Omer Distinguished Professor in Business
Director of the Business Operations and Analytics Lab
Department of Finance, Real Estate, & Decision Sciences-FREDS
W. Frank Barton School of Business
Dr. Sue Abdinnour is the Omer Professor in Operations Management and Kansas Faculty of Distinction. She received her Ph.D. in Operations Management & Operations Research from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her teaching specialties include Operations and Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics, and Enterprise resource Planning (ERP). She teaches undergraduate and graduate students, and also conducts workshops and seminars for executives from various organizations. Her research interests include Operations Analysis and Improvement, Supply Chain Management, ERP, and Technology Adoption and Use in Organizations. Dr. Abdinnour has published her research in top tier academic and practitioner journals including Decision Sciences Journal, International Journal of Production Research, Information Technology & People, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, and European Journal of Operations Research. Her service includes many activities at the department, college, and the university levels. They include chairing the FREDS department in the business school for 6 years (largest and most diverse department in the college), developing and directing a new Master in Business Analytics program for 5 years, hiring several new faculty, chairing taskforce committees, serving on the Graduate Council, and many more. She also consults with industry on various topics and conducts different training seminars.
Dr. Abdinnour has won several awards of excellence for her teaching, research, service, and leadership. Most recently, she won the Trailblazer Innovation Award from Wichita State University and the Wichita Business Journal Innovation Award for her development of an algorithm called ALDA - Assembly Line Design Application to improve the assembly line operations of a major aircraft. manufacturer in Wichita, KS.