Eric Logan Huggins, Ph.D.

School of Business Administration

Fort Lewis College

1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301

(970) 382-6912

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Professor of Management

Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO

September 2002 – present

  • Courses Taught:
  • Operations Management
  • Business Statistics
  • Business Calculus
  • Local Business*
  • Project Management
  • Business Analytics*
  • Teaching Excellence:
  • Nominated for Alice Admire Teaching Award, 2013
  • Quantitative student evaluations are always significantly above average, despite assigning less A grades{26%} than the SOBA average {33%}(which is less than the FLC average {36%}) and despite having full classes {FTE = 23} (which is again above the SOBA average {FTE = 21} which is above the FLC average {FTE = 18}).
  • On qualitative student evaluations, over the past five years, 102 students have written that I am a Great/Best/Fantastic/Awesome/Cool/Wonderful Professor/Instructor/Teacher.

Instructor of Mathematics

Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, HI

September 1993 – May 1999

* I developed both the Local Business and Business Analytics courses from scratch.

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering, May 2002

  • Thesis Advisor: Tava Olsen.
  • Dissertation Committee: James Bean, Roman Kapuscinski, Mark E. Lewis
  • Title: “Supply Chain Management with Overtime and Premium Freight”

Master of Science in Engineering (Industrial and Operations Engineering), May 1993

Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA

Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, May 1991

  • Graduated with Distinction and with Honors in Mathematics

PUBLICATIONS

  • “2015 INFORMS Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium,” OR/MS Today, June, 2015.
  • “Forecasting Sales at Ska Brewing Company,” The Applied Business Analytics Casebook: Applications in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, and Operations Research. 2014.
  • “The Benefits of Real World Data in the Classroom: An Anecdote,” OR/MS Today,June, 2013.
  • “Inventory Control with Generalized Expediting,” with T. Olsen. Operations Research**. Volume 58, Number 5, pp. 1414-1426. 2010.
  • “Optimal Klackers,” The UMAP Journal.Volume 28, Number 4, pp. 533-544. 2007.
  • “Bi-Weekly Mortgage Payments: An Algorithm for Replication with No Mortgage Restructuring Fees,” with F. Mull. Proceedings of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Science. Las Vegas, 2005.
  • “The Status of Tourism Research: An ISTTE Perspective,” with R. Cook and L. Corman. Proceedings of the Society of Travel and Tourism Educators. Hong Kong, 2004.
  • “Supply Chain Management with Guaranteed Delivery,” with T. Olsen. Management Science**. Volume 49, Number 9, pp. 1154-1167. 2003.
  • “Supply Chain Coordination with Overtime and Premium Freight,” with T. Olsen. Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Supply Chain Management. Beijing, 2002.

**Operations Research and Management Science are the two flagship journals in OR/MS.

WORKING PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • “Converting Zip Code Data into Distances,” revising for INFORMS Transactions on Education.
  • “Supply Chain Coordination with Generalized Inventory,” with T. Olsen. Completed paper, needs revision and resubmission.
  • “On the Development of Case Studies for an Undergraduate Business Analytics Course,” INFORMS Annual Conference, to be presented in November 2015.
  • “On Developing a Business Analytics Course and Major at a Small Business School,” INFORMS Annual Conference, October 2013.
  • “On the (Non-Linear) Probability of Winning a (College) Football Game,” INFORMS Annual Conference, Phoenix, October 2012.
  • “On Developing a Business Analytics Course and Major at a Small Business School,” INFORMS Annual Conference, October 2013.
  • “Applying Big OR/MS Concepts at a Small College is a Small Town,” INFORMS Annual Conference, Phoenix, October 2012.
  • “OR/MS Assessment at Small Business Schools,” INFORMS Annual Conference, Austin, November 2010.
  • “Teaching OM at a Liberal Arts College: Why Do I Have to Take This Class?,” INFORMS Annual Conference, San Diego, October 2009.
  • “Whom Do You Root For? Favorites and Biases in College Football,” INFORMS Annual Conference, Washington DC, October 2008.
  • “Punter Efficiency Rating,” INFORMS Annual Conference, Seattle, November 2007.
  • “Optimal NFL Survivor,” INFORMS Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, November 2006.
  • “Ski Industry Pricing: Daily Tickets Versus Season Passes,” with M. Fry. INFORMS Annual Conference, San Francisco, November 2005.

TEACHING DEVELOPMENT

  • Chair, INFORMS Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, to be in Philadelphia, 2015
  • AACSB Teaching Effectiveness Seminar, FLC 2015
  • Chair, INFORMS Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, San Francisco 2014
  • Panel Member: The Role of OR/MS is Undergraduate Business Education Today, INFORMS Annual Conference, Charlotte, November 2011.

GRANTS

  • FLC TIPA Grant, 2014, for $1,200.
  • FLC Foundation Grant, 2013, for $900 to subsidize student costs of taking the CAPM Exam.
  • FLC TIPA Grant, 2012, for $1,224.
  • FLC TIPA Grant, 2011, for $973.
  • FLC TIPA Grant, 2010, for $986.

SERVICE

  • Chair, Faculty Development Grant Committee for Traditional Research
  • Chair, SOBA Faculty Management Committee
  • Chair, SOBA Personnel Committee
  • SOBA Curriculum Committee
  • Numerous Faculty Search Committees, often as Chair
  • Various AACSB and HLC Committees
  • Reviewer for Multiple Journals, Articles
  • Session Chair at INFORMS Conference