Robert D. Crangle

102 East Lincoln Avenue
Lincoln, Kansas, 67455-0285
(785) 524-3130, rcltd@nckcn.com

Group facilitation; university, government and nonprofit operations; strategy and planning; law; program and project evaluation; enterprise management and entrepreneurship

Since 1984--ROSE & CRANGLE, LTD
Management consulting practice. Emphasis on program evaluation, planning and facilitation services for academic, governmental, and NGO institutions.

Since 1987--METZ AND CRANGLE, CHTD
General law practice. Focus on businesses, non-profits and civil litigation.

1984-1987--ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Stuart School of Business Administration (information systems faculty). Charter director of Center for Research on Industrial Strategy and Policy. Developed the first graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship programs.

1969-1984--HARBRIDGE HOUSE, INC.
International consulting firm. Planning and evaluation, training, human resources, juridical services, finance and federal regulations.

1969--HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
J.D., science and public policy emphasis

1966--KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
B.S., nuclear engineering

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While Bob was earning his BS in Nuclear Engineering from Kansas State University and a law degree from Harvard, he spent eight consecutive summers either with IBM or with the Missouri Geological Survey. His four summers with IBM were in field systems engineering work. His four summers with the Missouri Survey (Water Resources Division) were spent in the field, locating the tops of wells drilled by members of the Missouri Water Well Drillers Association. Apart from field trips with his father, whose career was with the U.S. Geological Survey, this was his introduction to the earth sciences.

Bob's senior thesis at Harvard Law School, for Professor Henry Kissinger, was entitled "New Methodologies of National Intelligence". A good bit of this project dealt with remote sensing from aircraft and satellites, and the associated data processing and data base issues. Later, after joining Harbridge House in Boston, his first competitive research contract was won from the Office of Water Resources Research (Department of Interior) to study water institutions in, and water law impacts on, east coast cities. During much of his time with Harbridge House he specialized in federal government operations, and especially in federal grant and contract management.

Bob was recruited from Harbridge House in 1984 to join the information systems faculty of the business school at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was also named the founding Director of the Center for Research on Industrial Strategy and Policy at IIT, with emphasis on computer-assisted manufacturing and engineering in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

Since moving his family to Kansas for personal and life-style reasons in 1987, he has added the practice of law to his continued work as a management consultant. His experience in facilitating planning meetings, and in providing program or organizational evaluations, has been applied in many scientific and technical venues for many diverse universities, associations, and foundations.

He continues to facilitate five or six sessions of the National Science Foundation's Program Managers' Seminar (which he personally developed for NSF in the 1970's) each year. For many years he led multiple sessions of workshops for both administrative and staff officers of the National Academy of Sciences complex.

He has facilitated planning sessions for the Council of Sea Grant College Directors, the board of the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union, the U.S. National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Interagency Coordinating Committee, the GEO and Engineering Directorates of the NSF, the Institute of Medicine, the community that planned the new South Pole Station Design (now under construction), the University of Alaska's Remote Sensing/Data Management Initiative, the Board of Directors of the Burroughs Welcome Fund, the faculty of Duquesne University's Bayer School of Natural & Environmental Sciences, the deans reporting to the Provost for the University at Albany, and so forth

His substantive knowledge of science, technology and educational systems has been also reflected in the external evaluation projects conducted either alone or as a team member. For instance, he was on teams that evaluated the non-medical research capabilities of the University of Arizona; the Oklahoma Mesonet; the Center for Coastal Studies in Charleston, SC; and the IT based South Dakota Virtual Center for Biocomplexity Studies

During his career he has been recognized for both his knowledge and his skills. In 1969 he was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts, and in 1974 to the bar in Illinois. In 1980 he qualified to become a Certified Management Consultant through the Institute of Management Consultants. In 1985 he was awarded the Meritorious Public Service Award from NSF by then-Director Erich Bloch. In 1987 he was admitted to the bar in Kansas. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and since 2001 he has been on the AAAS Research Competitiveness Service Advisory Board.