VITAE:
Stuart A. Umpleby
11/2011
Position:
Professor, Department of Management, School of Business
The
and Director, Research Program in Social and
Organizational Learning (www.gwu.edu/~rpsol)
The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052
Citizenship:
Education:
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1962-67 |
A.B., Political Science, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) |
Research and Teaching Experience:
2011
Visiting Professor,
(instructor and adviser for a new PhD program)
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2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 |
Visiting Professor, Department of
Economics and Business, Al Farabi Kazakh National University, |
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Jan 2005 |
Visiting professor, |
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Fall 2004 |
Visiting Professor, Faculty of
Philosophy, National University of Uzbekistan, |
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Spring 2004 |
Fulbright Scholar, Faculty of Economics, |
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1975-pres. |
Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor in
the Department of |
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1994-pres. |
Host of visiting professors from the New Independent
States of the former |
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July 2002 |
Instructor in a Business Ethics Training Program for
ethics managers from the former Soviet Union and Romania, funded by the
US Department of Commerce |
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June 2002 |
Consultant on management curriculum improvement
under a World Bank grant to Baikal State University of Economics and Law, |
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April 2002 |
Participant in a |
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Jan. 2001 |
Visiting professor, |
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2000 |
Consultant to the World Bank for a report on Lessons
Learned from the Year 2000 Computer Crisis |
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Summer |
Guest Scholar, Institute for Advanced Studies, |
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1998-2000 |
Co-principal Investigator of a
research and public education program on the year 2000 computer crisis,
supported by the Nathan Cummings Foundation and The Washington Post Company |
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1994-1997 |
Faculty Facilitator of a quality improvement program
in the |
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Feb. 1996 |
Principal Investigator, a
conference on US Aid to |
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1992-1993 |
Faculty Facilitator of a quality
improvement program in the Department of Management Science, GWU |
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Spring |
Guest Professor, |
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Spring |
Guest Scholar at the International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis, |
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Fall |
Instructor for a course on the Fundamentals of
Cybernetics taught via the computer teleconferencing system based at New
Jersey Institute of Technology |
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Fall |
Research Associate in the Department of Social
Systems Sciences in the |
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Summer |
Principal Investigator on a grant from the U.S. Agency
for International Development to construct a system dynamics model of
national development |
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1978-1979 |
Part-time Instructor, Development Studies |
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1977-1980 |
Principal Investigator and Moderator of a Computer
Conference on "General Systems Theory: An Example of the
Integration of Scientific Disciplines," sponsored by the National
Science Foundation |
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Summer |
Consultant, National Science Foundation grant,
"Computer-based Communications Utilities" |
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1973-1974 |
Research Assistant, Department of Electrical
Engineering, under a grant from the Point Foundation |
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Summer |
Project Co-director for a grant from the Charles F.
Kettering Foundation's Citizen Involvement Program |
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Summer |
Consultant, National Science Foundation grant,
"Computer-based Community Communications" |
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1972-1973 |
Project Director, National Science Foundation grant,
"Social Cybernetics and Computer-based Communications Media" |
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Summer |
Research Associate, Institute for the Future, |
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1968-1970 |
Instructor, Department of Political Science, UIUC |
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1966-1970 |
Research Assistant, |
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Summer |
Engineer, |
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Summer |
Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Corp., |
Courses taught currently:
BADM 130 Human Resources Management
MGT 216 Cross-Cultural Management
Courses taught previously:
MGT 201 Management and Organization
MGT 220 Analytical Models for Decision Making
MGT 261 Introduction to Systems Theory and Cybernetics
MGT 262 Interactive Planning and the Viable System Model
MGT 264 System Dynamics Modeling
MGT 265 Artificial Intelligence and Cybernetics
MGT 270 Mathematics and Statistics for Management
MGT 290 Total Quality Management and Systems Thinking
MGT 390 Philosophical Foundations of Administrative Research
MGT 391 Methodological Foundations of Administrative Research
Some Consulting Activities:
Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan (April 1970)
Department of Regional Economic Expansion, Canadian Government, Ottawa (March
1971)
State Legislature, Honolulu, Hawaii (April 1971)
Urban Systems Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle (August 1974)
Human Development Projects, Institute for Cultural Affairs, Ivy City,
Washington, D.C. (November 1976); Shantumbu, Zambia, Africa (December 1976); Woburn
Lawn, Jamaica (June 1978); Conacaste, Guatemala (July 1978)
Academy for Educational Development, Washington,D.C.
(1980)
Volunteers in Technical Assistance, Washington, D.C. (1982)
Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence, Washington, D.C. (1983)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria (1984)
IBM-Intertrade, Radovljica, Slovenia (1990)
IBM-ROECE, Vienna, Austria (1990)
World Bank, Washington, DC (2000)
World Bank, Irkutsk, Russia (2002)
Department of Economics and Business, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Almaty, Kazakhstan (2005-2008 )
Professional Activities:
President of the American Society for Cybernetics,
January 1980 to December 1982.
Program coordinator for the first Gordon Research
Conference on Cybernetics, August 1984.
American coordinator of a series of panels and small
conferences on the subject of cybernetics and systems theory involving
scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union, 1981 to 1988. These
meetings were funded by the American Council of Learned Societies and the
Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Local arrangements chairman of the first public
conference of the Electronic Networking Association,
Reviewer of proposals submitted to the National
Science Foundation, the Division of Information Science and Technology and the
Division of Science Education, Development and Research, 1980s.
Associate Editor of Cybernetics and Systems.
Member of the editorial board of Systems Research and Behavioral Science.
Reviewer of papers submitted to the journals Technological Forecasting and
Social Change, and Systemic Practice and Action Research.
Reviewer of manuscripts for Taylor and Francis
Publishing Co. and Plenum Publishing Co.
Chairman of a conference on "Theories to Guide
the Reform of Socialist Societies," February 2-3, 1990,
Co-chair of symposia on the Cybernetics of Country
Development held during the European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems
Research,
Chair of
symposia on Management and Organizational Change held during the European
Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research,
Organizer
and Moderator of a University Seminar on Reflexive Systems, 2006 to
present. The seminar meets once a month
during the academic year and is attended by students and faculty members and
people from the
Special Conferences:
NASA Forum for Speculative Technology: Information Interactions in the
Next Generation.
Conference on Anticipatory Democracy, Aspen Institute
for Humanistic Studies,
20th Annual National Security Seminar, U.S. Army War College,
Carlisle Barracks,
Military and The U.S. World-Wide Military Command and Control System.
Examples of Presentations:
European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research,
Institute for Systems Studies, Soviet Academy of
Sciences,
Hungarian
Institute for Social Management and Union of
Scientists, three days of lectures on systems theory, cybernetics, and
management,
Institute for Advanced Studies,
Civic Activities:
Common Cause Steering Committee for the 21st
Member of the Steering Committee of the Washington,
D.C., chapter of the World Future Society, 1976 to 1979.
Volunteer with the
Awards:
2003 Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International
Scholars
2004 Fulbright Scholarship,
2007 Norbert Wiener Award of the American Society for
Cybernetics
2009 Outstanding Faculty Service Award, GWU Office of
Community Service
2010 Academician in the International Academy of
Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, an honor society created by the International
Federation for Systems Research
Biographies appear in:
Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1992
Who's Who in the World, 1993
Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 1995
Who’s Who in the East, 1999-2000, 27th edition
Who’s Who in
Personal Data:
Date of Birth: March 5, 1944
Place of Birth:
Divorced, two children in college