Computer Science and Software Engineering

Dr. Matthew White

Lecturer in Game Development

Office Location:

Burke 235A

Phone:

(814) 898 6144

Fax:

(814)8 986 125

Email:

mmw22@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Dr. Matthew White received a B.A. and B.Ed. from Cape Breton University in 2006 and 2007 respectively. He then completed a M.Ed. in Instructional Design and Technology from the University of New Brunswick at Fredericton in 2008. His recent Ph.D. work was completed at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and dealt with how video game players assimilate new information and play skills.

Dr. White joined Penn State Behrend in August 2012. Prior to working with us, he studied Usability and User Experience at the University of Prince Edward Island, and was a professional Game Designer for an independent development studio called Snow Day Games.

A member of the Canadian Game Studies Association, Digital Games Research Association, and International Game Developer's Association, Dr. White's interdisciplinary work involves creating and playing games, as well as studying them and their larger effects and significance.

Teaching

Courses for Fall 2012

GAME 201 - Introduction to Game Design

GAME 301 - Advanced Game Design

Courses for Spring 2013

GAME 202 - Introduction to Game Programming

GAME 401 - Game Development Project

Research

Research Interests

Digital Game Development

Game Design (Discipline and Methods)

Interface Design

Hardware Design

UX/UI

Sound and Music in Multimedia

Games and Society

Independent Development Communities

Publications

Chapters and Articles

White, M. (2012). Designing tutorial modalities and strategies for digital games: Lessons from education. International Journal of Game-Based Learning (IJGBL), 2(2), 13-34. doi:10.4018/ijgbl.2012040102

White, M., & Mann, B. (2009). Learning from Non-Player Characters in a Role-Playing Game. Yaffle.

White, M. (2009). Toward a new theory of learning from multimedia: The case of digital games. Proceedings of EDGE Conference on Teacher Education, St. John's, NL.

White, M. (2009). The senescence of creativity: How market forces are killing digital games. Loading...3(4).

White, M. (2009). Second language learning through a role-playing game. Proceedings of Aldrich Interdisciplinary Conference, St. John's, NL.

White, M. (2008). Level 10 Human Student. University of New Brunswick Faculty of Education.

Conference Presentations / Invited Talks

Taylor, N., Fisher, S., & White, M. (2011). Exploring "content-free" digital game design. GRAND Annual Conference WIP Session, 2012. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

White, M. (2010). Gender and digital games: Learning from Education. Aldrich Interdisciplinary Conference, March, 2010. St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

White, M. (2009). Toward a new theory of learning through multimedia. EDGE Conference on Teacher Education, 2009, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

White, M. (2009). Careers in the games industry... other than design. Screwattack Gaming Convention (SGC), July, 2009. Dallas, Texas, USA.

White, M., & Mann, B. (2009). Blurring our real and virtual worlds. Conference of the Canadian Game Studies Association, May, 2009. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

White, M. (2009). Cognitive load management and retention in teaching with an interactive game. Memorial University of Newfoundland Doctoral Speaker Series, St. John's, Newfoundland.

White, M. (2009). Toward a needs assessment for educational computer games. Aldrich Interdisciplinary Conference, March, 2009, St. John's, Newfoundland.

White, M. (2008). Level 10 human student: Role-playing games as a teaching tool. Conference of the Canadian Game Studies Association, May, 2008, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Service

International Game Developer's Association (IGDA)

Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA)

Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)

Graphics, Animation, and New Media Research Network (GRAND-NCE)

Reviewer

Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association

Foundations of Digital Games Conference 2012

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Dr. Xiaocong Fan

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 159

Phone:

(814) 898 6562

Email:

xfan@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Dr. Xiaocong Simon Fan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He received his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Nanjing University, China.

Before joining the faculty at Penn State Behrend, Dr. Fan conducted his post-doctoral research at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, at The Pennsylvania State University 2002-2007 During, and since that time, he has researched actively in the field of Multi-Agent Systems in three thrusts: 1 fundamental issues in team collaboration and theoretical studies in proactive information sharing; 2 construction of Intelligent Agent Architectures for simulating teamwork and for supporting Decision-Making teams; 3 experimental investigations on issues such as context-switching and trust in human-agent collaboration. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Fan was a post-doctoral scholar at Department of Computer Science, Abo Akademi University, and the Turku Centre for Computer Science, Finland. During this period, he mainly focused on software agents, agent-oriented methodologies, and fundamental issues in Program Refinement Calculus.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to teamwork issues by systematically bringing together concepts and techniques from Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Software Engineering, Dr. Fan presently focuses his research on Human-Centered Computing, Multi-agent systems, Cognitive modeling, Knowledge Management, and Service-oriented architectures.

Dr. Fan is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE .

Teaching

Courses for Spring 2012

Embedded Real Time Systems

WEB Services

Previous courses taught

Communication Networks
First-Year Seminar
Object-Oriented Software Design and Construction
Embedded Real Time Systems
Software Engineering
Embedded Real Time Systems
Web Services
Embedded Real Time Systems

Previous courses taught at Penn State University, University Park

IST 311 – Object-Oriented Design & Software Application

Research

Research Interests

Human-Centric Agent-Based Collaborative Computing

Context-reflection in human-agent collaboration
Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems
Human-Trustable Autonomy
Cognitive modeling, Cognitive Aids for Decision Making Teams
Human-Agent Communication

Intelligence/Knowledge Management

Large-scale Intelligence Mining in Bioinformatics, health informatics
Knowledge Management
Context-driven Information Sharing

Agent-oriented Software Engineering

Software Architectures for Information/Knowledge-intensive domains
Service-Oriented Architecture
Semantic Web-based Agent Services

Patents

R-CAST: Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork with Shared RPD Process, U.S. Patent# 20070016464, 2007.

Funded Research Projects

Enabling Networked Knowledge for Team Decision Makings,(August 2008-Jan. 31, 2010, PI, $100K)U.S. Army Research Lab

Title: RPD-Enabled AGents as Teammates and Decision Aids (2010 task force, Co-PI, 49.2K). Sponsor: U.S. Army Research Lab: Under Advanced Decision Architecture (ADA) of Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA).
Title: RPD-Enabled Agents as Teammates and Decision Aids (2008-2009 task force, Co-PI, 159K). Sponsor: U.S. Army Research Lab: Unders Advanced Decision Architecture (ADA) of Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA).
Title: Enabling Networked Knowledge for Team Decision Makings (August 2008-July 2009, PI, 100K). Sponsor: U.S. Army Research Lab.
Title: RPD-Enabled Agents as Teammates and Decision Aids (2007-2008 task force, Co-PI, 200K). Sponsor: U.S. Army Research Lab: Under Advanced Decision Architecture (ADA) of Collaborative Technology Alliance(CTA).
Title: RPD-Enabled Agents as Teammates and Decision Aids (2006-2007, Co-PI, 150K). Sponsor: U.S. Army Research Lab: Under Advanced Decision Architecture (ADA) of Collaborative Technology Alliance(CTA).

Updated: February 7, 2011

Publications

Articles published in refereed journals

Fan, X., and Yen, J., “Modeling Cognitive Loads for Evolving Shared Mental Models in Human–Agent Collaboration,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 354-367, 2011.

Fan, X., McNeese, M., Sun, B., Hanratty, T., Allender, L., and Yen, J., “Human–Agent Collaboration for Time-Stressed Multicontext Decision Making,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans ( doi:10.1109/TSMCA.2009.2035302), vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 306-320, 2010.

Fan, X. McNeese, M., and Yen, J., “NDM-Based Cognitive Agents for Supporting Decision Making Teams,” Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 195-234, 2010.

Fan, X., Chen, P., and Yen, J. “Learning HMM-Based Cognitive Load Models for Supporting Human-Agent Teamwork,” Cognitive Systems Research, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 108-119, 2010.

Fan, X., and Yen, J. “Multi-party communication and information-need anticipation by experience,” Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 357-373, 2007.

Kamali, K., Fan, X., Yen, J., “Towards a theory for multiparty proactive communication in agent teams,” International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 271-298, 2007.

Fan, X., Yen, J., Miller, M., Loerger, T., and Volz, R. A., “MALLETA multi-agent logic language for encoding teamwork,” IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 123-138, 2006.

Fan, X., Wang, R., Sun, S., Yen, J., and Volz, R. A., “Context-centric needs anticipation using information needs graphs,” Journal of Applied Intelligence, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 75-89, 2006.

Yen, J., Fan, X., Sun, S., Hanratty, T., and Dumer, J., “Agents with shared mental models for enhancing team decision makings. Journal of Decision Support System, 41(3):634-653, 2006.

Fan, X., Yen, J., and Volz, R. A., “A theoretical framework on proactive information exchange in agent teamwork,” Artificial Intelligence Journal, vol. 169, no. 1, pp. 23-97, 2005.

Li, B., Fan, X., Pang, J., and Zhao, J., “A model for slicing Java program hierarchically,” Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 848-858, 2004.

Fan, X., and Yen, J., “Modeling and simulating human teamwork behaviors using intelligent agents,” Journal of Physics of Life Reviews, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 173-201, 2004.

Yen, J., Fan, X., and Volz, R. A., “Information needs in agent teamwork,” Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 231-247, 2004.

Fan, X., and Yen, J., “A logical splitting strategy for the belief structure of agents,” Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 199-221, 2003.

Fan, X., Xu, D., and Zheng, G., “On inheritance behavior of software agents,” Chinese Journal of Software, 2000.

Fan, X, Xu, D., and Zheng, G., “A proposal for agent-oriented analysis and design,” Nanjing University Journal, 2000.

Fan, X., Xu, D., and Zheng, G., “Reasoning about concurrent actions in multi-agent systems,” Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 422-428, 1999.

Hou, J., Zheng, T., Fan, X., Li, X., and Zheng, G., “Parameter analyzing of linear hybrid systems,” Chinese Journal of Computer, 1999.

Hou, J., Fan, X., Li, X., and Zheng, G., “A verification method for linear hybrid systems,” Nanjing University Journal, 1999.

Xu, D., Zheng, G., and Fan, X., “A logic based language for networked agents,” Information and Software Technology, vol. 40, pp. 435-442, 1998.

Fan, X., Xu, D., and Zheng, G., “The syntax and semantics of SPLAW-An agent specification and programming language,” Chinese Journal of Computer, no. 8, pp. 682-693, 1998.

Fan, X., Xu, D., and Zheng, G., “Self-confidence degree of agent’s behaviors and its revision rules,” Chinese Journal of Computer, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 40-46, 1998.

Cheng, G., Fan, X., Xu, D., and Zheng, G., “An overview of KQML,” Chinese Journal of Computer Science, vol. 25, no. 6, 1998.

Hou, J., Fan, X., Li, X., and Zheng, G., “Analyzing hybrid systems,” Chinese Journal of Computer Science, vol. 25, no. 2, 1998.

Fan, X., Xu, D., and Zheng, G., “Agent-oriented software engineering (II) specification, implementation and verification,” Chinese Journal of Computer Science, vol. 25, no. 4, 1998.

Fan, X., Xu, D., and Zheng, G., “Agent-oriented software engineering (I) agent-oriented computing, programming and the design of agent programming language,” Chinese Journal of Computer Science, vol. 25, no. 3, 1998.

Hou, J., Li, X., Fan, X., and Zheng, G., “A message-based real-time model by object-oriented technique,” ACM Operating Systems Review, vol. 31, no. 3, 1997.

Articles published in refereed proceedings

Fan, X., and Su, M., “Multi-Agent Diffusion of Decision Experiences,” Proceedings, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, pp. 321-328, Boca Raton, FL, November 2011.

Fan, X., and Su, M., “The Impact of Splitting Granularity on Multi-Agent Diffusion Computing,” Proceedings, 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, pp. 216-219, Lyon, France, August 2011.

Fan, X., and Su, M., “Using Geometric Diffusions for Recognition-Primed Multi-Agent Decision Making,” Proceedings, Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’10), pp. 275-282, Toronto, Canada, May 10-14, 2010.

Fan, X., and Su, M., “The Impacts of Diffusion Kernels on Recognition-Primed Multi-Agent Decision Making,” Proceedings, 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, pp. 117-124, Toronto, Canada, August 2010.

Su, M., Fan, X., and Ge, W., “Applying Diffusion Distance for Multi-Scale Analysis of an Experience Space,” Proceedings, 2010 AAAI Fall Symposium on Manifold Learning and Its Applications, Arlington, VA, November 2010.

Hanratty, T., Fan, X., and Hammell, R., “Leveraging Visualization to Improve Sensemaking Within a Computational RPD Model: A Military Perspective,” Proceedings, 9th International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making, pp. 217 - 224, 23-26, London, United Kingdom, June 2009.

Fan, X., “On Time-Stressed Team Collaboration,” Proceedings, Eighth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’09), pp. 1353-1354, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.

Fan, X., “A Recognition-Primed Architecture for Human-Centric Multi-Agent Systems,” Proceedings, Twenty-First International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’09), pp. 200-205, Boston, MA, 2009.

Fan, X., and Yen, J., “Team-RPD: A collaborative model of the recognition-primed decision process,” Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008.

Fan, X., Oh, S., McNeese, M., Yen, J., Cuevas, H., Strater, L., and Endsley, M. “The influence of agent reliability on trust in human-agent collaboration,” Proceedings of the 2008 European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, accepted, Madeira, Portugal, September 16-19, 2008.

Fan, X., Chen, P., and Yen, J., “Learning cognitive load models for developing team shared mental models,” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), pp. 145-150, July 26-29, 2007.

Fan, X., and Yen, J., “R-CAST: Integrating team intelligence for human-centered teamwork,” Proceedings of the Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’07), 2007.

Fan, X., and Yen, J., “Realistic cognitive load modeling for enhancing shared mental models in human-agent collaboration,” Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’07), pp. 383-390, May 2007.

Hanratty, T., Hammell, R. J., Yen, J., and Fan, X., “Utilizing concept maps to improve human-agent collaboration within a recognition-primed decision model,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07), pp. 116-120, 2007.

Chen, P.-C., Fan, X., Zhu, S., and Yen, J., “Boosting-based learning agents for experience classification,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/AACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, pp. 385-388, 2006.

Airy, G., Chen, P.-C., Fan, X., Yen, J., Hall, D., Brogan, M., and Huynh, T., “Collaborative RPD agents assisting decision making in active decision spaces,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, pp. 769-772, 2006.

Fan, X., Sun, B., Sun, S., McNeese, M., Yen, J., Jones, R., Hanratty, T., and Allender, L., “RPD-enabled agents teaming with humans for multi-context decision making,” Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’06), pp. 34-41, May 2006.

Kamali, K., Fan, X., and Yen, J., “Multiparty proactive communication: A perspective for evolving shared mental models,” Proceedings of the Twenty First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, MA, July 2006.

Kamali, K., Fan, X., Yen, J., "Multiparty proactive communication in agent teamwork," 17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'05), pp. 39-43, November 2005.

Kamali, K., Fan, X., and Yen, J., “Third-party subscription in multiparty dialogues for agent teams,” Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology (WI/IAT ’05), Compiegne, France, pp. 447-450, September 19-22, 2005.

Fan, X., and Yen, J., “Conversation pattern-based anticipation of teammates’ information needs via overhearing,” Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC Intelligent Agent Technology conference (IAT-05), pp. 316-322, September 2005.

Fan, X., Sun, S., McNeese, M., and Yen, J., “Extending the recognition-primed decision model to support human-agent collaboration,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’05), Netherlands, pp. 945-952, July 2005.

Fan, X., and Yen, J., “The semantics of potential intentions,” Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Menlo Park, Calif.: AAAI Press, pp. 71-76, July 2005.

Fan, X., Sun, S., Sun, B., Airy, G., McNeese, M., and Yen, J., “Collaborative RPD-enabled agents assisting the three-block challenge in C2CUT,” Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS), Universal City, CA, pp. 113-123, May 2005.

Fan, X., Wang, R., Sun, B., Sun, S., and Yen, J., “Multi-agent information dependence,” Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 41-46, April 2005.

Fan, X., Sun, S. and Yen, J., “On shared situation awareness for supporting human decision-making teams,” 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security, Stanford University, pp. 17-24, March 2005.

Fan, X., Yen, J., Umapathy, K., and Purao, S., “An agent-based approach for interleaved Composition and execution of Web Services,” 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2004), pp. 582-595, November 2004.

Fan, X., Yen, J., Wang, R., Sun, S., and Volz, R. A., “Context-centric proactive information delivery,” Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/WIC Intelligent Agent Technology Conference, Beijing, China, pp. 31-37, October 2004.

Fan, X., Yen, J., Umapathy, K., and Purao, S., “Team-based agents for proactive failure handling in dynamic composition of web services,” 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, pages 782-785, July 2004.

Fan, X., Yen, J., Miller, M., and Volz, R. A., “The semantics of MALLETan agent teamwork encoding language,” AAMAS’04 workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, pp. 1-16, July 2004.

Sun, S., Councill, I., Fan, X., Ritter, F. E., and Yen, J., “Comparing teamwork modeling in an empirical approach,” [poster] 6th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Pittsburgh, PA, July 30-August 1, 2004.

Yen, J., Fan, X., Sun, S., McNeese, M., and Hall, D., “Supporting anti-terrorist analyst teams using agents with shared RPD process,” IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety, pp. 53-60, July 2004.

Back, R.-J., Fan, X., and Preoteasa, V., “Reasoning about pointers in refinement calculus,” IEEE 10th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, pp. 425-434, 2003.

Yen, J., Fan, X., Sun, S., Wang, R., Chen, C., Kamali, K., and Volz, R. A., “Implementing shared mental models for collaborative teamwork,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Collaboration Agents: Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Environments at 2003 IEEE/WIC Intelligent Agent Technology Conference, pp. 115-126, October 2003.

Hanratty, T., Dumer, J., Yen, J., and Fan, X., “Using agents with shared mental model to support network-centric warfare,” Proceedings of the 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, July 2003.

Yen, J., Fan, X., Sun, S., Miller, M., Volz, R. A., Wang, R., Chen, C., and Kamali, K., “Formal semantics and communication strategies for proactive information delivery among team-based agents,” Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’03), July 2003.

Yen, J., Fan, X., and Volz, R. A., “Proactive information exchanges based on the awareness of teammates’ information needs,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies at AAMAS’03, July 2003.

Yen, J., Fan, X., Sun, S., Miller, M., Volz, R. A., Wang, R., Chen, C., and Kamali, K., “On modeling and simulating agent teamwork in CAST,” Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Active Media Technology (ICAMT 2003), pp. 18-33, July 2003.

Yen, J., and Fan, X., “The semantics of proactive communication acts among team-based agents,” Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 2002.

Fan, X., Li, B., and Back, R., “Building software agents by stepwise feature introduction,” Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Agent Technology and Software Engineering/Agent Infrastructure, Tools and Applications, Net.Object Days, October 2002.

Yen, J., Fan, X., and Volz, R. A., “On proactive delivery of needed information to teammates,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Teamwork and Coalition Formation at AAMAS'02, pp.53-61, July 2002.

Fan, X., “On splitting BDI agents,” Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'02), July 2002.

Fan, X., “Towards a building methodology for software agents,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems, 2002.

Fan, X., and Xu, D., “SAFIN: An Open Framework for Mobile Agents,” Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence'2000 (ICAI’00), June 2000.

Fan, X., Xu, D., Zheng, G., “Reasoning about inheritance and cloning behaviors of software agents,” Proceedings of Technology of Object-oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS 31), Eds: J. Chen, J. Lu, and B. Meyer, pp. 77-82, September 1999.

Fan, X., Xu, D., and Zheng, G., “SPLAW: A computable agent-oriented programming language,” [extended abstract] Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society’s 1st International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC98), April 1998.

Hou, J., Li, X., Fan, X., and Zheng, G., “Verifying real-time systems by model checking,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Infrastructure (ICII’98-Beijing), Publishing House of Electronic Industry, 1998.

Parts of books

Yen, J., McNeese, M., Mullen, T., Hall, D., Fan, X., and Liu, P., RPD-based Hypothesis Reasoning for Cyber Situation Awareness in Cyber Situational Awareness (S. Jajodia, P. Liu, V. Swarup, and C. Wang, Eds.), Series: Advances in Information Security, vol. 46, pp. 39-49, 2009.

Yen, J., Strater, L., McNeese, M., Fan, X., Cuevas, H., Oh, S., Kim, A., Minotra, D., and Hanratty, T., Cognitively-inspired Agents as Teammates and Decision Aids in Advanced Decision Architectures for the Warfighter: Foundations and Technology (Patricia McDermott and Laurel Allender, Eds.), pp. 219-236, 2009.

Fan, X., Multiagent Systems, Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, (Benjamin Wah, ed.), Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470050118.ecse506, 2008.

Sun, S., Fan, X., and Yen, J., Sharing Intelligence Using Information Supply Chains, Emergent Information Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter Terrorism, (Bob Popp and John Yen, Eds.), IEEE Press-Wiley, pp. 231-253, 2006.

Fan, X., Yen, J., Miller, M., and Volz, R. A., The Semantics of MALLETan Agent Teamwork Encoding Language, Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II (revised Selected papers from DALT 2004), LNAI 3476 (Joao Leite, Andrea Omicini, Paolo Torroni, and Pinar Yolum, Eds.), pp. 69-91, 2005.

Yen, J., Fan, X., and Volz, R. A., Proactive Communications in Agent Teamwork, Advances in Agent Communication, (F. Dignum, Ed., LNAI-2922), Springer, pp. 271-290, 2004.

Fan, X., and Yen, J., A Framework for Splitting BDI Agents, Proceedings of Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR 2002), LNAI 2514, Tbilisi, Georgia, pp. 160-174, October 14-18, 2002.

Technical Reports and Informal Publications

Yen, J., Loerger, T., Miller, M., Sun, S., Kamali, K., Zhu, S., Fan, X., and Volz, R., “The CAST Manual,” Technical Report Series in Information Sciences and Technology, no. 0015, The Pennsylvania State University, May, 2004.

Back, R., Fan,,X., and Preoteasa, V., “Reasoning about pointers in refinement calculus,” TUCS technical report, No. 543, 2003.

Li, B., Fan, X., “Jato: Slicing Java program hierarchically,” TUCS technical report, No. 416, 2001.

Fan, X., “On splitting and cloning agents,” TUCS technical report, No, 407, 2001.

Fan, X., “A research about software agent theories and agent-oriented methodology,” Ph.D. Thesis, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, May 1999.

Fan, X., Xu, D., and Zheng, G., “SPLAW: A computable language for agent-oriented programming,” ACM SIGPLAN, vol. 33, no. 1, 1998.

Fan, X., Xu, D., Hou, J., and Zheng, G., “A research on concurrent actions in multi-agent systems,” ACM Software Engineering Notes, no. 1, 1998.

To view electronic copies of Dr. Fan's work visit his personal website.

Service

Organizing conferences, service on conference committees

International Conference on Brain Informatics

Program Committee member, 2011.

21st International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence

Program Committee member, 2009.

21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’09)

Session chair, Session 11-A-WI-3: Web Information Filtering and Retrieval, December 11, 2008.

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Program committee member for the AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Homeland Security, 2005.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Program committee member, WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004-present.

o Session chair, Session 11-A-WI-3: Web Information Filtering and Retrieval, December 11, 2008.

o Session Chair, Session 3C: Autonomy-Oriented Computing, Silicon Valley, CA, November 3, 2007.

Program committee member, International Conference on Informatics and Computing (PIC-2010), 2010.

Program committee member, Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM), 2009.
Program committee member, International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2006, 2009.
Program Session Co-chair, International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, 2005.

Web Intelligence Consortium

Program committee member, International Conference on Brain Informatics, 2009 and 2010.

Knowledge Systems Institute

Program Session Chair, Session: Agents and Multi-Agent Systems-III, Boston, MA, July 2, 2009.

Active participation in professional and learned societies

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Human-Agent Communications Working Group member (associated with the IEEE FIPA Standards Committee), 2005-present.

Reviewer for refereed journals or presses

Editorial Board Member for Journal of Applied Intelligence, July 2009-present.

Review Board Member for Journal of Applied Intelligence, November 2006-2009.

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B.

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

Reviewer for the International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce (IJCEC).

Ad Hoc Reviewer, Editorial Review Board of the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ), 2004-present.

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Melanie Ford

Lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Head of Engineering Outreach Center

Office Location:

Burke 154

Phone:

(814) 898 6685

Email:

mrf11@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Melanie Ford is a lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. She was appointed to full-time status in August 2010 and had previously served as a part-time faculty member for over ten years. She was also appointed as head of the K-12 Engineering Outreach Center. Melanie won the 2010 Penn State Women in the Sciences and Engineering WISE Institute Faculty Recognition Award for her work in helping women and girls excel in engineering and the sciences. In an interview following the award Melanie was quoted as saying, Our goal for K-12 outreach is to interest all students in the different careers of engineering. Research shows that many kids, including girls and minorities, do not pursue engineering as a career because they do not know what engineers do, or how they can help people. We want to keep students engaged in learning, as well as pique their interest in the STEM science, technology, engineering and math fields. Melanie has been an active supporter of Women in Engineering, Math Options, and other engineering outreach programs for many years. She was the recipient of the Penn State Behrend Council of Fellows Excellence in Outreach Award in 2011.

She received the B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the State University of New York at Potsdam in 1987. She has ten years of industry experience at Day-Timers Inc., Chronologic Corporation and Caldor prior to her hire at Penn State Behrend.

Teaching

Spring 2012

Programming for Engineers with MATLAB
Programming for Engineers with C++

Courses Previously Taught

Programming for Engineers with MATLAB
Programming for Engineers with C++

Research

Professional Membership

American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

Reviewer

American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) – K-12 Division

Honors and Awards

2010-2011 Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Council of Fellows Excellence in Outreach Award
2010 Penn State Women in the Sciences and Engineering (WISE) Institute Faculty Recognition Award
2008-2009 Penn State Erie, The Behrend College School of Engineering Excellence in Outreach Award

Service to the University

Behrend College Faculty Council and Organization

Secretary, 8/2011-5/2012.
Part-Time Representative, 2003-2010.

Service to student organizations

Co-Advisor, Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

Publications

Articles published in refereed journals

Dave, V., Blasko, D., Holliday-Darr, K., Trich Kremer, J., Edwards, R., Ford, M., Lendhardt, L., and Hido, B., “Re-enJEANeering STEM Education: Math Options Summer Camp,” Journal of Technology Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 35-45, Spring 2010. [Co-author]

Articles published in refereed proceedings

Ford, M., Dave, V and Holliday-Darr, K., “Introduce Engineering to 6th Graders Via ‘Speed Dating,’” 2011 American Society of Engineering Educators Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2011. [Principal author, poster presentation]

Edwards, R. C., Holliday-Darr, K. and Ford, M. “Undergraduate Involvement in Developing K-12 Hands-On Activities,” Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education National Conference, 15 pp., Louisville, KY, 2010.

Edwards, R., Holilday-Darr, K., and Ford, M., “Alternative Energy – Hands on Stem Activities,” Proceedings, Synergy in STEM: Bringing Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering Together, New York City College of Technology, The City University of New York, New York City, NY, October 30, 2009.

Ford, M., “Engineering MythBusters Brings Engineering Principles to Kids,” 2008 American Society of Engineering Educators Conference & Exposition, AC 2008-1164, 2008.

Clubs & Organizations:

Women in Engineering

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Dr. Chris Coulston

Chair, Computer Science and Software Engineering and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 169

Phone:

(814) 898 6988

Email:

coulston@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Dr. Chris Coulston received his B.A. in Physics in 1989 from Slippery Rock University, his B.S. 1991 , The M.S. 1994 and the Ph.D. 1999 in Computer Engineering, all from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Coulston taught at the University Park campus from 1993-1998.

He is chair of the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department beginning January 2012. He was the former chair of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering programs. Dr. Coulston leads the efforts in his department to maintain ABET accreditation.

He received the best paper award for Constructing Exact Ooctagonal Steiner Minimal Trees, at the Great Lakes Symposium on Circuits and Systems, April 2003 and was the first runner-up for best theoretical paper, Ants and evolution: The non-uniform Steiner Minimal Tree problem, at Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering in November 2002.

Dr. Coulston co-authored Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers: Theory, Concepts and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005, 300 pp., ISBN 0-07-319599-5 with Dr. Ralph Ford, director of the School of Engineering.

Teaching

Courses for Spring 2012

Digital Design
Digital Design Lab
Engineering Projects

Courses taught

Digital Design
Digital Design Lab
Embedded Systems Design
Advanced Digital Design
Introduction to Computer Architecture
Communication Networks
Engineering Projects
Software Engineering Design
First-Year Seminar

Courses and workships taught in support of outreach-based instructions

SE&T 497, Introduction to Lego Robotics, Act 48 summer course for Continuing Education

Recipient of teaching awards

Nominated, Council of Fellows Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006.

Recipient of advising awards

Recipient, Guy W. Wilson Excellence in Academic Advising Award, 2010.

Research

Grants and Contracts Awarded for Improvements of Instruction or for Training Programs

Coulston, C., “Incorporating hands-on design experiences in computer engineering first year seminar,” Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Grant (CELT), $2,280, 2002.

Publications

Articles published in refereed journals

Coulston, C., “Steiner Minimal Trees in a Hexagonally Partitioned Space,” International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design, vol. 5, pp. 341-346, 2003.

Hemminger, T. L., Coulston, C., and Pomalaza, C. A., “Routing Strategies for Multicase Packet Radio Networks,” International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design, vol. 4, pp. 215-233, 2002. [Co-author]

Vitolo, T. M., and Coulston, C., “Taxonomy of Information Literacy Competencies,” Journal of Information Technology Education, vol. 1, pp. 43-52, 2002. [Co-author]

Berman, P., and Coulston, C., “Speed Is More Powerful Than Clairvoyance,” Nordic Journal of Computing, vol. 6, pp. 181-193, 1999. [Principal author]

Pakzad, S., and Coulston, C., “A Neural Network Model of Leech Reflexive Behaviors,” The International Journal on Mini and Micro Computers, vol. 13, pp. 130-141, 1994. [Principal author]

Articles published in refereed proceedings

Weissbach, R., Wang, W. L., Coulston, C., and Tang, M. H., “Relative Cost of Fault-Tolerant Transmission for Connecting Distributed Resources,” IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference & Exposition, Paper #2010TD0297, New Orleans, LA, April 2010.

Vitolo, T. M., and Coulston, C., “Generational Ethics,” Proceedings, Eighth Annual Ethics and Technology Conference, St. Louis, MO, pp. 281-291, 2005. [Co-author]

Coulston, C., Hemminger, T., Scharf, S., and Vitolo, T.M., “Modeling the Leech Local Bending Reflex of the Leech,” Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, pp. 803-808, 2004. [Co-author, presented at conference]

Coulston, C., and Ford, R. M., “Teaching Function Decomposition for the Design of Electrical and Computer Systems,” Frontiers in Education, Session F4G, pp. 6-11, 2004. [Co-author, presented at conference]

Coulston, C., and Mitchell, L., “Emergent Shortest Paths,” Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, pp. 231-236, St. Louis, MO, 2003. [Principal author, presented at conference]

Coulston, C., and Weissbach, R., “Routing transmission lines via Steiner Trees,” Power Engineering Society, 4 pp., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2003. [Principal author, presented at conference]

Coulston, C., “Constructing Exact Octagonal Steiner Minimal Trees,” Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pp. 1-6, Washington, DC, 2003. [Also presented at conference]

Coulston, C., Smith, M., and Werger, K., “Ants and Evolution: The Non-Uniform Steiner Minimal Tree Problem,” Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, pp. 213-218, St. Louis, MO, 2002. [Principal author, presented at conference]

Coulston, C., and Ford, R., “The Technology Toolbox,” Frontiers in Education, pp. 197-198, Boston, MA, 2002. [Principal author, presented at conference]

Coulston, C., and Vitolo, T. M., “A Hypertext Metric Based on Huffman Coding,” ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, pp. 243-244, Aarhus, Denmark, 2001. [Principal author, presented at conference]

Coulston, C., “Sequential Truncated Multiplication,” IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 356-358, Dayton, OH, 2001. [Also presented at conference]

Berman, P., and Coulston, C., “Speed Is More Powerful Than Clairvoyance,” Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithms and Theory, pp. 255-263, 1998. [Co-author, presented at conference]

Berman, P., and Coulston, C., “On-Line Algorithms for Steiner Tree Problems,” Proceedings, 29th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computation, pp. 344-353, 1997. [Co-author]

Coulston, C., and Pakzad, S., “A Biological-Based Model of the Leech Swimming Response,” Engineering Systems Design and Analysis Conference, pp. 217-223, 1996. [Principal author]

Coulston, C., and Pakzad, S., “A Biological-Based Neural Network Model of Leech Reflexive Behaviors,” IEEE Conference on Managing Intelligent System Projects, pp. 32-39, 1993. [Principal author]

Coulston, C., Digital Design, A Datapath and Control Approach, New York: Pearson Custom Publishing, ISBN-10: 0-558-25275-3 and ISBN-13: 978-0-558-25275-5, 221 pp., 2009.

Ford, R., and Coulston, C., Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers: Theory, Concepts, and Practice, Second Edition, New York: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 336 pp., ISBN-10: 0073380350 and ISBN-13: 978-0073380353, August 2007. [Co-author]

Ford, R., and Coulston, C., Power Point Slides for Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers: Theory, Concepts and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005. [Co-author]

Ford, R., and Coulston, C., Solution Manual for Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers: Theory, Concepts and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005. [Co-author]

Ford, R., and Coulston, C., Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers: Theory, Concepts and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005, 300 pp., ISBN 0-07-319599-5. [Co-author]

Books

Coulston, C., Digital Design, A Datapath and Control Approach, New York: Pearson Custom Publishing, ISBN-10: 0-558-25275-3 and ISBN-13: 978-0-558-25275-5, 221 pp., 2009.

Ford, R., and Coulston, C., Power Point Slides for Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers: Theory, Concepts and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005. [Co-author]

Ford, R., and Coulston, C., Solution Manual for Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers: Theory, Concepts and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005. [Co-author]

Ford, R., and Coulston, C., Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers: Theory, Concepts and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005, 300 pp., ISBN 0-07-319599-5. [Co-author]

Parts of books

Vitolo, T. M., and Coulston, C., “Simulation in Information Systems Research,” chapter in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc., 2005, pp. 2508-2513. [Co-author]

Vitolo, T. M., and Coulston, C., “An Overview of Simulation in Information Systems Research: Techniques Underrepresented in the Field,” Chapter XIV in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology I-V, M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Hershey: Idea Group Publishing, 2005, pp. 250-260. [Co-author]

Vitolo, T. M., and Coulston, C., “Simulation in Information Systems Research: Techniques Underrepresented in the Field,” chapter in The Handbook for Information Systems Research, M.E. Whitman and A.B. Wosczynski, (Eds.), Hershey: Idea Group Publishing, 2004, pp. 250-260. [Co-author]

Book reviews

Diaz-Herrera, J. L., Engineering Ubiquitous Systems: Analysis, Design and Construction of Embedded Computing Systems, New York: Addison Wesley, 2004.

Articles published in trade magazines

Coulston, C., “Do-It-Yourself Motion-Controlled Gaming (Part 2) Manipulate 3-D Graphics, Circuit Cellar, Issue #213 [Embedded Programming], April 2008.

Coulston, C., Do-It-Yourself Motion-Controlled Gaming (Part 1) Get Started with a Simple Application, Circuit Cellar, Issue #212 [Robotics], March 2008.

Coulston, C., “Electronic Angle Measurement,” Circuit Cellar, Issue 179, 4 pp., June 2005.

Service

Organizing conferences, service on conference committees

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA)

Organizer and Host, Mid-Atlantic meeting, Erie, PA July 2005.
Session Chair, Mid-Atlantic meeting, Erie, PA, July 2005.
Panel member, Regional Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 2004.
Session Chair, Mid-Atlantic meeting, Philadelphia, PA, July 2002.

Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI

Technical Program Committee, 2004-2005.
Registration Chair, 2004-2005.
Session Chair, Computer-Aided Design, 2004.

Active participation in professional and learned societies

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA)

Contributed material for presentation on ABET Direct Assessment Instruments, 2008.

Service To Educational Institutions

Johnsonburg Area School District, Johnsonburg, PA.

Taught “Lego Robotics,” November 21, 2005.

Organized and ran, “A Guidance Counselor’s Introduction to Engineering,” 2002.

Record of contributions to the University's programs to enhance equal opportunity and cultural diversity

Women in Engineering

Created and taught “The People-Powered Computer,” Fall 2006.

Challenging Athletic Minds for Personal Success (CHAMPS)

Taught “Lego Robotics,” April 19, 2005.

21st Century Kids

Taught “Lego Robotics,” July 15, 2005.
Taught “Lego Robotics,” June 16, 2004.

Math Options Summer Camp

Developed “LED flower board,” and taught two hour class for students, May 2008-present.

Math Options

Taught two sessions of “Flower Power,” May 2009.
Taught two sessions of “Fractals, The Geometry of Nature,” May 2007.
Created and taught “Fractal Geometry,” May 2006.
Taught two sections of “Lego Robotics,” May 20, 2005.
Taught “Introduction to Lego Robotics,” May 16, 2004.
Taught “Introduction to Lego Robotics,” May 2003.

Minority Advance Placement Program/Women in Science in Engineering (MAPP/WISE)

Presenter, summer camp for minority high school students and women, assisted with fabrication of a power boat, July 2000, 2001, 2002.

Assistance to student organizations

Behrend Cycling Club

Faculty Advisor, 2004-2005.
Organized and ran “Bicycle Commuting” talk, September 2005.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Faculty advisor, 2001-2002.

Clubs & Organizations:

Women in Engineering

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Ron Del Porto

Lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 167

Phone:

(814) 898 6197

Email:

ecp@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Ron DelPorto is a lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He was appointed to full-time status in August of 1999 in the Computer Science program. Mr. DelPorto had previously served as a part-time faculty member from 1985-1999.

Mr. DelPorto teaches C++, Visual Basic, C#, Excel, and computer networking. His interests are in the area of text processing using regular expressions as well as other aspects of computer programming. He also has interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning and continues to study and apply improves techniques to achieve student learning. Of particular interest are recent findings how the brain learns. He has taught Animated Storytelling with Alice in the College for Kids program. Mr. DelPorto is the Webmaster foe the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association, which is an organization of world language for teachers at both the secondary and post-secondary level. He is fluent in Spanish.

Mr. DelPorto earned the B.A. in Marketing from Gannon University in 1971 and an M.B.A. from Gannon University in 1975. Prior to joining Penn State Behrend as a full-time faculty member, he had forty years of experience in Information Systems at AMSCO, a medium sized Healthcare Equipment Manufacturer.

Teaching

Courses for Spring 2012

Introduction to Programming Techniques

Introduction to Visual Basic Programming

Introduction to Spreadsheets and Databases

Publications

Articles Published in Non-Refereed Journals

Flaugh, R.S. (joint author) and R.W. DelPorto (joint author). Simulation of Automated Materiel-Handling Systems using GPSS. Simulation, pp. 65-70 (1971).

Papers Presented at Technical and Professional Meeting

“Using Active Problem Solving to Teach Computer Science.” DelPorto, R. (presenter), C. Torgerson (presenter), and S. Janson (presenter). Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, OH. November 2004.

(poster) “Applying Mastery Learning in the College Classroom.” DelPorto, R.(presenter), C. Torgerson (presenter). Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, OH. November 2003.

(poster) “Mastery Learning.” .” DelPorto, R.(presenter),C. Torgerson (presenter). Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, OH. November 2002.

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Dr. Wen Li Wang

Associate Professor Computer Science and Software Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 164

Phone:

(814) 898 6386

Email:

wxw18@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Dr. Wen-Li Wang is an associate professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He received the B.S. in Management Information Systems from NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan in 1991, and both the M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York SUNY at Albany in 1996 and 2002 respectively where he received the best thesis award in 2003 for his work. Dr. Wang joined the Penn State Behrend faculty in August of 2002.

Dr. Wang Ùs first engineering job was as a LAN administrator for the Department of MIS in Taipei, Taiwan in 1993-1994. He then worked as a graduate assistant and teaching assistant while completing his education at SUNY-Albany. Dr. Wang is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE .

Teaching

Courses for Spring 2012

Software Architecture
Software Testing
Programming for Engineers in C++

Courses taught

Computer Engineering Design
Technical Game Development
Engineering Design Concepts
Object Oriented Design
Software Architecture
Software Testing
Software Engineering Design Projects
First-Year Seminar

Teaching philosophy

This academic year is my sixth-year of teaching. I have experienced both trials and errors; successes and failures. During the first two years, I tried to improve the atmosphere in my classes composed of diverse majors of students. The third- and fourth-years, I tried to mix with my students, spark their interest, and inspire peer learning. The focus of the past year was to alter my students existing study habits and perform constant evaluation. In the future, I plan to continue good practices, enhance them, and explore new approaches.

Regarding the atmosphere, I received invaluable suggestions from colleagues and adopted a model to promote both questions and discussion. Moreover, I encouraged the students to challenge results. This process improved both their thinking and interaction. To conquer the diversity of students in the majors, teaching materials were often prepared using the technical terms of their disciplines to create better understanding. Furthermore, I learned to patiently elaborate on new topics because students of one major did not always catch on as easily as students of another. As a consequence, my second-year student evaluations greatly improved over the first year.

To pursue further improvement, in the third- and fourth-years, I conducted a number of experiments and analyzed the results. I care, not only about the class atmosphere, but also look to achieve my own goals. One of these goals was to instruct students to meet their personal needs. Besides offering more and flexible office hours, I frequently talked to individuals after class. This allowed me to get feedback immediately and advise the students directly. Another goal was to sustain attention. In addition to writing on the board, engineering videos, past projects, web systems, and tools were utilized to stimulate their learning interests. Project demonstrations were a huge hit because students love to compete with the work previously accomplished by their peers and propose new ideas to demonstrate their wisdom. Another goal was to increase the students’ self confidence in order to face reality. Over the years, I found many senior capstone projects, proposed by teams of work-alone type students, to lack challenges. Conversely, good team players typically proposed solid projects. My belief was that team players have strong faith in group accomplishments in big projects. By that thought, I promoted teamwork by introducing peer programming early in the sophomore year. Two students would work together and support each other. However, it was not a complete success. Although some students were indeed motivated to show their strength, some became rather dependent on the other. To prevent dependency, in the junior year students were forced to come up with their own project ideas. Teams of four were grouped together and this group chose the best topic. My role was to determine the scope of the projects and then to monitor progress. Based on two trials, students gained great confidence and the quality significantly surpassed what had been accomplished in the past. Last year, several proposed capstone projects were overly aggressive and needed to be scaled down.

Despite the above improvements, students had expressed difficulty answering open-ended questions in my exams. Some found the questions to be too hard and others complained that they didn’t find time to review learning materials. My fifth-year resolution was to improve this situation. With lots of thought, I finally adopted an old, simple, but effective approach. It pushed students to study on a weekly basis by testing them with many quizzes. I found that this can be easily done without sacrificing the lecture time. The quizzes focused on important topics or the foundation needed to continue on to the next topic. This helped emphasize the important materials and improve students’ study habits. The additional preparation also got them ready for mid-term and final exams. Although the quiz results were not always satisfactory, by the end of the course, performance improved. Many students enjoyed this way of learning because the knowledge became engraved in their minds. Frequent quizzes provided another important benefit as students were more inclined to attend classes.

Teaching is undoubtedly a life-long learning process and much remains to be explored. I truly appreciate the experiences shared by my colleagues and will continue to ask for advice. In the future, I would also like to attend teaching seminars to identify problems that I have not yet recognized and develop a set of good methods for teaching different classes and topics. Someday, I want to be one that can also help new faculty.

Research

Research statement

My research specialization is in Software Engineering, especially in the areas of software reliability modeling and architectural design. I have also studied Swarm intelligence. My initial work at Penn State Behrend focused on my Ph.D. thesis, discrete reliability modeling. I then applied this work to heterogeneous architecture domain and Web systems. Several reviewers suggested that I use real failure time data to better verify my models for journal quality. This was somehow a challenge for my independent research here, especially because of the lack of local software industry and graduate students. Another problem that I faced was a limited number of journal outlets in the software reliability field. Most of them are highly competitive and require abundant empirical supports. The third problem was the lack of collaborative opportunities available on campus as I was the single faculty member dedicated to software engineering research and I found that bridges to other disciplines could not be quickly established. Facing these three difficulties, besides targeting reputable conferences, I looked for a breakthrough to extend my research utilizing the available resources here.

In the ECSE environment, one valuable resource is our faculty members, who each have different expertise. I talked with faculty and sat in on classes for one semester to come up with ideas. With more understanding of their research, I began to see collaborative opportunities. Another important resource is our students. Even though they are all undergraduate students, with assistance, they are able to collect data, organize information, and perform implementation. More importantly, their personal interests in diverse work can also help open the door to other research directions. After identifying these resources, during the third-year I began to collaborate with colleagues and students. With the support of my colleagues, I was able to find a better leverage point between teaching and research. My research areas became broader to include both discrete and continuous domains. This enabled my work to fit in more journal outlets. More importantly, the collaboration introduced me to other data collection techniques, e.g., utilizing published data. As a result, my most recent research has significantly improved. The result of collaboration with students was very fruitful and two papers, one pedagogical and one technical, were consequently published with two students. The technical paper was on swarm intelligence; this topic was not in my area of expertise. While closely advising this student, I started to explore that problem domain and established a new research direction. This collaboration model was a great success and strengthened my research.

In addition, I worked with faculty outside Penn State Behrend. During the second-year I worked with a faculty member at George Mason University, but the progress was unfortunately halted after his leaving for industry. During the next few years, I co-authored and published papers with faculty at Gannon University and SUNY Albany. Collaboration on these works brought me into the areas of software change impact analysis and software maintenance. My future plan is to develop a cost estimation model for our proposed technique.

The three problems, listed above, are now less an issue after identifying and adapting to the Penn State Behrend environment. I have learned data sampling, pre-processing and prediction techniques from other disciplines that I can now apply to the software engineering field. My research areas have become much broader, allowing me to submit to diverse journals without a shortage of outlets. More importantly, I have significantly broadened my vision. This coming year my short-term goal is to initiate collaboration with another software engineering faculty and hopefully in the long-term to explore new topics together. I feel my research activities have become much more active and I simply cannot wait for more collaboration opportunities to happen. To my encouragement, I have recently been invited to be a review committee member for a conference and a journal and I look forward to the opportunity.

Publications

Articles published in refereed journals

Wang, W., and Hemminger, T. L., "A moving average non-homogeneous Poisson process reliability growth model account for software with repair and system structures," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 411-421, 2007.

Wang, W., Hemminger, T. L., and Tang, M., “A user-oriented reliability modeling approach for Web systems,” Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 288-306, 2007.

Wang, W., Hemminger, T., and Tang, M-H., “A moving average modeling approach for computing component-based software reliability growth trends,” INFOCOMP Journal of Computer Science, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 9-18, 2006.

Wang, W., Pan, D., and Chen, M., “Architecture-based software reliability modeling,” Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 79, pp. 132-146, 2006.

Articles published in refereed proceedings

Wang, W-L., Shuster, M., and Tang, M-H., "Developing a Kakuro Puzzle Solver Using Swarm Intelligence,” Proceedings, 20th Artificial Neural Network in Engineering Conference (ANNIE’10), pp. 267-274, St. Louis, MO, November 2010.

Wang, W-L., Kriston, G., and Tang, M-H., “Applying Swarm Intelligence to Solve Heyawake Puzzles,” Proceedings, 20th Artificial Neural Network in Engineering Conference (ANNIE’10), pp. 283-290, St. Louis, MO, November 2010.

Weissbach, R., Wang, W. L., Coulston, C., and Tang, M. H., “Relative Cost of Fault-Tolerant Transmission for Connecting Distributed Resources,” Proceedings, IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference & Exposition, no. #2010TD0297, New Orleans, LA, April 2010.

Wang, W., Loker, D., and Tang, M.-H.,”A Swarm Intelligent Sudoku Solver,” Proceedings, 19th Artificial Neural Network in Engineering Conference (ANNIE'09), pp. 269-274, St. Louis, MO, November 2009.

Wang, W., Weissbach R., and Tang, M., “Predicting the learning performance of artificial intelligence systems using non-homogeneous Poisson process models,” [best paper award] Proceedings of the Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering Conference (ANNIE'07), 6 pp., 2007.

Wang, W., and Tang, M., “A threshold approach for multi-agent SI systems to improve optimization performance,” Proceedings of Artificial Neural Network in Engineering (ANNIE), pp. 19-24, 2006.

Wang, W., and Weindorf, T., “A software design template for swarm intelligence systems development,” Proceedings of Ninth IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2005), Phoenix, AZ, November 14-16, 2005.

Tang, M., Wang, W., and Chen, M., “A design-driven software change impact model using UML,” Proceedings of Ninth IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2005), Phoenix, AZ, November 14-16, 2005.

Wang, W., and Hemminger, T. L., “Event driven reliability modeling for distributed systems,” Proceedings of Artificial Neural Network in Engineering (ANNIE 2005), St. Louis, MO, November 7-9, 2005.

Hemminger, T. L., and Wang, W., “Reliability modeling of software using history dependent Markov models,” Proceedings of Artificial Neural Network in Engineering (ANNIE 2005), St. Louis, MO, November 7-9, 2005.

Wang, W., and Scannell, D., “An architecture-based software reliability modeling tool and its support for teaching,” Frontier in Education Conferences (FIE 2005), pp. T4C15-T4C20, Indianapolis, IN, October 19-22, 2005.

Wang, W., and Tang, M., “User-oriented reliability modeling for a web system,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, pp. 293-304, 2003.

Wang, W., and Tang, M., “Heterogeneous software reliability modeling,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, pp. 41-52, 2002.

Wang, W., Wu, Y., and Chen, M., “Architecture-based software reliability analysis,” Proceedings of Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, pp. 143-150, 1999.

Chen, M., Tang, M., and Wang, W., “Software architecture analysis – A case study,” IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, pp. 265-270, 1999.

Chen, M., Tang, M., and Wang, W., “Effect of software architecture configuration on the reliability and performance estimation,” Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Workshop on Application-Specific Software Engineering and Technology, pp. 90-95, 1998.

Service

Organizing conferences, service on conference committees

Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE)

Conference Review Committee, member, 2007.

Active participation in professional and learned societies

International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS)

Editorial Review Board, member, August 2007-July 2009.

International Journal of Information & Decision Sciences (IJIDS)

Editorial Review Board, member, August 2007-July 2009.

Service statement

I am convinced that good service to the university and the profession will not only improve my personal development but also the college’s reputation. In the School of Engineering, I have served as a computer committee member. It is a great pleasure to participate in discussions of computer resources management on software and hardware purchases, updates, and upgrades. I also chaired the search committee for recruiting a Software Engineering faculty which resulted in the successful hire of a new software engineering faculty member. In my third year, I was a member of the School's director search committee. The search process was a great learning experience that gave me the opportunity to better understand the long term goals and visions of the school.

For my profession, I have reviewed a number of conference and journal papers in the past four years and the number remains steady. To serve my profession further, I am pursuing possible chances to become a committee member for a conference.

Since joining Penn State Behrend, I have been involved in refining the software engineering program objectives and defining course outcomes. This fall, the program had its first ABET accreditation visit and we strongly believe that it will be accredited. The preparation for the accreditation was indeed a long term process. To better understand the process, I studied curricula of four accredited Software Engineering programs and attended two workshops: the ABET Faculty Workshop for Program Improvement in 2003 and the Software Engineering Curriculum Workshop in 2004. I have closely worked with our department chairs as well as the other Software Engineering faculty to prepare the ABET accreditation materials.

In the future, I look forward to the opportunities of serving on college committees and becoming more involved in both ABET accreditation and Software Engineering program improvement.

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Dr. Meng Su

Associate Professor Computer Science and Software Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 155

Phone:

(814) 898 6261

Email:

mus11@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Dr. Meng Su is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and assistant chair of the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department. He received his B.S. in Mathematics, M.S. in Computational Mathematics from Nanjing University, China, and both the M.S. in Computer Science and the Ph.D. 1999 in Mathematics from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Before joining the faculty at Penn State Behrend in 2000, Dr. Su taught at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale 1999-2000 and was a member of the faculty at the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai 1987-1995 . His original training was in nonlinear analysis and computational mathematics. Currently, his research is more involved in massive data analysis and application of machine learning to problems in informational retrieval, which are cross-disciplinary areas of computer science and mathematics.

Dr. Su is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery ACM and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence AAAI .

Teaching

Dr. Su's Personal Website

Courses for Spring 2012

CMPSC 122

CMPSC474

Research

Dr. Su's research interests include multimedia data structure, information retrieval, design and analysis of algorithms, nonlinear analysis and numerical analysis.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Fenghui Wang, Hong-Kun Xu and Meng Su, "Choices of Variable Steps of the CQ Algorithm for the Split Feasibility Problem," Fixed Point Theory, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 233-508, 2011.

Meng Su and Hong-Kun Xu, "Remarks on the Gradient-Projection Algorithm," Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 35-43, 2010.

Meng Su, "Global Solutions of Parabolic Equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions," Comm. App. Nonlinear Analysis, vol. 14, no. 3, pp., 1-25, 2007.

Hou, W.C., C.F. Wang, and Meng Su, "Composing Optimal Invalidation Reports for Mobile Databases," Journal of Digital Information Management, vol. 3, no.2, pp. 126-132, 2005.

Meng Su, " Variation of constant formulas for parabolic boundary value problems," Communications on Applied Nonlinear Analysis, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 49-66, 2004.

Meng Su, "Global one-to-one and surjection by means of attraction basins," Comm. App. Nonlinear Analysis, vol. 9, no.3, pp. 47-56, 2002.

Meng Su, "Applications of Modified Global Existence Theorems of Cauchy Problem," Nonlinear Studies, vol. 9, no.3, pp. 299-306, 2002.

R. Grimmer and Meng Su, "Dependence of solution on nonlinear boundary conditions of one dimensional parabolic equation," Semigroup Forum, vol. 63, pp. 415-421, 2001.

Meng Su, "Initial value problem and global homeomorphism," Proceedings, Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 123, no. 4, pp. 1149-1156, 1995.

Meng Su and Hong-Kun Xu, "Solutions of nonlinear operator equations in Banach spaces with applications," Nonlinear Analysis, TMA 22, no. 7, pp. 857-865, 1994.

Meng Su, "On global existence theorems of initial value problems," Comm. App. Nonlinear Analysis, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 87-94, 1994.

Hong-Kun Xu, Meng Su and X. W. Lu, "The monotone iterative technique for first order differential equations," Math. Japan, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 667-673, 1993.

Meng Su, "The Meaningful Way to Mathematics," Nature Journal (Zhi Ran Za Zhi), vol. 12, pp. 440-444, 1989.

Meng Su and Zu He Shen, "Existence and uniqueness of solutions to nonlinear equations," Nanjing Daxue Xuebao Shuxue Bannian Kan, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 168-176, 1998.

Refereed Conference Papers

Xiaocong Fan, Meng Su, "Multi-agent Diffusion of Decision Experiences," ICTAI, 2011.

Xiaocong Fan, Meng Su, "The Impact of Splitting Granularity on Multi-agent Diffusion Computing," IAT, 2011.

Meng Su and Xiaocong Fan, "Applying Diffusion Distance for Multi-Scale Analysis of An Experience Space," AAAI_FSS10_ML, 2010.

Xiaocong Fan and Meng Su, "The Impacts of Diffusion Kernels on Recognition-Primed Multi-Agent Decision Making," IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT, 2010.

Xiaocong Fan and Meng Su, "Using Geometric Diffusions for Recognition-Primed Multi-Agent Decision Making," AAMAS, 2010.

Wen-Chi Hou, Chih-Fang Wang, Cheng Luo, Meng Su, "Grid File with Approximation: An Improved Approach for Multi-Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Search," IKE, pp. 229-235, 2005.

Meng Su, C. F. Wang, and Hou, W.C., "An Approach of Composing Near Optimal Invalidation Reports," Proceedings, International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM05), pp. 116-124, May 2005.

Ian Eccles (student) and Meng Su, "Illustrating the Curse of Dimensionality Through Numeric Methods," Proceedings, 3rd International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies, Las Vegas, June 2004. --The link to project jCurse

Meng Su, "Spatial Data Distribution and the Cost Models for Metric Trees," Proceedings, International conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies (CCCT 2003), vol 1, Orlando, FL, July 2003.

Best paper award in the session: Image, Speech and Signal Computing

Wen-Chi Hou, Meng Su , Hongyan Zhang, Hong Wang, "An Optimal Construction of Invalidation Reports for Mobile Databases," Proceedings, 10th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2001), Atlanta, GA, November 2001.

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Ronald McCarty

Instructor in Computer Science and Software Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 157

Phone:

(814) 898 6252

Email:

ron@psu.edu

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Teaching

Personal Webpage

Courses for Spring 2012

CMPSC 121 Introductory Programming (C++ I)

CMPSC 122 Intermediate Programming (C++ II)

Research

Research Completed

Statistics Linux Lab. Salvia, A.A. (principal investigator) and R. McCarty (co-principal investigator). National Science Foundation, $20,000, 1995-1998.

Land Use Activities. Masteller, E.C. (principal investigator), K.M. Hagenbuch (co-principal investigator), and R. McCarty (co-principal investigator). Pennsylvania Energy Office, Northwest Pennsylvania Energy Center. 1992.

Ben Franklin Partnership - Coppella and Associates, OCR Coupon Book Billing System $25,000, 1985-1986.

Publications

Articles Published in Refereed Journals

McCarty, R.(principal author), D. Roth (co-author), and J. Grode (co-author). An Interactive Computer Program to Analyze Elastic Beams Subject to any Possible Combination of Bending Loads. Structural Engineering Practice. 2(4):271-278 (1983).

Barbosa, J, M.M. Chern, V.E. Anderson, H. Noreen, S. Johnson, N. Reinsmoen, R. McCarty, R. King and L. Greensberg. Linkage Analysis Between the Major Histocompatibility System (HLA) and Insulin Dependent Diabetes in Families with Patients in Two Consecutive Generations. Journal of Clinical Invest. (1980).

Abstracts Published in Non-Referred Journals

Roth, D.E., J. Grode, R. McCarty and A.F. Lewis. Guyless Tower Structures Employing Linear Composite Materials. Proceedings of the 15th National SAMPE Technical Conference. (1983).

In-House Publications

Baxter, G.W. (co-author) and R. McCarty (co-author). Using the Behrend Linux Environment. Courseware, 2004.

Papers Presented at Technical and Professional Meetings

“A Turbo C++ Tool for Writing Self-Tracing Code.” National Educational Computer Conference, Minneapolis, MN. June 1996.

“A Toolkit for Visualizing Array Algorithms.” National Educational Computer Conference, Baltimore, MD. June 1995.

“Guyless Tower Structures Employing Linear Composite Materials.” Roth, D.E., J.N. Grode, R. McCarty and A.F. Lewis. National Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering Technical Conference, Cincinnati, OH. October 1983.

Service

Services to Educational Institutions

Member, Mercyhurst High School Technology Committee for Middle States Accreditation.

Member, Luther Memorial Learning Center Computer Task Force.

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George Dudas

Instructor in Computer Science and Software Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 257B

Phone:

(814) 898 6315

Email:

g2d@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

George Dudas is an instructor in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He began his career at Penn State Behrend in August of 1979.

Mr. Dudas received the B.S. in Computer Science from Penn State University in 1974 with an emphasis in Statistics and an M.B.A. from Gannon University in 1985 with an emphasis in Operations Research.

His research/scholarship is continuing in the following areas: investigating techniques of active learning, creating improved methods of pedagogy, building hybrid and/or on-line course, and building a self-contained network environment for our data communication courses.

Teaching

Personal Website

Spring 2012

CMPSC 100 - Computer Fundamentals and Applications
CMPSC 102 - Introduction to VB Programming
CMPSC 497A - Mobile Computing Applications

Courses Previously Taught

Introduction to Spreadsheets and Databases
Fundamentals of Communication Networks
Advanced Data Communications
Introduction to Data Processing
Advanced Cobol
Numerical Methods
Data Structures
Programming for Engineers
Programming for Business Students
Algorithmic Processes
System Hardware and Software
Network Operations and Management

Research

Research Completed

Novell Operating Systems from Novell. $8,000(in software). August 2000.

UPS Operations from APC. $700(in hardware). January 2000.

Network Management from Netviz. $10,000(in software). May, 1999.

Investigations into local and wide area data communications network architectures, operations and management. Penn State Fund for Research, $1700, January 1992-June 1992.

Educational Grant from Novell Software. Local Area Network Software $2,000, 1990.

North East Agricultural Extension, Grape Growers. Writing a complete computer system to manage pesticide applications, and a database subsystem to manage information on chemicals, pests, beneficials, and other miscellaneous information. The information is used by a mathematical model subsystem to build constraints and provide the grower with an optimum spray application, $2,500, 1985.

Publications

Papers Presented at Technical and Professional Meetings

“Developing a Network Course and Lab for Non-Computer Science Undergraduates.” National Educational Computing Conference, Minneapolis, MN. June 1996.

Service

Teaching

College for Kids at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, taught a one week summer courses entitled “Programming with ALICE” from 2008-2011 with Ronald DelPorto.

Presentations

“eLearning: being in Two Places at Once,” Harnessing the Power of Hybrid and Online Teaching & Learning Colloquy, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. May 2011.

“Ideas for building eLearning applications for students of different learning/skill backgrounds,” Explorations in eLearning: Show and Share, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, November 2009.

“Implementation/Security Issues for Administering a Computer Skills Exam,” Angel Day III Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. May 2005.

“Course Prep and Management: Before and After Angel,” Angel Day II Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. May 2004.

“Using Angel for the First Time in Large Lectures with Multi-Section Labs,” Angel Day I Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. May 2003.

“Developing a Network Course and Lab for Non-Computer Science Undergraduates,” National Educational Computing Conference, Minneapolis, MN. June 1981.

“Careers in Computers,” at Villa Maris Academy, Erie, PA. 1981.

“Emerging Role of Computers in Business,” Administrative Management Society, Erie, PA. 1980.

Book Reviews

Problem Solving and Structured Programming in Fortran 77 by Koffman and Friedman, 4^th edition, Addision-Wesley Publishers. 1990.

Active Participation in Professional and Learned Societies

Data Processing Management Association (DPMA), Chapter President, 1993-1995.

Trinary Computer Services, Treasurer, 1979-1980.

The Operations Research Society of America (ORSA), Worked with the Board of Directors on the idea of sponsoring a set of courses by the CPMA and it was offered by our Continuing Education Division.

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Charles Burchard

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 163

Phone:

(814) 898 6249

Email:

clb8@psu.edu

Profile

Biography

Mr. Burchard is Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Behrend. He received his B. A in Mathematics from Allegheny College in 1970, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and shared the Doan Prize in Mathematics. He received the M.A in Mathematics 1973 and the M. S. in Computer Science 1983 from the Pennsylvania State University, and was a graduate teaching assistant in those departments while pursuing his degrees. From 1973 to 1981, he taught secondary mathematics in the Iroquois and Crawford Central school systems. He has been on the Computer Science faculty at Penn state since 1983, at University Park from 1983 to 1985, and here at Behrend since 1985.

Mr. Burchard is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and a Sun Certified Web Developer and is a member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education. For several years, he has served as the coach of the Behrend ACM-ICPC Programming Competition team which competes annually at the ACM-ICPC East Central NA Regional Contest. He incorporates into his teaching the types of problems posed by the ACM-ICPC at its many worldwide regional contests.

Teaching

Courses for Spring 2012

Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science

Netcentric Computing

Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Publications

Articles Published in Refereed Journals

Burchard, C.L. Sorting and Searching: Lab Exercises Without and Within the Object-Oriented Paradigm. ASEE Comprehensive Educational Journal. 12 pp. (1993).

Burchard, C.L. and R.C. Bollinger. Lucas's Theorem and Some Related Results for Extended Pascal Triangles. American Math Monthly. 97(3):198-204 (1990).

Books

Hennefeld, J., L. Baker, and C. Burchard. Using C++: An Introduction to Programming. 2nd Edition, Brooks/Cole-Thomson Learning. 670 pp. [ISBN: 0-534-374840-0] (2003).

Hennefeld, J. and C.L. Burchard. Instructor’s Solutions Manual to accompany Using C++: An Introduction to Programming. PWS Publishing. 240 pp. [ISBN: 0-534-95593-2] (1998).

Hennefeld, J. and C.L. Burchard. Using C++: An Introduction to Programming. PWS Publishing. 700 pp. [ISBN: 0-534-95591-6] (1998).

Parts of Books

Burchard, C.L. Techniques for Timing Code. Chapter Six in Turbo Pascal Innovations. Rockland Publishing Company. pp. 261-277. [ISBN: 0-939621-01-0] (1989).

Articles Published in Non-Refereed Journals

Burchard, C.L. Logging a Pascal Program's Textual I/O. Journal of the Turbo User Group. (44):8-18 (1991).

Burchard, C.L. How Turbo Pascal Uses the System Stack. Journal of the Turbo User Group. (20):33-41 (1987).

Burchard, C.L. Turbo Pascal and External Routines. Journal of the Turbo User Group. (16):17-27 (1987).

Service

Active Participation in Professional and Learned Societies

Association for Computer Machinery

Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

C++ User Group

Turbo User Group

Programmer Resource Organization

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