2007-2008 News
Clif Kussmaul attended the American Society for Engineering Education conference June 22-25 in Pittsburgh, PA, and presented a paper on "Open source software to support student teams", and a poster on "Active learning in engineering and entrepreneurship education".
Clif Kussmaul attended the Usability Professionals Association meeting June 17-20 in Baltimore, MD, and gave a presentation on a model for iterative prototyping using multiple approaches.
Clif Kussmaul attended the NSF Chautauqua on Teaching Communication Skills in the Software Engineering Curriculum June 9-11 at Miami University in Oxford, OH. Clif presented on "Enhancing student collaboration and coordination with wikis and related tools."
Thursday, May 1st was the annual Mathematics/Computer Science/Physics picnic. (pictures)
On April 22nd, Muhlenberg College held the 6th Annual Inductions into the Pennsylvania Chi Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, a national honorary mathematics society. Five students and one faculty member were inducted. (pictures)
Clif Kussmaul attended the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance conference in Dallas, TX, Mar 20-22. He presented a paper and moderated a panel.
Mar 14 is Pi Day (3/14)
The 31st Annual Muhlenberg High School Mathematics Contest scheduled for Saturday, February 23 was postponed due to the snow. Due to scheduling conflicts, the 2008 contest has been canceled.
Feb 7 is e Day (2/7)
Michael Huber has had "00" (Zero raised to the zeroth power) published in Convergence, a journal of the Mathematical Association of America. He co-authored the paper with Fred Rickey.
Byungchul Cha gave a presentation on his research "Chebyshev's bias in function fields" at the spring eastern meeting of the American Mathematical Society, at New York University.
Linda McGuire had the paper "Long Cycles in 2-Connected Triangle-free Graphs" appear in the journal Ars Combinatoria Vol. 86 (2008). This paper is the result of joint work with D. Bauer, N. Kahl, and E. Schmeichel.
Several faculty attended the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, Jan 5-9.
William Dunham presented a talk titled "When Euler Met l'Hospital".
Michael Huber presented "Using the Sympodium to Support the Teaching and Learning of Modeling". He also moderated a contributed paper session and attended two editorial board meetings for a journal and NSF grant of which he is a part.
Penelope Dunham presented "The 'Write' Transition to Abstract Mathematics" and "Show Me Your Data: Statistics for Millennials."
William Dunham won the Beckenbach Book Prize for his book Euler: The Master of Us All.
On September 26-29, 2007 Chelsea Lobdell ('09) gave a presentation titled Data Management and Analysis for a Tutoring Program or Center with Wendy Cole, Director of the Academic Resource Center, at the National College Learning Center Association Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The presentation was based on a summer research project supervised by Clif Kussmaul and Wendy Cole.