Thank You Chris! Welcome Mohan!

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:52:54 -0400

Dear AAAFSC Community,

Thank you very much for participating in our Spring 2023 election. We had the highest level of member engagement in the history of AAAFSC.

We thank Chris Tong (Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication) who will be cycling off his two years of leadership to AAAFSC at the end of this semester.

Just in case you haven't met Chris:

Chris speaks English, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, and German and has reading knowledge of French and Japanese. He also helps coordinate Chinese language teaching in the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication. Chris publishes on the intersection of culture, politics, and ecology in modern China and the United States. In this story in UMBC Magazine, Chris shares his Fulbright experience in the People’s Republic of China with Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque and talks about his personal connections to research.

We also welcome Mohan Sundaram to the AAAFSC executive board. Mohan will serve as a member-at-large from Fall 2023 to Spring 2026.

Mohan is a Lecturer in the Information Systems department at UMBC. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering, an MS in Industrial Engineering, and an MS in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OHIO. He has over 32+ years’ experience at GE Lighting in various capacities in the Supply Chain Organization. His strength lies in bringing practical business applications and experiential learning to the classroom. He teaches classes in the areas of applied Business Statistics, Management Science, Data Analytics, Operations Management, Logistics, Lean Six Sigma and Global Supply Chain at both Undergraduate and Graduate levels. He is passionate about teaching statistics and quantitative methods for business decision-making. He is also APICS and Six Sigma certified. His teaching experience includes Johns Hopkins, UMD, Towson, UMBC, UBALT, Kent, CASE, John Carroll, and Cleveland State Universities.

The new AAAFSC executive board :

Shuyan Sun, Chair, (Fall 2022-Spring 2025)

Emily Yoon, Vice Chair (Spring 2022-Fall 2024)

Marissa Clayton, Secretary (Fall 2022-Spring 2025)

Sharon Tran, Member-At-Large (Fall 2022-Spring 2025)

Liang Zhu, Member-At-Large (Spring 2022-Fall 2024)

Mohan Sundaram, Member-At-Large (Fall 2023-Spring 2026)