Charles Noon

Charles Noon is a Professor of Management Science at The University of Tennessee. He teaches in the full-time MBA program and was a founding member of the highly ranked Physician Executive MBA Program.

He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. His teaching awards include the 2000 Gregory Dobbins Outstanding Teaching and Research Award and numerous Outstanding Teacher Awards in the Physician Executive MBA Program. He was selected as a Stokely Scholar (1995-1997) of the College of Business Administration at The University of Tennessee.

His teaching interests include operational improvement, business modeling, optimization, simulation, and decision analysis. His applied research concerns computer-based models and process improvement and his papers in these areas have appeared in Interfaces, Journal of Healthcare Management, and Networks & Spatial Analysis.

Dr. Noon’s industrial experience includes first-line supervision at the Procter & Gamble Company, Director of Research at Jewelry Television, and large-scale modeling projects at a number of organizations including Philips Consumer Electronics, Dell Computers, TVA, Sears, Martin- Marietta, and the Electric Power Research Institute. He has also worked with various healthcare systems on new-service capacity planning.