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Darren McCaugherty

Lecturer

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Darren McCaugherty is a Lecturer at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University.

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  • General Business

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Darren McCaugherty is a lecturer at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University. He has held administrative leadership positions since joining the school in 2003. During his time at Smith, Darren has been actively involved with managing and executing recruitment, admissions, and delivery strategies for all of the professional graduate programs from an operational standpoint. In addition, he has played an integral role in launching new programs in the Smith graduate program portfolio.

He began teaching in 2010 and has taught several Commerce and non-Commerce undergraduate courses in Business Management.

Darren holds a Bachelor of Commerce and MBA from Smith School of Business at Queen’s University.

In terms of volunteer work, Darren is actively involved with the local sports community. He coaches competitive minor hockey teams and he is actively involved with participating on boards of local sports organizations.

Academic Degrees

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
School of Business, Queen's University (2007)

Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)
School of Business, Queen's University (1997)

Academic Experience

Smith School of Business, Queen’s University
Director, Program Services, Professional Graduate Programs (2010 Present)
Lecturer (2010 - Present)
Director, Materials Management (2009-2010)
Associate Director, Operations & Administration (2007-2009)
Academic Assistant & Grader for MBA Business Statistics courses (2004-2013)
Program Manager, Cornell-Queen’s Executive MBA (2004-2007)
Program Manager, Executive MBA (2003-2004)

Teaching

Specializing in teaching introductory business courses to first year Commerce and  upper-year non-business students at Queen's University

COMM 101 A/B – Introduction to Commerce

COMM 103 – Business Management

COMM 200/600 – Introduction to Business Management

Service

Qualifications

F.L.M.I. - Fellow, Life Management Institute (with Distinction) (2002)

Canadian Securities Course (1996)

Professional Conferences & Education

Executive MBA Council – www.emba.org : Regular attendee to the annual and regional conferences for the Executive MBA programs around the globe

Desire2Learn – www.desire2learn.ca : Regular attendee to the user conference (Fusion) focusing on the learning management system supported by Queen’s School of Business

Capsim – www.capsim.net : Attended a thorough overview on the Capsim Foundation simulation that is taught in my COMM 200 course (2011)