Professional Background:
After receiving my Ph.D. in mathematics at Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1973, I spent two years as a Bateman Instructor at Caltech and then joined the mathematics faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Over the years at Rose-Hulman, I have served as acting chair of the department two times (each was for a one year period which is long enough), have taken three sabbaticals (one in statistics, one in numerical linear algebra, and the most recent at Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Japan.

Being at a small engineering school allows a faculty member to teach a variety of classes. During my stay at Rose, I have taught calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, probability and statistics, real analysis, topology, numerical analysis, and operations research.

My research areas have changed throughout the years from operator theory on Hilbert spaces (thesis topic) to linear algebra (back to finite dimensions) and then to numerical linear algebra.

Education

Ph.D. (Mathematics) Indiana University, Bloomington, 1973
Thesis: Spectral Sets, Reducing Subspaces,
and Function Spaces
Thesis Advisor: J.G.Stampfli
M.A. (Mathematics) Indiana University, Bloomington, 1969
B.A. (Mathematics) Indiana University, Bloomington, 1968

Employment

1975-Present Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
1993, 1994
Summers
Sandia National Laboratories
1997-1998
Sabbatical
Kanazawa Institute of Technology
Kanazawa, Japan
1990-1991
Sabbatical
Numerical Analyst for Sabbagh
and Associates, Bloomington, IN
1982-1983
Sabbatical
Statistical Constultant for
the CTS Corportation
1973-1975 Bateman Research Instructor at
the California Institute of Technology