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).