Mitchell L. Springer currently serves as an executive director for Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute located in West Lafayette, Indiana. He has over 35 years of theoretical and defense industry-based practical experience from four disciplines: software engineering, systems engineering, program management and human resources. Springer possesses a significant strength in pattern recognition, analyzing, and improving organizational systems. He is internationally recognized, has contributed to scholarship in more than 200 books, articles, presentations, editorials, and reviews on software development methodologies, management, organizational change, and program management. Springer sits on many university and community boards and advisory committees. He is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, most recently the Purdue University College of Technology Equity, Inclusion, and Advocacy Award. Springer is the president of the Indiana Council for Continuing Education as well as the past chair of the Continuing Professional Development Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. Springer received his Bachelor of Science in computer science from Purdue University, his MBA and doctorate in adult and community education with a cognate in executive development from Ball State University. He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR & SHRM-SCP), in Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), and in civil and domestic mediation. Springer is a State of Indiana Registered domestic mediator.