Ph.D. Iowa State University, 1969, Applied Mathematics M.S. Iowa State University, 1967, Applied Mathematics B.S. Northern Illinois University, 1962, Mathematics Phone: 206.281.2579 Email: aerisman@spu.edu Office: McKenna Hall 224 Dr. Erisman at Ethix.org: http://www.ethix.org

Teaching areas:
Information systems management, enterprise analysis, ethics and technology

Research interests:
Information technology and business, ethics in technology

Experience:
Albert M. (Al) Erisman is the co-founder and editor of Ethix magazine (www.ethix.org), which began in October 1998.  In this role he has interviewed business leaders from around the world on issues of ethics, technology, values, and purpose. He has been a speaker on business ethics in many countries including most recently Austria, Ukraine, Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and China and is engaged in developing a Micro Finance program in the Central African Republic.  He is also Executive-in-Residence at the School of Business and Economics, Seattle Pacific University.  He teaches courses in business ethics and business and technology, and is a Fellow and past Director of their Center for Integrity in Business.

In April 2001 Al completed a 32 year career at The Boeing Company, where for the last 10 years he was Director of R&D for computing and mathematics.  In this capacity, he managed a staff of 250-300 scientists, mathematicians, statisticians, and engineers with the objective of bringing new technology to Boeing’s processes and products.  He was selected as one of 11 inaugural Senior Technical Fellows of The Boeing Company in 1990. 

Al has been on numerous boards including: board member and board chairman of the Washington Technology Center; board member of the National Academy of Sciences panel on assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; and a member of other National Science Foundation and National Academy committees dealing with the future of information technology, an assessment of mathematics, and the future of supercomputing.  He is presently a board member for Gladiator Technology, a startup company producing sensor systems; a board member for Kiros, a Christians in business organization in the Seattle area; a member of the board of review at the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and is on the steering committee for the Theology of Work project at Gordon Conwell Seminary.  He is a co-author of three books including Direct Methods for Sparse Matrices (Oxford Press, co-authored with John Reid and Iain Duff) and numerous technical and popular papers.  He has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Iowa State University.