Next available term: Fall 2026

Important Application Deadline Information:

• For acceptance into a fall semester, international applications are due December 1, 2025.

• Domestic applications will be reviewed as they are received.

The Department of Transportation, Logistics, and Finance offers a Ph.D. degree in Transportation and Supply Chain. The degree is awarded through the College of Business in collaboration with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI). The program takes an interdisciplinary approach to transportation and supply chain and attracts students with backgrounds in supply chain management, transportation, agribusiness, applied economics, civil engineering, construction management, emergency management, finance, geosciences, and industrial/manufacturing engineering.

Ruhaimatu Abudu

Graduate Teaching & Research Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

• Supply Chain Resilience
• Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics in Supply Chain
• Maritime Transport and Policy

Evans Akoto

Graduate Research Assistant
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI)

Research Interests:

Herman Benjamin Atuobi

Graduate Research Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

• Autonomous Trucking
• IOTs
• Agricultural Supply Chain

Imran Badshah

Graduate Research Assistant
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI)

Research Interests:

• Traffic Safety
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Traffic Modeling

Md. Iqbal Bahar

Graduate Research Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

Prince Solomon Boadu

Graduate Research Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

Kwabena Dadson

Graduate Teaching Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

• Risk Analysis and Resilience
• Freight Transportation
• Multimodal Transport Systems
• Supply Chain Finance

Wesam Helmi

Research Interests:

• Containerized Grain Movement
• Supply Chain Management
• Freight Transportation

Edmond Loni M. Lisinge

Graduate Research Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

David Mannah

Research Interests:

• Transportation and Supply Chain Infrastructure
• Resilient Healthcare Logistics
• Supply Chains and Reverse Logistics
• Last Mile Delivery Optimization

Benedictus Dotu Nyan

Graduate Research Assistant
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI)

Research Interests:

Richard D. Penneigh

Graduate Research Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

• Supply Chain Finance
• Procurement
• Sourcing
• Production Scheduling
• Last Mile Logistics

Baishali Rahman

Graduate Research Assistant
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI)

Research Interests:

• Integrated Public Transit
• Travel Demand Modeling
• Urgan Air Mobility
• Traffic Safety

Emmanuel Anu Thompson

Graduate Research Assistant
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI)

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