DEPARTMENT: Industrial Engineering
POSITION: Hefley Professor of Logistics and Entrepreneurship
LINK: cassady@uark.edu
Hefley
Professor of Logistics and Entrepreneurship
Department of
Industrial Engineering
University of
Arkansas
The Department
of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas invites applications
and nominations for the James M. Hefley and Marie G. Hefley Professorship in
Logistics and Entrepreneurship, with an anticipated start date of August 2015.
Candidates with exceptional track records in scholarship and external funding
in the area of logistics, as well as outstanding teaching at the undergraduate
and graduate levels, are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will be
a nationally prominent scholar, with credentials that warrant appointment at
the full professor level. In addition, the successful candidate will
demonstrate the potential to provide academic leadership in the areas of
logistics and entrepreneurship. An endowment will provide the successful
candidate with significant resources to continue and further the scholar’s
contributions to teaching, research and public service.
The department’s
research agenda is supported by the National Science Foundation Center for
Excellence in Logistics and Distribution (celdi.ineg.uark.edu), the Center for Innovation in
Healthcare Logistics (cihl.uark.edu), and the Maritime Transportation
Research and Education Center (martrec.uark.edu). The department is ranked among the
best graduate programs in industrial/manufacturing/systems engineering by US
News and World Report. Information about the department can be found at ineg.uark.edu.
The University
of Arkansas was recently recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education
as being the nation’s seventh-fastest-growing public research university. The
university is located in the city of Fayetteville within the Northwest Arkansas
metropolitan area. A fast-growing region having a population of over 400,000,
Northwest Arkansas is home to the corporate headquarters of Fortune 500
companies Wal-Mart Stores, Tyson Foods and J.B. Hunt Transport Services. Forbes
Magazine has recently named Fayetteville as one of the best places in the US
for business and careers. The Milken Institute recently named Fayetteville the
nation’s “Number One Performing City”, and Livability.Com ranked Fayetteville
as one of the top ten college towns in the country. Information about the area
can be found at explorenwar.com.
Applicants are
asked to provide a letter of interest and a curriculum vita. To ensure full
consideration, application materials should be submitted electronically by
December 1, 2014. Applications submitted after that date will be reviewed until
the position is filled. Please send nominations, inquires, or application
material to:
C. Richard Cassady, Ph.D.
Professor of Industrial Engineering
Department of Industrial Engineering
4207 Bell Engineering Center
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville AR 72701
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