Stenger To Hold Inaugural Visiting Professorship In New Zealand
Alan J. Stenger, professor of supply chain management in Penn State's Smeal College of Business, will be on leave for the 2006-2007 academic year while he serves as Ports of Auckland Visiting Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the University of Auckland Business School in Auckland, New Zealand. Stenger will be the first visiting holder of this new position.
Stenger To Hold Inaugural Visiting Professorship In New Zealand
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (May 9, 2006)—Alan J. Stenger, professor of supply chain management in Penn State's Smeal College of Business, will be on leave for the 2006-2007 academic year while he serves as Ports of Auckland Visiting Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the University of Auckland Business School in Auckland, New Zealand. Stenger will be the first visiting holder of this new position.
Stenger, who joined the Smeal faculty in 1972, is currently on the faculty in the Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems and serves as associate director of the college's Center for Supply Chain Research. With expertise in areas such as supply chain planning and design, inventory planning and management, and fleet sizing and scheduling, Stenger has published widely and engaged in numerous educational and consulting activities in the United States and internationally. Previously, he received two successive Fulbright Senior Specialist awards for work with the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland.
He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and an MBA in quantitative methods from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in logistics and transportation from the University of Minnesota.
The University of Auckland Business School, part of New Zealand's leading research-led university, is focused on developing a world-class international business school, which addresses the needs of New Zealand business and the economy in a global context.
It is the first New Zealand business school to be concurrently accredited by AACSB International, the European Quality Improvement System, and the Association of MBAs. The school has an international academic staff of more than 230 and an enrollment of more than 7,500 students in its undergraduate, postgraduate and graduate (executive) programs.
The Ports of Auckland is New Zealand's largest maritime gateway for trade and is New Zealand's biggest container port. The Ports of Auckland Limited is located in New Zealand's largest city and most heavily populated region. It provides shipping links to 207 ports in 70 countries and operates New Zealand's largest inland port network and its most sophisticated rail exchange facility.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
