Rate My Professor Rebecca Giorcelli

Dr. Rebecca Giorcelli serves as Chair of Marketing and Management Studies and Professor of Information Systems Management at Fairmont State University within the College of Business and Aviation. She instructs undergraduate courses in project management for the Information Systems Management program and graduate-level operations management and data analytics courses in the Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Cybersecurity and Risk Management programs. A dedicated educator, Giorcelli has pioneered online course delivery and curriculum enhancements, including leading the revision of the Information Systems program into Information Systems Management in 2010. Her commitment to teaching excellence earned her a top five finalist position for the 2025 West Virginia Professor of the Year Award from the Faculty Merit Foundation, the Region 2 Teaching Excellence Award from the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs, the Innovation in Teaching Award for 2010-2011, and the Recognition of Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award in 2010. She holds certifications as a Certified Expert in Cyber Investigations from the McAfee Institute, multiple data analytics certificates, and serves as a certified program evaluator for ACBSP. Additionally, she advises the Delta Mu Delta International Honor Society in Business Administration.

Giorcelli obtained her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University, marking her as the first female WVU graduate to earn a Ph.D. in the field. Before joining Fairmont State in 2005 as Assistant Professor of Information Systems, she accumulated over a decade of industry experience as a Research Engineer in the Division of Safety Research at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health from 1995 to 2001 and as Senior Scientist and Operations Research Branch Supervisor at the Institute for Scientific Research, Inc., from 2001 to 2005. Her research focuses on information systems education, technical project management, requirements elicitation and management, and earlier work in ergonomics and human factors. She has secured over $525,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium, and West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, serving as Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded ACCELERATE project on computing curricula and developing the NASA-funded SPACE course. Key publications include "A comprehensive program for expanding pathways to IT careers" (2007), "Curriculum Decisions: Assessing and Updating IS Curriculum" (2008), "Fostering Independent Learners of Information Systems in the 21st Century Through Integrated Educational Technologies" (2009), and "Accuracy of a System for Measuring Three-Dimensional Torso Kinematics during Manual Materials Handling" (2004). She is a founding member of the Undergraduate Research Advisory Council and reviews for various undergraduate research programs.