Jim Hamerly

Hi!  I live in southern California with my wife Peggy.  Peggy and I have been married for 37 years, and have four grown children. You can find out more about me (vocations, avocations, interests, some special projects) below.

My Vocations

Entrepreneurship, business, science, electrical engineering & computer science, parenting, husbanding, and now teaching, see below. I've changed my vocation about every five years, except for the parenting and husbanding part, that has been steady. Here is my resume, if you're interested in that sort of data.

My Avocations

I took a hiatus from the worlds of science, engineering, and business in 2001 to complete home-schooling my daughter Sue, my son Tim (two of four children) along with my wife Peggy, who is a real teacher.  Peggy was the brains in our school, I taught the math and science curriculum and attempted to provide rudimentary administrative control of the pupils.

Prompted by my older daughter Kim, I started teaching at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and at California State University at San Marcos (CSUSM). My specialty is teaching entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship (entrepreneurship within a large organization), for which I have about 30 years work experience. I also enjoy teaching a range of business subjects (see courses listed at right) with a definite technical and quantitative bent. It appears that my students enjoy my somewhat unorthodox teaching style.

Currently, I am Director of Business Community Relations for the College of Business Administration at CSUSM. Among other things, Ioversee the Senior Experience Program. 15 years, over 1,000 projects, 4500 students, and over 1,000,000 hours of community service make it a great program.

I also serve in the Faculty Mentoring Program, and act as faculty advisor to the Sigma Iota Epsilon, a National Honorary and Professional Society, and to The Jordan, a Christian-based service organization.

Community Service

I also serve on the Boards of several start-up companies, and do community service in several ways, as chairman of the Palomar Mountain Planning Organization and also serve on the Board of the Vista Chamber of Commerce. and cleanventure.org, a cleantech and renewable energy incubator. See also the Senior Experience Program, where we do about 100 community service projects per year. Among my interests and passions are several items listed below; be sure to check out my home building project. I am also very active in my church.

More fun stuff...

I enjoy doing things with my family, especially around our home. Make sure to check out my recently completed, all solar-powered, off-grid home building project, as well as my section on Palomar Mountain. I've always got dozens of "special projects" going. See, for example my growing of Sequoiadendron giganteum as part of my cap and trade agreement with Al Gore. You can also buy carbon credits directly from me here.

I also enjoy hiking and running, driving my very hip1985 Ford F250 and my 2001 Porsche.

 

Courses

Here are a few of the courses I teach or have recently taught:

Some of my recent students at UCSD (photo) and CSUSM (video).
 

Contacting Me:

Email:
jim at hamerly dot net
jhamerly at csusm dot edu.
jhamerly at ucsd dot edu
hamerly at alum dot mit dot edu