Professor
Abel Fernandez is Professor and Director of the Engineering Management Program at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. He holds the PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida, ME and BS degrees in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and an MBA also from RPI.
Dr. Fernandez has over 12 years of system engineering and project management experience with TRW, Inc. and the Harris Corporation. His final position at Harris was Director of Product Marketing, a executive level position in which he was responsible for all applications engineering and strategic planning for the Controls Division of the Harris Corporation, a Division with over U$S 60 million (then dollars) in annual sales.
He obtained his PhD degree under sponsorship of a NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship, working at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. His general field of interest is the analysis of project management problems. Of particular interest is project risk analysis, stochastic project scheduling, modeling of decision analysis problems in project management contexts, and allied problems within project management. These are areas in which Dr. Fernandez has published 2 book chapters, 15 journal articles, numerous technical reports and 27 refereed conference articles. Dr. Fernandez is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.
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About Abel Fernandez
Abel Fernandez is Professor and Director of the Engineering Management Program at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. He holds the PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida, ME and BS degrees in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and an MBA also from RPI.
Dr. Fernandez has over 12 years of system engineering and project management experience with TRW, Inc. and the Harris Corporation. His final position at Harris was Director of Product Marketing, a executive level position in which he was responsible for all applications engineering and strategic planning for the Controls Division of the Harris Corporation, a Division with over U$S 60 million (then dollars) in annual sales.
He obtained his PhD degree under sponsorship of a NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship, working at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. His general field of interest is the analysis of project management problems. Of particular interest is project risk analysis, stochastic project scheduling, modeling of decision analysis problems in project management contexts, and allied problems within project management. These are areas in which Dr. Fernandez has published 2 book chapters, 15 journal articles, numerous technical reports and 27 refereed conference articles. Dr. Fernandez is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.
| 2006 - Present | Professor, University of the Pacific ‐ School of Engineering and Computer Science | |
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| 2000 - 2006 | Associate Professor, University of the Pacific ‐ School of Engineering and Computer Science | |
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| 1995 | Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, University of Central Florida | |
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| 1976 | MBA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | |
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| 1976 | M.E., Electric Power Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | |
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| 1974 | B.S., Electric Power Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | |
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