Patrick W. Shannon

 

 

 

 

Patrick W. Shannon, Ph.D. is Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management in the department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management in the College of Business at Boise State University.  He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in business statistics, quality management, lean manufacturing and other areas of operations and supply chain management.  In addition, Dr. Shannon has lectured and consulted in the statistics, lean manufacturing and quality management, project management, statistical modeling, and demand forecasting for over twenty-five years.  Listed among his consulting and seminar clients are Boise Cascade Corporation (Boise), Hewlett-Packard, PowerBar, Inc., Potlatch Corporation, Woodgrain Millwork Inc., Welco-Skookum Lumber Company, J.R. Simplot Company, St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center, Mount Baker Plywood Company, Washington Group International, Boise City, Motive Power, Nunhems Corporation, Idaho Transportation Department, Idaho Tax Commission, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, Premier Technology, Inc. and numerous other public and private sector organizations.

 

Dr. Shannon has co-authored eleven university level textbooks including most recently Business Statistics: A Decision Making Approach, 7th Edition, (January 2007) and A Course in Business Statistics 4rd Edition (January 2005) published by Prentice Hall Publishing Company and Introduction to Management Science published by Dellen Publishing Company.  In addition to textbooks, Dr. Shannon has published numerous articles in such journals as Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Business Horizons, Transportation Research Record, Interfaces, Journal of Simulation, Journal of Production and Inventory Control, Quality Progress, and Journal of Marketing Research, Quality Management Journal, and The International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management. 

           

He completed his BS and MS at the University of Montana and his Ph.D. in Statistics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Oregon and has been associated with Boise State University since 1974.  He is married to Kathy and has two children, Jackie and Jason.