David Ford
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Dr. Ford is an associate professor in the Construction Engineering and Management program in Texas A&M University's Department of Civil Engineering. His research interests include construction as a product development process, project management process design, concurrence, project resource allocation policies, and system dynamics. In addition to his tenure at Texas A&M, Dr. Ford serves as an adjunct professor of research in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, and has served as an associate professor in the Department of Information Science, University of Bergen, Norway; adjunct professor, School of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden; and instructor, Mikkeli Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Mikkeli, Finland. He also has extensive experience in both the private and public sectors, serving as a consultant to British Petroleum; Scandinavian Airlines Systems (SAS); and Harvard Real Estate, Harvard University; and has held project management and design positions in industry and with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.
Dr. Ford's recent publications include "Managing Tipping Point Dynamics in Complex Construction Projects," ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (2008); "Resource Allocation Policy Design for Reduced Project Duration: A Systems Modeling Approach," Systems Research and Behavioral Science (2007); "System Dynamics Applied to Project Management: A Survey, Assessment, and Directions for Future Research," System Dynamics Review (2007); "The Application of Real Options to the R&D Outsourcing Decision," chapter 2 of Outsourcing Management Information Systems (2007); "Tipping Point Failure and Robustness in Single Development Projects," System Dynamics Review (2006); "Project Management Quality and the Value of Flexible Strategies," Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management (2006); "Modeling Real Options to Switch among Alternatives in Product Development," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (2005); "Impacts of CAD on Design Realization," Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management (2004); and "Overcoming the 90% Syndrome: Iteration Management in Concurrent Development Projects," Concurrent Engineering (2003).
Dr. Ford received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995) and his master of engineering (1979) and bachelor of science in civil engineering (1976) from Tulane University.