Leo A. Mallette

Dr. Mallette is an adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University and the University of Phoenix’s doctoral program and was an Instructor of Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He is chair for many, and has graduated 29, doctoral students. Dr. Mallette retired after 39 years of managing satellite-system projects at The Aerospace Corporation, Boeing, and Hughes Aircraft Company. He received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Central Florida and the MBA and EdD (in organizational leadership, with honors) degrees from Pepperdine University.

Dr. Mallette has published 76 conference and 14 peer-reviewed journal articles on atomic frequency standards, satellite systems, ground stations, root-cause investigation, academic-genealogy, organizational ethics, and publishing. He is the author or co-author of the books: Dissertation Fundamentals for the Social Sciences (3rd edition, 2017), Writing for Conferences (Greenwood, 2011), The SPELIT Power Matrix (CreateSpace, 2007), The Rancho Mirage Matchbook Company (3rd edition, 2019), Images of America: Rancho Mirage (Arcadia Publishing, 2011), and the Princess Avocado (2012) series of children’s e-books.

He and his wife Kathy live in Rancho Mirage California. They have one daughter and two granddaughters. He enjoys his granddaughters, gardening projects, traveling, and woodworking.