Joseph Hartman

Joseph C. Hartman became the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs and student affairs at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in January 2019. In this role, he oversees the academic affairs of five colleges, 800 full-time equivalent faculty members and approximately 17,500 students. Before taking on this role, Hartman served as the dean of the Francis College of Engineering at UMass Lowell, where he oversaw nearly 4000 students and more than 115 full-time faculty members. Before joining UMass Lowell, Hartman was a professor and chair of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Florida from 2007 through 2013. He also held the George N. Kledaras ’87 Endowed Chair at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Hartman has extensive experience as an industrial and systems engineer, and his research and teaching interests are focused on engineering economic decision analysis and applied optimization. He has published more than 100 scholarly papers, and his research has been funded by agencies such as the National Science Foundation (Hartman received the CAREER Award) and the Office of Naval Research, as well as numerous companies. Hartman has taught courses in engineering economy, quality management, production logistics and operations research and has authored the textbook "Engineering Economy and the Decision-Making Process." He is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers and was president from 2016-19. Additionally, he was the past editor of The Engineering Economist.

Hartman is a native of the Chicago area. He earned his B.S. in general engineering from ISE and his M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.