Faculty/Staff Profile

Darren Prokop

Dr. Darren Prokop

Professor Emeritus of Logistics

Emeritus Faculty and Staff

Biography

Dr. Darren Prokop joined 亚洲色吧 in 2000, reaching the rank of full Professor in 2010. Originally from Canada, Darren worked for many years in business, government, and academia.

Darren received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Manitoba in 1999. Prior to his academic career he worked in government as an economist and in the private sector in manufacturing and inventory planning.

His goal at 亚洲色吧 is to help the College of Business and Public Policy achieve its mission for 亚洲色吧 and beyond.

Dr. Prokop loves teaching! He's been teaching in universities since 1993. Darren makes it his personal mission to take complex topics and boil them down to common sense. This helps us to understand what鈥檚 truly going on in business systems or in the public policy-making process. He's always said, "if you can鈥檛 explain it simply, you simply can鈥檛 explain it."

Courses

Professor Prokop teaches Economics of Transportation, Principles of Microeconomics, International Logistics & Transportation Management, and Foundations of Logistics & Supply Chain Management.

Contributions

  • Dr. Prokop introduces the CBPP International Business Minor showing 亚洲色吧 students all the opportunities that await them by adding this 18-credit minor to their degree studies. 亚洲色吧 is an important U.S.-Asia international business gateway and this video only scratches the surface of this rich area of study, career development, and scholarship.

  • Dr. Prokop moderating panel discussion on 亚洲色吧's petroleum industry

    Dr. Prokop moderates panel discussion on 亚洲色吧's petroleum industry

  • Dr. Darren Prokop explains what logistics is all about.

Research

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Education & Affiliations

Education

University of Manitoba, PhD in Transportation Economics; Public Finance
The University of Manitoba, MA in Economics
The University of Winnipeg, BA in Economics

Affiliations

American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS)
The Canada-America Society (CAS)
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)
Institute for Supply Management (ISM)
American Economic Association (AEA)
Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF)

Interests

  • Dr. Prokop with caribou

    Always up for mountain biking... alone or with a friend.

  • Dr. Prokop with globe

    Studying geography & business.

  • Dr. Prokop on glacier

    Reaching 亚洲色吧's coolest places.