Archive for February 2008

Dr. Darrell Radson and his family visited the SBE February 15th and while here made it official. They are moving to Houghton from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.

In the presence of faculty and staff he signed the contract that makes him dean of the School of Business and Economics in August. The signing concludes a search that started in 2007 and promises to continue the growth of the School of Business and Economics. Dr. Radson’s academic and administrative experience fits nicely with the strategic goals of the SBE and Michigan Tech.

He received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Northwestern University and his master’s and doctorate in Industrial and Operations Management from the University of Michigan. He served as associate dean in both the School of Continuing Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Boler School of Business at John Carroll University, and is currently department head of the Department of Decision Sciences at LeBow College of Business at Drexel University.

His experience includes curriculum redesign, management of MBA programs and online degrees, AACSB accreditation, and successful recruitment of faculty and increased research.

Members from the SBE Phi Beta Lambda student organization, the SBE Marketing Club, and faculty members Jim Frendewey, Robert Mark, Dana Johnson, Maria Schutte, and Jim Gale participated in constructing a snow statue for Winter Carnival on February 6. The theme for statues this year was Frightful Creatures with Chilling Features. They started the SBE all-nighter snow statue at 4:00 pm and with their efficiency finished the work by 10:00 pm. The efforts were rewarded with a fourth place finish in the on-campus statues for student organizations (out of 11) in their division. The statue was titled “The Loch Ness Monster from Lake Superior Means Business”.

Jim Lenz, a manager with John Deere and current SBE National Advisory Board member will visit the SBE on Feb. 29th, 2008.

Jim will give a campus presentation on February 29th , at 3:00pm in M&M U113. His talk, “CIA, KGB: Technology, Business, Decisions,” will illustrate the unique career path that is created by a combination of technology and business pursuits and will re-count a recent meeting with what was a counterpart researcher during the Cold War.

Jim has been involved with more than 100 new product developments and has worked with hundreds of innovators and engineers during his career. His career has included Boeing, Honeywell and the University of Minnesota.