Larry Shuman
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 Larry
J. Shuman is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of
Engineering, University of Pittsburgh and Professor of
Industrial Engineering. His research areas include studies
directed at improving the engineering educational experience and
the ethical behavior of engineers. Recent work under National
Science Foundation funding has focused on the development of a
methodology to assess engineering students’ ability to recognize
and resolve ethical dilemmas, modeling the undergraduate
engineering experience with the objective of improving retention
and graduation rates, and using multi-source feedback to measure
team work skills.
Within the School of Engineering, he has been responsible for
creating a very successful cooperative engineering education
program and an innovative study abroad program. He has also
helped develop and implement an integrated curriculum for all
engineering freshmen that links together mathematics, physics,
chemistry, writing and engineering. Current educational projects
are focused on expanding the study and work abroad experiences
of engineering students and the development of an undergraduate
interdisciplinary engineering degree.
Dr. Shuman has published widely in the engineering education
literature and is a co-author of Engineering Ethics:
Balancing Cost Schedule and Risk - Lessons Learned from the
Space Shuttle (Cambridge University Press, 1997). He and his
colleagues regularly present papers at both the American Society
of Engineering Education Annual Meeting and the annual Frontiers
in Education Conference. Dr. Shuman is an Associate Editor and a
member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of
Engineering Education. He has been principle or co-principle
investigator on over twenty-five sponsored research projects
funded from such government agencies and foundations as the
National Science Foundation, the Fund for the Improvement of
Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), US Departments of Health and
Human Services and the Department of Transportation, the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, and Engineering Information Foundation.
He holds the Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Johns Hopkins
University and the B.S.E.E. from the University of Cincinnati.
He was the Academic Dean for the “Semester at Sea” for the
Spring 2002 semester, and is currently the Chair of the Academic
Advisory Committee for the Semester at Sea Program.
Current Sponsored Research Projects:
- GOALI: Offshoring - The New Challenge for Engineering
Educators, National Science Foundation.
- Simulation of a Distribution Hub, FedEx Ground.
- GIST Proposal – Student Internships, DAAD (German
American Academic Exchange).
- The Student Developer: Using 360-Degree Multisource
Assessment for Student Learning and Professional Development,
National Science Foundation (Columbia University Prime).
- SCALE: System Wide Change for All Lecturers and
Educators, National Science Foundation with LRDC
(University of Wisconsin Madison Prime).
- Measuring Process-Oriented Student Learning Outcomes: A
Work Sampling Approach to Behavioral Observation, FIPSE
(Department of Education).
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