Faculty

William "Ike" Eisenhauer
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering

wde@pdx.edu

B.S.M.E., 1994, Portland State University
M.Engr., 2003, Portland State University

William "Ike" Eisenhauer is a Senior Management Metrics Analyst with Wells Fargo. Prior to working at Wells Fargo, Ike was the Director of Business Intelligence at a Portland-based market research firm. In addition, he is an industry consultant in the areas of probability/uncertainty management, executive decision making, and benchmarking. His past clients have included US Bank, Hollywood Entertainment, and Multnomah County. 

Visit his home page, http://web.pdx.edu/~wde/, for information on his personal interests, details about his professional activities, and summaries of his courses, including descriptions and assessments.

Dorothy McKinney
Adjunct Professor of Systems Engineering
phone
dorothy.mckinney@lmco.com

B.A., 1972, Prescott College
M.S., 1974, Stanford University
M.B.A., 1980, Pepperdine University

Dorothy is currently employed by the Lockheed Martin Space Systems company as a Senior Fellow.  In this capacity, Dorothy helps Space Systems to apply best practices and lessons learned from across Lockheed Martin and industry to provide technical leadership for both customer programs and internal initiatives ranging from common software architectures to education and training.

Her previous positions within Lockheed Martin Space Systems include Director of Software Engineering, in which position she managed over 700 software engineers and related personnel, and Technical Director of Mission Success.  In this capacity, Dorothy coordinated the use of best practices to meet immediate program needs and reduce risks within Space Systems. She performed reviews, and used metrics and status information to highlight risks and problems which needed to be addressed.

Prior to this , Dorothy worked at Lockheed Martin headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland as Director of Technical Operations and Processes in the Information & Services Sector . This assignment followed one as Director of Software and Systems Processes reporting to Frank Lanza in Lockheed Martin's C3I & Systems Integration Sector (formerly Loral corporate). Dorothy began working for Lockheed Martin heritage companies in November, 1979. Her past assignments include helping to rescue a very large air traffic control program at Air Traffic Management in Rockville, Maryland. She started in the corporation as a systems engineer, later serving as Manager of Software Engineering, Director of Systems Engineering, and Executive Director of Engineering at Space and Range Systems in Sunnyvale, California. From 1985 to 1994, Dorothy was also an Adjunct Professor in the graduate Engineering program at San Jose State University, teaching such subjects as Engineering Management and Software Project Management. Other industry experience included three years at ARGOSystems (a Boeing subsidiary), and nine years at SRI International (formerly called Stanford Research Institute).

Dorothy has been active in the International Council On System Engineering, INCOSE, since 1992, including her position as Technical Chair of the Annual Symposium in 2002 and 2007. She was President of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter in 1999. She was on the Board of Directors from 1999 to 2001 and Chair of the Technical Committee on Processes and Methods from 1994 to 1996. Dorothy has also chaired national working groups and a technical committee, developed a train-the-trainer tutorial for the 1994 Symposium, delivered tutorials to INCOSE chapters around the U.S., and participated in panels at INCOSE Symposia. Additionally, Dorothy is a member of IEEE and has served on the Industry Advisory Board for IEEE Software magazine. She is a member of the AIAA as well.

Dr. Wayne Wakeland
Associate Professor of Systems Science
(503) 725-4975
fax
wakeland@pdx.edu

B.S., 1973, Harvey Mudd College
M.Eng., 1973, Harvey Mudd College
Ph.D., 1977, Portland State University

From 1978 to 2000 Dr. Wakeland held a fulltime managerial positions in information systems or manufacturing at local high tech firms (Tektronix, Photon Kinetics, Magni Systems, Epson, and Leupold & Stevens). He is currently working as a part-time business analyst.

In 1978, Dr. Wakeland became an adjunct member of the core faculty of the Systems Science Ph.D. program, and began teaching a sequence of courses on modeling and simulation. In 2000, he accepted an appointment as an Associate Professor.

Wakeland's research interests include: system dynamics, systems thinking, discrete systems simulation, process modeling, manufacturing systems, information systems, and strategic planning.

Jacob Goldstein
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering
fax
jacob.goldstein@lmco.com

B.A., 2001, George Washington University
M.S., 2004, Carnegie Mellon University
M.S., 2006, Carnegie Mellon University

Jacob Goldstein is currently employed by the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, California as a Senior Software Engineer. He joined the Lockheed Martin team in 2001 after graduating from The George Washington University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Since that time Jacob has worked on multiple projects within the Special Programs line of business. In his current role he designs, develops and tests real-time and embedded flight software and firmware.

In 2004 Jacob completed a Master’s of Science degree in Information Technology-Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, followed by a second Master’s of Science degree in Software Engineering-Program Management, also from Carnegie Mellon University, in 2006

In 2005, along with a team of students from Carnegie Mellon, Jacob presented a paper at the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium entitled "An Approach for Designing Reusable, Embedded Software Components for Spacecraft Flight Instruments". Jacob's current research interests include requirements analysis, software reuse, project management, financial analysis, artificial intelligence, robotics and biotechnology.