About the Faculty
Course Leader:
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Irene Petrick
Assistant Professor
Penn State’s School of Information Sciences and Technology
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Irene J. Petrick is an Assistant
Professor in Penn State’s School of Information Sciences and
Technology and before that spent three years as an assistant
professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering. Dr. Petrick
has taught graduate courses in advanced technology management,
corporate innovation strategies, and statistical process control and
design of experiments; and undergraduate courses in human factors
engineering, process quality engineering, concurrent engineering,
enterprise integration, and information systems project management.
In addition to her professorial activities, she has over 24 years of
experience in technology planning, management, and product
development in both academic and industrial settings.
Dr. Petrick specializes in technology
forecasting, digital roadmapping, product and process development,
and systems management, with particular interest in collaborative
supply chain activities. Within the past five years she has
had research funding from a diverse group of industry and government
sponsors, including Lockheed-Martin, Metal Powders Industry
Federation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. National Institutes of
Standards and Technology, Marine Corps Research University,
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Pennsylvania
Department of Commerce, and the Pennsylvania Industrial
Modernization Center. She also advises private companies and
non-profit agencies on technology planning and strategic
roadmapping, including international work in public health and
technology strategy for eight Fortune 500 companies. In summer
2005, Dr. Petrick was a Boeing Welliver Fellow where she focused on
technology strategy, collaborative new product development and
supply chain integration.
Dr. Petrick is author or coauthor on
over 60 publications and presentations. Below are recent
publications related to new product development and roadmapping.
Petrick, I.J. (forthcoming).
Redefining Supply Chain Practices Based on Network Effectiveness and
Industry Sector Differences, Accepted to International Journal of
Foresight and Innovation Policy, Special Issue on the Future of
Manufacturing.
Petrick, I.J. and Provance, M. (2005)
Roadmapping as a Mitigator of Uncertainty in Strategic Technology
Choice, International Journal of Technology Intelligence and
Planning, 1(2): 171-184.
Petrick, I.J. and Echols, A. (2004)
Technology Roadmapping: A Tool for Making Sustainable New
Product Development Decisions, Technological Forecasting and
Social Change, 71(1-2): 81-100.
Petrick, I.J. (2003) Linking Information
Across Industry Sectors to Jump Start Product and Process
Innovation, Portland International Conference of
Management of Engineering & Technology (PICMET), July 2003.
Petrick, I.J. and Echols, A. (2002)
Technology Choice and Pooled Investment Among Networks: Supply
Chain Roadmapping, IEEE International Engineering Management
Conference Proceedings, Cambridge, UK, August, 2002.
Petrick, I.J. (2002) The Growth
Imperative: Transforming the PM2 Industry to Compete for
the Future. International Journal of Powder Metallurgy,
38(4): 49-59.
Petrick, I.J. (2002) Using Roadmapping
to Coordinate R&D Investment and New Product Development Across the
Supply Chain. International Journal of Agile Manufacturing
Systems, 4(2): 55-67. |
