The Heart of the Matter

"The Heart of the Matter for me is being able to share the education, industrial experience, and personal Christian perspectives with students with the hope and prayer that they will leave this place and be a light to the world."

Contact Information:

Office: 279 Mabee Business Building
Address: ACU Box 29309, Abilene, Texas 79699
E-mail: don.pope@coba.acu.edu
Telephone: 325-674-2786
FAX: 325-674-2507

Degrees, Licenses & Certificates:

• Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering), Texas A&M University, 1980
• M.Engr. (Industrial Engineering), Texas A&M University, 1976
• BS (Mathematics), Oklahoma Christian University of Sciences & Arts, 1975

Academic Positions Held:

• Instructor of Operations Research in the School of Business, Texas Christian University, Spring 1983, Fall 1983, Spring 1984.

Other Positions:

• 5 Years, Team Leader, Manufacturing Systems Planning, Manufacturing,  5 Years, Manager, Master Planning, Industrial Engineering,  8 Years, Manager, Modeling Simulation, Industrial Modernization, Northrop Grumman - Integrated Systems and Aerostructures Sector, July 1982-2000
• Senior Manufacturing Technology Engineer, General Dynamics/Fort Worth Division, 1980-1982.

Courses Taught:

• Production Management
• Statistics
• E-commerce
• Project Management
• SAP R/3 enterprise software
• Quality Management

Research Areas:

• Operations management applications in nonprofits
• Enterprise software systems education

Outside Activities:

• Zambia Medical Mission

Representative Papers:

• Pope, Don and Brister, Jozell (2001) “Jones Aircraft: A Future Up in the Air”, 2001 Annual Advances in Case Research, Society of Case Research.
• Pope, Don, Parris, Andrew and Smith, Kent (2004) “The Lean Church: Streamlining Your Ministry for Maximum Effectiveness”, Don Pope, Andrew Parris, and Kent Smith,  Regents Business Review, Issue 10,  http://www.regent.edu/acad/schbus/maz/busreview/issue10/leanchurch.html
• Totten, Jeff and Pope, Don (2004) “EM2: The Phone Rang at the Game”, Business Case Journal, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 52-59.
• Perkins, David and Pope, Don (2003) “Our Unchanging God: An Anchor in the Sea of Uncertainty”, David Perkins and Don Pope, Christian Business Faculty Association Annual Conference.
• Vardiman, Phil, Pope, Don, Jinkerson, Darryl, and Coco, Malcolm (2003) “A Study of Performance Assessment Practices in Local Church Congregations”, Christian Business Faculty Association Annual Conference.
• Pope, Don and Dalzell, Joyce (2004) “FaithWorks: A Case Study in Nonprofit Planning and Implementation”, Christian Business Faculty Association Annual Conference.
• Small, Charles, Pope, Don and Reeves, Brent (2002) “KCITI: A Model for Teaching Technology in a Third World Urban Setting”, The Christian Scholar’s Conference, Oklahoma Christian University, Oklahoma City, OK.
• Pope, Don and Reeves, Brent (2002) “Lean and Technology: Friends or Foes?”, Applied Manufacturing Conference, sponsored by Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center (TMAC), San Antonio, TX.