Tennessee Tech University

General

• Passing of Bobby Langley
• Curtis Armstrong began as department chair in August 2007

Faculty Research

• Deborah Ballou and Brian Huguenard published in the American Conference on Information Systems 2007 proceedings (received honorable mention for Best Paper award), and the Journal of Information Systems Education.
• Bonita Barger and Nat Natarajan published in Academy of Educational Leadership Journal.
• Bonita Barger published in the Journal of Organizational Culture, Communications and Conflict.
• Tor Guimaraes published in the Quality Management Journal.
• Brian Huguenard and Jack Matson published in Journal of Statistics Education.
• Brian Jones published in the Global Information Technology Management Association Proceedings.
• Jack Matson published in Supply Chain Management and the Proceedings of the IERC.
• Christine Miller and Stuart Wells published in the Journal of Change Management.
• Ramachandran Natarajan published in the Proceedings of the 38 th National Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute
• Rodley Pineda, Linda Lerner and Bonita Barger published in the Proceedings of the Academy of International Business.
• Tom Timmerman published in the Journal of Education for Business and the Journal of Applied Psychology.
• Books published
• Tor Guimaraes published a chapter in two books: Comparing Expert Systems and Agent Technologies for KM and Enabling the Virtual Organization with Agent Technologies

Faculty, Staff and Student Awards

• Bonita Barger COBBOT Overall Outstanding Award
• Bonita Barger 2008 TBR Distance Education Committee Lana Doncaster Innovation Award
• Tom Timmerman received a SACS-QEP grant.

Community Service Activities

• Bonita Barger participated in a Case Study Competition at Oxford University in England.
• Mike Cowan played a pivotal role in securing the AACSB reaccreditation of the College of Business
• Tor Guimaraes was the keynote speaker at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Systems and Management held in Shanghai, China . Also with Gordon Davis, he chaired a session for MIS faculty and Ph.D. students titled How to be a Competent MIS Professional, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
• Christine Miller was the chair of the Academic Council and is the incoming president of the Faculty Senate.
• Ramachandran Natarajan taught a one-week course in Supply Chain Management to an MBA program in Bangalore, India and a one-week course on Quality Management in a Executive MBA program in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• Stuart Wells continued his role in the Computer Forensics Initiative.
• Tom Timmerman writes a regular column in the Business section of the Herald Citizen.