Julie Fortune, Ph.D., P.E., CSEP

Senior Technical Director, Parsons Technical Fellow, Parsons Board Member, Parsons Fellows Board of Directors

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville, AL 35899
Campus Map

Biography

Julie L. Fortune, Ph.D., P.E., CSEP is a Senior Technical Director and a Technical Fellow at Parsons. She also serves on the Parsons Fellows Board of Directors. Dr. Fortune supports the Missile Defense Agency in the area of system engineering including the system design and specification group. She is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) and recently obtained her Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification from INCOSE. 

Dr. Fortune has more than 25 years of experience in applying systems engineering to scientific and engineering fields. Her expertise spans the Department of Defense, NASA, and private industry projects. She has served as an adjunct assistant professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, teaching undergraduate and graduate engineering courses as well as serving on master's degree and doctoral committees. Dr. Fortune has authored and contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and books. 

Education

  • Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2005
  • M.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2002
  • B.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2001
  • B.S., Biochemistry, University of Missouri, 1987

Affiliations

  • International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

Honors & Awards

  • Parsons Fellow
  • Parsons Engineer Award of Excellence, 2017
  • Best Paper Finalist, American Society for Engineering Management, 2004
  • Outstanding Student Paper, American Society for Engineering Management, 2003
  • Tau Beta Pi Fellow, 2002-2003
  • National Defense Industry Award Winner
  • Phoenix Award, National Chemistry Week

Expertise

  • Engineering Management
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD)
  • Operations Research
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Requirements Development
  • Statistical Analysis
  • System of Systems Engineering
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Integration

Recent Publications

  • Newnan, D. G., Lavelle, J. P., & Eschenbach, T. G. (2009, 2014). Engineering Economic Analysis. (10th and 12th ed.). Oxford University Press. 

    Book contributions:

    • Created 36 short tutorials showing how to use Excel to solve engineering economy problems
    • Added 20 additional tutorials in 2014

  • White, J. A., Grasman, K. S., Case, K. E., Needy, K. L. S., & Pratt, D. B.  (2014, 2017). Fundamentals of Engineering Economic Analysis. 1st and 2nd ed.). Wiley.

    Book contributions:

    • Created online tutorials to show students how to work problems and coding of online problems with algorithmic solutions
    • Serves as a subject matter expert to evaluate errors found in the text and online tutorials

  • (2012). A Guide to the Engineering Management Body of Knowledge (EMBOK). (3rd Ed.). Hiral Shah. American Society of Engineering Management.

    Book contribution:

    • Wrote the teaming section of Domain 2:  Leadership and Organizational Management in conjunction with Suzanna Long (MUST) and Jerry Westbrook (Consultant)

  • Montgomery, D & Runger, G. (2011). Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers. (5th Ed.). Wiley.

    Book contribution

    • Created online tutorials to show students how to work problems in storyboard format

  • White, J. A., Case, K. E., & Pratt, D. B. (2012). Principles of Engineering Economic Analysis (5th ed.). Wiley.

    Book contribution:

    • Created online tutorials to show students how to work problems in both storyboard and Camtasia-captured audio/video
    • Serves as a subject matter expert to evaluate errors found in the text and online tutorials

  • Cara Stein, Letha Etzkorn, Sampson Gholston, Phillip Farrington, Dawn Utley, Glenn Cox & Julie Fortune (2009) SEMANTIC METRICS: METRICS BASED ON SEMANTIC ASPECTS OF SOFTWARE, Applied Artificial Intelligence, 23:1, 44-77, DOI: 10.1080/08839510802573574

  • Sandra Carpenter, Harry Delugach, Letha Etzkorn, Julie Fortune, and Dawn Utley, "How Instructional Format (Voice and Modality) Influences Subsequent Performance: An Empirical Study", Intl. Jour. of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2013, pp.59-65.

  • Sandra Carpenter, Harry Delugach, Letha Etzkorn, Phillip Farrington, Julie Fortune, Dawn Utley, and Shamsnaz Virani, "The Effect of Shared Concepts on Student Team Performance," Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 96, No. 3, July 2007, pp. 227-238

  • C. S. Gall, S. Lukins., L. Etzkorn, S. Gholston, P. Farrington, D. Utley, J. Fortune, S. Virani. "Semantic Software Metrics Computed from Natural Language Design Specifications," IET Software, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2008, pp.17-26

  • Sandra Carpenter, Harry Delugach, Letha Etzkorn, Phillip Farrington, Julie Fortune, Dawn Utley, Shamsnaz Virani. "A Knowledge-Modeling Approach to Evaluating Student Essays in Engineering Courses," Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 96, No. 3, July 2007, pp. 227-239