 David
Hale, Director
Aging Infrastructure Systems Center of Excellence
Office: 106 Bevill Research Building
Phone: (205) 348-5525
Email: dhale@cba.ua.edu
Center Interests: The creation of an integrated
body of knowledge for aging infrastructure systems command and control
systems that crosses multiple fields of study. Support
areas include decision support, enterprise integration and modeling, collaborative
human-computer problem-solving systems, economics, component-based software
development, manufacturing systems, and software maintenance.
Bio: Dr. Hale's research has resulted in over 50
scholarly and IS professional publications in journals and conference
proceedings. Dr. Hale's research has been funded by the National
Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Commerce, Accenture, Alabama Department
of Transportation, Computer Sciences Corporation, the KPMG Peat Marwick
Research Foundation, Procter and Gamble, Sterling Software, Texas Instruments,
and the University Transportation Centers of Alabama. He has consulted
for Acuity, AT&T, Tenneco, EDS, Exxon-Mobil, FedEx, Georgia-Pacific,
Home Depot, Procter and Gamble, Rohm and Haas, Sterling Software, and
Texas Instruments.
Dr. Hale was honored by The University of Alabama in 2001
by being named the University’s Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor
and in 2002 his faculty colleagues in the Culverhouse College of Commerce
and Business Administration presented him with the Thomas Moore Endowed
Undergraduate Teaching Award. |
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Dan Daly, Associate Director
Aging Infrastructure Systems Center of Excellence
Office: 101 AIME Research Building
Phone: (205) 348-3500
Email: dan.daly@ua.edu
Center Interests: Research development management,
technology transfer, commercialization of intellectual property, and new
venture creation.
Bio: Dr. Daly received B.S. in Chemistry and Psychology
from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. He went on to receive
a Ph.D. in Physical-Organic Chemistry from the University of Florida in
Gainesville, Florida. He did two post-doctoral studies at The University
of South Florida in Tampa, Florida and Oregon State University in Corvallis,
Oregon in computer-assisted molecular design. Dr. Daly is currently
the Director of the Alabama Institute for Manufacturing Excellence.
He has 17 years experience in the fuel and lubricant businesses where he
served as Technology and Business Development Manager. He has led
the development of several commercially successful projects and has managed
and coordinated fundamental programs at several universities and national
laboratories. Dr. Daly has won several awards for this work including:
Nortech Top 50 Industrial Innovation Award for Northeast Ohio; Recipient,
R&D Magazine Top 100 Industrial Innovation Awards Recipient; and ACS
Environmental Industrial Innovation Award |
G. Edward Gibson, Jr., Research Director
Aging Infrastructure Systems Center of Excellence
Office: 259 H.M. Comer
Phone: (205) 348-6987
Email: egibson@eng.ua.edu
Center Interests:
Dr. Gibson’s research interests include organizational change, pre-project planning, risk management, construction productivity,
project delivery methods, dispute resolution, and electronic data management.
Bio:
Dr. Gibson is the Director of the Construction Engineering and Management Program at UA. He has taught a broad range of undergraduate
and graduate level courses in construction engineering and management, including project management, engineering economics, contracts,
liability and ethics, surveying, project information management systems, front end planning, project finance, and continuous
quality improvement. Dr. Gibson has developed several education modules for continuing education and has taught over 170 short
courses to industry in such topic areas as objective setting, team alignment, continuous improvement, front end planning, and
materials management. He has received numerous awards for teaching, including the 1998 Construction Industry Institute’s Instructor
of the Year, the 2002 Outstanding Engineering Educator by the National Society of Professional Engineers and the 2002 Outstanding
Graduate Teacher at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2000 to 2003 he served as the Associate Chairman in charge of the
Architectural Engineering program at UT. He currently serves as President-elect of the Board of Governors for the Architectural
Engineering Institute (AEI) within the American Society of Civil Engineering. Dr. Gibson was inducted into the National Academy of
Construction in October 2005.
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