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Faculty, Research & Staff

Amy Z Zeng

Associate Professor
Director, Operations and Industrial Engineering Program
Co-Director, China Project Center

Faculty Listing
Office: Washburn Shops, 308
Phone: +1-508-831-6117
Fax: +1-508-831-5720
azeng@wpi.edu

Educational Background

• B.S., Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, 1990
• M.S.E., University of Washington, 1992
• Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996
  

Research & Teaching Interests

Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Global Logistics, Worldwide Sourcing

Research

(1) Risk and disruption management strategies and tactics in supply chains

(2) Global supply chain design, process and decisions

(3) Designing cost-effective and secure global food supply chains

(4) Coordination in reverse supply chains for profitable returns

Research Grants

• PI, "Establishing the US-China Link Initiative at WPI," Business and International Education Program of the US Dept. of Education, $185,755 with matching fund of $149,640 (from WPI and MassMEP), 08/01/2009 – 07/31/2011 (with Y. Rong & J. Rudolf).
• PI, "Global Sourcing and Logistics Processes at Nanjing Wangjiawan Logistics Center in China: A Proposal for Case Development," $2,000, Case Research Grant, CIBER of Indiana University, 07/01/2006 – 09/01/2006.
• Co-PI, "Using Discovery-Based Learning to Explore the Lean Design of Global Supply Chains," $49,969 with matching contributions of $51,474 (from GE, Teradyne, and WPI), NSF CCLI - Adaptation & Implementation, #DUE-0126672, 01/2002 - 07/2003. (with S. Johnson and A. Gerstenfeld)
• PI, "Managing Global Supply Chains: A Bilateral Study," 05/2000 – 12/2001, APICS-the Education & Research Foundation, $9,346 with two summer internships (3 months) supported by Pratt & Whitney.

Recent Publications

• Hou, J., Zeng, A.Z., and Zhao, L. (2009), "Achieving Better Coordination through Revenue Sharing and Bargaining in a Two-Stage Supply Chain," Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 57, 383-394.

• Wang, H., Wang, X. and Zeng, A.Z. (2009), "Optimal Material Distribution Decisions based on Epidemic Diffusion Rule and Stochastic Latent Period for Emergency Rescue," International Journal of Mathematics of Operational Research, Vol. 1, Nos. 1/2, 76-96.

• Zeng, A.Z. and Johnson, S. A. (2009), "Integrating a Discovery based Laboratory to Teach Supply Chain Management Fundamentals in an Undergraduate Management Course," Innovations in Education and Teaching International, Vol. 46, No. 1, 71-82.

• Yu, H., Zeng, A.Z., and Zhao, L. (2009), "Single versus Dual Sourcing in the Presence of Supply Chain Disruptions," Omega: An International Journal of Management Science, Vol. 37, No. 4, 288-300.

• Liu, L.B., Berger, P.B., Zeng, A.Z. and Gerstenfeld, A. (2008), "Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to the Offshore Outsourcing Location Decision," Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 13, No. 6, 435-448.

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Collaborations

Scholars in the areas of supply chain and logistics management from Brazil, China, Germany, and US.

Honors & Awards

• Full Membership of WPI Chapter of Sigma Xi – the Scientific Research Society, inducted on Apr. 18, 2008
• Winner of the CIBER International Case Writing Competition Award, Production and Operations Management Society 2007 Annual Conference
• Sea-sky Scholarship, School of Management, Dalian University of Technology, China (2005 – 2008)
• Others on personal webpage

Years of Service at WPI

• 1999 – 2003, Assistant Professor
• 2003 – present, Associate Professor

Professional Experience & Activities

1. Invited tutorial workshop, "An Integrated Approach to Teaching Supply Chain and Logistics Management," delivered at the 7^th National Higher Education of Logistics Management Training Workshop in China, Ningbo, China, Aug. 8-10, 2009.
2. Keynote speech, "Value Creation through Innovation in Supply Chain Management," delivered at the 6^th International Symposium on Management Engineering, Dalian, China, Aug. 5-7, 2009.
3. Invited seminar, "The Case Study Approach in Supply Chain and Logistics Management," a three-hour seminar delivered at Suzhou Logistics Educators' Training Workshop, Suzhou Logistics Hands-on Education Base, Suzhou, China, July 27, 2009.
4. Invited seminar, "Basic Research in Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Questions and Thoughts," presented at the WPI's Manufacturing Engineering Seminar Series, Feb. 19, 2009.
5. Invited speech, "Towards Sustainable, Green and Reverse Supply Chain Management for Reducing the Environmental Impacts," the 4^th International Conference on Intelligent Logistics System, Aug. 22, 2008, Shanghai, China.
6. Keynotespeech, "Demand-driven Curriculum Design and Teaching Innovations in Supply Chain and Logistics Management," the 8^th National College Logistics Education Workshop in China, July 21, 2008, Nanning, China.
7. Keynote speech, "Building Flexibility, Responsiveness and Contingency into Supply Chains for Managing Disruption Risks," International Conference of e-Risk Management, June 29, 2008, Nanjing, China.
8. Invited talk, "A Glimpse of the Status-quo of Supply Chain and Logistics Management," Manufacturing Engineering Seminar Series, WPI, Sept. 20, 2007.
9. Invited seminar series, "Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management," a five-seminar series delivered at the Institute of Systems Engineering, School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, June 26-July 1, 2007, Nanjing, China.
10. Facilitator and interpreter, "Winning through Innovation," seminar given by Prof. Michael Tushman of Harvard Business School to the EMBA Class of China's Sun Yat-sen University, Oct. 11, 2006, Harvard University, MA.
11. Invited speech, "Discussions of Education and Research in Supply Chain and Logistics Management: A Personal Perspective," presented at Supply Chain Management and E-Business Workshop, School of Management, Dalian University of Technology, Aug. 10, 2006, Dalian, China.
12. Keynote speech, "An Overview of Current Hot Topics in Research and Practice of Supply Chain and Logistics Management," presented at the 2005 Global Supply Chain Forum and Academic Conference, Oct. 29-30, 2005, Nanjing, China.
13.  Facilitator and interpreter, "Leadership and Management," seminar given by Mr. Mel Epstein, CEO of Leveraged Thinking, to the EMBA Class of China's Sun Yat-sen University, Oct. 7, 2005, Harvard University, MA.
14. Invited seminar, "Operations Management and Competitiveness," a 3-hour seminar given at the Professional Managers Training Center at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Aug. 16, 2005.
15. Invited speech, "My Experiences with China: A Logistics Research Perspective," presented at Sloan Workshop on China, WPI, June 16, 2005.
16. Keynote speech, "Modeling and Analysis of Decisions on the Optimal Size of Supply Base in the Presence of Risks," International Conference of Management Science and Engineering, August 8-11, 2004, Harbin, China.

Professional Societies/Memberships

• IIE / APICS / POMS/ INFORMS / CSCMP

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