Brian H. Cameron
Clinical Professor, Associate Dean of Office of Professional Graduate Programs
Department Supply Chain & Information Systems
Office Address 220S Business Building
Phone Number
814-863-1460
Email Address
bhc103@psu.edu
Brian H. Cameron
Clinical Professor, Associate Dean of Office of Professional Graduate Programs
Department Supply Chain & Information Systems
Office Address 220S Business Building
Phone Number
814-863-1460
Email Address
bhc103@psu.edu
Brian Cameron is the Associate Dean for Professional Graduate Programs and Executive Education in the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining Smeal, he was the Founding Director of the Center for Enterprise Architecture in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. Dr. Cameron was awarded the NPA Career Achievement Award in 2011 for efforts related to the founding of the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations, the building of the Center for Enterprise Architecture, and associated service to the enterprise architecture profession.
In his current role as Associate Dean for Professional Graduate Programs and Executive Education, Dr. Cameron led the rapid growth of the Smeal professional graduate portfolio from the four master’s programs and one online graduate certificate, representing approximately 300 students, in 2015 to an integrated portfolio of 17 masters programs, an Executive Doctor of Business Administration, and 14 online graduate certificates representing over 2,600 students. Professional master’s programs include inter-college collaborations with several Penn State colleges and campuses.
Dr. Cameron is leading the design and implementation of many organizational and pedagogical innovations that includes an integrated professional graduate portfolio that facilitates degree stacking and a high degree of choice and flexibility for students. He led the formation of new faculty and departmental governance, compensation, and budgeting structures for professional graduate education. Dr. Cameron is leading a marketing strategy initiative, in collaboration with Smeal marketing, to better position the evolving portfolio of professional graduate programs in the increasingly competitive marketplace.
He has reorganized the MBA program office structure to create a professional graduate education programs office that provides shared services across programs. Shared services include recruiting/marketing, admissions, advising, student organizations, diversity, mentoring, tutoring, career services, employer relations, and alumni services. Part of this restructuring included the creation of a Director of Excellence in Teaching & Learning for the professional graduate portfolio to oversee many dimensions of quality related to growth and scaling, curriculum improvement, and faculty development.
Dr. Cameron is in the process of reorganizing and integrating the non-credit Penn State Executive Education unit with the Smeal professional graduate programs office and is currently leading a team researching innovative pedagogical approaches for online and hybrid graduate professional education and non-credit executive education. Dr. Cameron was appointed to the Transforming Education Task Force for the Future of Online Learning and World Campus and was selected to attend the Big 10 Academic Alliance’s Academic Leadership Program in 2018. His work has been the topic of several articles in BizEd, the publication of AACSB, the international business school accreditation body. He is very active in the professional graduate education community and is a founding member of the Consortium for Online Graduate Business Education and serves on the boards of the MBA Roundtable, the Executive MBA Council, and the Business Architecture Guild. Dr. Cameron is the recipient of the 2022 Penn State Commission for Adult Learners’ Shirley Hendrick Award for his contributions to significantly foster and increase Penn State’s efforts to serve the adult learner.
Expertise
• Business Architecture & Strategy Execution
• Enterprise Architecture Development
• Strategic Planning & IT Alignment
• Enterprise Architecture Maturity Analysis
• Value Measurement for Enterprise Architecture
• Enterprise Systems Design and Development
• Project Portfolio Management
Education
Ph D, Learning and Performance Systems, The Pennsylvania State University, 2004
MBA, Business Administration (Finance and Information Systems), The Pennsylvania State University, 1991
BS, Computer Science (Business Administration), Shippensburg University, 1989
Courses Taught
BA 809 – STRAT BUS ARCH (3)
BA 809 focuses on the development and application of business architecture as a holistic discipline that produces a common understanding of the organization that is used to align strategic objectives and tactical initiatives. Business architecture bridges the gap between a company's strategy and its successful execution. A business architecture approach that delivers business value to the enterprise produces several things: - An articulation of the strategic requirements of the enterprise - Models of the future state which illustrate what the enterprise should look like across multiple business viewpoints in support of the business strategy - A road map of the change initiatives required to reach that future state - The requirements, principles, standards, and guidelines that will steer the implementation of change initiatives The primary purpose of describing the business architecture of an enterprise is to improve the effectiveness or efficiency of the business itself. This includes innovations in the structure of an organization, the centralization or federation of business processes, the quality and timeliness of business information, and ensuring that money spent at the project level is in support of the strategic objectives of the larger enterprise. The course also develops additional capabilities for communicating, explaining, and justifying decisions relating to business architecture.
BA 595 – Internship (1)
Supervised off-campus, nongroup instruction, including field experiences, practicums, or internships. Written and oral critique of activity required.
BA 596 – Individual Studies (Variable)
EA 872 – Ea Foundations II (3)
Develops additional capabilities for justifying Enterprise Architecture decision making.
EA 875 – Enterprise Architecture Leadership (3)
Develops additional capabilities for leading, communicating, andimplementing Enterprise Architecture.
IST 402 – Emerging Issues and Technologies (3)
Introduction to emerging issues, technology forecasting and analysis; overview of emerging issues and leading technologies in IST and how they impact information systems, users, the IT labor force and society.
IST 596 – Individual Studies (Variable)
Creative projects, including nonthesis research, that are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
EDTEC 461 – Designing Computer Networks for Education (3)
Applying fundamental concepts of computer networking to design effective networks for educational purposes.
IST 422 – Enterprise Architecture Foundations (3)
Theoretical foundations and practice of enterprise architecture.
IST 496 – Independent Studies (Variable)
Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on an individual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
EA 871 – EA 871
EA 497A – IST 497A
IST 497A
IST 871
INSYS 496 – Independent Studies (2)
Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
IST 421 – Advanced Enterprise Integration: Technologies and Applications (3)
Advanced course on the integration of information technology into systems applications.
IST 496H – Independent Studies (variable)
Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on an individual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
IST 296 – Independent Studies (variable)
Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on an individual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
IST 420 – Fundamentals of Systems and Enterprise Integration (3)
Introductory course on integration of information technology into different venues, including the planning, development, and implementation of the integration.
IST 440W – Information Sciences and Technology Integration and Problem Solving (3)
Problem-based approach to technology integration by focussing on real-life problems faced by an organization.
IST 443 – IT Professional Services Theory and Practice (3)
Explores and applies the basic concepts, methodologies, tools, and techniques of consulting and professional service organizations in information sciences and technology.
IST 497B – IT Consulting (3)
Special topics course.
IST 220 – Networking and Telecommunications (3)
Introduction to digital network topologies; transmission media, signal modulation, digital packet switching and routing, systems integration, communications management, and security.
IST 497C – Project Management of Information Systems (3)
Special topics course.
INSYS 461 (3)
Applying fundamental concepts of computer networking to design effective networks for educational purposes.
Selected Publications
Research Impact and Media Mentions
Editorships
Special Issue on Enterprise Architecture
Special Issue on Service-oriented Architecture / Service-Oriented Computing
Special issue on Meeting the Renewed Demand for IT Workers
Special Issue on Service-Oriented Architecture and Computing