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Organizational Structure

The Erdman Center is affiliated with the Operations and Information Management (OIM) department in the School of Business, and administers the recruitment, education, financial support, placement, and alumni contacts for all MBA students in the OTM program.

The Center’s structure encompasses Staff, Industrial Advisory Board, and Academic Advisory Board.

The Center's staff consists of Executive Director (Professor Urban Wemmerlöv), Director (Andrew Jakubczak), Assistant Director (currently vacant), and a Center Assistant (a student).

The Executive Advisory Board consists of about 20 members.  It has two annual meetings, led by the Center Directors.  Work by the members outside of the annual meetings occurs on special occasions at the directive of the Center Directors.

The Academic Advisory Board consists of six faculty members: Professors Mark Finster (OIM), Anne Miner (Management & Human Resources), Jim Morris (OIM Chair), Ananth Krishnamurthy (Industrial & Systems Eng; Director MSE program and Quick Response Manufacturing Center), Raj Veeramani (Industrial & Systems Eng and OIM; Director, E-Business Institute), and Urban Wemmerlöv (OIM; Erdman Center Executive Director).