A Satisfactory rating requires supervising student independent study and honors projects.
I have been an active mentor and supervisor for 14 students working on 5 different JMU senior capstone projects since my second year here, resulting in 1 presentation at a conference. This year, I am supervising 6 students working on 2 different projects. I have also served on the committees for 2 MS ISAT students. Prior to arriving at JMU, I mentored 5 undergraduate students and 1 graduate student on projects through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, and mentored 1 co-operative education student through three years of work on a major project. My REU/co-op students and I published 5 papers in conference proceedings at the SPIE and ADASS conferences on software, data analysis, and project management for astronomy.
Senior Capstone Projects Advised at JMU
Primary Advisor for Projects related to Quality Informatics (23 students graduated; 5 to be co-advised in 2014-2015 academic year):
- 2014 – “Improving Product and Process Quality at Cross Keys Vineyards,” Gordon Heil, Tessa Heydinger, Andrew Lucchesi; B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
- 2014 – “An Analysis of Foam Quality in Starr Hill and Three Brothers Products,” Michael Carr; B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
- 2014 – “Improving Inventory Ordering Strategies to Reduce Holding Costs for Angler’s Choice Marine,” Ian Loganadan, Kevin Rakaric; B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
- 2013 – ” Analysis of the Relationship between Beaver Creek Reservoir Water Quality and Starr Hill Brewery Product Quality,” Elizabeth Wronko, Emily Northup, Bastiana Rodebaugh; B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
- 2013 – “Analysis of the Relationship between Beaver Creek Reservoir Water Quality and Starr Hill Brewery Product Quality: A Pilot Project,” Mandy Jenkins, Calla Feucht, James Boley; B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
- 2013 – “Determining Good and Bad Batches of Beer using Classifiers for Starr Hill Brewery,” Hugh Blanchetti, Kurt Valentiner, Adam Hall; B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
- 2013 – “Influential Resources, Key Themes and Emerging Trends in Technology Management,” Thao Virginia Thai; B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
- 2012 – “Exploratory Analysis of 2010 Starr Hill Brewing Company Production Data,” Sean McMillin, Andy Duong, Nick Kerschl, Jan Smith, John Turner, Blake Jenkins; B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
- 2011 – “An Expert System for the Quality Systems Development Roadmap (QSDR),” Doug Jin, B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
Committee Member or Co-Advisor for:
- 2015 – “Gerbil Rave: Participatory Interactive Zome Art,” Cassidy Moellers, Robert Spinoza, Dylan Chance; B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
- 2015 – “Mobile Activity Recognition System (MARS),” Eric Walisko, Ben Thompson; B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
- 2013 – “SmartClickR: Modern Audience Response System,” Jimmy Dempsey, Brad Fischer, Billy Godfrey, and Daniel To, B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU (with Morgan Benton and Emil Salib)
SmartClickr Team at Senior Symposium (2013)
- 2012 – “Exploring More Efficient Business Models for Electric Power Distributors,” Brooks Taylor, M.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
- 2010 – “Simulating Business Team Assembly with Network Models,” Kevin Zdancewicz, M.S. in Integrated Science and Technology at JMU
National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)/Co-op Student Projects Advised at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO):
- 2008 – “Data Preservation and Access for the NRAO 140ft and 12m Telescopes,” Brian Sacash, B.S. Physics
- 2008 – “Applying Semantic Web Technologies and Ontologies to the NRAO Data Vault,” Bryan Murphy, B.S. Computer Science
- 2006 – “Data Quality Diagnostics for the Green Bank Telescope,” Ron DuPlain, B.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of Cincinnati [three year co-op project started in 2003]
- 2004 – “Data Quality Diagnostics for the GBT,” Ron DuPlain, B.S. Computer Engineering
- 2005 – “Frequency of Execution Metrics for GBT Observing,” Soumya Ghosh, M.S. Computer Engineering
- 2003 – “Enhancing the Portability of GBT Data,” Andy Cowan, B.S. Computer Science
Other Mentorship and Training
- 2000 – Developed course on “E-Business Models, Technologies and Strategy Development”, instructed 300+ consultants and managers with Nortel CRM Professional Services
- 1996 – American Meteorological Society Datastreme Project – educated teachers of grades 7-12 in fundamental meteorology, forecasting, and industrial meteorology applications