“I am an Educator because Education enables Freedom. I am a Systems Engineer because Systems Engineering provides the technology that enables Societies to grow, prosper, and remain free. I am a Systems Engineering Educator at WPI because there I can be both.”
Dr. Don Gelosh is Director of Systems Engineering Programs for WPI. In this role, Dr. Gelosh works closely with WPI’s faculty in the development of systems engineering programs. Dr. Gelosh also works with an external Systems Engineering Advisory Council and fosters partnerships among WPI and companies and organizations involved in the systems engineering field. Dr. Gelosh advances the overall state of practice for systems engineering through his efforts with the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).
Dr. Gelosh has more than 49 years of systems engineering experience from various assignments with the US Air Force, government, industry and academia. He comes to WPI from the Department of Defense (DoD) where he was Deputy Director for Workforce Development for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering at the Pentagon. In this position, he was responsible for managing the education, training, and experience certification standards for almost 40,000 DoD workforce members in the Systems Engineering career field.
In previous assignments, Dr. Gelosh was lead systems engineer for communications and payload integration on NASA’s Vehicle Integration and Test Team supporting the Space Shuttle, he taught Electrical and Computer Engineering at the USAF Academy, he served as Deputy Department Head for Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology and was Dean of Learning and Technology at the National Defense University.
Dr. Gelosh’s SE research areas include Technical Leadership, Experience Acceleration, Workforce Development, Competencies and Competency Frameworks, Learning Technologies, Knowledge Portals, Modeling CAD Layout Tools, VLSI & VHDL, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and US Federal Acquisition.
Dr. Gelosh received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1994, a master of science in computer system design from the University of Houston at Clear Lake in 1989, and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the Ohio State University in 1981. He also holds an INCOSE ESEP – Acquisition certification and is DAWIA Level III certified in Systems Engineering.
