Irene Petrick

Biographical Information

Irene J. Petrick is a Professor of Practice who has been in the College of IST since 2003. Prior to joining the IST, she spent three years as an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering. In addition to her professorial activities, she has over 25 years of experience in technology planning, management and product development in both the academic and industrial settings. She is author or co-author on more than 100 publications and presentations.

Dr. Petrick specializes in innovation, technology forecasting, digital roadmapping, and systems management. Recently she has been focusing on global collaboration and supply network effectiveness. While remaining a full-time faculty member, Petrick has received the Boeing Welliver Faculty Fellowship (2005), has been a Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Faculty Intern on global assignment in India (Summer 2008), Directed the Enterprise Informatics and Integration Center (2007 to 5/2009) and most recently is working as a Faculty Administrative Fellow with Penn State’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development (2009; part time collaboration).

Research and Teaching

Since she joined academia in 2000, Dr. Petrick has been supported by a variety of sponsors in projects valued at over $5 million, including IBM, Lockheed-Martin, Metal Powders Industry Federation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Marine Corps University, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, the PA Department of Environmental Protection and the PA Department of Commerce. She is also actively engaged with companies in their roadmapping and technology strategy activities, including work with seven Fortune 100 companies, the U.S. military, and a wide variety of small to medium sized enterprises.

Dr. Petrick is a member of Penn State’s graduate faculty and has advised several doctoral and masters students. She has taught at the graduate and undergraduate level in the College of IST, the College of Engineering and the Smeal College of Business Administration. A two-time teaching award winner, she uses problem based learning and facilitated discussion to bring the real world into the classroom. Recent companies involved in class activities include Johnson & Johnson, Disney, Computer Sciences Corporation, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Media Barn, among others.

Awards

George McMurtry Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, 2005-2006

Boeing Welliver Fellowship, Summer 2005

Smeal College of Business Administration, MBA Class of 2000 Teacher of the Year, Penn State University

The Jerry Fry Service Award, 1999. Penn State Ice Hockey Program

Rod Rose Award, Society of Research Administrators, 1995. Best paper published in SRA Journal 1994/95, for “The Potential for Public Relations Techniques to Increase the Growth and Financial Stability of Research Activities at U.S. Universities.”

Publications:

Selected referred papers, proceedings, book chapters, reports and other publications since 2002

Petrick, I.J. and Ayoub, P.J. (forthcoming in 2009) Digital Natives and 4th Generation Warfare: Innovating in the Logistics Supply Chain in the Digital Age, Military Logistics Forum Magazine.

Verti, M. and Petrick, I.J. (forthcoming in 2009) Seeing Over the Horizon: Uncertainty and Technology Forecasting, The Handbook of Technology Management, H. Bidgoli (ed), John Wiley & Sons.

Ayoub, P.J. and Petrick, I.J. (2009) Collaborative Innovation: Influences of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Digital Native (Parts 1 and 2), inKNOWvations Newsletter, http://www.sopheon.com/NEWSEVENTS/inKNOWvationsNewsletter, June & July.

Petrick, I.J. (2009) Supply Chain Globalization: How can Surviving SME’s Position Themselves for the Future? Chapter 8 in Manufacturing a Better Future for America, R. McCormack, editor, Alliance for American Manufacturing, pp.281-308.

Petrick, I.J. and Pogrebnyakov, N. (2009) The Challenges in Communities of Creation for Distributed Innovation and Knowledge Sharing, Chapter 1 in Supply Chain Management and Knowledge Management – Integrating Critical Perspectives in Theory and Practice, A. Dwivedi and T. Butcher (eds), Palgrave, pp. 3-18.

Ayoub, P.J. and Petrick, I.J. (2008) From Industrial to Knowledge Work: Five Challenges in Strategic Fit for Supporting Creativity and innovation at the Fuzzy Front End, Human Factors in Organizational Design and Management, IX, L.Sznelwar, F. Mascia and U. Montedo (eds), March 2008.

Petrick, I.J., Maitland, C.F., Pogrebnyakov, N. and Ayoub, P.J. (2008) Pennsylvania Plastics Manufacturing Industry – Profile and Supply Chain Coordination Practices. Final report to the Pennsylvania Workforce Development Office, February 2008.

Ayoub, P.J., Petrick, I.J. and McNeese, M.D. (2007) Weather Systems: A New Metaphor for Intelligence Analysis, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 51st Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 1-5.

Petrick, I.J. (2007). Tipping the Balance of Power: The Case of Large Scale Systems Integrators and Their Supply Chains, International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, Special Issue on the Future of Manufacturing, 3(3): 240-255.

Petrick, I.J., Maitland, C.F., Pogrebnyakov, N. and Ayoub, P.J. (2007) Effective Supply Network Practices. Final report to the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, December 2007.

Petrick, I.J. and Maitland, C.M. (2007) Economies of Speed: A Conceptual Framework to Describe Network Effectiveness, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Global Economy, G. Susman, editor, Edward Elgar Publishing, Chapter 5, pp. 61-78. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=6TUuXQifwxoC&dq=Gerald+Susman&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=brWPkB2IxN&sig=intiwBlnGaOfDdS2_mCntYaf-B8&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA61,M1

Petrick, I.J. (2006) Situational Awareness as a Dynamic Capability in Supply Networks, Proceedings, The R&D Management Conference, The challenges and opportunities of R&D management – new directions for research, Lake Windermere, Cumbria England, July 2006, ISBN 0-954-0016-7-2.

Petrick, I.J., Echols, A., Mohammed, S. and Hedge, J. (2006) Sustainable Collaboration: A Study of the Dynamics of Consortia. Final report to Office of Economic Assessment, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, April 2006.

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.

Kumara, S., Rado, Z, Hall, D.H., Petrick, I.J., Gautam, N., Gray, R., and Grimes, B. (2004) Enabling Logistics with Portable and Wireless Technology Study. Final report to U.S. Marine Corps, August 2004.

Hall, D.L, Garga, A., Grimes, B., Kumara, S., Petrick, I.J. and Purao, S. (2004) Intelligent Preparation of the Logistics Battle-space: the Emerging Role of Data Fusion, MSS National Symposium on Sensor and Data Fusion.

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.

Petrick, I.J. and Allen, D.N. (2002) Technology Licensing: Social, Organizational and Personal Factors. Chapter 1 in AUTM Technology Transfer Practice Manual, Volume III: Advanced Topics. Second Edition. Association of University Technology Managers.

Petrick, I.J., Wamsley, J. and Cohen, P.H. (2002) A Decision-making Framework that Links the Boardroom to the Factory Floor. International Association for Management of Technology 11th Annual Conference, Proceedings. March 2002.

Frank, M., Wysk, R. and Petrick, I.J. (2002) Managing Product and Process Decisions in Early Product Development. International Association for Management of Technology 11th Annual Conference, Proceedings. March 2002.