Meet the Faculty

Dr Lawerence Wolf

Program Director
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 75^th 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

Biography: Michael Flaman has worked in the machine shop discipline for most his career. He spent approximately 15 years in the machine tool industry with experiences as a machine tool operator, automated machinery building and high speed progressive die making design/building. Normal progression in the machine tool trades provided his with experiences in automated machinery, CNC operations and programming, CAD/CAM/CNC programming of various CNC control machines.
His teaching experiences have covered higher education to industry and professional association instruction. Michael has spent 25 plus years at Portland Community Colleges Machine Manufacturing Technology (MMT) program at the Sylvania Campus both as an instructor and department chair. In addition to PCC, he has been teaching for 15 years at Oregon Institute of Technology Portland in the Manufacturing/Mechanical Engineering Technology programs, and has taught course in the Mechanical Engineering program at Portland State University. He has also taught courses in industry in Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T), Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM), Total Quality management (TQM) and Superabrasives. Michael has also taught courses for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) for both the Certified manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT) and Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) both locally and at Boeing Aerospace in Seattle, Washington.

Flamans long time professional associations include memberships in the Society of manufacturing Engineers (SME), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), American Society of Quality Control (ASQC), American Society of Inventory Control (APICS), and the American Society of Materials (ASM). He has served on the executive board of directors for many of these organizations.

Hung Nguyen

Engineering Management
Hewlett-Packard Company
E-mail: hung.nguyen@oit.edu
Tel: 503-715-3198
Biography: Hung joined the faculty at Oregon Institute of Technology in August 2005 for the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program. He received his MS degree in Engineering Management from PSU and B.S. degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology from OIT. He is currently working at Hewlett-Packard Company and has been for over 15 years. He is a member of the National Honor Soceity of Phi Theta Kappa, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

Charles Ohonkwo

Hamid Rad

Associate Professor
Portland Community College
E-mail: hamid.moosavi-rad@oit.edu