Kudos to the IDSc Faculty, Dave Naumann, Fred Riggins and Mani Subramani

For Outstanding Contributions to the IDSc Department in 2004

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The Information and Decision Sciences Department and the MISRC recognize Associate Professor Dave Naumann, Assistant Professor Fred Riggins, Associate Professor Mani Subramani and MISRC Assistant Director Donna Sarppo for their outstanding service contributions to the Department and the MISRC during 2004.

Dave Naumann has been highly effective in developing and managing the technology infrastructure for IDSc teaching and research over the past 10 years. He also was instrumental in the development of Jarrod Davis, who has provided highly competent technical services from the Strategic Management Organizations/Information Decision Sciences (SMOIDS) Cluster until just recently, when he joined the Carlson School 's Office of Information Technology. In Spring 2004, Dave took on the development and site management of the Gordon B. Davis Research Symposium, set for May 2005. He has also been a continuing force in the management and vision behind IDSc's efforts to rebuild its MBA and Undergraduate Curriculum. He has been especially effective in the past several years, and deserves our warm thanks.

Mani Subramani recently completed one year of service as the Undergraduate IS Core Course Coordinator. During the time he managed this course, he was able to reorganize its structure and orchestrate the efforts of the teaching faculty to achieve teaching performance ratings that ranged from "acceptable" to "outstanding." He was also highly responsive to the goals and targets that were laid out by IDSc Department Chair, Rob Kauffman, and Undergraduate Program Dean, Bob Ruekert. Since then, Mani has moved to the MBA IS Core, where he teaches both full-time and part-time students. He is also in the midst of developing a new course on offshoring and global management, and will lead an MBA group to India during January 2005.

Another extraordinary contributor in the past year is Fred Riggins. Fred acted as the MBA Information Systems and Technology (IST) Portfolio Faculty Leader until earlier this year, and effectively managed the internal departmental processes that led to the market research and development of a new generation of IDSc MBA courses. In addition, Fred has been instrumental in bringing IS curriculum to the MBA Program, where he has taught full-time and part-time MBAs, as well as the Carlson Executive MBA (CEMBA) Program, and the joint Carlson School-Engineering School Management of Technology Masters Program. During Spring 2004, he had outstanding teaching rating in the MBA IS Core, as well as in courses that he taught for the Executive Development Center's programs.

Kudos to the faculty for their outstanding service contributions.