Earlier this month, the International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association presented Donald Remer, Harvey Mudd College professor of engineering emeritus, with the association\u2019s Educator of the Year award. The award is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to education and training over the past year through teaching, writing, editing and\/or publishing educational materials used to further the professional development of current and future cost professionals.<\/p>\n
Not bad for a retired guy.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince retiring from Harvey Mudd College last year, I\u2019ve continued my research in engineering economics, project management and cost estimation modeling,\u201d says Remer, who maintains an office on campus and continues to be involved with the College. He is the former Oliver C. Field Professor of Engineering Economics.<\/p>\n
Remer also serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Cost and Production Economics, and presented two short courses at the UCLA Technical Management Program in March: Business Case Analysis for Managers and Decision Makers and Cost and Schedule Estimation for Managers and Decision Makers.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout 150 technical managers from around the world attend this weeklong program twice a year in March and September,\u201d he says. \u201cMy courses were very well received by the managers, and I have been invited back to present these courses in their September program.\u201d<\/p>\n
Remer arrived at Harvey Mudd in 1975, hired from a pool of 100 applicants for the newly established Oliver C. Field Professorship. With experience in industry as well as in teaching, Remer also had training and practical experience in business economics. The College saw as an advantage the ability to offer advanced applied economics courses in conjunction with its unspecialized engineering education.<\/p>\n
For Remer, leaving industry to become a professor was part of a lifelong plan. \u201cMy goal was always to teach,\u201d he says. After earning a PhD from Caltech, Remer spent five years working at Exxon. One morning, while reading the Wall Street Journal, an ad caught his eye: Harvey Mudd College was hiring.<\/p>\n
Remer continues to teach and work with students; he will attend the American Society for Engineering Education Conference to see Jessica Lupanow \u201918 present a paper they co-authored. \u201cThis is an expansion of a term project that Jessica did in my project management course,\u201d Remer says. \u201cJessica will be working on her PhD in Computer Science at USC in the area of socially assistive robotics. She received an NSF Fellowship.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, now that he\u2019s retired, Remer is enjoying spending more time with his eight grandchildren and wife, and recently, for the first time, he attended a Caltech Alumni Weekend. \u201cI am finding more time to do things that I never used to have time to do,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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