Sue Abdinnour, Ph.D.

Advisory Board Memberships, 2001 - present

• Member of the Kansas Manufacturers Network advisory board, Wichita, Kansas, 2005-present
• Member of the Project Management advisory board, Center of Management Development, Wichita, KS, 2005-2008
• Member of the Health Management advisory board, Center of Management Development, Wichita, KS, 2007-2008
• Member of the Barton School of Business advisory board as chairperson of the FREDS department, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 2001-2004

Masters' Thesis Committee, 2005 - 2008

• "Assembly Line Design Application," Hendry Gunawan, Masters in Computer Science, Wichita State University, 2007-2008
• "RFID in the Supply Chain, Olena Awan," Masters in Industrial Engineering, Wichita State University, 2006-2007
• "Online Database Value Chain Research," Vikram Maripeddi, Masters in Computer Science, Wichita State University, 2005-2006

Service Activities at Wichita State University, 2003 – present

• Member of the university-wide Academic Affairs Committee, 2010-2011.
• Member of a mentorship program for International MBA students, 2010-2011.
• Member of the Student Rating and Teacher Evaluation Committee, 2009-2011.
• Mentored adjuncts on teaching the undergraduate Operations Management course, 2009-2011.
• Member of the university-wide Academic Affairs Committee, 2010.
• Led a focus group of professionals to discuss the EMBA Operations management course, 2010.
• Mentored adjuncts on teaching the undergraduate Operations Management course, 2010.
• Recruited and hired an adjunct to teach Operations Management, 2010-2011.
• Member of the Barton school Faculty Affairs Committee, 2008-2010.
• Advised graduate students regarding the MBA Operations concentration, 2006-2011.
• Presented the Operation Management minor in the Introduction to Business classes, 2006-2010.
• Chaired Assessment for the Operation Management core course, 2006-2011.
• Provided references for undergraduate and graduate students, as requested, 2003-2011.
• Updated the Decision Sciences website, FREDS department, 2009.
• Chaired the Untenured Faculty Review Committee for the FREDS Department, 2005-2009.
• Volunteered in the Distinguished Scholarship Invitational, WSU, 2009.
• Member of the Dean Search Committee for the Barton School of Business, 2007-2008.
• Chaired a proposal for joint certificate program with the Industrial Engineering department entitled "Enterprise Systems and Supply Chain Management" that integrates SAP in the curriculum. 2007-2008.
• Designed Master Certificate in Operations Management for the Center of Management development, 2006-2008.
• Chaired the Tenure and Promotion Committee for the FREDS Department, 2006-2008.
• Developed several courses for the Center of Management Development, 2005-2008.
• Participated in a university-wide panel to discuss department chair roles, 2006.
• Participated in a panel to discuss internationalizing the curriculum, 2006.
• Served as FREDS representative on the Graduate Programs Committee, 2004-2005.
• Participated in a university-wide Information Technology Advisory Committee, 2003-2005.
• Participated in a university-wide Faculty Advisory Council for Global Learning, 2003-2005.
• Revised the Operations Management concentration in the MBA, 2004-2005.
• Revised all Decision Sciences courses for the new catalogue, 2004-2005.
• Updated the Decision Sciences website, 2004.
• Wrote a proposal for an Operations Management minor, 2004.

Finance, Real Estate, and Decision Sciences (FREDS) Department Chairperson Activities at Wichita State University, 2001 – 2004

• Served on the Executive Committee of the Barton School of Business.
• Recruited and hired two tenure track MIS faculty in 2004
• Recruited and hired two tenure track Finance faculty in 2004
• Recruited and hired one full time BLAW instructor in 2004
• Recruited and hired two MIS faculty in 2002 (one was unable to attend).
• Recruited and hired one full time MIS instructor in 2001
• Recruited and hired one Administrative Assistant in 2003
• Recruited and hired one Administrative Assistant in 2002
• Made extensive efforts to identify and recruit good lecturers (adjuncts) in difficult areas such as Finance, MIS, Operations Management, and BLAW
• Coordinated a review of all the curricula in FREDS department at the undergraduate and graduate levels
• Carefully reviewed, with my department, the dean proposal to move MIS from FREDS to the Accounting department
• Submitted a proposal to revise the MIS curriculum to the college dean and facilitated its actual revision in 2003
• Obtained the Microsoft and the Oracle Academic Agreements for the FREDS department to allow students, especially MIS students, access to professional developer software
• Secured funding for a server to provide an efficient on-line distribution system of the Microsoft development software to students
• Developed a survey to be sent out to all students who graduated from our MIS program to solicit feedback about their experience with our program
• Turned the old copy center in the Barton School of Business to a mini lab to be used by faculty, students and graduate assistants in the FREDS department. Installed a code entry system to the lab in 2003
• Designed a Faculty Board with pictures and bios of FREDS department faculty. Posted the board outside the FREDS office
• Established a faculty allowance for productive junior faculty in the FREDS department to help them with research related expenses.
• Initiated talks with the Industrial Engineering (IE) department to identify opportunities for collaboration with the Decision Sciences area in the School of Business
• Documented office processes and put systems in place to improve office operations and cut costs
• Coordinated the development of the new department web site http://webs.wichita.edu/freds
  Wrote official letters to be sent along with brochures about the different programs in the department
• Initiated the switch of teaching the undergraduate Database course from using Access to using a more enterprise level database. We experimented with Oracle and Microsoft SQL and decided to go with the latter in 2003. This continued to date
• Updated the hardware and the software in the department on a regular basis

Service Activities at Wichita State University, 2001-2004

• Conducted a thorough revision of the Decision Sciences undergraduate and graduate courses
• Introduced new Decision Science courses on current topics, such as ERP/SAP
• Introduced an Operations Management concentration in the MBA program
• Participated in the University Information Technology Strategic Planning Committee
• Served on the Assessment Committee, Barton School of Business
• Served on a university search committee for the Boeing Professor of Global Learning
• Wrote a proposal for Operations Management to be a core course in the MBA program
• Finalized the proposal and signing the contract to make Wichita State University a member of the SAP Alliance
• Participated in a college Barton School of Business Research Roundtable on writing summer research grants

Service Activities at Wichita State University, 2000

• Served on the Dean Search Committee for the Barton School of Business
• Served on a search committee to hire an Operations Management faculty in the FREDS department, Barton School of Business
• Served on a search committee to hire a Finance faculty in the FREDS department, Barton School of Business
• Screened and interviewed all potential candidates for the Operations Management position at the November 1999 National Decision Science Institute Meeting in New Orleans
• Served on a task force committee to discuss potential directions that the Barton School of Business can take regarding the topic of e-business
• Served on the Assessment Committee, Barton School of Business
• Provided assistance to the Child Development Center of Wichita State University on ways to improve their operations and redesign their fee structure
• Wrote the final version of the proposal to make Wichita State University a member of the SAP Alliance Program
• Made a presentation about SAP at the November faculty meeting
• Made a more detailed presentation about SAP at the December teaching brown bag. Developed a web page that interested faculty and staff can access after the presentation
• Co-chaired the Research Brown Bag for the Barton School of Business and organized the delivery of two panel sessions and two presentations:
   ~  Panel: How to get tenure at Wichita State University
   ~  Panel: How to write a winning summer research proposal
   ~  Presentation: Structural Equation Modeling
   ~  Presentation: Complexity Theory
• Was interviewed by a Media Resource Center team about my views on research and teaching. Excerpts of the interview appeared in a video designed for the Honors Convocation ceremony and the publication Inside WSU, vol. 16, no. 12, March 2, 2000
• Was interviewed by a reporter from Iowa about my research on “Genetic Algorithms.” The article appeared in the Des Moines Business Record, November 15, 1999

Service Activities at Wichita State University, 1999

• Served on a search committee for the MIS Chaired position in the FREDS department
• Served on the Assessment Committee, Barton School of Business
• Made a presentation to the faculty of the Barton School of Business entitled “Importance of Operations Management in the Core Curriculum”
• Shared and discussed information about SAP, which I gathered from the Decision Science Conference in November 1998, with colleagues in the Barton School of Business
• Wrote the preliminary proposal to make Wichita State University a member of the SAP Alliance Program
• Was interviewed by the Barton School of Business reporter about my research. The article appeared in the Kansas Economic Report, fall 1999 Volume XXVIIII, No. 3

Service Activities at University of Wisconsin-River Falls, 1994-1998

• Wrote a detailed proposal for a technology grant to fund a Multimedia Computer Lab for the School of Business & Economics. I was primarily responsible for implementing all phases of the project
• Took part in the decision to acquire a Group Decision Support System, Group Systems by Ventana Corporation, and helped install it in the computer lab. Facilitated some meetings within the University and for outside groups using the new system
• Served on several committees, including a campus wide Information Technology committee and an MIS curriculum development committee
• Developed two new courses in the Information Systems area: The Computer in Business (became required of all business majors) and Multimedia on the Internet (business elective)
• Conducted three workshops on using different software to faculty and staff on campus during the UWRF Professional Development Conference
• Delivered presentations on Information technology issues to the members of the River Falls Area Chamber of Commerce, and to other groups visiting the campus

Professional Services

Articles Reviews 1995-Present

Ad hoc reviewer for the following journals

• Production and Inventory Management Journal
• Decision Support Systems
• European Journal of Operational Research
• International Journal of Production Economics
• European Journal of Information Systems
• Omega Journal
• Decision Sciences Journal
• Computers and Operations Research
• Journal of Management
• Location Science
• Business Education Review
• International Journal of Operations & Production Management
• Geographical Analysis

Book Reviews 1995-2008

• "Operations Management", Webex Discussion for Heizer Book, 2008
• "Teaching Practices in Operations Management", Multiple Book Publishers, 2007
• "VBA for Modelers", Thompson Publishing, 2005
• "Operations Management", Prentice Hall, 2004(Offered direct input to author)
• "Enterprise Resource Planning", Irwin-McGrawHill, 2002
• "SimQuick Simulation", Prentice Hall, 1999
• "Best Business Practices (prospectus)", South-Western Publishing Company, 1998
• "Operations Management (proposal)", South-Western Publishing Company, 1997
• "New Perspectives on Computer Concepts (Course Presenter)", Course Technology, 1997
• "Production and Operations Management", Heizer and Render, Prentice Hall, 1997
• "Introduction to Management Science", Pentico, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1995

Conference Reviews, Session Chair, Discussant 1995-Present

• Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting
• International Conference of Information Systems
• Institute for Operation Research and Management Science