News Release

Business faculty member delivers course in Saudi Arabia

June 17, 2008

Penn State Harrisburg Professor of Supply Chain Management Richard Young was recently selected to present an online graduate-level course on supply management and procurement through the University’s World Campus.

And as part of his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Young was asked to deliver the first week’s classes personally – in Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Young traveled to Dhahran the last week in May to teach a class consisting of 22 Saudi nationals and three Americans at the main Saudi Aramco facility. The course began with a discussion on strategic procurement. The online instruction will end on July 31 in the third four-credit course leading to a certificate in Supply Chain Management.

In the past, Dr. Young has offered various aspects of this course to the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army Materiel Command, Koppers Industries, Unilever NV in Amsterdam, and SwissAir Groupe in Zurich. He continues to research such critical aspects of supply chain management as landed cost models and global supply chain complexity.

The director of Penn State Harrisburg’s MBA program, he is a Fellow of the Institute for Supply Chain Management, an educator member of the American Association of Transportation and Logistics, and vice president-elect of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Defense Transportation Association.