Dr. Noon is a Professor of Management Science at The University of Tennessee. He teaches in the full-time MBA program and was a founding member of the highly ranked Physician Executive MBA Program. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. His teaching awards include the 2000 Gregory Dobbins Outstanding Teaching and Research Award and numerous Outstanding Teacher Awards in the Physician Executive MBA Program. He was selected as a Stokely Scholar (1995-1997) of the College of Business Administration at The University of Tennessee. His teaching interests include operational improvement, business modeling, spatial analysis, optimization, simulation, and decision analysis. His applied research concerns computer-based models and process improvement. Dr. Noon’s industrial experience includes first-line supervision at the Procter & Gamble Company, Director of Research at Jewelry Television, and large-scale modeling projects at a number of organizations including Philips Consumer Electronics, Dell Computers, TVA, Sears, Martin-Marietta, and the Electric Power Research Institute. He has also worked with various healthcare systems on service capacity planning.

He is married and has three children ages 8, 12 and 14. He enjoys playing soccer and squash and also coaches chess at his children's school.

Selected Publications:

• F.B. Zhan, X. Chen, C.E. Noon, and G. Wu, "A GIS-Enabled Comparison of Fixed and Discriminatory Pricing Strategies for Potential Switchgrass-to-Ethanol Conversion Facilities in Alabama," Biomass & Bioenergy, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2005.
• C.E. Noon, C. Hankins and M. Cote, “Understanding the Impact of Variation in the Delivery of Healthcare Services," Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2003.
• C.E. Noon, F.B. Zhan and R.L. Graham, “GIS-Based Analysis of Marginal Price Variation with an Application in the Identification of Candidate Ethanol Conversion Plant Locations,” Networks and  Spatial Economics, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2002.
• F.B. Zhan and C.E. Noon, “A Comparison Between Label-Correcting and Label-Setting Algorithms for Computing One-to-One Shortest Paths,” Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2000.
• R. Graham, B. English and C.E. Noon "A GIS-based modeling system for evaluating the cost of delivered energy crop feedstock," Biomass & Bioenergy, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2000.
• F.B. Zhan and C.E. Noon, "Shortest Path Algorithms: An Evaluation Using Real Road Networks," Transportation Science, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1998 .
• R. Graham, W. Liu, M. Downing, M. Daly, C.E. Noon, and A. Moore, "The Effect of Location and Facility Demand on the Marginal Cost of Delivered Wood Chips from Energy Crops: A Case Study of the State of Tennessee," Biomass & Bioenergy, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1997.
• R. Garfinkel, P. Sundararaghavan, C.E. Noon, and D. Smith, "Optimal Use of Hub Facilities: A Two-Hub Model with Fixed Arc Costs," TOP, Vol. 4, NO. 2, 1996.
• M. Bowers, C.E. Noon and B. Thomas, "A Parallel Implementation of the TSSP+1 Decomposition for the Capacity-Constrained Vehicle Routing Problem," Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 23, No. 7, 1996.
• C.E. Noon and M.J. Daly, "GIS-Based Biomass Resource Assessment with BRAVO," Biomass & Bioenergy, Vol. 10, Nos 2-3, 1996.
• C.E. Noon, J. Mittenthal, and R. Pillai, "A TSSP+1 Decomposition Strategy for the Vehicle Routing Problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 79, 1994.
• C.E. Noon, T. Chan, and G.M. You, "A Fast Lower Bound for the Minimum Cost Perfect 2-Matching Linear Program," American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, Vol. 13 No. 3, 1993.
• C.E. Noon and J.C. Bean, "An Efficient Transformation of the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem," Information Systems and Operational Research, Vol. 31 No. 1, 1993.
• J. Mittenthal and C.E. Noon," An Insert/Delete Heuristic for the Traveling Salesman Subset-Tour Problem with One Additional Constraint," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 43 No. 3, 1992.
• C.E. Noon and J.C. Bean, "A Lagrangian Based Approach to the Asymmetric Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem," Operations Research, Vol. 39 No. 4, 1991.
• J.C. Bean, J.R. Birge, J. Mittenthal, and C.E. Noon, "Match-Up Scheduling with Multiple Resources, Release Dates and Disruptions," Operations Research, Vol. 39 No. 3, 1991.

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