Dr. Fan Tseng

Professor Emeritus, College of Business

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Business Administration Building
Room 355
Huntsville, AL 35899
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256.824.6804
fan.tseng@uah.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Management Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 1983
  • M.S., Management, University of Texas at Dallas, 1980
  • B.S., Management Science, National Chiao-Tung University, 1977

Honors & Awards

  • Alabama Launchpad Business Competition First Place
  • UAH College of Business Administration Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
  • C. David Billings Fellowship (UAH COB)
  • Stephen Zelnak Professor of Business Award (UAH COB)
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (UAH COB)
  • Outstanding Service Award (UAH COB)
  • Outstanding Research Award (UAH COB)
  • UAH Faculty Award for Excellence (COB) and NASA/COSMIC Software Innovation Awards

Expertise

  • Healthcare Operations Management
  • Supply Chain Optimization
  • Scheduling
  • Optimization and Heuristics
  • Operations Research

Recent Publications

  • F.T. Tseng, Laird Burns, James T. Simpson, & David Berkowitz, “Increasing Army Supply Chain Performance: Using an Integrated End-to-End Metrics System”, Defense Acquisition Research Journal, January 2017, Vol. 24, No. 1:66-100

  • Laird Burns and Fan Tseng, “Supply Chain Performance: The Effects of Flexible Inventory Controls on Total Supply Chain Costs”, POMS 27th Annual Conference, Orlando, May 6-9, 2016

  • Allen Wilhite, Laird Burns, Ravi Patnayakuni, Fan Tseng, “Military supply chains and closed-loop weapon systems”, International Journal of Production Research, 52, Issue 7, April 2014, pages 1926-1939.

  • Burns, L. A., Tseng, F. (2013). Risk and resilience in global supply networks: how demand, design, and coordination affect financial and operational performance. Cambridgeshire, Cambridge: Annual Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium.

  • Laird Burns, Fan Tseng, and Berkowitz, David (2010), “Global network analysis in a military supply chain: Using a systems-based approach to develop a next-generation end-to-end supply chain performance measurement and prediction system,” 15th Annual Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium, Cambridge, UK. (D)

  • Frith, K.H., Anderson, E.F., Tseng, F., Fong, E. Nurse staffing is an important strategy to prevent medication errors in community hospitals. Nursing Economics. 30,(5). 288-294, 2012.

  • “The effects of demand patterns on supply chain costs for suppliers and manufacturers under supply chain constraints,” Annual Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium, Cambridge, UK, September 2012. (with Laird Burns)

  • “Global network analysis in a military supply chain: Using a systems-based approach to develop a next-generation end-to-end supply chain performance measurement and prediction system,” 15th Annual Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium, Cambridge, September 2010. ( with Laird Burns and David Berkowitz)

  • Frith, KH, Anderson, F., Caspers, B., Tseng, F., Sanford, K., Hoyt, N., & Moore, K., “The Effect of Nurse Staffing on Patient Outcomes in Acute Care Hospitals”, Quality Management in Health Care, 19(2), 1-10, 2010. (D)

  • F.T. Tseng and E.F. Stafford, “New MILP Models for the Permutation Flowshop Problem,” Journal of the Operational Research Society, 59 (2008) 1373-1386. (D)