Summer 2000

Turcotte new vp for information technology

Louis Turcotte is the new vice president for administrative, instructional and information technology at Rose-Hulman.

He replaces A.T. Roper who retired in June after 33 years as a member of the Rose-Hulman faculty and administration.

Turcotte was formerly assistant for technology at the Information Technology Laboratory located at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Miss. He provided principal oversight for developing, planning, managing and executing diverse research and development programs. Turcotte was responsible for technical leadership in telecommunications, networking and computer infrastructure for ERDC, a multi-laboratory research complex. He is currently serving as conference chair for Supercomput-ing 2000, the pre-eminent advanced computing conference and technology venue.

He has also served as the senior research engineer at ERDC during which time he was the principal agent for technology transfer between the National Science Foundation Research Center for Computational Field Simulation and ERDC. Prior to that assignment, he was the site manager for the Army High Performance Computing Research Center at ERDC.

Turcotte has also served as an adjunct professor of aerospace engineering at Mississippi State University. He received the Ph.D in engineering mechanics from the University of Alabama, and the master’s and bachelor’s degrees in civil engineering from Mississippi State.