Researcher

Dr. Collopy is a Research Council member and Researcher at SERC. He was appointed Professor and Chair of the Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Department at University of Alabama - Huntsville (UAH) in 2013. In addition to his work in academia, his career background includes leadership roles with the National Science Foundation and the Value-Driven Design Institute, and engineering positions with Procter & Gamble, Morton Thiokol, and GE Aircraft Engines.

Dr. Collopy is credited as the original developer of economic-based technology value models, and served as the lead advisor to the DARPA System F6 program for its Value-Centric Design for Adaptability technology pillar. Co-inventor on two patents and author of more than forty papers, Dr. Collopy speaks around the world about the design of large complex systems. He has been licensed as a professional engineer since 1981.

Dr. Collopy served as Technical Program Chair of the 14th Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2016), which was hosted by the UAH Industrial & Systems Engineering and Engineering Management department in March 2016.