Rate My Professor Brad Venable

Dr. Brad Venable is Chair of the Department of Management and Jefferson-Pilot Professor of the Practice of Supply Chain Management at High Point University, where he also holds the position of Assistant Professor of the Practice of Management within the Earl N. Phillips School of Business. He earned a Ph.D. in Manufacturing Technology Management from Indiana State University, an MBA in Management from High Point University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. An alumnus of High Point University, Venable brings over two decades of industry experience from his primary career at Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp., where he progressed through key roles including Engineering/Quality Systems Manager, Applications/Sales Engineering Manager, Manufacturing Process Engineer, and Quality Control Engineer. Throughout his professional tenure, he specialized in developing and mentoring employees in manufacturing and industrial environments, working extensively with engineers and production team members. Prior to his full-time faculty appointment in 2022, Venable served as an adjunct instructor at High Point University for more than 15 years, delivering undergraduate courses in Operations and Supply Chain Management and leveraging his practical expertise to prepare students for industry demands.

Venable's academic interests center on continuous process improvement, lean manufacturing, and operations management across diverse manufacturing and industrial settings. In his current role, he instructs graduate-level courses such as Transportation Logistics Management and Global Supply Chain and Operations Management within the MBA program's Supply Chain Management concentration, a program area he contributed to developing by recruiting students and designing relevant classes. His scholarly work includes the peer-reviewed article titled “Benefits of Implementing Concurrent Engineering Practices to Improve Quality, Information, and Product Flow and Lower Costs,” published in the Ethics and Critical Thinking Journal and presented at the Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) conference in May 2013. By integrating real-world manufacturing insights with classroom instruction, Venable effectively transitions his proven industry successes to educate and mentor the next generation of business professionals entering the workforce.