Profile
Dr. Dennis C.
Chen is an Associate Professor of Management and International Business at Belmont University. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Kentucky as well as a MBA degree from Baylor University and a BE degree in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. He has seventeen years of operations, engineering and R&D management experience within multinational companies, specifically in the consumer products disposable diaper business.
Dr. Chen lived and worked in China on a two year international assignment as the startup plant manager for a production facility outside Shanghai, China. He has since visited China and Taiwan on multiple occasions, leading groups of undergraduate and MBA students on study abroad trips.
Dr. Chen teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in operations and supply chain management and international business. He also facilitates several executive education courses for Belmont’s Center for Executive Education. In his operations management course, he emphasizes systems thinking and continuous improvement utilizing lean and six sigma methods. He also volunteers with TNCPE to help TN organizations continuously improve using the Balridge framework. His current research interests are in the areas of supply chain relationships, supply chain social responsibility and lean Six Sigma implementation.