Professor René Ordoñez has been a member of the faculty of the SOU School of Business since 1987. He served as the Department Chair from 2004 to 2011. Currently, he teaches Applied Business Statistics, and Operations Management at Southern Oregon University, School of Business' undergraduate business program, Strategic Operations Management in the MBA Program, Practical Research, and Capstone in the Masters in Management Program. Past courses he taught include Introduction to Management Science, Applied Business Research, and Business Planning. In 2001, he spent 5 months in the Philippines, where he taught at the College of Commerce of the Ateneo de Naga University, as part of his sabbatical. In summer 2010, 2012, and 2013, he taught at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He also taught Practical Research and Capstone for the Masters in Management program at the University of Guanajuato, MexicoRene was born and raised in the Philippines. His academic credentials include: a Bachelor of Arts degree, major in Economics, from the University of the Philippines (1982); an MBA (management) from the University of Akron (1987); and Doctor of Philosophy in Management Science (with Academic Distinction) from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago (1997).His research interest is in the use of technology in pedagogy. Since 1999, he has been actively involved in the design, development, and implementation of course curricula that incorporate technology in the classroom as well as in the delivery of course content. In the past five years, he worked on various business statistics and operations management textbooks published by McGraw-Hill, where he developed narrated PowerPoints and video examples.Specific Areas of Expertise: Statistical Process ControlDecision Making Models in ExcelBusiness Research MethodsStatistics as a Decision Making ToolManagement ScienceWeb Survey Design and ImplementationStatistical Data Processing Using Excel and Minitab

Taught at CBS' International Summer Program in 2010, 2012 to 2019. Taught applied statistics for business and economics (graduate program) and basic statistics for business and economics (undergraduate program). Taught graduate course - Decision-Making Models and Tools for Operations and Supply Chain Management in summer 2014. Taught econometrics in 2015.

Trained Massiff operations staff on statistical process control procedures.Developed QC charts.Advised Massiff on QC-related issues.

Developed quality control procedures (control charts) for printing operations.

Taught statistics and operations management both at the undergraduate and MBA programs while pursuing PhD work at IIT.

Performed time-motion study to evaluate the plant's coil pickling (cold-rolled steel cleaning process) productivity. Developed regression models for estimating processing times for a variety of steel characteristics (gauge, width, type of cleaning, etc.)

Participated in conducting numerous national field researches for TBAC in the area of agricultural credit in the Philippines. TBAC, an NGO agency, provided research in support of the country's agricultural credit policy-making bodies (e.g. Central Bank of the Philippines, the then Ministry of Agriculture (now the Department of Agriculture). TBAC has since then became the Agricultural Credit Policy Council.