College Highlights
2006
The College of Management and College of Engineering were selected by IBM to launch its new Services Science, Management and Engineering academic initiative in January, and began offering its first courses in Fall 2006. The Services Management concentration in the College of Management’s MBA program was launched in fall 2006.
The college launched the BioPharma Management concentration in the MBA program, offering its first course in spring 2006. The new concentration was designed for students with a solid life sciences background, gained either through academic studies or extensive work experience in the field. It was developed in collaboration with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at NC State, with input from leading companies in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The BioPharma Management Initiative supports ongoing curriculum development and research in this field, and presents the annual BioPharma Forum for a frank discussion of key issues.
The college’s undergraduate and graduate accounting programs broke into the top 20 in the annual ranking by The Accounting Report. Both programs rose to 20th place, from 24 and 23, respectively, in 2005.
The College of Management was included in BusinessWeek’s first ranking of top design schools, reflecting the college’s emphasis on and multidisciplinary approach to teaching the management of innovation and commercialization of technology.
College of Management students launched the following new student organizations in 2006: American Marketing Association, student chapter; Net Impact; and the National Assocation of Women MBAs.
2005
The college’s undergraduate and graduate accounting programs were ranked for the first time by The Accounting Report in its annual ranking. The Master of Accounting program was ranked 23rd, and the undergraduate program was ranked 24th.
The college’s student chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is one of the largest and most recognized student SHRM chapters in the country. Six times, it was named most outstanding student chapter in North Carolina. And it has won national Top 10 honors six times. Its student team came home from SHRM’s annual HR Games with second-place honors in
2005.
Entrepreneur magazine ranked the college’s entrepreneurship programs in the top tier of its Top 100 Entepreneurship Programs in 2005.
The technology-focused MBA Program is the only one of its kind in North Carolina. More than 60 percent of the college’s MBA current students have academic or work experience in scientific and technical fields. The program was ranked #74 by U.S. News & World Report for 2006.
The college’s Ph.D. in Economics Program, offered jointly with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was ranked 48th by U.S. News & World Report for 2006.
2004
Ira R. Weiss, Ph.D., named dean of the College of Management, and began at the college in December.
The College of Management’s undergraduate program was ranked #80 among undergraduate programs by U.S. News & World Report in 2003.
The college’s programs in business and accounting are accredited by AACSB International — The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
In its first seven years, the HiTEC (Technology Education & Commercialization) Program formulated or refined business models for companies that have raised more than $120 million of investment capital and have created 250 new jobs for the Triangle economy.
2003
Dr. Shannon Davis, associate professor of business management and SHRM faculty advisor, receive the SHRM Foundation’s 2003 Advisor of the Year Award in recognition of her service and leadership over 10 years to the NC State SHRM chapter.
Dr. Michael Rappa, the Alan T. Dickson Distinguished University Professor of Technology Management, received a 2003 Classics Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources from MERLOT for his course, “Managing the Digital Enterprise.” MERLOT is the Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, a collaborative effort of a consortium of higher education institutions including the UNC system. Also in 2003, Rappa received an IBM Faculty Award, his second one in three years.
In the Master of Accounting program’s Class of 2003, 49 percent of graduates passed all four parts of the CPA exam on the first try; and 67 percent passed at least three parts. NC State MAC graduates consistently perform higher than state and national averages on the CPA exam.
Prior
In 2001, the Department of Accounting was one of two university departments that received the Departmental Award for Learning and Teaching Excellence administered by the Office of the Provost at NC State.
Dr. Robert Handfield, the Bank of America Distinguished University Professor of Supply Chain Management, became editor-in-chief of the Journal of Operations Management in 2001.
Dr. Mark Beasley, associate professor of accounting, was recognized by the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association with its 2002 Notable Contributions in Auditing Literature Award. This honor recognizes recent research works of exceptional merit that make a direct contribution to auditing or assurance education, practice or research.
In a 1999 ranking by reviewers for the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, NC State’s Ph.D. Program in economics ranked 5th among programs of land-grant universities. The graduate program in economics is a joint venture between the College of Management’s Department of Economics and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
In a 1998 ranking in the journal Econometric Theory, the econometrics program at NC State ranked among the Top 20 in the world, based on academic publications in the field of econometrics.