Walter Towner

The Business School
Associate Teaching Professor-Business
AFFILIATED DEPARTMENT OR OFFICE
Industrial Engineering
EDUCATION
BSME Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 1983
MBA Babson College 1989
MSOIT Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 2001
MSMFE Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 2003
PhD Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 2013
Expert Bio

Professor Towner's research areas are manufacturing and industrial engineering. His focus lies at the intersection of manufacturing processes and the financial aspect of the business that relates to these processes.

Research areas/Expertise
Operations Management
manufacturing engineering
axiomatic design
Engineering Economics.

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