Adult Education, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Mediated Communication (Groupware), Computer Science, Deregulation, Distance Education, E-Commerce, Financial Analysis, Engineering Management, Entrepreneurship, Flexible Manufacturing, Management of Technology, Operations Management, Product Development, Project Management, Quality Control, Quality Strategy, Simulation, Telecommunications, Visualization

Seagate Technology - Recording Head Operations, March 1994 - April 1995
Highest Position Held: Senior Wafer Technical Support Engineer
Responsibilities: Work director for technicians and junior engineers; World-wide planning and justification of all capacity-related capital equipment; Plan production labor operation moves; Forecast fixture and supply consumption; Plant layout optimization; Transfer of tools between Seagate facilities; Coordinate engineering changes that might impact capacity
Projects: Process layout; Author: Time Study SOP and Standard Support Nomenclature SOP; Benchmarking; Magneto-Resistive Head production

Honeywell - Commercial Aviation Systems, June 1985 - March 1994
Highest Position Held: Project Manager
Responsibilities: Work director for technicians and junior engineers; Approve all computer related expenditures (as chair of CIM Team); CIM Strategic Plan; statistics consultant; benchmarking focal point
Projects: Sperry CIM integration; Concurrent product development; JIT manufacturing; Facility move team; Highly accelerated stress screening, CAM software development; Electronic configuration management; Automatic factory data collection; Activity-based cost accounting; Corporate CAD, CAM and CAT councils; Malcolm Baldrige application team

University of Colorado (CU) - Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program (EMEN), August 1997 - Present
Highest Position Held: Assistant Professor
Professor for the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS), College of Business & Administration, Graduate School, the Center for Advanced Training in Engineering and Computer Science (CATECS), the Division of Continuing Education and the National Technological University (NTU)
Courses: Management of R&D, Principles of Product Development, Operations Management, Project Management Systems, Business Systems for Engineers, Final Project
Service: EMEN Admissions Committee, EMEN Curriculum Committee, EMEN Executive Committee, EMEN Industrial Advisory Committee, EMEN Seminar Committee, EMEN Faculty Search Committee, EMEN Webmaster, CEAS Advisory Council Leadership Committee, CEAS Strategic Planning Committee, CU Y2K Team
Faculty Exchanges: Vienna Technical University, Institute of Industrial Engineering, Ergonomics, and Business Economics, Department of Systems Engineering

University of Minnesota - Department of Mechanical Engineering, January 1996 - July 1997
Highest Position Held: Assistant Professor (Adjunct)
Professor for the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology (IT), Graduate School, Continuing Education and Extension College (CEE), University Industry Television for Education System (UNITE), and for NTU
Courses: Engineering Management and Design of Experiments

New Mexico State University - Department of Industrial Engineering, January 1983 - May 1985
Highest Position Held: University Instructor
Instructor for the College of Engineering and Graduate School
Courses: Computational Methods in Industrial Engineering I and II, Production System Control, and Engineering Economics
Service: Graduate Advisory Council, Alpha Pi Mu Faculty Advisor
Other Responsibilities: Software development for Computing Research Laboratory robotics lab

Ph.D. Major - INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, Minor - COMPUTER SCIENCE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 5/97.
M.S. Major - INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, Minor - COMPUTER SCIENCE, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 12/84.
B.S. Major - MATHEMATICS, Minor - ECONOMICS, New Mexico State University, 12/82.

• Usrey, M.W., "Preferences of Adult Distance Learners", Computers in Education Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 3, (C. E. Wick, editor), pp. 53-60, Port Royal, VA: American Society for Engineering Education, July-September 2003.
• Usrey, M.W., "Assessing Alternate Delivery Mechanisms for Adult Distance Learners", Computers in Education Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 3, (C. E. Wick, editor), pp. 61-67, Port Royal, VA: American Society for Engineering Education, July-September 2003.
• Wilmeth, R.G. and M.W. Usrey, "Reliability Centered Maintenance: A Case Study", Engineering Management Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4, (T. Eschenbach, editor), pp. 25-31, Rolla, MO: American Society for Engineering Management, December 2000.
• "The Measurement of Consumer Attitudes Concerning Software Quality", Quality Management Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 2, (B. B. Flynn, editor), pp 42-57, Milwaukee, WI: ASQ, April 1998.
• "Dimensions of Software Quality", Quality Management Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 3, G. S. Easton, editor), pp 67-86, Milwaukee, WI: ASQ, July 1996.

• Usrey, M.W., "A Case for Engineering Edutainment in the 21st Century", Building on a Century of Progress in Engineering Education - Frontiers In Education 2000 Conference Proceedings, (D. Budny & G. Bjedov, editors), pp. S1A-20 - S1A-24, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, October 2000.
• Ford, B.C. and M.W. Usrey, "Designing and Implementing Lean Manufacturing at John Deere Dubuque Works", Technical Management: Key to Enterprise Success in the 21st Century - Proceedings of the 2000 National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, (J. Deason, editor), pp. 381-390, Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Management, October 2000.
• Wilmeth, R.G. and M.W. Usrey, "Evaluating a Reliability Centered Maintenance Program for Substation Equipment at New Century Energies", Technical Management: Key to Enterprise Success in the 21st Century - Proceedings of the 2000 National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, (J. Deason, editor), pp. 391-400, Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Management, October 2000.
• Usrey, M.W., and W. Garrett, "A New Plank for the Platform: Object-Oriented Extensions to Platform R&D ", Leading Technology Change: Management Issues and Challenges - Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Engineering Management Society, (S. Kassicieh and S. Walsh, editors), pp. 497-500, Albuquerque, NM: IEEE, August, 2000.
• Ludescher, G., and M.W. Usrey, "Towards an ECMM (E-Commerce Maturity Model)", A New Renaissance: Multinational, Multidisciplinary & Performance-Focused -- Proceedings of the First International Research Conference on Organisational Excellence in the Third Millennium, (R. Edgeman, editor), pp 168-173, Estes Park, CO: Colorado State University, August 2000.
• Velasco, M.B., and M.W. Usrey, "Spain's Software Balance of Trade: a Learning Organization Analysis", A New Renaissance: Multinational, Multidisciplinary & Performance-Focused -- Proceedings of the First International Research Conference on Organisational Excellence in the Third Millennium, (R. Edgeman, editor), pp 246-254, Estes Park, CO: Colorado State University, August 2000.
• Kroenke, T.L., and M.W. Usrey, "Evaluation of a Research and Development Process: How to Achieve the Next Level of Product Development", Paradoxes of Project Collaboration in the Global Economy: Interdependence, Complexity and Ambiguity - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the International Research Network on Organizing by Projects, (L. Crawford & C. F. Clarke, editors), pp 456-466, Sydney, Australia: University of Technology, ISBN 186365-3635, January, 2000.
• Fantz, D.I., M.W. Usrey and T. Lockwood, "A Process For Analyzing Energy Cogeneration Projects", Pathways to Technological Leadership: Proceedings of the 1999 National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, (C Keating, editor), pp 109-118, Rolla, MO: American Society for Engineering Management, October, 1999.
• Usrey, M.W., "Assessment of Alternate Delivery Mechanisms for Adult Distance Learners", Proceedings of WebNet '99, Vol. 2, (P. de Bra & J. Leggett, editors), pp 1111-1115, Charlottesville, VA: Association for Advancement of Computers in Education, October 1999.
• "A Strategic Framework for Information Technology Planning", PICMET '99 Proceedings, Vol. 2, (D. F. Kocaoglu & T. R. Anderson, editors), 02_21.pdf, Portland, OR: Portland International Conference on the Management of Engineering and Technology, ISBN 1-890843-04-0, 1999.
• "Avionics SPC Intranet", Productivity & Quality Management Frontiers - VIII, (W. Werther, Jr., J. Takala, & D. J. Sumanth, editors), pp 460-466, West Yorkshire, England: MCB University Press, 1999.
• "Enabling Technologies for Adult Distance Learners", Proceedings of WebNet '98, Vol. 2, (H. Maurer & R. G. Olson, editors), pp 927-931, Charlottesville, VA: Association for Advancement of Computers in Education, November 1998.

• "AI in Circuit Diagnosis - Final Report", Proceedings of the First Annual Honeywell Test Conference Albuquerque, NM: Honeywell, 1993.
• Expert Systems Diagnosis of Failures in Mixed-Signal Circuit Card Assemblies, Minneapolis, MN: Honeywell Corporate Manufacturing Board/Honeywell CAM Council, 1991.
• Ballistic Meteorological Displacement from Independent Treatment of Parameters, Washington, DC: U.S. Army Electronics Research and Development Command, 1981.

• "Economic and Financial Systems", 7th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: SCI 2003, (N. Callaos, editor), Orlando, FL: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, July, 2003.
• "Technology & Innovation Management", (L.B. Cardinal, session chair), Democracy in a Knowledge: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, (D. Nagao, editor), Seattle, WA: The Academy of Management, 2003.
• "Entrepreneurship Division", 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, (P. Weilerstein, chair), Nashville, TN: American Society for Engineering Education, June 22-25, 2003.
• "Economic and Financial Systems", 5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: SCI 2001, (N. Callaos, editor), Orlando, FL: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 2001.
• "Technology & Innovation Management", (R. Garud, session chair), How Governments Matter: 61th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, (D. Nagao, editor), Washington, D.C.: The Academy of Management, 2001.
• Babcock, D. and L. Morse, Managing Engineering and Technology, 3rd ed., Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
• Wallace, W. and A. Roberts, Project Management, London: Reed Educational Publishing, 2001.
• "Case Studies in the Management of Technical Organizations", (M. W. Usrey, session chair), 21st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Management, (J. P. Deason, editor), Rolla, MO: American Society for Engineering Management, 2000.
• Ostwald, P.F., Engineering Cost Estimating, 4th ed., Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
• "Technology & Innovation Management Session", (P. Anderson, session chair), A New Time: 60th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, (S. J. Havlovic, editor), Briarcliff Manor, NY: The Academy of Management, 2000.

• Session Chair, 21st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Management, October 5-7, 2000, Washington, DC.
• Session Chair, The First International Research Conference on Organisational Excellence in the Third Millennium - MAAOE 2000, August 6-9, 2000, Estes Park, CO.

• Registered Professional Industrial Engineer (Colorado #33246 & Minnesota #18948) in association with The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
  
• Certified in Production and Inventory Management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society
  
• New Faculty Fellow 2000 (American Society for Engineering Education-Educational Research and Methods Division, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-Education Society, IEEE-Computer Society)
• Merritt Williamson Best Paper Award Finalist (2000 National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management)
• National Management of Technology Faculty (National Technological University)
• Honeywell: Professional Excellence Award, SPOT Award
  
• Honor Societies: Alpha Pi Mu (Industrial Engineering), Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics), Phi Kappa Phi (General Scholastic), Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics), Tau Beta Pi (General Engineering)

Active Listening, Activity-Based Costing, Asset Management, Benchmarking, Business Ethics, Coaching Strategies, Concurrent Product Development, Cost Management, Empowering Individuals, Expert Systems in Manufacturing, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Financial Management, Group Problem Solving, Innovation in Product Development, ISO 9000, Just-in-Time Manufacturing, Leadership Development and Effectiveness, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Managing Personal Growth, Manufacturing Execution Systems, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Performance Management, Priority and Time Management, Production Leadership, Program Management, Self-Development for Managers, Software Capability Maturity Model, Strategic Planning and Decision Making, Stress Screening Technology, Supervisory Development, Taguchi Methods, Thin Film Manufacturing