Dr. Mike Inglis

Overview

Mike Inglis joined the Ted Rogers School of Management in 1998 as an assistant professor and was named an associate professor in 2011.

Inglis came to TRSM with both teaching and engineering experience under his belt: he had worked as a part-time lecturer at both the University of Toronto and York University and had spent three years working as a systems engineer.

During the slowdown in the economy in the 1990s, Inglis decided to pursue his interest in economics and finance and returned to university to earn his MBA. He enjoyed learning and continued to earn a PhD in finance.

“I first got interested in economics and finance because I liked mathematics,” Inglis said. “I was always interested in what was going on in the economy; I was fascinated by decision-making under uncertainty. It overlapped with the engineering I had done.”

Inglis is proud to note that the finance program is now part of TRSM’s School of Accounting & Finance. He enjoys being in the classroom and works hard at writing cases that he can use to teach his students techniques for forming portfolios or other finance skills.

“I use the flipped classroom model,” he said. “I don’t tell them how to do the case; I have them go home and work on it and then we’ll discuss it.”

Inglis currently teaches a financial modelling course that he has completely revamped, as well as a course focused on fixed income financial instruments. He deliberately incorporates work with Excel spreadsheets into his financial modelling class.

“It’s a tool in the business world and employers like students to hit the ground and run with it,” he said. “I teach it in the introductory finance class and take it up another level in financial modelling.”