Dr. Landaeta is an Assistant Professor in the department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering. He holds a M.S. in Engineering Management and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UNITEC, Venezuela. He has performed applied research for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Soldier, The U.S. Army Core of Engineers, Siemens-Westinghouse Power Generation, Walt Disney World-Information Technology, NASA-Kennedy Space Center, The National Centers for Systems of Systems Engineering, The Institute of Simulation and Training, and the Industrialized Housing Partnership of the U.S. Department of Energy.

In 2006, he received the Meritorious Service Award from the American Society for Engineering Management for Editing a Special Issue in the Engineering Management Journal. In 2008, he obtained the Batten College of Engineering and Technology Excellence in Teaching Award, and was nominated to the Old Dominion University Doctoral Mentoring Award.

Dr. Landaeta serves as an Associate Editor for the Engineering Management Journal and is the Faculty Advisor of both, the Student Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers at Old Dominion University and the Engineering Management Honor Society at Old Dominion University.

Dr. Landaeta's research articles have appeared in The International Journal of Learning and Human Capital, the International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, The Journal of Knowledge Management Research and Practice, and The Engineering Management Journal among others scholarly journals.

Dr. Landaeta's 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. 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 goals are to generate, transfer, and apply multi-disciplinary knowledge that addresses current and future continuous improvement challenges in knowledge-intensive organizations. His research interests include Project Management, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning, Crisis Management, Change Management, Technology and Innovation Management, Cooperative Learning, and the interconnection among these areas.