All faculty have one or more graduate degrees in business, have real world work experience, and a Ph.D. relevant to the courses they teach in the MIS program.
In addition to the regular faculty listed below, several new faculty members have been approved for hire in the immediate future. More details on faculty, including associate faculty, are found at
http://mis.uis.edu/newSite/faculty.htm
The primary focus of the University of Illinois at Springfield has been on teaching excellence. Consistent with this attitude, faculty members in the MIS Department have attempted several innovative approaches to improve their teaching effectiveness. Use of the Internet, the World Wide Web, Distance Learning, email and collaborative technologies is quite common and has enabled faculty members to provide round-the-clock assistance to students all days of the week.
Faculty members have remained abreast of developments in the MIS field through active participation in professional and academic organizations and authoring several research publications.
Brief descriptions of each faculty member's academic and professional achievements follow:
Apiwan
Dejnaronk Born, Adjunct Faculty, recently joined the MIS department
in January 1999. She is teaching introductory courses in MIS at both
undergraduate and
graduate levels. She earned her Ph.D. in MIS (2000) from Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale (SIUC). Her dissertation titled, "An Exploratory
Study of Information Systems Infrastructure and its Link to Performance",
received a doctoral dissertation award from SIUC in August 1998. She
received a bachelor's degree in Statistics (honor) from Chulalongkorn
University, Bangkok, Thailand. She holds two master degrees, MSBA in
MIS (1992) and MBA in Marketing (1993) from Mississippi State University.
Her research was published in the proceedings and presented at many
national and international conferences including Information Resources
Management Association International Conference, Americas Conference
on Information Systems, Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute,
and Meeting of the Midwest Decision Sciences Institute. Her primary
research interests are information systems infrastructure, impacts
of information technology on organizations, management of technology,
organizational transformation, the human side of information technology,
and web-based teaching and training.
Rassule
Hadidi, Ph.D., is Hanson Professional Services Faculty
Scholar, Professor and Chair of the MIS Department, College of Business and Management,
at the University of Illinois at
Springfield, Springfield,
Illinois, Honorary Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, School of
Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, joined University of
Illinois at Springfield (formerly Sangamon State University) in 1981.
Prior to that, worked for five years at the Health Services Research
Center/Health Care Technology Center of the University of Missouri -
Columbia.
Starting in 1986 Dr. Hadidi initiated and developed the MIS program at UIS. He has received several major grants to develop Internet and Web-based interactive graduate level MIS courses and an online MS degree in MIS. He initiated and directed the development and implementation of the MIS-OnLine degree for the University of Ilinois, which was offered for the first time in the spring of 1999.
He has received a software grant from IBM, and a contract from Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for their home page design and development. His current research interests are in areas of mobile commerce, wide area networks, and online education. He is currently serving on the editorial board of four academic journals.
James
P. Hall, James Hall is an assistant professor in the Department
of Management Information Systems at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and a Masters in Business Administration from
Sangamon State University. He received his Ph. D. in Civil Engineering
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 with a focus
on management systems and Geographic Information System (GIS) implementation.
He previously worked for the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT)
in various management capacities including construction, local agency
support, pavement technology and management, physical research and materials
testing. In his last position at IDOT he served as the Chief of Planning
Services. He was responsible for management for the following statewide
activities: road, structure and rail crossing inventory management information
systems, traffic data collection, mapping, graphics, cartography and GIS
implementation.
He is an active member of the Transportation Research Board and past president
of the Capital Chapter of the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers
(ISPE). Since 1998, he has served as the chair of the Liaison Subcommittee
of the Illinois Geographic Information Council (ILGIC). He has chaired
and served on various national training and research project committees
and has given numerous presentations. He was the Engineer of the Year
for IDOT in 1983 and for the Capital Chapter of ISPE in 1997. He was Student
Marshal of the Business Administration program at Sangamon State University
in 1983.
His research interests include Information Systems management, Geographic
Information Systems, cost/benefit analysis of information system projects
and electronic government.
Dave Larson,
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Management Information Systems, joined the MIS department as full-time
faculty in August 2001. He
is currently teaching both undergraduate and graduate level MIS courses. Prior to joining the MIS department as full-time faculty, he served
for fourteen years at UIS as a lecturer, teaching courses for both the
MIS and Computer Science Departments.
Mr. Larson has over 32 years of experience in Management Information Systems
and has considerable experience in: business systems design, systems development
and maintenance; contract development and negotiation; project management;
communications networks; Internet development, and development of online
computer based training. One of his most significant accomplishments was directing the
development of online training used to certify the State's nearly 30,000
criminal justice employees who access the State's criminal justice information
network. This effort, which
saved the State significant financial and personnel resources, was a first
of its kind in the nation for online law enforcement training and certification.
His research interests include: Effective Uses of Database Technologies; Telecommunications - Networks, Collaboration, and Wireless Communications; Effective Uses of Systems Analysis, Design, and Project Management Techniques; Web Based Delivery of Courseware and Training; and the Improvement of the Application Development Process Through Better Integration of the Development of the Application, User Training for the Application, and User Help Facilities.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics and a Master's
degree in Business, both from the University of Illinois at Springfield. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation in Curriculum
and Instruction at Illinois State University.
Xiaoqing Li, Assistant
Professor of MIS
Department,
joined the department in the spring of 2001. He received a B.S.
in Electrical Engineering from North-Western Polytechnic University,
Xian, P.R. China, a Master of Engineering in Software Engineering from
Computer Center, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, P.R. China. He
received his Ph.D. degree in Information Systems at Michael G. DeGroot
School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His
primary research interest is in the area of multi-agent cooperation
with specific application in complex decision-making.
David
O'Gorman, Professor of Business Administration, has taught
the core course MIS 531 Strategic Decision Support Systems since the
MIS Program began, and more recently added an elective MIS 561 Competitive
Information Systems. He is a former marketing research professional
from Bristol-Myers, and later served in the Marketing Development
Division of Marathon Oil Company. While at Marathon he was the
director of a large MIS project (3 years, 7 programmer/analysts) which
developed the decision support system for the Marketing Division. He
holds bachelor's and master's degrees in business and an interdisciplinary
doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to his MIS
courses, he teaches Business Strategy in the MBA program at UIS. His
research interests are decision-making processes, competitive information
systems, and complexity science (chaos theory). Recent work includes
presentations to local and regional groups on the application of complexity
science to business and MIS, presentations of papers at the International
Conference of the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals
and the International Conference of the Strategic Management Society.
Michele
Gribbins, joined the Management 
Information
Systems department at UIS in 2005 having teaching interests in the management
and strategic uses of information technology. She previously taught in
the Department of Business Administration at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and was employed at Lake Land College. She
has a B.S. in Finance from Illinois State University, and M.B.A. from
Eastern Illinois University, and is expecting her Ph.D. in Information
Systems from UIUC in 2008.
Michele's research interests are centered on the process and human factors
associated with the adoption, usage, and impact of emerging technologies
in enterprise environments. Her research also includes understanding
the effectiveness of podcasting as a learning tool in higher education.
Her research has been published in Electronic Markets, the International
Journal of Management Theory and Practices, and has been presented at
the Americas Conference on Information Systems, the International Conference
on Information Systems, and at the Hawaii International Conference on
System Sciences.
Michele serves as a chairperson for the "Mobile Commerce Strategy & Behavioral
Issues" mini-track for the Americas Conference on Information Systems
and is the Vice-President of Membership Communication for the Association
for Information Systems Special Interest Group on e-Business. She is
also a member of the Capitol Chapter of the Association of IT Professionals
and the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society.
Yifeng Zhang,
is an assistant professor in 
Management Information Systems at University
of Illinois at Springfield. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Textile Engineering
from China Textile University, a Master’s
degree in Commodity Science from Renmin University of China, and a PhD
degree in Management Information Systems from University of Illinois
at Chicago.
His teaching areas include Management Information Systems, Telecommunications, Information Security, Data Warehousing, and E-commerce: Business Use of the Internet. He has taught courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels.
His research interests include Agent-Based Modeling, Electronic Marketplaces, Supply Chain Management, Human Computer Interactions, and Data Mining.
Dr. Te-Wei Wang, is an assistant professor at
the University
of Illinois at Springfield. Dr. Want received his Ph.D. from the Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale in 2001. His research interests include
System Analysis and Design, Virtual Society, and Knowledge Management.
His publications can be found in Decision Support Systems, Journal of
Database Management, and Review of Business Information Systems etc.
Dr. Wang teaches online and face to face courses in Database Management,
Systems Analysis and Design and End User Computing. He is also an active
member of AIS and make frequent presentations in both national and international
conferences.