There are 6 full-time faculty members teaching in the IPT department. Their combined professional and academic  expertise provides IPT students with rich learning experiences in their classrooms and help them improve their professional competencies. The 6 full-time faculty members are also academic advisors, and IPT students have opportunities to work closely with their academic advisors outside the classroom. The 6 full-time faculty members (academic advisors)'s main R&D projects are described below:

Dr. Don Stepich, the department chair, has extensive experiences and expertise in developing training as a strategy for improving the performance of individuals and organizations. This involves identifying the needs of the learners and the organization, specifying learning objectives directly linked to those needs, and devising training strategies that will achieve those objectives. His current academic interests include the development of professional expertise, how instruction can be used to facilitate the development of expertise, and the use of analogies as learning and teaching tools.

Dr. Seung Youn (Yonnie) Chyung has 15+ years of experience in developing e-learning programs and web-based performance support back-end database systems for improving organizational performance. Her research focus has been on investigations of the effectiveness of various factors in e-learning environments and the status of informal learning strategies in the workplace. Her recent research projects include - the current adoption status of 'Second Life' as a training and development tool; an investigation of factors that influence informal learning in the workplace;  assessing e-learning based modules for a freshman engineering class. She has authored a textbook titled, Foundations of Instructional and Performance Technology.

Dr. Linda Huglin worked for several years as a research and development engineer in the semiconductor industry before changing her focus to performance technology. Her previous experience in process improvement, particularly in the area of statistical process control, has been incorporated into courses taught in the IPT program. Current research interests include the analysis of patterns and trends in the HPT literature, as well as the role of adult cognitive development in student performance. 

Dr. Anthony Marker spent several years as a freelance consultant in the greater Boston area before moving into academia. He has served in several roles including principle technical writer, instructional designer and developer, project manager, and principal consultant. The projects he has worked on have included work in the telecommunication, financial, pharmaceutical, and government arenas. His research interests include identifying those current critical research gaps facing the field of Human Performance Technology, and examining organizational change issues that involve systemic cultural change.

Dr. Steve Villachica has consulted and worked in business, government, and non-profit settings for more than 25 years. As Chief Learning Officer of DLS Group, Inc., of Denver, Colorado, he collaborated with colleagues to create large-scale performance support systems, e-learning, instructor-led training, job aids, and a host of award-winning performance improvement solutions for pharmaceutical companies, law enforcement agencies, securities companies and regulators, the Intelligence Community, and others. His research interests include specifying employer expectations of entry-level instructional designers as well as identifying and leveraging organizational expertise.

Dr. Don Winiecki began as a technical and commercial illustrator and switched to designing computer-based and conventional training and technical documentation for corporate and military clients in the 1980s. His research and development work is now oriented to the use of ethnographic methods and the use of qualitative data in instructional and performance technology and social science, with a focus on critical needs assessments, analytic modeling and the representation of organizational and social systems. The goals of these R&D activities are to allow clients to know and understand their social environments in unique ways so they may develop strategies and interventions that both address existing problems and avoid future systemic problems.

IPT adjunct instructors also have extensive industry experiences in developing and implementing learning and performance support solutions in the industry. See their profiles.