Eric Weisel, PhD, is Associate Vice President for Applied Research at Old Dominion University and Executive Director at ODU’s Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center, an applied research center focusing on innovation, workforce development, and industry engagement programs leading to digital transformation. He serves on the Boards of Directors for the Society for Modeling & Simulation International and the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing and teaches courses at ODU in Engineering Management and Computational Modeling and Simulation Engineering.