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David J. Powell Personal Education Patents and
Professional Activities October 27-30, 2007. Made an on-site visit as an ABET program evaluator to evaluate a university computer science program for first time accreditation. March 2007. Presented a 4 hour tutorial to 40 engineers on “Advanced Optimization: Finding a Better Design” at the Engineous Software 2007 International Symposium. October 2006. As an ABET program evaluator made a three day on site visit to evaluate university computer science program for accreditation. March 2006. Became an approved Program Evaluator for ABET, Inc., the recognized accreditor for college and university programs in computing. October 2005.
Became an approved AP Computer Science Reader for 2006-2011 by ETS. October 27, 2004. Presented a three hour short course on Multi-Objective Optimization at the 2004 International ISIGHT User Conference of Engineous Software Inc. June 2003. Presented a two day course at General Motors University to General Motors engineers in Detroit on Advanced Optimization. July 15, 2002. Presented a three hour short course on Advanced Optimization Strategies at the 2002 International iSIGHT User Conference, "Fast Track to Product Quality" for Engineous Software Inc. March 2002: Consultant to Engineous Software Inc. Taught six, four hour training sessions via "live" web cast to engineers in five different states on "Java as a Second Language". Co-author of US patent, User Directed Heuristic Design Optimization Search. #US6086617 issued July 2000. 1999 Program Committee Member for the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 1997 Program Committee Member for 2nd International Conference on Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems: Innovations and Applications. Professional
Affiliations 2002 - 2004. Member of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 1993 – 1995. Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Research Awards Awarded summer 2009 fellowship for $7,000 from Elon University to research “Enterprise Computing in the Elon BA and BS majors in Computer Science”. Member of team made up of Appalachian State University, North Carolina A&T, UNC Greensboro, UNC Pembroke, Western Carolina University and Elon University for a $650,000 two year grant from 2005 to 2006 titled "A Consortium to Promote Computational Science and High Performance Computing" funded by the University of North Carolina. Elon received $91,740.00 for its part in supporting program and developing a live video/audio based course on Intelligent Decision Making. Member of team made up of Engineous Inc., MIT, Northrop Grumman, and the Office of Naval Research, awarded $100,000 STTR contract in 2003 for Multidisciplinary Optimization of Naval Ship Design and Mission Effectiveness. Proposal number N033-0071. Topic number N03-T026. Member of five company team awarded 21 million dollar research grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Research Program in 1999 for a Federated Intelligent Product Environment Project (FIPER). Member of Engineous team awarded 7.1 million dollar research grant from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) in 1996 for a Rapid Design Exploration and Optimization Program (RaDEO). Member of Engineous team awarded $60,000 SBIR Phase 1 Grant, USAF-94-222, in 1994 for Interdisciplinary Optimal Design of Advanced Missile Airframes. Research Not Awarded Member of team led by Dr. Megan Conklin that submitted a $252,597 grant request to National Science Foundation on August 19, 2005 entitled “Developing a Community Data Repository for Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) Engineering Data “. Member of team lead by Dr. Lynn Heinrichs that submitted a $220,208 grant request to National Science Foundation for Computing Sciences Scholars in April 2006. This grant would offer eight students, who demonstrated academic potential and financial need, an award of $6,000 per year for four years. Grant Awards Member of team lead by Dr. Lynn Heinrichs that received on October 13, 2004 a $137,058 grant from the National Science Foundation for New Century Scholars. This grant provides ten students, who continue to demonstrate academic potential and financial need, an award of $3,125 per year for four years. Grants Pending None. Employment History Chair of Computing Sciences Department Elon University, North Carolina 7/23/01 - present Responsible for managing the department's activities, curriculum and implementation of majors, concentrations and service courses. Oversee and review annually the department's 8 full time faculty, 3 adjunct faculty and 1 jointly appointed faculty. Accomplishments In 2009, helped to introduce Android mobile computing into curriculum. Supported purchase of smart mobile devices for all department faculty. In 2008, helped to hire a new faculty member. In 2007, helped to get two major curriculum proposals approved for the BA/BS in Computer Science and the BA/BS in Computer Information Systems. In 2007, helped to propose and establish department computer networking lab. In 2006, received the Elon College of Arts and Sciences annual Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2006, became appointed a program evaluator for ABET, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. In 2005, team taught first Elon course to use video teleconferencing to students at Elon, Appalachian State University and Western Carolina University. Taught the course a second time in spring 2006 to seven universities to also include Wake Forest University, UNC Wilmington, Highpoint University and Fayetteville State University. In 2004, helped to develop a new BS in Computer Information Systems which is is accordance with ACM model curriculum. In 2004, helped to revise BA and BS in Computer Science to be in accordance with ACM model curriculum. In 2003, helped to develop a new minor in Geographical Information Systems which will start in fall 2003. In 2003, helped to develop a new minor in Multimedia Authoring which will start in fall 2003. In 2003, helped to hire 2 new faculty members. In 2002, helped to develop and establish the BS in Computer Science major. In 2002, helped to develop and establish the BA in Computer Information Systems. In 2002, helped to hire 2 new faculty members Elon Service Department Chair of Computing Sciences for academic years 2001 – present. Member of search committee for associate dean of Elon College for academic year 2008-2009 Member of university committee to review academic support for athletics for 2008-2009 Elon College Faculty Excellence Awards Selection Committee for academic years 2007, 2008 and 2009 Member of Academic Technology and Computing Committee (ATACC) for academic years 2004 and 2005 Faculty Datatel User Group Representative for academic years 2004 and 2005. Member of Curriculum Committee for academic years 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Member of Voices of Discovery Committee for academic years 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. Member of Computer Competency Committee led by Mary Wise in 2004. Member of Space Planning Committee led by Dean House and Associate Provost Midgette for academic year 2004. Member of GlaxoSmithKline Women Scholarship Committee for academic years 2002, 2003 snf 2004. Member of Barry Goldwater Scholarship Committee for academic years 2002, 2003 and 2006. Member of Elon Faculty Mentor Program for academic years 2002, 2003 and 2005. Member of university task force to investigate “Feasibility of Establishing a School of Information Technology at Elon University” in academic year 2001. Manager Software Development Cisco Systems, Inc. 2/01 - 7/23/01 Responsible for the development of software auditing tools to support Cisco routers and switches for their leading 500 customers. The software tools collect data in real time on the customer devices for seven days and then get automatically updated to a Cisco data server for backend processing. The backend systems parse, validate, analyze and report on the health of the customer’s network. Managed 9 software developers in RTP plus 4 contractors in India. Key technologies used were Java, Visual basic, XML, Perl and Oracle. Accomplishments In five months at Cisco, delivered 5 new audit types. When I left 4 of these were in final beta and one had been released. In my two quarters at Cisco, oversaw a 40 percent increase in the number of delivered audits to customers. Led the beta test and final production release of a windows based audit collection tool called Network Data Collector. Vice President of Software Development Engineous Software, Inc. 8/94 – 2/01 Responsible for entire software development and research process. Engineous Software Inc. is the leading supplier of Computer Aided Optimization (CAO) software. The company has a single software product, iSIGHT. Version 1 was introduced in 1995 and Version 5.5 released in June 2000. Automotive and aerospace companies in Japan, US and Europe (i.e. Hitachi, Nissan, Ford, GE, Rolls Royce, and Daimler-Benz) use the product and have documented a 10-fold increase in productivity. Accomplishments: Hired and managed algorithm research, software development, technical writing, configuration management, and web departments with annual budget of over 2 million dollars. Interdigitation concept developed in thesis is the core of the product. Led all aspects of product development process from initial research and conception to design to implementation for original product and subsequent five releases. Product is over 400,000 lines of code written in C++, C, FORTRAN, Perl and Tcl. Have received a patent on an optimization technique within product. Added design of experiments methodology to interdigitation in 1998. Added quality engineering to interdigitation in July 2000. Led all Engineous Software Inc. portion of software development and research on 3 year, multi-million dollar, government funded, Defense Advanced Research Program (DARPA), with General Electric Corporate Research and Development as a subcontractor. Led software development and research on Engineous portion of 21 million-dollar, four year, NIST contract for the development of a Federated Intelligent Product Environment (FIPER). Other partners are General Electric, BF Goodrich, Parker Hannifin and Ohio University. All development used latest software standards (i.e., J2EE, XML, Workflow, JMS, CORBA, JDBC, and UML). Technology received following awards: 2000 Deloitte & Touché Technology Fast 500 Award. 2000 North Carolina Technology Fast 50 Award. 1998 North Carolina Technology 50 Award. Industry Week, 1998 Technology of Year Award. 1997 North Carolina Technology 50 Award. Presented numerous training courses on design optimization to include: United Technologies, General Electric, Wright Patterson Air Base and Loral. Senior Research Staff 12/83 – 8/94 General Electric Corporate Research and Development Responsible for developing leading edge, engineering design optimization technology to reduce design cycle times by a factor of 10 for GE Businesses such as GE Aircraft Engine, GE Nuclear and GE Lighting. Accomplishments: Acquired Ph.D. in evenings and subsequently appointed adjunct professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Computer Science. Taught senior and graduate level computer science courses. My Ph.D. advisor was Michael Skolnick. He was an expert in genetic algorithms and together we created the concept of interdigitation. His advisor, John Holland, was the "father" of genetic algorithms. Managed research, software development, deployment, training and support of proprietary engineering optimization package used at 13 GE divisions. Turned thesis research on interdigitation into a viable commercial technology. Received management award for outstanding performance. Technology led to $250,000 saving per engine for GE 90 aircraft engine. GE Lighting continues to use developed optimization technology to design energy efficient, light bulbs. Officer US Army 6/74 - 12/83 US Army. Airborne and Ranger Qualified. Stationed in Italy, New England and New Jersey. Mixture of leadership and management positions. Systems Analyst for New England Division of Corps of Engineers. Leadership positions of platoon leader through company commander managing groups of people from 30 to 260. Various staff positions from assistant personnel officer of 1100 man battalion to assistant operations officer of 6000 man brigade. Refereed Publications Powell, D. and Hollingsworth, J. 2009. Integrating Mobile Computing with Android in CS II and CS III. To be presented at The 2009 International Conference on Frontiers in Education, July 2009. [Acceptance rate: 25%] Powell, D, J. Hollingsworth, and Shannon Duvall. Computer Science III - A Required Course on Client-Server Computing. Proceedings of the 46th ACM Southeast Conference, March 2008. pp. 435-439. Acceptance rate: 57%] Powell, D. and Hollingsworth, J. 2007. A NSGA-II, Web Enabled, Parallel Optimization Framework for NLP and MINLP. Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. [Acceptance rate: 46%] Powell, D. and Hollingsworth, J. 2006. Experiential Learning: The Key to Teaching Software Development. Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering. [Acceptance rate: 50%] Powell, D. and Hollingsworth, J.2005. Grid Computing and AMPL: An Ideal Educational Environment for Real World Engineering Design Optimization. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Modelling, Simulation and Optimization. [Acceptance Rate: 40%] Hollingsworth, J and Powell, D. 2005. Leveraging Grid Computing in an Intelligent Decision Making Course. Proceedings of the Eighth IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advance Technology in Education. [Acceptance rate: 58%] Heinrichs, Lynn R. and Powell, D. 2005. Implementing an NSF-Funded Scholarship Program. Issues in Information Systems, VI(1). pp. 346-352. [Cabell AACSB] Hollingsworth, J and Powell, D. 2004. Using Software Tools to Support, Define, and Enhance the Undergraduate Computer Science Curricula. Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education. [Acceptance rate: 50.7%] Hollingsworth, J and Powell, D. 2004. Explicitly and Implicitly Teaching Java Best Practices across the Undergraduate Curriculum. Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies. [Acceptance rate: 53%] Tong, S and Powell, D. 2003. Genetic Algorithms: A Fundamental Component of an Optimization Toolkit for Improved Engineering Designs. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2003. [Acceptance rate 46.5%] Powell, D and Rhodes, T. 2003. On Time, On Target, On Budget, and On Line Training. Proceedings of E-Learn 2003 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education. [Acceptance rate: 30%] Powell, D and Kleckner, M. 2003. A Cost Effective Approach for Faculty to Prepare and Deliver Web Based Instruction. Southwest Decision Support Institute (SWDSI) 34th Annual Conference, Proceedings, Houston, Texas. [Acceptance rate 67%] Koch, P., Evans, J. and Powell, D. 2002. Interdigitation for Effective Design Space Exploration using iSIGHT. Journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol 23, No. 2, pp 111-126. Springer-Verlag. Valle, M., Powell, D., Schuette, H., Sims, R. 2002. A Preliminary Model of Abusive Behavior in Organizations. Conference on Emerging Issues in Business and Technology, Proceedings, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. [Acceptance rate: 30-50% - Professor Valle] Valle, M., Schuette, H., Powell, D. 2002. Initial Development and Examination of the Abusive Behavior in Organizations (ABO) Scale. Conference on Emerging Issues in Business and Technology, Proceedings, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Valle, Schuette, H., Powell, D. 2002. Dimensionality of the Abusive Behavior in Organizations (ABO) Scale. Journal of Contemporary Business Issues. Acceptance rate: 30-50% - Professor Valle] Powell, D., and Skolnick, M. 1993. Using Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Design Optimization with Non-Linear Constraints. Fifth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. Tong, S., Powell, D., and Goel, S. 1992. Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Numbering Techniques for the Design of Complex Aerospace Systems, Proceedings, AIAA, Aerospace Design Conference, Feb 1992. Powell, D., Skolnick, M., and Tong, S. 1991. Interdigitation: A Hybrid Technique for Engineering Design Optimization Employing Genetic Algorithms, Expert Systems and Numerical Optimization. Handbook of Genetic Algorithms (edited by Lawrence Davis), Van Nostrand Reinhold Powell, D., Skolnick, M., and Tong, S. 1990. EnGENEous: A Unified Approach to Design Optimization. Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering V (edited by J.S. Gero), 1990. Computational Mechanics Publications. Powell, D., Skolnick, M., and Tong, S. 1989. EnGENEous: domain independent machine learning for design optimization. Third International Conference on Genetic Algorithms. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. Invited Presentations 2006. Evolutionary Computation in Practice, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. A No-Cost, Distributed Genetic Algorithm and its Application to Scheduling. July 8-12, 2006. 2004. Evolutionary Computation in Industry, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Seattle, Washington. Multi-objective Optimization with GA's is Now Considered Routine Research Interests During my thesis, I had a research vision to develop intelligent optimization methodologies to dramatically improve the quality of engineering designs while at the same time finding these designs in a shorter period. I have achieved success in seeing parts of this vision realized. Interdigitation has achieved a ten-fold improvement in the productivity of design engineers within major automotive and aerospace companies. Despite this success, my research vision for intelligent optimization has expanded. I want to find a means to improve design quality and engineering productivity by another factor of 10. To this end, my current research interests are: Intelligent adaptive interdigitation. Multi-objective optimization. Data mining for automatic knowledge extraction and/or approximation development. Machine learning. Automatic hierarchical decomposition and associated efficient use of parallelism with distributed evaluation via the Internet
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