Tarun K. Sen, of Blacksburg, Va., professor of accounting and information systems at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business, has been appointed associate dean of graduate and international programs and MBA director in the Pamplin College.

Sen joined Virginia Tech in 1985 and has taught in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, the Northern Virginia MBA program, and the Master’s of Information Technology (MIT) program. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on database management systems, management information systems, systems analysis and design, e-business technology and management, and software project management.

Sen has been active in funded research and has published in leading journals, including Management Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Decision Support Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. He has been on the editorial review board of the Journal of Information Systems and has participated in several National Science Foundation review panels. His current research involves component-based approaches to designing enterprise systems.

Sen has led many management development programs and workshops and has served on numerous college committees, including the graduate program in information technology advisory committee, MBA advisory committee, and the international programs committee. He helped develop the MIT program and is assisting in promoting the program internationally. He led the successful launching of Pamplin’s first executive MBA program in the Washington, D.C., area.

Sen, who has been serving in this position on an interim basis since last July, has a Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Iowa. He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore, India, and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India.

Virginia Tech's nationally ranked Pamplin College of Business offers undergraduate and graduate programs in accounting and information systems, business information technology, economics, finance, hospitality and tourism management, management, and marketing. The college emphasizes the development of leadership skills and ethical values and the integration of technology in the academic curriculum, and prepares students for global business challenges through faculty-led study abroad programs. The college has research centers that focus on business leadership, electronic commerce, energy modeling, and wireless telecommunications. The college is committed to serving business and society through the expertise of its faculty, alumni, and students.

Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech has grown to become the largest university in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Today, Virginia Tech’s eight colleges are dedicated to putting knowledge to work through teaching, research, and outreach activities and to fulfilling its vision to be among the top 30 research universities in the nation. At its 2,600-acre main campus located in Blacksburg and other campus centers in Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 28,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 170 academic degree programs.

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