{"id":41,"date":"2023-01-31T06:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T06:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:47:18","slug":"dr-t-steven-cotter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/dr-t-steven-cotter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. T. Steven Cotter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/2023\/01\/steve-cotter-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2218\" height=\"3333\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/2023\/01\/steve-cotter-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42\" style=\"width:139px;height:208px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact Information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T. Steven Cotter, Ph.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Master Lecturer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Engineering Management &amp; Systems Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Systems Engineering and Research, Rm. 2101I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Batten College of Engineering and Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old Dominion University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norfolk, Virginia, USA, 23529<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Telephone: 757-683-3758<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>E-mail:<a href=\"mailto:tcotter@odu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"mailto:tcotter@odu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tcotter@odu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h.y2hre8iirfke_l\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>T. Steven Cotter (BS, MBA, MS, PhD) is a Senior Lecturer with the Engineering Management and Systems Engineering department at Old Dominion University. He is a Certified Quality Engineer and Certified Reliability Engineer with the American Society for Quality. He holds certifications as a SQL Server Application Developer and Database Administrator. He has over 40 years of experience in quality and production engineering and management in automated chemicals manufacturing, automated computer manufacturing, and defense electronics. He has supported projects for the startup of two production facilities and a research and development center. He has managed projects for Six Sigma quality improvement, automated quality information systems, and automated measurement systems. He lectured for five years as an Adjunct Assistant Professor before joining the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering as full-time faculty. His research initiatives are in computational systems statistical engineering, AI-Human quality and reliability systems, AI-human knowledge engineering, and digital engineering informatics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ph.D. Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Old Dominion University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M.S. Engineering Managment, 1994<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concentration: Quality and Reliability Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>University of Massachusetts at Amherst<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M.B.A., 1989<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concentration: Finance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BS, 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concentration: Management<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>University of South Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Electronic Technology, 1971<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Graff Area Vocational and Technical School<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(now Ozarks Technical Community College)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Professional Associations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American Society for Engineering Management<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American Society for Quality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Certified Quality Engineer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Certified Reliability Engineer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Association for Computing Machinery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>INFORMS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International Statistical Engineering Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Teaching Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming from an industrial engineering, managerial, and teaching background, I view students as both my customer and product. My objectives in interacting with, mentoring, and teaching students are to facilitate their transition into an integrated management, engineering, and technology education and to support their maturation through that education into functioning professional technicians, engineers, and engineering managers who represent their school and chosen disciplines with the highest degree of integrity and competence. I support student transition and maturation through a mentoring Socratic teaching style supplemented with learning experiences including sequenced problem analysis and solution activities, case studies, and research, documentation, and presentation with defense. I use the Socratic Method in lecture, questioning, and testing to guide students toward a greater understanding of the required engineering or technical knowledge. I use learning experiences as a discovery process to support greater understanding and increased performance. As a former industrial manager, I set the expectation that students contribute as much effort in attaining managerial, engineering, or technical education as I do in providing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Courses Taught<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENMA 302, Engineering Economics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENMA 401, Project Management<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENMA 420\/520, Statistical Concepts in Engineering Management<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENMA 605 Capstone Project<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENMA 614, Quality Systems Design<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENMA 711\/811, Methodology for Advanced Engineering Projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENMA 720\/820, Multivariate Analysis for Engineering Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENMA 897 Special Topics Courses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Applied Ontology Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Hybrid Ai-Human Systems Control<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Quality Systems Risk Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Software Quality Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>AI-Human Knowledge Ontology Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AI-embedded Quality and Reliability Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computational Systems Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cyber Physical Systems Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Digital Engineering Informatics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multivariate Computational Statistical Learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact Information: T. Steven Cotter, Ph.D. Master Lecturer Department of Engineering Management &amp; Systems Engineering Systems Engineering and Research, Rm. 2101I Batten College of Engineering and Technology Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia, USA, 23529 Telephone: 757-683-3758 E-mail: tcotter@odu.edu Biography T&#8230;. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/dr-t-steven-cotter\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4153,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-nosidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tcotter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}