NTU's Outstanding Faculty

NTU features an expert faculty network-the tangible result of the long-standing partnerships formed with our participating universities -- and NTU maintains constant vigilance over the quality of instructional offerings. We rely on the active support of administrators at participating universities to identify their outstanding instructors and courses. Each year, NTU selects its outstanding faculty from the student evaluations generated at the end of each term.

Richard S. Barr - Southern Methodist University

Dick Barr (B.S.E.E., M.B.A, Ph.D. from U. Texas, Austin) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, and has been designated an NTU Outstanding Instructor for each of the past eight years. His research interests include large-scale optimization, network algorithms for telecommunications and logistics, benchmarking models, and parallel computing. He is past chair of the INFORMS Computing Society and is director of a new NSF-sponsored Telecommunications Network Management Laboratory at SMU.

Dr. Barr is the author of over 40 journal articles, which have appeared in Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Parallel Computing, and the ORSA Journal on Computing. His business background includes the establishment of several start-up businesses and an active consulting practice, whose client list includes: CONRAIL, Coopers & Lybrand, Cray Research, E-Systems, General Motors, IBM, Peat Marwick Main & Co., and the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Health and Human Services, Interior, and Treasury.

H. Charles Baker - Southern Methodist University

H. Charles Baker holds an earned Ph.D. from the University of Texas (Austin), 1962, with a major in Electrical Engineering. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, specializing in telecommunications and computer systems for over 40 years. He worked for Exxon Company, U.S.A. as a Telecommunications Advisor and currently holds the position of Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University where he has received numerous awards for teaching excellence. He has also established Telecommunications Engineering, Inc., a consulting firm in Dallas.

Keith R. Carver- University of Massachusetts

Keith R. Carver is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1967 and has since had a career centered on teaching, research and administration. His teaching has been primarily in the fields of electromagnetics, antennas, microwave engineering, microwave remote sensing, and fundamental concepts of engineering. His research has included pioneering developments in printed circuit antennas, as well as advanced microwave instrumentation and antennas for remote sensing research.

He was Program Manager for Microwave Remote Sensing at NASA Headquarters from 1981 to 1982. He was Visiting Advisory Scientist at NASA GSFC from 1995-96, where he worked on antenna technologies for spacecraft aperture synthesis microwave radiometer instruments. He was Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass from 1984 - 1994, and he also served as Acting Dean of Engineering at UMass for two years. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (1986), a 1983 recipient of the NASA Public Service Award and was elected in 1990 as an Honorary Life Member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

Kenneth E. Case - Oklahoma State University

Kenneth E. Case is Regents Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University. He is a graduate of OSU (BSEE, MSIE, and Ph.D.) and has taught at both OSU and Virginia Tech. He is a licensed professional engineer and was named the Outstanding Engineer in Oklahoma in 1987. He was a Senior Examiner on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from 1988 to 1990, served on the Panel of Judges for the Baldrige from 1991 to 1993, and served as a Judge for the Oklahoma Quality Award in its inaugural year, 1994.

Ken is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, considered among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer. He is also an Academician and Board Member in the International Academy for Quality. The IAQ worldwide membership includes only 75 leading experts in the quality field, and is joined by invitation only.

He has been the Project Director on over 25 sponsored research projects, including funding from government and industry. He has published well over 100 articles and has co-authored three books, one of which won the Joint Publishers--IIE Book of the Year Award. He has received 11 departmental teaching awards selected by the OSU students, the NTU Outstanding Teacher Award (in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, and 1997) for satellite teaching, the IBM Outstanding Satellite Teacher Award (out of 350 instructors), plus the Halliburton Outstanding Engineering Professor Award at OSU, the Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award at OSU, the Regents Distinguished Teacher Award, the ASEE's Western Electric Award, and the ASEE's prestigious George Westinghouse Award.

Madison Daily - University of Missouri-Rolla Madison

(Mack) Daily is the Emeritus Professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla and was a member of the faculty in the NTU/MOT program, teaching Managerial Accounting. He served as the Faculty Advisor to the special "Cross-Cut" Team on Finance during the 1995 MOT Study Mission to Japan. Dr. Daily has received seven consecutive outstanding teacher awards from NTU.

In 1989, Dr. Daily took a faculty development leave at the IBM U.S. Education Center at Thornwood, NY, to do research on advanced technology for the classroom. The results of his efforts have led to the development of a "state-of-the-art" classroom for distance education at UMR.

Dr. Daily spent many years in military service prior to his current academic position. He served in the U.S. Air Force in several capacities, including assignments at the Missile Test Range at Cape Canaveral, FL, the Space and Missile Organization in Los Angeles. He worked on several classified space programs in both engineering and operations. He established an Air Force ROTC Detachment at Missouri-Rolla. He spent several years in Washington, DC, at Air Force Systems Command Headquarters and the Defense Communications Agency. He also worked with Hughes Aircraft Company following his retirement from the Air Force in 1979.

Dr. Daily then returned to the University of Missouri-Rolla as a full time Ph.D. student in the Engineering Management Department, receiving his degree in 1984. Dr. Daily served as Vice Chairman of the Engineering Management Department at the University of Missouri-Rolla, from 1984-1997. He received a Master's degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.

James L. Davis - University of Wisconsin-Madison

James L. Davis, Ph.D., P.E., is Associate Professor and Director of the Technical Japanese Program in the Department of Engineering Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked as a process engineer and a development engineer in industry, and has conducted research as a Fulbright Graduate Fellow at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. In addition, he has more than a dozen years of experience as a translator of Japanese technical documents and is accredited by the American Translators Association in Japanese-to-English. In 1995 he published a textbook, "Basic Technical Japanese Supplements: Biotechnology." At the UW-Madison he has been teaching technical Japanese and business Japanese to engineering students and to engineers in industry and government since 1990.

Robert L. Hiller - Colorado State University

Robert L. Hiller is a graduate of the University of Colorado and the University of Denver College of Law. He was a practicing Colorado Attorney and an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at Colorado State University. He has taught Environmental Law to distance students since 1974. He is currently a Faculty Affiliate at Colorado State University and a consultant, teacher and writer in the areas of Environmental Law and Policy and Sustainability.

Jim Kurose - University of Massachusetts

Jim Kurose received a B.A. degree in physics from Wesleyan University in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Columbia University in 1980 and 1984, respectively. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, where he is also co-director of the Networking Research Laboratory of the Multimedia Systems Laboratory. He is currently serving a term as Chairman of the Department of Computer Science. Professor Kurose was a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research during the 1990/91 academic year, and at INRIA and at EURECOM, both in Sophia Antipolis, during the 1997/98 academic year.

His research interests include real-time and multimedia communication, network and operating system support for servers, and modeling and performance evaluation. Dr. Kurose is the past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has been active in the program committees for IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, and ACM SIGMETRICS conferences for a number of years. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society.

He is the six-time recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Technological University (NTU), the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the College of Science and Natural Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, and the recipient of the 1996 Outstanding Teaching Award of the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools. He has been the recipient of a GE Fellowship, IBM Faculty Development Award, and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of ACM, Phi Beta Kappa, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi.

Michael R. Melloch - Purdue University

Michael R. Melloch received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D degrees from Purdue University in 1975, 1976, and 1981 respectively. From June 1976 to August 1978 he was a design engineer at Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) where he worked on the 8748, the first single-chip microcomputer, and the 8051, a second generation single-chip microcomputer.

In February 1982 he joined the Central Research Laboratories at Texas Instruments as a member of the Technical Staff. At Texas Instruments his research interests centered around GaAs surface acoustic wave devices. In August 1984 he joined the School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, as an Assistant Professor and is presently a Full Professor and former Assistant Dean of Engineering there.

Currently he is engaged in research related to molecular beam epitaxy, III-V device structures, SiC materials and devices, and optoelectronics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Donald W. Novotny - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor Novotny has been a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1961 and is currently Emeritus Grainger Professor of Power Electronics. He has served as Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, has been active as a consultant to many organizations and a Visiting Professor in the Netherlands and Belgium and a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.

He is the co-author of two textbooks on electromechanical systems, has contributed chapters on variable speed drive systems in two handbooks on electric machines and drives, and has published over 100 technical articles on electric machines, variable frequency drives and power electronic control of industrial systems. He has received three awards for outstanding teaching from the University of Wisconsin, the College of Engineering and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. In addition to his regular university teaching he has been very active in continuing education through short courses and seminars for industry, IEEE tutorials and videotape courses for off campus graduate study. He has served for nine years as Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Program for the National Technological University (NTU).

Dieter Schroder - Arizona State University

Dieter K. Schroder received his BS and MS from McGill University in 1962 and 1964 and the Ph.D from the University of Illinois in 1968. He joined the Westinghouse Research Labs. in 1968 where he was engaged in research on various aspects of semiconductor devices. He spent a year at the Institute of Applied Solid State Physics in Germany during 1978. In 1981 he joined Arizona State University (ASU) in the Center for Solid State Electronics Research. He has written two books, edited five books, published over 120 papers, holds five patents, and supervised 54 MS and 16 Ph.D. students.

In the area of continuing education, he developed the short course Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization, which has been presented to industrial engineers 35 times during the past 15 years and has consulted extensively with the semiconductor industry. His principal areas of interests are Low Power Electronics, Semiconductor Devices, Defects in Semiconductors, and Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has been honored with Teaching Excellence Awards from the College of Engineering at ASU, the National Technological University, the University Continuing Education Association, the ASU College of Extended Education Distance Learning Faculty Award, and the IEEE Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education Activities.

George Scheets - Oklahoma State University

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ph.D., Kansas State University and graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Served five years as a U.S. Army Signal Corps officer involved with tactical voice and digital communications. In the Kansas State University Department of Journalism and Mass Communications was responsible for the repair and maintenance of all the audio, video, and studio equipment for the Radio-Television branch of this unit.

He regularly performs communications research for carriers such as WorldCom and the Williams Communications Group. Has taught several graduate level communications courses via distance learning including Modern Communications Theory, and Telecommunications Systems.