Department of Technology Management
Phelps Hall 1332
Telephone (805) 893-5133
Email: tmp@tmp.ucsb.edu
Website: www.tmp.ucsb.edu

Chair: Paul Leonardi
Vice Chairs: Nelson Phillips - Academic Affairs; Mary Tripsas - Certificate Programs

Overview

Commercializing new technical advances and discoveries into products or services that benefit society requires business and interpersonal skills as well as technical expertise. These include an ability to work effectively in teams, having a sound understanding of organizational behavior and management, business strategy, technical marketing, basic economics, product and project management, and basic accounting and finance. Technology Management provides a solid foundation in these areas to help cultivate early managerial and business leadership talent for technology businesses.

Mission Statement 

Technology Management is a unique educational program that exposes innovative, energetic, and entrepreneurially minded students to key important business practices for new product success, new venture creation, and leadership in technology driven businesses. Technology Management is redefining business education with a targeted curriculum for the creation and management of tomorrow's technology ventures.

Faculty

Matt Beane, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor (technology and work, deviance, AI and robotics, learning)

Christine Beckman, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (social innovation and inequality)

John Bowers, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (high-speed photonic and electronic devices and integrated circuits, fiber optic communication, semiconductors, laser physics and mode-locking phenomena, compound semiconductor materials and processing) Joint appointment with: ECE MATRL

Sukhun Kang, PhD, London Business School, Assistant Professor (innovation and entrepreneurship)

Paul Leonardi, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (organizational, innovation, technology management, distributed collaboration)

Nelson Phillips, PhD, University of Alberta, Professor (theory, innovation and technology)

Renee Rottner, PhD, UC Irvine, Lecturer SOE (innovation management, science and technology studies, and entrepreneurship)

Jessica Santana, Assistant Professor  

Mary Tripsas, Professor  

Bob York, PhD, Cornell University, Professor (high-power/high-frequency devices and circuits, quasi-optics, antennas, electromagnetic theory, nonlinear circuits and dynamics, microwave photonics) Joint appointment with: ECE

Jill Feldman, Continuing Lecturer  

Eric Zackrison, Continuing Lecturer

Emeriti Faculty

Stephen Barley, PhD, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  

Gary Hansen, PhD, University of Michigan  

Kyle Lewis, PhD, University of Maryland

Dave Seibold, PhD, Michigan State University  

Affiliated Faculty

Bruce Bimber, PhD  

Jim Blascovich, PhD

Ted Frech, PhD

Jennifer Gibbs, PhD  

Diane Mackie, PhD

Umesh Mishra, PhD  

Karen Myers, PhD  

Matthew Potoski, PhD  

Ronald E. Rice, PhD  

Ambuj Singh, PhD  

Cynthia Stohl, PhD  

Sarah Thebaud, PhD  

Rich Wolski, PhD