LogoITU - LogoGLOBAL CONFERENCE
ON
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
(GCETM) 2014

June 23-26, 2014

“GAINING A COMPETITIVE EDGE THROUGH ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT”



Professor Sardar M. N. Islam

June 23, 2014

Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

The Role of Management Science in Engineering Management: An Example from Enterprise (Accounting) Risk Management

Professor Sardar M. N. Islam is Professor of Business, Economics and Finance; and Director, Decision Sciences & Modelling Program, Victoria University, Australia. He has also been appointed as a Visiting Professor of Management Science. One of the areas of Professor Islam’s specialisations is Applied Managements Science/ applied quantitative modelling. He is currently undertaking research, teaching and doctorate supervision work in Applied Management Science addressing issues in a wide range of disciplines in accounting, economics, finance, business, and law. He has published 21 finance, accounting, business, economics and law research books. Each of these books makes significant secular scientific contributions to the literature and most of these books are published by very prestigious publishers in their highly regarded book series. Many university libraries around the world including all top universities such as Harvard, Cambridge, etc. have many of his books. He has published many articles (total about 200) including journal articles in international journals (including 3 A*, 15 A, 19 B & 16 C grade journal articles and a good number of articles in other indexed and reputed journals) such as the following leading journals: Journal of Optimisation Theory and Applications, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Economic Modelling, and Journal of Policy Modelling. He is the Principal Supervisor of a big group of doctoral (PhD and DBA) students in Management Science addressing issues in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Supply Chain Management/Applied Industrial engineering, and Business. He has successfully completed a good number (total 18) of doctoral (PhD and DBA) students, many of these students have done very well in their careers. He has been actively involved in teaching (full subject) or guest lecturing for different DBA subjects at Victoria University since 1995 (for 18 years).