Human Factors and Technology. Psychology. Management. Higher Education. Education in Modern Society.
Waldemar Karwowski, PhD, DSc, PE, is a professor and the
chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Systems at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. He
is also the executive director of the Institute for Advanced
Systems Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He earned
a master's (1978) in production engineering and management from the
Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland, and his PhD (1982) in
industrial engineering at Texas Tech University. He earned a D.Sc.
(dr habil.) in management science at the State Institute for
Organization and Management in Industry, Poland (2004). He also
received honorary doctoral degrees from three European
universities. He is a past president of the Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society (2007) and the International Ergonomics
Association (2000-2003). Dr. Karwowski served on the Committee on
Human Systems Integration, National Research Council, the National
Academies, USA (2007-2011). He is a co-editor of the Human
Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing journal and the
editor-in-chief of Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science
journal. He is an author or editor of over 400 scientific
publications in the areas of human systems integration, cognitive
engineering, activity theory, systems engineering, human-computer
interaction, fuzzy logic and neuro-fuzzy modeling, applications of
nonlinear dynamics to human performance, and neuroergonomics.
Jussi Kantola is a professor in the Industrial Management
Department at the University of Vaasa, Finland. Before that, he was
an associate professor in the Knowledge Service Engineering
Department at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology. From 2003 to 2008, he worked at the Tampere University
of Technology, Finland, and the University of Turku, Finland, in
various research roles, including research director in the IE and
IT departments. He earned a PhD in industrial engineering at the
University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, in 1998 and a second PhD
at the Industrial Management and Engineering Department at the
Tampere University of Technology, Finland, in 2006. From 1999 to
2002, he worked as an IT and business and process consultant in the
United States and in Finland. His current research interests
include service and new product development as well as various
soft-computing applications.
Tadeusz Marek is a chair professor and the head of the
Department of Neuroergonomics and the Neurobiology Department of
the Malopolska Center of Biotechnology at Jagiellonian University
in Krakow and a professor of psychology at Warsaw School of Social
Science and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland. He is the author or a
co-author of over 300 scientific publications. His research deals
with mental stress and workload, fatigue, professional burnout,
cognitive neuroscience, chronopsychology, neuroadaptive
technologies, and neuroergonomics. His current scientific interests
include the neuronal mechanisms of mental fatigue and stress,
chronic sleep restriction influence on activity of neuronal
networks related to the processes of visual attention, and
executive functions, and diurnal variability of brain activity.
Professor Marek is a past president of the Committee on Ergonomics
of Polish Academy of Sciences and past vice-rector of Jagiellonian
University. He was the editor of the international journal
Ergonomics. He is a member of many Polish and international
learned societies.
Marek Frankowicz is an associate professor at the
Theoretical Chemistry Department of Jagiellonian University in
Krakow. He is also the vice-chair of the Jagiellonian University
Centre for Research on Higher Education. He was a post-doctoral
fellow at the Free University of Brussels (1981-1982) and Tokyo
University (1982-1983) and a senior lecturer at University Paris 6
(1988-1990). He is a member of the advisory board of the
International Journal Interdisciplinary Description of Complex
Systems (INDECS). He is also a member of EURASHE Council and
Bologna Expert for Poland. His current research interests include
stochastic dynamics of onlinear chemical systems, foundations of
thermodynamics, applications of complexity theory (complex adaptive
systems, active walks in adaptive landscapes) to natural and social
systems, and modeling of dynamics of higher education reforms in
Europe.
Pavel Zgaga is a professor in the philosophy of education
and education policy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
During the period of social and political transition, he was the
State Secretary for Higher Education (1992-1999) and Minister of
Education (1999-2000). In 2001, after his return to academe, he
cofounded the Centre for Educational Policy Studies at the
university. He has held several research grants, directed a number
of national and international projects on education, and published
extensively in the area of his expertise. He has also led projects
concerned with policy issues and the development of higher
education (particularly the Bologna Process) and teacher education
as a specific segment of higher education. In this area, he has
been cooperating as an expert or invited speaker with the European
Commission (DG EAC), the Council of Europe, UNESCO, OECD, the World
Bank, and other organizations. In the Bologna process, he was
engaged as a general rapporteur (2001-2003), as a member of the
Board of the Bologna Follow-Up Group (2004-2005), and as the
rapporteur of the Working Group on External Dimension of the
Bologna Process (2005-2007). He is a cofounder of the South East
European Educational Cooperation Network (SEE ECN, 2001) and
Teacher Education Policy in Europe (TEPE, 2006) network. He has
published broadly in domestic and international journals and
written ten monographs, including Looking Out: The Bologna
Process in a Global Setting (Oslo, 2006) and Higher
Education in Transition: Reconsiderations on Higher Education in
Europe at the Turn of Millennium (Umea University, 2007).
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