Daniel C. Bochsler (Dan)
Director:
Executive MBA Program
Senior Lecturer:
School of Management, Organizations,
Strategy & International Management
Office: SOM
1.905
Tel:
972-883-4235
Email:
dan.bochsler@utdallas.edu
Dan is currently serving as the Director of the
Executive MBA program. He joined the faculty of the School of Management at The
University of Texas at Dallas in 2009 as Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship,
teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Entrepreneurship, Technology,
Strategic Management and Organizational Behavior. He also supports the
activities of the Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at UTD promoting
cross-disciplinary academic and outreach programs across the university,
community and region to enhance business and economic growth and performance.
Dan holds a B.Sc. in Computer
Science from Oregon State University, and an MBA from the University of Houston Clear Lake with emphasis in technology and
international business. He has also served on the adjunct faculty of The
University of Texas at Tyler teaching graduate level Systems Engineering,
Project Management, Theory of Constraints, and Strategic Management of
Technology and Innovation for the College of Engineering and Computer Science,
and as a member of the advisory board for the College of Education and
Psychology.
Dan’s business and consulting
career spans 30 years. He has previously held technical, marketing, and
management positions with large and small firms in aerospace, defense, computer
technology, manufacturing and energy, especially related to emerging and
advanced technologies. Product and technology experience includes complex
computer systems for Space Shuttle, interplanetary spacecraft, launch vehicles,
expert systems software, embedded control software and
silicon devices for consumer and industrial products, computer networking and
data storage systems, and alternative energy technology. He has extensive
international business experience, and has headed his own consulting firms.
Since 2006, Dan has served as a board member and evaluator for the Alliance for
Higher Education’s North Texas Regional Center for Innovation and
Commercialization, which administers Texas’ Emerging Technology Fund regional
efforts in North Texas.
Over many years, he has served on
a variety of boards and panels for private companies, economic development,
community, civic, and education groups.
He has published numerous articles in trade and professional journals,
forums and conferences on technology development, integration, and management.
Dan has also been a licensed pilot since 1978.
Young
or old – Always Dare to Dream: NASA Skylab Space Station Experiment side note:
Skylab
was the United States’ first space station, launched in the early 1970’s. In
1972, Dan was selected as one of 25 national finalists in a NASA sponsored
program called the Skylab Student Project - a program where high school
students from across the United States and the world proposed experiments to be
performed onboard NASA's first manned space station Skylab. The experiment,
"Confirmation of Objects within the Planet Mercury's Orbit,” was
carried out during the Skylab missions. Activities included travel to many NASA
and subcontractor centers for design reviews, and use of facilities at the
National Center for Atmospheric Research. Selection, screening, and analysis of
data from the Skylab mission’s White Light Coronagraph instrument were performed
and a final report provided to NASA.
General program background
and web references: In
April 1972, NASA and the National Science Teachers Association announced
selection of 25 finalists in a Skylab Student Project to propose flight
experiments and demonstrations for performance aboard Skylab in 1973. NASA had
announced the selection of the NSTA for management and operation of the Skylab
Student Project in September 1971. Purpose of the project was to stimulate
interest in science and technology by directly involving students in space
research. More than 15,000 applications for participation had been received
from throughout the United States and overseas. Finalists' proposals had been
selected from these entries. Of the 25 finalists, 19 of the experiments were
actually carried out onboard or with data collected from Skylab. The project,
which had been initiated in the spring of 1971 by the NASA Administrator,
involved students in grades 9 to 13. For more information, see http://history.nasa.gov/SP-401/ch2.htm
and http://history.nasa.gov/SP-401/ch9.htm