Gary L. Gittings

Faculty Lead, Supply Chain and Information Systems

Gary Gittings has teaching expertise in principles of supply chain management, order fulfillment and distribution systems, and supply chain systems design and strategy. His research focus is freight transport and logistics policy, with particular emphasis on infrastructure finance, decision-making, and investment. Gary currently is the Faculty Lead for the Supply Chain and Information Systems Graduate Certificate Program offered by Penn State's World Campus and the Smeal College of Business.

He also is a senior research associate with the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute and a Research Associate with the Center for Supply Chain Research, both at Penn State. For the last 7 years, Gary has been teaching online courses in the graduate certificate program, which provides fully accredited supply chain management education to adult learners, regardless of location. Gary earned a master of science in transportation from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in business administration from Penn State.

Terry P. Harrison

Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems

Terry Harrison has teaching and research interests in the areas of supply chain management and modeling, large scale production and distribution systems, decision support systems, applied optimization and the management of renewable natural resources. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in management science.

Douglas J. Thomas

Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management

Douglas Thomas has expertise in inventory management, production planning and coordination, and sales and operations planning. He is a research associate with the Center for Supply Chain Research and teaches courses in supply chain management and quantitative modeling at the undergraduate and MBA levels. He has twice been honored with the MBA Excellence in Teaching Award and is a frequent faculty leader in both open-enrollment and custom executive development programs. His current research interests include coordinating production and inventory planning across the extended enterprise and connecting decision models to logistics performance measurement. He earned his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Evelyn A. Thomchick

Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management

Evelyn Thomchick has expertise in international logistics, transportation policy, and logistics education and skills. She is academic program co-director of Penn State's Executive Management Program for Transportation and Highway Engineers. Prior to joining Penn State, she was employed by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, where she worked on the implementation of a computer-based model designed to schedule ocean vessels for Bethlehem's Marine Operations Division. She also served on a systems design team that studied the U.S. air cargo transportation system, at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. She earned her Ph.D. in engineering management from Clemson University.

John E. Tyworth

Professor of Supply Chain Management

John Tyworth has expertise in supply chain systems analysis and logistics cost models for transportation mode choice. He is the current chair of the Supply Chain and Information Systems Department at Penn State. John teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in supply chain and logistics management. His work experience includes traffic management and air cargo operations. He was an active duty officer in the Air Force when he performed transportation/logistics duties under the Strategic Air Command and the 14th Air Force (RVN). In addition, he continued his service as a reserve officer in the acquisition/procurement area for HQ Air Force and later for DLA. He also has consulting experience with major companies in the railroad, trucking, air cargo, food products, forest products, wire and cable, offshore rig/platform supply, and information technology industries. He earned his Ph.D. in logistics from Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon.