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Articles

Ramon Fernandez-Caamano
Department of Human Resource Education, University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign

Ramon Fernandez-Caamano holds a degree in chemistry and a Master of Science in business administration, specializing in international business. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate in human resource education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in international HRD, critical theory, organizational development and change, and technology transfer. During the last 20 years he has been involved in a number of international technology transfer initiatives. He can be reached at <frnndzcm@uiuc.edu>.

Scott D. Johnson
Department of Human Resource Education, University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign

Scott D. Johnson is professor and head of the Department of Human Resource Education at the University of Illinois. He has been involved in technical education and human resource development for over 25 years. Dr. Johnson specializes in instructional design, instructional methods, and online learning. He has also worked with many public and private organizations to help them address education and training issues associated with technology transfer and organizational change. He can be reached at <sjohnson@uiuc.edu>.

Seong-gin Moon
Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

Seong-gin Moon is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. His dissertation examines factors that encourage (or hinder) corporate voluntary environmental initiatives that go beyond regulatory requirements. His research interests are centered primarily around links between public policy and corporate environmental management. He can be reached at <smoon@ouray.cudenver.edu>.

Peter deLeon
Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

Peter deLeon is professor of Public Policy at the University of Colorado's Graduate School of Public Affairs (Denver). He has written widely on issues of public policy, with a recent focus on environmental compliance issues. He can be reached at <pdeleon@carbon.cudenver.edu>.

W. Benjamin Martz
Department of Information Systems, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Ben Martz is an associate professor of Information Systems at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. His teaching interests include e-business, software development, groupware, and team-based problem solving. He received his B.B.A in marketing from the College of William and Mary; his M.S. and Ph.D. in business, with an emphasis in MIS, from the University of Arizona. Ben was one of the founding members, as well as president and COO, of Ventana Corporation—a technology spin-off firm from the University of Arizona. Ben has published his research in MIS Quarterly, Decision Support Systems, the Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. He can be reached at <wmartz@uccs.edu>.

Liv Ramskjaer
Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

Liv Ramskjaer is Chief Curator at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology in Oslo, Norway. She has a M.A. in history from the University of Oslo. Ramskjaer has contributed to books dealing with the history of technology, business, and industry. Topics of earlier works are Norwegian shipping, history of electricity, and development of chains for distribution of gasoline. Presently, she is studying the production and utilization of plastic materials in modern Norway, 1945 through 1990. She can be reached at <liv@tekniskmuseum.no>.

Notes From The Field

Richard Gertsch
Michigan Technological University

Richard Gertsch is a research associate professor of mining engineering at Michigan Technological University. He also directs the Center for Low Impact Mining, an interdisciplinary organization of social scientists and engineers. At the Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center, University of Missouri—Rolla, he established research programs in drilling, rock fragmentation, and mechanical excavation machines. He was laboratory director of the Earth Mechanics Institute, Colorado School of Mines, conducting research on mechanical excavators, tunnel boring machines, and drilling. Research partners include DOE, Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Steel, machine manufacturers, mining companies, and others. As...