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Faculty

The WPI Management faculty is dedicated to academic excellence through scholarship and teaching. Faculty approach the study of management from both theoretical and applications-oriented perspectives and use their courses as a forum for exploring traditional management principles and practices and current management topics. All distance learning courses are developed and taught by the same faculty who teach in our highly rated campus based programs.

For complete faculty list, please visit the Management Faculty Web site.

Michael B. Elmes - Professor

PhD, Syracuse University

Michael’s current research includes a Fulbright Scholarship entitled, “Helping to Understand Biotechnology’s Social and Cultural Impact.” His interests include workplace resistance and ideological control, the implementation of IT in organizations, organizations in the natural environment, narrative and aesthetic perspectives on organizational phenomena, and the psychodynamics of group and intergroup behavior.

Amy Z. Zeng - Associate Professor

PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Amy teaches courses in the areas of operations management, supply chain management, and business logistics at both graduate and undergraduate levels. She has been inducted to the following honor societies: The National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and The National Business Honor Society of Beta Gamma Sigma. Her research efforts focus on modeling and the analysis of decisions in supply and/or distribution networks; applications in operations research and operations management techniques; and global supply chain management and international business.

Erwin Danneels - Associate Professor

PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Erwin’s teaching focuses on commercialization of new technology. He has received three dissertation competition awards, including the Best Dissertation Proposal from the Product Development and Management Association. He has won a three-year National Science Foundation grant to conduct a large scale study of product innovation and growth in public US firms. His research includes the growth and renewal of corporations through product innovation, the characteristics of corporations with innovative new products, and the effects of innovative products on firm performance.

Sharon A. Johnson - Associate Professor

PhD, Cornell University

Sharon is Director of the Industrial Engineering Program and teaches courses in process management, facility layout and design, and production planning and control. She recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a laboratory for an introductory lean supply chain design course. She has developed teaching cases through funding from the National Consortium of Technology in Business and the AT&T Foundation. Her research interests include lean process design, enterprise engineering, process analysis and modeling, and reverse logistics.

 

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