Dr. Landaeta is an assistant professor in the department of engineering management and systems engineering. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UNITEC, Venezuela. He received a M.S. in Engineering Management in 2000 and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering in 2003 from the University of Central Florida.  He was a member of the University of Central Florida's Management Systems Performance Laboratory in which he performed management systems applied research for SIEMENS-WESTINHOUSE, Walt Disney World-IT, and NASA-KSC.    Dr. Landaeta is a former member of the University of Central Florida’s Housing Constructability Laboratory in which he performed industrial engineering applied research for the Industrialized Housing Partnership of the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to join the academia he was a technical auditor for Empresas-Polar in Venezuela.

Dr. Landaeta's teaching philosophy is to proactively model behavior consistent with an ethical practicing educator. His teaching goal is to actively engage students in the processes of creating, applying, assimilating, and transferring useful and usable knowledge. He achieves his teaching goal by facilitating understanding of how theories, concepts, and tools can be fully or partially applied to the students' workplace and experience. His teaching vision is to be recognized by students as having made a positive impact in their lives through his knowledge facilitation. He uses the principles of cooperative learning and active learning to facilitate understanding and to build life long learning motivation and capabilities in his students.  

Dr. Landaeta's research philosophy is to be an excellent multi-disciplinary investigator. His research goal is to identify, create, apply, transfer, and validate multi-disciplinary knowledge that addresses current and future organizational and societal challenges. His research interests include Project Management, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning, Crisis Management, Change Management, Implementation of Technologies, and Cooperative Learning.