PMI Pays Tribute to Dr. David I. Cleland for a Lifetime of Achievement to Project Management and the Profession
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Washington, D.C. 13 July 2010 - Project
management is garnering new attention for the value it delivers to
organizations wrestling with economic challenges, tight resources
and rapid change. At its 2010 Research and Education Conference,
Project Management Institute (PMI), the leading professional
association in the field, paid tribute to a man whose lifetime of
work made modern-day project management possible: Dr. David I.
Cleland, Ph.D. and PMI Fellow.
"Dr. Cleland was among the first to see project
management strategically as well as tactically, at the center of
organizational competencies," said Gregory Balestrero, president
and CEO of PMI. "It's hard to believe, but there was a time when it
was new and unfamiliar. Dr. Cleland was a driving force behind the
adoption of project management as a professional competency, and is
a key contributor to the success of all organizations that use
professional project management standards and methodologies
today."
Dr. Cleland is Professor Emeritus of Engineering
Management in the School of Engineering at the University of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Recognized as the most published
contributor in the field, he is the author or editor of 40 books in
the fields of Project Management, Engineering Management, and
Manufacturing Management. He has published numerous articles,
handbook chapters, and presented many papers on project management
and leadership at professional meetings.
In addition, he has served as a consultant for
multinational companies. Dr. Cleland is co-founder of the
University of Pittsburgh Manufacturing Assistance Center (MAC),
whose mission is to provide manufacturing systems technology
assistance to small and mid-sized manufacturers in Western
Pennsylvania.
Since its beginning, Dr. Cleland has dedicated
his time and resources to PMI's mission of making project
management indispensible for business results as well as a driving
force for research in the profession through his leadership in
co-founding the Research and Education Conference in 2000. A
founding member of the PMI Pittsburgh Chapter, Dr. Cleland was
named a Fellow of PMI in 1987 and has received the PMI
Distinguished Contribution Award an unprecedented three times: in
1983, 1993 and 2001. In 1990 PMI recognized him with a Special
Contribution Award and in 1991 he received a Presidential
Citation.
In 1997, PMI established an award named in his
honor: the PMI David I. Cleland Project Management Literature
Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize the best project
management literature published during the previous calendar year.
This award recognizes the author for advancing the project
management knowledge, practices, procedures, concepts, or other
advanced techniques that demonstrate the value of using project
management.
Dr. Cleland has dedicated his professional life
to advancing the art and science of project management through
research, formal education, certification and standards," said
Balestrero. "No one has arguably done more to support the
profession or those who operate within it. It is with both pride
and pleasure that PMI honors Dr. Cleland for his contributions to
the profession and to PMI."
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organizations in endorsing the value of project management. The
only project management association with an established academic
research program, PMI has invested more than US$14 million in
support of academic research since 1997. Learn more at PMI.org.
