Department of Information Systems & Supply Chain Management

News & Updates

Business leader, Barry James, 50 students inducted at Raj Soin College of Business Beta Gamma Sigma ceremony

Apr 24, 2013

Fifty Raj Soin College of Business students along with Barry James of James Investment Research were inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the highest international business honor society...

Recruiting Raiders: Job fair will draw employers, students and alumni

Mar 11, 2013

Defense and construction contractors, a college consortium, a computer cabling manufacturer and agencies that help children and families will be among employers sifting for future employees...

First Annual Supply Chain Conference lean on waste, heavy on promise

May 30, 2012

Earlier this spring, dozens of local and regional professionals charged with managing operations for their respective companies met to learn more about the fast-growing realm of supply chain management (SCM).

Wright State's own Dwight Smith-Daniels quoted in Dayton's B2B magazine in the August 2010 edition.

Aug 1, 2010

Wright State University's own Dwight- Smith- Daniels was quoted in Dayton's B2B magazine in the August 2010 edition.

Meet Our Students, Alumni, and Faculty

Bolo Fall

'09 B.S.B. Supply Chain Management, Magna Cum Laude

"When I moved in the US a little over five years ago, Wright State was the obvious choice for me according to friends, family, and even strangers! I transferred my credits very easily with help from the University Center for International Education. Supply Chain Management was the best option for me since I want a career in purchasing."

Robert Johnson

'11 B.S.B. Management Informations Systems; Teradata

AFCEA Scholarship Recipient President, MIS Club; Career Offer Prior to Graduating as Technical Database Consultant at Teradata

"The most valuable experience I have had at Wright State was getting to learn about such a wide variety of materials. I learned a lot about topics I knew nothing about, both in MIS and other aspects of business such as the implications of international trade policy and the global economy. Exposure to such a diverse aspects of business has definitely given me a great foundation as I start my IT career at Teradata."

Dwight E. Smith-Daniels is Professor and Chair in the Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management in the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University. He received a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Arizona. Prior to joining Wright State in 2008, Dr. Smith-Daniels was on the faculty of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, where he was the Director of the MBA Specialization in Supply Chain Management.

Over the past fifteen years, Dr. Smith-Daniels has concentrated his teaching efforts in the areas of Project and Supply Chain Management at the Masters level, in addition to teaching several Doctoral Seminars on those topics.  He has developed courses for the Day, Evening, Online, Technology, and Executive MBA programs. In all of his courses, active learning principles are used to engage participants in the various problems that they encounter in their business environment. Dr. Smith-Daniels also conducts seminars and teaches professional development courses on project management to a variety leading technology companies. He served as a faculty liaison on a U.S. Department of Commerce grant that was awarded to leading Arizona companies to fund the education of over eight hundred engineers and managers on project and program management from Boeing Helicopters, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Intel, Motorola, On Semi-Conductor, Raytheon Missile Systems and Maricopa County Workforce Connections. On the international front, Dr. Smith-Daniels recently facilitated a executive education program at the China Europe International Business School, one of the leading international executive education programs, on the challenges of global project management. 

Dr. Smith-Daniels is widely published in the field of project management, with publications in a variety of academic and practitioner journals, including the Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics and Production and Inventory Management. His research focuses on Project Management and Planning in Technology and Supply Chain environments, including software, new product and supply chain development. He has served as an Associate Editor for The Project Management Journal, The Journal of Operations Management and the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. Dr. Smith-Daniels is a member of the Project Management Institute, the leading international society in the field of project management, as well as the Decision Sciences Institute, the Institute of Industrial Engineers and the Production and Operations Management Society. He has served as consultant to a number of organizations, including Intel, DialCorp, Honeywell and the J.M. Smucker Co.

Department of Info. Systems & Supply Chain Management
271 Rike Hall
3640 Colonel Glenn Highway
Dayton, OH 45345-0001
Phone: (937) 775-2895
Email: rscob-isom@wright.edu