Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Texas Tech University, 2005
Dr. Pilar Pazos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University. She received her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University (2005) in Industrial Engineering with a focus on Engineering Management and a minor in Applied Statistics from the Rawls College of Business. She earned her M.S. in Systems and Engineering Management from Texas Tech University in 2001, and her B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Vigo, Spain, in 1997.

Before joining Old Dominion she has worked in the areas of quality control, team learning and consulting in the areas of design of experiments, evaluation and measurement. Most recently, she was a Research Associate at Northwestern University with a joint position for the VaNTH Engineering Research Center and the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence. Part of her role involved design, research and evaluation of programs in Science and Engineering with the goal of improving student learning and retention. Her research interests include: Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning, Collaborative Learning, Group Decision Making and Performance, Virtual Teams, Team Dynamics, Engineering Education, Applied Statistics.