Ulku G. Oktem, Ph.D |
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Dr. Oktem is an Adjunct Professor at the Operations and Information Management Department of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at the Risk Management and Decision Process Center. She is interested in “Environmental Sustainability and Value Creation” which is a course she developed and taught at both Wharton School, Philadelphia, USA and Bahçe Şehir University, Istanbul, Turkey. Ülkü Öktem also directs MBA students’ research on environmental sustainability including renewable energy and consideration of carbon foot print in investment decisions. Prior to joining Wharton, Dr. Oktem was an adjunct professor at the Drexel University, Engineering Management Department where she was teaching “Engineering Management” and “Safety, Health and Environment for Engineers
Dr. Oktem is also the president of NESIMA Corporation at Richboro, PA. which she founded in 1995. NESIMA specializes in customized web based safety, health and environmental training programs and services. NESIMA's customers include Fortune 100 Companies.
Dr. Oktem is also interested in economic development of underprivileged women in developing countries. She has established the ‘Sustainable Development’ platform of Marmara Group Foundation in Istanbul, Turkey which has recently completed the prototype studies on Development of Women Entrepreneurs, focusing on improvement of self employment opportunities of women.
Earlier in her career Dr. Oktem had worked at Rohm and Haas Company where she managed large-scale product development and manufacturing processes in agricultural chemicals and has led corporate safety, health and environmental policy development as well as corporate SH&E group restructuring.
Dr. Oktem began her career as Associate Director of the Chemical Division of The Marmara Research Institute of Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey where she established an environmental research group and directly interacted with manufacturers and government authorities.
Dr. Oktem holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering.
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INTERESTS:
- Risk management
- Sustainable development
- Technology management
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Oktem, U., Meel, A., (2008). Near-Miss Management: A Participative Approach to Improving System Reliability, in Encyclopedia of quantitative risk Assessment and analysis, Melnick, E., and Everitt, B. (eds). John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Chichester, UK, pp 1154-1163
Meel, A., L. M. ONeill, W. D. Seider, U. Oktem, and N. Keren, “Operational Risk Assessment of Chemical Industries by Exploiting Accident Databases,” J. Loss Preven. Proc. Indust, 20, 113-127 (2007).
Meel, A., W. D. Seider, and U. Oktem, “Analysis of Management Actions, Human Behavior, and Process Reliability in Chemical Plants. I. Impact of Management Actions,” Proc. Safety Prog., in press, 2008.
A. Meel, L.M. ONeill, W.D. Seider, U. Oktem, N. Keren, “Frequency and Consequence Modeling of Rare Events Using Accident Databases”, AIChE 2006 National Symposium.
U. Oktem, F. Karakaya, “Sustainable Tourism: Cirali Case Study”, The New Social Entrepreneurship, Edited by F. Perrini, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006 (accepted for publication)
P. Kleindorfer, U. Oktem, “Assessment of Environmentally Sustainable Technologies as if Individuals Matter: And They Do!”, presented at The Fist UN Global Compact Academic Conference, June 2004
U. Oktem, P. Lewis, D.Donovan, J. Hagan, T. Pace EMS and Sustainable Development: A Model and Comparative Studies of Integration, Greener Management International, Vol. 46, pp.11-28, 2004
U. Oktem, “Near-Miss: A Tool for Integrated Safety, Health, Environmental and Security Management, 37th Annual AIChE Loss prevention Symposium, March 30 - April 3 2003.
J. Phimister, U. G. Oktem, P. Kleindorfer, H. Kunrether, “ Near-Miss Incident Management in the Chemical Process Industry, Risk Analysis, Vol. 23, No 3, pp.445-459, 2003
A. Muermann, U. Oktem, “The Near-Miss Management of Operational Risk”, The Journal of Risk Finance, Fall 2002, pp. 25-36.
Oktem, G. Ulku, “Using Interactive Multimedia Training in TQEM systems and applications”, Total Quality Environmental Management, Spring 1996, pp. 89-99.