Lebanon Native To Head Qmm Program

2-29-96
University Park, Pa. --- Dr. Michael P. Hottenstein, a native of Lebanon, Pa., was named co-director of the Quality and Manufacturing Management Program, a new one-year graduate program offered jointly by Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration and the College of Engineering.

The Quality and Manufacturing Management graduate program will prepare middle-level managers to bring together collaborative teams of engineers, scientists and business managers whose common aim is customer-driven quality and whose focus is competitiveness.

The Penn State program offers an integration of business management, engineering design and manufacturing production skills and leads to a master of manufacturing management degree. The overall course work is practice-based and provides team projects based on case studies.

Dr. Hottenstein is professor of operations management and professor-in-charge of the manufacturing option of the MBA program of the Smeal College of Business Administration at Penn State. He also is associate director of the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change. His research on operations management and manufacturing has appeared in journals such as Operations Research and the Journal of Operations Management. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Operations Management and the Journal of High Technology Management Research.

Dr. Hottenstein also is a member of the Academy of Management, the Decision Sciences Institute and the Society for Manufacturing Engineers. His degrees are a B.S. in economics and business from Lebanon Valley College, an M.S. in business from Penn State and a D.B.A. from Indiana University.

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Contact:
Vicki Fong
(814) 865-9481 (office)
(814) 238-1221 (home)
vyf1@psu.edu

Gary Cramer
(814) 865-9481 (office)
(814) 231-0590 (home)
gwc104@psu.edu