Professor Josef Mittlemann ’72, P’00, P’04
Josef Mittlemann is currently Clinical Professor of Engineering, in the Division of Engineering at Brown University. He has been teaching at Brown since 2001. Before that he founded his own real estate development and management companies. He teaches and has created courses focusing on management and operations of business and non profit organizations, decision making, entrepreneurship and technology management and transfer, globalization and entrepreneurship (PRIME graduate seminar), engineering and entrepreneurship, land use and the built environment from an entrepreneurial perspective, social enterprise and late adolescent-early adult life/work transition. He was a main writer of the COE concentration at Brown. He received his MEd at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2000. His undergraduate degree is from Brown. He had been a Visiting Scholar at Brown in the Center for the Study of Human Development for a number of years prior to becoming a Visiting Fellow and then Adjunct Lecturer and Executive in Residence in the Division of Engineering.
In 2008, Mittlemann was awarded the Division of Engineering’s Inaugural “Engineering Impact Award” in “deep appreciation for his innovative teaching style, endless mentoring, and commitment to Brown Engineering.”
He has also been a finalist for the Hazeltine Senior Citation teaching award at Brown University as well as a winner of the Undergraduate Student Council Teaching Excellence Award.
Mittlemann chaired the Careers and Networks Committee of the BAA Board of Governors for a number of years and currently sits on the Board of the Entrepreneurship Program at Brown. He was one of the founders of Career Week at Brown. He has served as mentor and board member to a number of Brown student start-ups. He has won several alumni appreciation awards.
In December of 2004, Mittlemann became Chief Operating Officer of Silverstein Properties in New York, the leaseholder of the World Trade Center. While there, he also oversaw creating a private equity fund with CalStrs, the development of a 1.2million sq. ft. residential rental complex of buildings in New York and running the organization and creating a plan of sustainability.
With the framework announced by the Governors of New York and New Jersey and Mayor Bloomberg in April 2006, Mittlemann ended his affiliation with Silverstein Properties to return to teaching and research.
As part of his research interests, in 2006/7, Mittlemann took a three month sabbatical traveling throughout Japan, South Korea, China, Southeast Asia and Indonesia and meeting with educators, entrepreneurs, policy makers, students and artists to begin a detailed study of how entrepreneurship, higher education and contemporary art interact with each other and manifest themselves in the different locales visited in developing Asia. In December 2007 and January 2008 he completed a second month tour in India with a similar agenda.
Mittlemann is currently teaching and writing two books, one on “Land Use and the Built Environment: an Entrepreneurial View,” was just completed, which he used in his Fall 2008 class on Land Use. The other is on “Meaning and Purpose in the College Curriculum.” He lives in Providence with his wife, Marsy. His daughter Juliet, ’04 lives in Santa Monica and his son Justin, ’00 in London.
Education:
Brown University, 1972 BA, Honors
Harvard University, 2000 MEd
Scholarly Interests:
Entrepreneurship studies; management and technology; leadership in organizations; development of social enterprises; the psychosocial and cognitive development of late adolescents through early adulthood.
Recent Appointments, Service Activities and Awards:
2006 Recipient Brown University Certificate of Appreciation Award
2006 Keynote Speaker Economics and Entrepreneurship Forum Luncheon
2005 Recipient Brown University Spotlight Award
2004 UTRA sponsorship awarded for work on “Entrepreneurship and Good Work.”
2004 Member Brown University, Dean of the College Committee to further study and create the concentration known as COE.
2004 Member and Co-author, Brown University Provost’s Committee to study Commerce Organizations and Entrepreneurship at Brown University.
2004 Recipient of Brown University Alumni Spotlight award for Advising the Entrepreneurship Program
2004 Faculty Sponsor Brown University, Group Independent Study programs Spring 2004 and Fall 2004 on Urban and Suburban Development.
2003 – December, Recipient of Brown University Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award
2003 – May, Finalist, Senior Citation Award for Outstanding Teaching, Guidance and Support
2002-4 Adjunct Lecturer and Executive in Residence, Division of Engineering, Brown University; 2004-present Adjunct Professor, Division of Engineering, Brown University.
2002-2003 Recipient Brown University Alumni Appreciation Award
2001-2002 Visiting Fellow, Division of Engineering,Brown University.
2001-2005 Member, Board of Directors, The Glimpse Foundation
2002-present Member, Board of Directors, The Polaris Project
2000-2004 Member Board of Governors of the Brown Alumni Association;
2001-2004 Chairman of the Careers and Networking Committee for the BAA.
2001-present Annual Entrepreneurship Forum Event Moderator
2001-presentMember of the Entrepreneurship Program Board and Executive Committee
2001-present Co-founder, Co-chair Career Week program, Brown University
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Moderator Entrepreneurship Program Forum
1996-9 Visiting Scholar, Brown University. The Center for the Study of Human Development.
