Barton Named MMM Co-Director
Russell Barton, professor of supply chain and information systems at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been named co-director of the master's degree program in manufacturing management.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (July 24, 2006)—Russell Barton, professor of supply chain and information systems at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been named co-director of the master's degree program in manufacturing management.
Barton replaces Jeffrey Tew, clinical professor of supply chain and information systems, and represents Smeal in the Master of Manufacturing Management (MMM) degree program, which is administered jointly between Smeal and the College of Engineering. Jose Ventura, professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, represents the College of Engineering.
The MMM program integrates business, leadership, communication management, technology, and engineering into a two-semester master's degree curriculum.
Barton also serves as associate director of Smeal's Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change (CMTOC), where he's charged with increasing the research center's connections with industry and students in the MMM program.
Throughout his tenure at Penn State, Barton has received more than $1.5 million for research in statistical process control, the design of experiments, and computer simulation. He has worked with industry sponsors including Boeing, Fluke, Ford, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lucent, New-Holland and Xerox. He also teaches several courses in the QMM program.
More information on the Master of Manufacturing Management program is available at http://www.mmmdegree.psu.edu.
