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Ahmet Ozkul

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University of New Haven: Faculty Ahmet Ozkul, Ph.D.
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Title: Assistant Professor
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College: College of Business
Dept: Marketing & Quantitative Analysis
Phone: 203.479.4862
Email: aozkul@newhaven.edu
Office: Maxcy 116B
300 Boston Post Rd.
West Haven, CT 06516

Education

Ph.D. in Management, Clemson University, South Carolina, 2003

Biography

Ozkul has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Management Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 2003 from Clemson University, in Management with a focus on Operations Management. Ozkul teaches courses including Management Information Systems and Operations Management.

Ozkul has been teaching at university level since 1991, in the areas of database management, computers in business, decision support systems, management information systems, and operations management. His teaching appointments included Sakarya University (Turkey), Clemson University, Wichita State University and SUNY Oneonta. He enjoys using educational technology in his teaching, especially Microsoft Excel as an interactive teaching and learning environment, in line with the University’s experiential learning emphasis. Using Excel, he provides class notes, draw illustrations, plot charts, explain computer programming, demonstrate data processing and mining, and simulate a factory. Ozkul developed a production planning simulation game using Excel and successfully used it in the classroom. His other teaching tools include team projects in which students work on business problems from actual life.

Ozkul's research interests are mostly interdisciplinary, including supply chain management, Interdisciplinary operations, information systems and marketing, social networks, and social media. He has also conducted pedagogical research on the educational use of technology.

Published Books and Articles

"Measuring supply chain relationships: A social network approach." International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, 2009.
 
"Use of information technology in teaching and assessment of learning: Automation in preparing course materials." Information Technology, Learning and Performance Journal, 2009.

"Aligning supply chain firms: Firm types and supply chain orientation," Conference Proceedings, Decision Sciences Institute, 2009.

“The impact of product types on performance in a two company co-promotion partnership." Conference Proceedings, Decision Sciences Institute, 2007.

Courses Taught

MG 115 Fundamentals of Management
QA 380
Operations Management
QA 343
Management Information Systems
MG 669
Strategic Management

Other

Research Interests

  • Supply chain management
  • Interdisciplinary: marketing/information systems/supply chain management
  • Operations management
  • Information systems
  • Social networking
  • Educational use of information technology
  • Computer simulation