Sadan Kulturel-Konak, PhD is currently an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, the coordinator of Engineering Entrepreneurship and the director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at Penn State Berks, which she joined in 2003. Dr. Kulturel teaches courses on Management Information Systems, Project Management, Business Statistics, Entrepreneurial Leadership and Entrepreneurship Capstone. Dr. Kulturel's research interests are in modeling and optimization of complex systems and robustness under uncertainty. Dr. Kulturel's other research interests consist of women in information systems and engineering, and teaching and learning with virtual teams. She has published her research in IIE Transactions, OR Letters, INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS Transactions on Education, International Journal of Production Research, European Journal of Operational Research, and Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. She is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE).