A strong engineering background distinguishes Olin faculty members in Operations and Manufacturing Management. Our Operations and Manufacturing Management research focuses on a broad spectrum of issues, especially areas with strategic and tactical implications, and involves mathematical models that help analyze problems and provide insight into complex scenarios.
Our collaborative atmosphere is evident in many aspects of the program. Doctoral students work closely with faculty on research projects that study real-world supply chain management problems faced by managers in manufacturing and service corporations. The Boeing Center for Technology, Information and Manufacturing (BCTIM), a collaboration between industry and academia focused on technology and its impact on the management of operations. This active center greatly contributes to the OMM experience through research, enriched teaching and learning activities.
Program Overview
Faculty members emphasize the use of modeling techniques to understand manufacturing and service environments in areas of research ranging from supply chain management, operations strategy and revenue management to supply contracts and effective uses of information technology for process re-engineering.
Year 1
- Required microeconomics courses (2 semesters)
- Required econometrics courses (1 semester)
- Required courses in quantitative methods (2 semesters)
- Required courses in stochastic processes (2 semesters)
Years 2 & 3
- Operations and Manufacturing Management PhD seminars (one full semester and one mini each year) topics vary depending on mix of enrolled students in program.
- Operations and Manufacturing Management Comprehensive Exam (typically end of Year 2).
- Research paper for potential conference and journal publication submission (end of Year 3).
- Students meet frequently with their adviser, and two-three times a year with their committee overall.
Year 4
- Concentration-specific seminars (one per year) topics vary depending on mix of enrolled students in program.
- Work with faculty as teaching assistant on teaching methods and techniques including opportunities to guest lecture in courses and run tutorial and review sessions.
- Participate in brown bag lunch seminars and regularly scheduled seminars as part of Olin’s BCTIM series.
- Complete and defend dissertation (could extend to a fifth year).
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