecticut.
Dr. Peter has a Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering, M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering, M.Sc. degree in Nuclear Reactor Science and a B.S. (Honors) degree in Mechanical Engineering. He received the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Project Prize for 1979 in the United Kingdom. Dr. Peter has a US and International Patent in the semiconductor area.
Charles Ohonkwo
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Hamid Rad
Associate Professor
Portland Community College
E-mail: hamid.moosavi-rad@oit.edu
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Svetla Stoilova
E-mail: svetla.stoilova@oit.edu
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Biography: Dr. Svetla Stoilova received a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D in Internal Combustion Engines from Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Varna (Bulgaria). Her doctoral research work was on thermal evaluation of aluminum Diesel engine. She was an associate professor at the Technical University of Varna, which is the 2nd largest engineering university in the country. Dr. Stoilova has a variety of experience in engineering education. She developed curriculum materials for Automotive Engineering Program, taught many technology-centered courses and conducted much applied experimental research in liquid cooled Diesel Engines. Student-centered teaching philosophy and professional interests focus on expanding educational opportunities in mechanical engineering for women.