Kayed Akkawi. Ph.D., is dean of the Morris Graduate School of Management at Robert Morris University. He holds a doctorate in computer science and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Dr. Akkawi has extensive teaching experience at the graduate level. His professional projects have included developing a natural language interface for information retrieval and a search engine for accessing large-scale databases, as well as designing a toolkit to measure retrieval accuracy for bilingual information. Dr. Akkawi serves as chair of the educational committee for the Chicago-Amman International Sister Cities Program.