The mission of the ODU school of supply chain, 物流 and maritime operations and is to:
•Promote awareness of supply chain, 物流, and maritime operations and its interdisciplinary nature to K-12 population and college students.
•Coordinate interdisciplinary academic programming related to supply chain, 物流, and maritime operations.
•Expand and enhance supply chain, 物流, and maritime operations workforce development and training to focused education programs for a diverse group of learners.
•Facilitate a collaborative approach to 研究 among different academic units as related to the supply chain, 物流, and maritime operations to address real world problems through innovative and cutting-edge 研究.
•Facilitate collaboration with industry, 业务, and military partners related to workforce development, and applied and transitional 研究.
•Serve as a clearing house for supply chain, 物流, and maritime operations academic programming, 研究, and training.
Studying Supply Chain, 物流 and Maritime Operations in Hampton Roads Area
ODU is located in the center of Shipbuilding, Ship repairs, 国防, 杂货, 煤炭, 容器, 干散货, Liquid Bulk, Passenger (cruises), Refrigerated, 滚装, warehousing, subsea cables and Offshore Wind activities.
Our region has rail, highway and barge connectivity to Virginia and the US East Coast.
Strategically located in the heart of the Maritime 物流 and Industrial Cluster in Hampton Roads