David Olwell

He is delighted to have joined St. Martin's University as Dean of the Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering in the summer of 2015. Previously, He was Professor of Systems Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School. He chaired the Department of Systems Engineering for five years, and was the campus-wide elected Chair of the NPS Faculty under the shared governance model. He is a successful research entrepreneur, having served as the principal investigator in over $6M in sponsored projects in the past five years. His research areas have been reliability engineering, systems engineering foundational issues, and engineering curricular development. He had served on four doctoral committees. He has been the thesis or capstone advisor for over 90 masters students. He is a commissioner on the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission following service as an alternate member of the ABET Board of Directors, and have chaired five ABET visits, and have been assistant chair for two WASC visits. He is a Fellow of the American Council on Education. He have served on the board of advisors for the Department of Systems Engineering at the Military Academy. He is on the Corporate Advisory Board for INCOSE and also serve on its Academic Council.