Department of Decision
Sciences and Management

Announcements/Recognitions

2007-2008 was a very successful year for our faculty and students. Below is a summary of their successes.

General

•  Passing of Bobby Langley

•  Curtis Armstrong began as department chair in August 2007

Faculty research

•  Deborah Ballou and Brian Huguenard published in the American Conference on Information Systems 2007 proceedings (received honorable mention for Best Paper award), and the Journal of Information Systems Education.

•  Bonita Barger and Nat Natarajan published in Academy of Educational Leadership Journal.

•  Bonita Barger published in the Journal of Organizational Culture, Communications and Conflict.

•  Tor Guimaraes published in the Quality Management Journal.

•  Brian Huguenard and Jack Matson published in Journal of Statistics Education.

•  Brian Jones published in the Global Information Technology Management Association Proceedings.

•  Jack Matson published in Supply Chain Management and the Proceedings of the IERC.

•  Christine Miller and Stuart Wells published in the Journal of Change Management.

•  Ramachandran Natarajan published in the Proceedings of the 38 th National Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute

•  Rodley Pineda, Linda Lerner and Bonita Barger published in the Proceedings of the Academy of International Business.

•  Tom Timmerman published in the Journal of Education for Business and the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Books published

•  Tor Guimaraes published a chapter in two books: “Comparing Expert Systems and Agent Technologies for KM” and “Enabling the Virtual Organization with Agent Technologies”

Faculty, staff and student awards

•  Bonita Barger – COBBOT Overall Outstanding Award

•  Bonita Barger – 2008 TBR Distance Education Committee Lana Doncaster Innovation Award

•  Tom Timmerman received a SACS-QEP grant.

Community service activities

•  Bonita Barger participated in a Case Study Competition at Oxford University in England.

•  Mike Cowan played a pivotal role in securing the AACSB reaccreditation of the College of Business

•  Tor Guimaraes was the keynote speaker at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Systems and Management held in Shanghai, China . Also with Gordon Davis, he chaired a session for MIS faculty and Ph.D. students titled “How to be a Competent MIS Professional”, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

•  Christine Miller was the chair of the Academic Council and is the incoming president of the Faculty Senate.

•  Ramachandran Natarajan taught a one-week course in Supply Chain Management to an MBA program in Bangalore, India and a one-week course on Quality Management in a Executive MBA program in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

•  Stuart Wells continued his role in the Computer Forensics Initiative.

•  Tom Timmerman writes a regular column in the Business section of the Herald Citizen.