Texas Logistics Education Foundation and the Center for Logistics Education and Research

Four corporations — EXE Technologies, Verizon, EXEL and Ryder Integrated Logistics — working together through the Texas Logistics Education Foundation, committed initial funding to establish the Center for Logistics Education and Research. The center's development is industry driven, and corporations contribute to the center to enhance the education of logistics students and professionals. Commitments to the center and the TLEF scholarship program have exceeded $750,000.

The center, a unit of the Department of Marketing in the College of Business Administration, provides opportunities for firms to interact with interns and graduates. The center sponsors continuing education courses and workshops, certificate programs, executive roundtables, symposiums and conferences for member firms and the larger academic and logistics community. The center's industry participants share ideas and research results in regular meetings with leading academics and practitioners.

UNT students are involved directly with the center through the Logistics Student Association. LOGSA is designed to inform students about current practice in the logistics industry and the professional opportunities available to them. The officers work directly with the center to provide speakers and informative meetings to the students at UNT. The center also produces programs to increase the awareness of logistics activities among high school and college students to interest more of them in a logistics and supply chain management career.

On Nov. 16, 2000,the center sponsored its fourth annual Executive Logistics Forum at the Texas Motor Speedway Club. At the forum, speakers from the founding donor companies, Verizon, EXEL, Ryder Integrated Logistics., and EXE Technologies Inc., discussed issues and challenges facing the industry. Other executives from companies such as Frito-Lay Inc., Cass Information Systems Inc., EDS Corp. and GroceryWorks.com spoke to the group. Corporate sponsors gave marketing and logistics students the opportunity to attend this forum, which allowed them to learn more about the industry and provided an opportunity for networking.

BY RON HASTY, DIRECTOR logisticscenter@unt.edu

Other web resources:

• Texas Logistics Education Foundation and the Center for Logistics Education and Research

 

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