Dr. John Aje is the associate dean for academic affairs and collegiate professor at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Graduate School. He has also served as the program director of UMUC’s technology and engineering management programs, as well as chairman of that department. Under his leadership the UMUC graduate program in technology management became one of the largest and most recognized programs of its kind, both nationally and internationally. Under Dr. Aje’s stewardship, the department won a highly competitive bid to offer the UMUC engineering management program to NASA's engineers at the Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, was awarded a grant by the United States Department of Energy to develop the UMUC environmental management program, and published the peer-reviewed Journal of Technology Management, which had a worldwide circulation.

Dr. Aje is a nationally recognized technology and engineering management educator and professional. The Engineering and Technology Management Education and Research Council (ETMERC) recently appointed him its vice president for education. This organization’s members are heads of engineering and technology management departments and programs throughout the world. Dr. Aje is an invited member of the National Science Foundation Committee on Management of Technology Education, a proposal reviewer for National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers, a grants specialist referee for Hong Kong University and Polytechnic, and an external examiner for dissertations at Rand Afrikaans University in South Africa.

Dr. Aje is the former president of the Association of Science, Technology and Innovation. He is vice president and member of the executive board of the International Association for Management of Technology, and a member of the editorial board of Transactions on Engineering Management, the premier engineering management journal published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Aje is also a member of the board of examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Before joining UMUC, Dr. Aje taught at the George Washington University and was a laboratory manager and instructor at Howard University College of Medicine. Other professional experiences include several years as a research engineer at Monsanto Chemical Company and as a production chemist at Sigma Chemical Company.

Dr. Aje obtained his BS degree from Clemson University and his MS degree from North Carolina State University. He earned a Master of Engineering Management (MEM) and a DSc from the George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science.