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Growing up in Rwanda, Diane Uwacu had a love for mathematics and a passion for problem solving. Uwacu has turned that deep interest in problem solving into creating algorithms that help robots improve the quality of human life.
Uwacu was first introduced to computer science when she moved to the United States to attend Oklahoma Christian University and took her first introduction to programming course. It also sparked her enthusiasm for creating algorithms.
An example would be placing a robot in a school to meet and greet people and provide guests with a school tour. Motion planning algorithms would help the robots adapt and better respond to obstacles in real time.
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo (1997): Interdisciplinary research, business and engineering issues, functional and business-level strategy, business simulations, project management, and supply chain.
Dr. Diane H. Parente is a Professor of Management at Penn State Behrend. She earned the BA in Physics from Wilson College and the MBA from Canisius College in Buffalo with concentrations in management and accounting. She earned her Ph.D. in Operations Strategy from the University at Buffalo in 1997. Dr. Parente is the Samuel A. and Elizabeth B. Breene Professor of Management and developed the Interdisciplinary Business and Engineering program at Penn State Behrend. The program is jointly administered by the Black School of Business and the School of Engineering. She is lead faculty in the iMBA faculty and currently Program Chair for the IBE and International Business programs as well as Co-Director of the MMM graduate program.
She has received research awards including the Anbar Scientific Award and Best Paper in the Journal of Management Education. Dr. Parente has received numerous teaching awards at Penn State and the University at Buffalo for both online and residential teaching. She has worked in manufacturing, banking, and insurance, most recently as international business manager with Occidental Chemical (Oxychem).
Dr. Parente has been an active member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the Academy of Management - Operations Division, Midwest Decision Science Institute leadership, and the National Decision Science Institute. She is also a member of ABSEL and POMS.
Prior to employment at Behrend, Dr. Parente was Instructor in marketing and management at Fredonia State College 1992-96, Visiting Assistant Professor of strategic management 1995-96, and Assistant Professor of MIS at the University of Mississippi 1996-1998. She had a graduate teaching position at the University at Buffalo in strategy 1992-95 and was teaching assistant in quantitative methods 1993-96.
Dr. Parente's industry experience included a variety of positions at Occidental Chemical. She was International Business Manager responsible for strategic direction of 62 products from 12 manufacturing groups. During this period, she traveled extensively to countries in all regions of the world. She was the featured speaker at an international conference in Thailand on the "Worldwide Chrome Chemical Market" and at the International Trade Council in Buffalo on "International Shipping and Logistics." She was also Manager of Corporate Systems responsible for all business computer systems at Oxychem. She was Manager of Logistics and Sales Administration which included transportation systems and equipment, production planning, terminals, warehouses, packaging, exchanges and trades. Her duties included sales administration, forecasting, pricing evaluation, and interaction with production and purchasing, also for the entire Oxychem portfolio. Her early appointment to Oxychem was as a systems analyst and product line manager.
Prior to joining Oxychem, Dr. Parente was an analyst for M&T Bank, working on online computing systems and Prudential Insurance working also in systems analysis and technical programming on a management development program.
The overriding concept of my approach to teaching business administration is to take advantage of my industry experience and integrate it into the classroom theory. Providing hands-on experiences that allow students to learn by doing is another integral component.
In each of my courses, I design projects that simulate business situations. Students may be required to act as consultants for businesses and organizations on campus. They may also produce large-scale projects, such as an international dinner.
In a graduate setting, students enter with context. In both online programs in which I teach, the students have considerable work experience. They have developed their own frame of reference after some time in the workplace. Graduate students often lack the theory to anchor and build from their experience. One of the challenges of graduate business education is to prove the relevance of the theory to practice. This is true in online education also.
I continue to use a variety of teaching approaches in the classroom and select the approach based on the course and the objectives of the course. I have used simulation and large-scale simulation, problem-based learning, cases, active learning, cohesion cases, video enhanced instruction, and traditional lecture.
Her research philosophy is interdisciplinary. Sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) is a product of how multiple functions work together. Organizations find that it is the internal capabilities that lead to SCA. Thus, it is just as important to work across academic specialties as within them if we are ever to understand how firms gain SCA.
The second main area of her research is methodological. In addition to the use of inferential statistics, she has used literature reviews and classifications to assist in setting a research agenda in various areas. She was co-editor of a special issue regarding the state of empirical research data collection in Operations Management. The Journal of Operations Management published (Parente & Gattiker, 2007) on Innovative Data Sources for Empirically Building and Validating Theories in Operations Management. This work is important as an introduction for many operations management researchers to help identify alternate methods of data collection in our field.
Aligning Supply Chain Logistics Costs via ERP Coordination, International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design - September, 2018
Collaborators: Matthew Swinarski, Co-Author; Joseph Muscatello, Co-Author
The Impact of ERP Alignment on Logistics Costs: A Work System Theoretical Approach, International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems - July, 2016
Collaborators: Joseph Muscatello, Co-Author; Matthew Swinarski, Co-Author
Do Small IT Firms Benefit from Higher Process Capability? , Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) - July 01, 2012
Collaborators: Matthew Swinarski; R Kishore, Secondary Author
Learning Style Preferences in Cross-Functional Teams: Discipline-Specific or Personality Related, Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business - December, 2011
Collaborators: J Filbeck, Primary Author; J Roth, Secondary Author
A Study of Gender Differences with Respect to Internet Socialization of Adolescents, Journal of Business and Economics Research - 2010
Collaborators: Matthew Swinarski, Primary Author; Kathleen Noce, Secondary Author
Introduction to the Special Issue on Innovative Data Sources for Empirically Building and Validating Theories in Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management - 2007
Collaborators: T Gattiker; Array Array; Array Array
A Pre-post Comparison of Service Operational Efficiency and Patient Satisfaction under Open Access Scheduling, Health Care Management Review - 2005
Collaborators: Mary Pinto, Secondary Author; J. Barber, Secondary Author
College Students and Academic Performance: A Case of Taking Control, Journal of National Association of Student Personnel Administrators - 2004
Collaborators: Phylis Mansfield, Secondary Author; Mary Pinto, Primary Author; T. Wortman, Secondary Author
Student Performance on the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing ExaminationCUSA Level II Following a Clinical Evaluation, Feedback, and Intervention Program, Journal of the American Osteopathic Association - 2002
Collaborators: D. Agostini, Co-Author; A. Stano, Co-Author
College Students: Credit Card Debt and The Role of Parental Involvement: Implications for Public Policy, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing - 2001
Collaborators: Todd Palmer; Mary Pinto, Co-Author
Credit Card Solicitation Policies in Higher Education: Does AProtecting@ Our Students Make a Difference?, Journal of College Student Development - 2001
Collaborators: Mary Pinto, Co-Author; Todd Palmer, Co-Author
In November 2017 EPA published a final rule designating about 85 percent of the country as attainment/unclassifiable for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). This summer EPA completed 2015 ozone designations for the remainder of the country with a final rule in June for most of the remaining areas and a final rule in July for eight counties in the San Antonio, Texas metropolitan area. Initial transportation conformity determinations are due one year from the effective date of the nonattainment designations, which is August 3, 2019 for most areas and September 24, 2019 for the San Antonio area. EPA also released updated Transportation Conformity Guidance for 2015 Ozone NAAQS Nonattainment Areas. Finally, information on the areas designated nonattainment for the 2015 Ozone NAAQS is now available on the EPA Green Book.
The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) biennial Environmental Excellence Awards (EEA) recognize outstanding transportation projects, processes, and partners that use FHWA funding sources to go beyond "business as usual" to achieve environmental excellence. Applications will be accepted from August 1 to September 28, 2018.
The 2019 EEA Program represents a joint effort among three the FHWA Office of Project Development and Environmental Review, Office of Natural Environment, and Office of Human Environment. Awards recognize achievement across a range of categories, such as air quality and noise, adaptation and resilience, accelerating project delivery, applied environmental research, and environmental education and training programs (see a full list of categories in the application).
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