Tyson R. Browning

Dr. Tyson R. Browning (www.TysonBrowning.com) is Associate Professor of Operations Management in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University, where he conducts research on managing complex projects and teaches courses on project and operations management. He has served as a consultant for several organizations, including General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Seagate, Southern California Edison, and the U.S. Navy.

Prior to joining TCU in 2003, he worked for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company as the technical lead and chief integrator for enterprise processes, and for the Lean Aerospace Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), conducting on-site research at Boeing, Chrysler, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas, Sundstrand, and Texas Instruments. He has also worked for Honeywell Space Systems and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He earned a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Abilene Christian University and two Master's degrees and a Ph.D. from MIT.

His internationally recognized research on managing complex projects appears in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Project Management, Journal of Mechanical Design, Journal of Operations Management, Production & Operations Management, Project Management Journal, and Systems Engineering. He is also the co-author of a book on the Design Structure Matrix (DSM).

He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and he serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and Systems Engineering.