Joseph R. Sprangel Jr. (Joe) has an MBA from Spring Arbor University and BBA from
Eastern Michigan University. He is an Instructor of Operations Management for Ithaca College
focused on sustainable development practices. He brings to the classroom 28 years of industry
experience, in part involved in the implementation of lean operations leading to waste elimination in
the areas of administration, R&D, design, process development, production, and supply chain
management. He is a DBA student at Lawrence Technological University. His research area of
interest is development of a framework to move an organization from status quo to a focus of
sustainable development practices.
