Title: Adjunct Professor, College of Business and Public Administration, CSUSB. Lecturer, Extension Department of Engineering & Technology and Technical Management, UCLA. Chief Scientist, Space & Launch Systems, The Boeing Company.E-mail: cassad2@csusb.edu
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Dr. Chahriar Assad joined The Boeing Company (then Hughes) in the early 1990s. He is a Chief Scientist in charge of space qualification for the Space and Missile Systems division, where he has managed technical projects ranging from a few million to over $100M. He has been awarded a US patent, holds multiple trade secrets and technical excellence awards, he is also a Six Sigma Black Belt, and a member of the highly selective Boeing Technical Fellowship. Dr. Assad was a Hughes MBA Executive Fellow to MIT, where he received his masters from Sloan, and he also was a Welch Foundation Pre-doctoral Scholar at Texas A& M University where he earned a Ph.D. in Atomic Physics. He is an adjunct Professor in the College of Business and Public Administration at CSUSB, and also a lecturer in the Departments of Eng. and Tech. Management at UCLA Extension. In his leisure time, he enjoys teaching, cooking, motorcycles, computer hardware and software. He is married and resides in Mar Vista, CA.