Dr. Patrick G. McKeown

Professor Emeritus

Terry College of Business, The University of Georgia


Greetings from Florida

Dr. Patrick G. (Pat) McKeown is a retired professor of MIS who splits his time between Fort Myers Beach, FL and Athens, GA, with his wife, Carolyn, a retired Infection Control Coordinator at Advantage Behavioral Health Services. He has been a longtime resident (30 years) of Athens, GA. where he was a Professor and the Head of the Department of Management Information Systems in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Raised in Ocala, Florida, he attended Georgia Tech where he received a Bachelors of Aerospace Engineering and a Masters of Industrial Management. Pat earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Originally trained in Operations Research, his current research interests include revenue management and methods of teaching the introductory course in MIS. Prior to retirement, he taught courses in introduction to programming using Visual Basic, rapid application development using ASP.NET, electronic commerce strategy, and revenue management. He and Robert G. Cross, Executive in Residence in the Terry College have recently taught courses in revenue management the University of Passau in May of 2005 and in the Evening MBA Program at the Gwinnett Center in the Fall of 2005. Upon his retirement in 2003, he was a Teaching Fellow at Massey University in Auckland, NZ.

Pat has published close to 50 articles in such journals as Operations Research, Management Science, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, and Computers and Operations Research. He has also published more than 30 books including Learning to Program with Visual Basic, 2ed. (2002) and  Learning to Program with VB .NET (2004) both published by Wiley. He also has published Information Technology and the Networked Economy, 2ed. (Course Technology, 2003) and is a co-author on a forthcoming book, Introduction to  Information Systems, with Mark Huber and Craig Piercy to be published by John Wiley & Sons in the late fall of 2006.

He received a Fulbright Fellowship in 1998 to teach in Portugal. He has also taught at the University of Helsinki, the University of Braga in Portugal, and the School of Business Leadership at the University of South Africa. He is a member of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) and a Fellow of the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA).


Current Textbooks

Information Technology and the Networked Economy, 2ed.by Patrick G. McKeown published by Course Technology.

Learning to Program with Visual Basic, 2ed. by Patrick G. McKeown and Craig Piercy published by John Wiley and Sons. Visit the associated web site at http://www.negia.net/~vbbook

Learning to Prograzm with VB .NET  by Patrick G. McKeown published by John Wiley and Sons. Visit the associated web site here



You can download Pat’s vita in Word format here and he can be reached via e-mail at pmckeown@uga.edu .