Dr. Shahram Taj joins Cameron School as Endowed Chair of Management and Marketing
 Cameron School of Business welcomes Dr. Shahram Taj as Endowed Chair of Management of Marketing. Taj joins UST after 21 years of teaching at the University of Detroit Mercy.
With expertise in lean manufacturing, production systems design, systems optimization/simulation, Taj will teach an MBA course in operations and supply chain this fall.
Taj has developed several graduate programs including a Master’s in Science in product development in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ford, Xerox, and the National Science Foundation; a graduate program in software management/engineering and an Executive MBA at the University of Detroit Mercy. Most recently, he developed a new graduate program in supply chain/transportation efficiency systems funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
“I like to be proactive and foresee future business and education needs in the community, so we can develop the right programs for our students to be competitive,” he said.
He earned a doctorate in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of Massachusetts, a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Rhode Island and a bachelor’s in applied mathematics/operations research from the School of Planning and Computer Applications in Tehran. | 
