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The Management Science department at the Moore School of Business consists of faculty and students engaged in research, teaching, and service related activities in the three distinct fields of Decision Analysis (DA), Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM), and Management of Information Systems (MIS).  It supports both undergraduate as well as graduate education in these fields, with a Ph.D. being currently offered in OSCM and MIS.  Doctoral graduates from the Management Science program are currently working as faculty members at well regarded institutions such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Delaware, and Florida State University, among others.
 
A strong research tradition has driven the scholarly activities of the department. In a recent study that ranked the research productivity of business schools internationally (Trieschmann, J. S., Dennis, A. R., Northcraft, G. B., and Niemi, A. W. "Serving Multiple Constituencies in the Business School: MBA Program versus Research Performance," Academy of Management Journal, December, 2000, 43:6, 1130-1141) and its extension (http://www.kelley.indiana.edu/ardennis/rankings/), the operations and supply chain management group was ranked third during 1986-1998 and fourth during 1997-2001; while the MIS group was ranked eighth during both 1986-1998 and 1998-2001 period.  The Management Science department research productivity has been ranked 35th worldwide for the period 1990-2006 (http://citm.utdallas.edu/utdrankings/), as evidenced by publications in the prestigious journals that cover the top-tier analytical as well as empirical research outlets in the areas of OSCM and MIS. The international prestige and reputation of the department is further evidenced by the fact that one or more of its faculty members have won discipline-wide research awards, delivered keynote addresses at international conferences, and have served on or are currently serving on the editorial review boards of well regarded journals such asDecision Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IIE Transactions, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of the Association of Information Systems (JAIS), MIS Quarterly, MIS Quarterly Executive, and Production and Operations Management Journal, among others.
 
A commitment to excellence in teaching by the department faculty is demonstrated by awards that include the Mungo Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award at the University level, a Fulbright Scholarship at Xiamen University in China, the Alpha Chapter of Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award, the Alfred G. Smith Jr. Excellence in Teaching Award, the Moore School of Business Master Teacher Award, Wickham Skinner Teaching Innovation Award from Production and Operations Management Society, and several college-wide teaching awards given by students in recognition of teaching excellence in the International MBA program.

 

The external activities of the department include service to both professional as well as business organizations.  The program for the 36th International Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute in San Francisco in 2005 (DSI 2005 Annual Meeting ) was chaired and conducted by the Management Science faculty. Three of its faculty members have served as the President of the Mid-Carolina Chapter of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) over the past twenty years, while another has served as the President of the Decision Sciences Institute. 

 

As part of its collaborative outreach work with industry and practicing managers, the Center for Global Supply Chain and Process Management (GSCPM) was established in 2005.  Under the auspices of the GSCPM Center, consulting projects have been undertaken over the course of years by the department faculty and Moore School graduate students with member firms such as Sonoco, Capsugel Division of Pfizer, and Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Division, among others.  These Center activities and other related initiatives have contributed directly to improving supply chain operations and processes in numerous manufacturing and service organizations.