Bret Wagner joined the Haworth College of Business', Western Michigan University, Department of Management from the University of Delaware, where he has taught since 1994.
With a Ph.D. in operations management from Michigan State and a master's of engineering administration from George Washington University, he has strengths in production and operations management and in integrated supply matrix management. He has worked as an engineer and engineering supervisor at Newport News Shipbuilding.
His research interests are production planning and scheduling, simulation, supply chain management, and enterprise resource planning systems.