Faculty in the Tennessee Lean Enterprise Center

The faculty teaching in the Lean Enterprise Systems Design Institute are from The University of Tennessee’s College of Business Administration and key industry leaders.  The faculty team includes:  Dr. Cheryl Hild, Dr. Ken Gilbert, Dr. Ken Kirby, Dr. Alex Miller, Charles Parke, Bill Peterson, and Dr. Mandyam Srinivasan.

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Melissa Bowers
Associate Professor at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Joseph Crane
Adjunct Faculty member for Lean Healthcare at The University of Tennessee

Kenneth C. Gilbert
Department Head and Professor of Statistics, Operations, and Management Science at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Cheryl Hild
Faculty member in the Department of Statistics.

Kenneth E. Kirby
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Industrial Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and President of The Kirby Group, Inc.

Keith A. Leitner
Adjunct and lead faculty member for the Air Force AFSO21 Program at the Unversity of Tennessee, Knoxville

Alex Miller
Dean of the Center of Executive Education and Professor of Management at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Charles Noon
Professor of Management Science at The University of Tennessee

David Northern
Adjunct faculty member for the Air Force AFSO21 Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Allen Pannell
Adjunct faculty member for LESDI at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Chuck Parke
Faculty member at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Bill Peterson
Faculty in the Center for Executive Education at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Mandyam M. Srinivasan
Professor of Statistics, Operations, and Management Science at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Alka Wadhwa
Adjunct Faculty member for Lean Healthcare at The University of Tennessee

Gary Wadhwa
Adjunct Faculty member for Lean Healthcare at The University of Tennessee