Michele Burch
Associate Department Chair & Senior Lecturer II
Operations & Information Management
Education
PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008
MBA, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1996
BSME, University of Notre Dame, 1992
Professional Experience
Consultant, Sales Engineer, Product Engineer, Springfield Wire, Inc
Academic Appointments
Lecturer of Operations Management, University of Massachusetts, 9/2007-Present
Adjunct Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 9/2000-Present
Visiting Instructor of Industrial Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 9/2003-6/2004
Research Interests
Idea Systems
Employee Involvement
Organizational Effectiveness
Kaizen Events
Lean Systems
Continuous Improvement
Teaching Interests
Masters
- Operations Management
- Lean Process Design
- Analyzing and Designing Operations to Create Value
- Supply Chain Analysis and Design
- Creating Processes in Technological Organizations
Undergraduate
- Operations Management
- High Performance Organizations
- Principles of Management
- Quality Management
- Management Science
- Human Resource Management
