{"id":5569,"date":"2021-05-14T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/leadership\/?page_id=5569"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:01:22","slug":"samuel-lopez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/leadership\/about\/meet-the-team\/samuel-lopez\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Lopez, Jr., DBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/leadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2022\/10\/Sam-Lopez-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5915\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adjunct Instructional Professor<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:samuel.lopez@ufl.edu\">samuel.lopez@ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"clear:both\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Education: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>D.B.A., Doctorate in Business Administration, University of Florida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.S., Materials Science &amp; Engineering, University of North Florida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.B.A., University of Florida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.S., Business Administration, University of North Florida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.S., Electronics Engineering Technology, Florida A&amp;M University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sam Lopez is an Adjunct Instructional Professor with the Engineering Leadership Institute at the University of Florida. He is experienced as an Engineering Leader in New Product Development, with successful launches of multiple products for a leading medical device company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He completed a distinguished 24-year Naval career leading men and women in meeting objectives at both the team and organizational level. He received his Doctorate from the University of Florida and a Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of North Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute and a Certified ScrumMaster through Scrum Alliance, with additional certification as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjunct Instructional Professor Email: samuel.lopez@ufl.edu Education: Bio: Dr. Sam Lopez is an Adjunct Instructional Professor with the Engineering Leadership Institute at the University of Florida. He is experienced as an Engineering Leader in New Product Development, with successful launches of multiple products for a leading medical device company. He completed a distinguished 24-year Naval career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":0,"parent":3808,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-section-nav.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5569","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7953,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5569\/revisions\/7953"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}