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AFFILIATION: Department of Mathematics
The University of Alabama
Box 870350
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0350
TITLE: Professor
EDUCATION: B.A., National Tsing-Hua University, Mathematics, 1968.
Ph.D., Rice University, Operations Research 1973.
ADMINATRATION POSITION (1990 – 1999):
Chairman, Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama
RESEARCH INTEREST: Mathematical Programming, Stochastic Programming, Probability and Statistics, Convex Analysis, and Sensitivity Analysis, K-12 Education
WORKSHOP ATTENDED:
Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers
(PMET) workshop – elementary level,
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC,
August 3 -10, 2003
COURSES TAUGHT FOR
PRE-SERVICE/IN-SERCVICE TEACHERS:
Math 208:
Number and Operations (pre- service)
Math 303: Applied Mathematics for
Secondary Teachers (pre-
service)
Math 504: Various topics for
Secondary Teachers (in-service)
CEE 580: Concepts of Elementary School
Mathematics (in-service)
CSE
566: Improving Mathematics
Instruction (in-service)
LOCATION OF COURSES
OFFERED TO IN-SERVICE TEACHERS:
1. Gadsden
Center (University of Alabama): 1997 –
now
2. Asuncion, Paraguay: May 2003
3. Mexico City, Mexico: October, 2001
4.
Quito, Ecuador: April, 2002 and
October, 2000
RESEARCH INTEREST: Mathematical Programming, Stochastic Programming, Probability and Statistics, Convex Analysis, Sensitivity Analysis, and K-12 Education
EDUCATION GRANT:
1. June 2002 – May
2003: Re-design Math 208 and design a new
course Math 209 (Co-PI: Dr. Cecelia Laurie),
$2,000, College of A&S Teaching Grant.
OTHER GRANTS:
1. May 1988-July 1989:
Research grant awarded from NASA (NAG8-081, supplement 4) working on
"Computer Aided Design Software for the Optimal
Projection/Maximum Entropy Design Methods for Large Space
Structures".
2. May 1988-Dec. 1988:
Study grant awarded from the Office of Academic
Affairs, University of Alabama. Development of
an Enrollment Management Model for the
University of Alabama" (co-PI: Dr. Robert
Batson).
3. Oct. 1986 –
June 1987: Research grant awarded from NASA (NAG8-081) working on
"Computer Aided Design Software for the Optimal
Projection/Maximum Entropy Design Methods for Large Space
Structures".
4. Summer,
1986: Awarded NASA/ASEE Faculty Research Fellowship.
5. Summer,
1985: Awarded NASA/ASEE Faculty Research Fellowship.
6. 1980-1981: Visiting
research professor sponsored by the National Research Council,
Republic of China, contract number
7. Summer, 1978: Worked
on "Problems on Monotone Processes and Polyhedral Convex
Processes" which was supported by the University of Alabama
under the project number 951.
8. Summer, 1977: Worked
on "Estimating the Bounds for Error in the Solution Set of a
Perturbed Mathematical Program" which was supported by The
Graduate School of the University of Alabama.
9. Summer, 1976: Worked
on "The Sensitivity Analysis of Stochastic Programs" which
was supported by a research grant sponsored by the University of
Alabama under the contract 1-6-21-1145-04. The report "The
Probability Density Function of a Stochastic Linear Programming
Problem" has been published in Naval Research Logistic
Quarterly, vol. 24, No. 3, 1977.
10. Summer,
1975: Worked on "A Method for Quadratic Programs" which was
supported by a research grant sponsored by the University of Alabama
under the contract 1-6-21-1145-02. The report "A Method for
Quadratic Programs" has been published in OPSEARCH, Vol. 14, No.
2, 1977.
11. January, 1973: May,
1973: Worked on "Remote-Sensing Control" which was
supported by NASA under the contract NAS 9-12776. Published a
technical report "Optimal Feature Extraction - The Two Class
Cases" (co-author: R.J.P. de Figueiredo).
12. Summer, 1972:
Worked on "Decomposition Method on Large-
Scale Programming Problems" which was
supported by Army Research office under the
contract DA-ARO-D-31-124-72-G30. The result of
the research is part of my Ph.D. dissertation.
1. Jae Hak Lee:
"Convex Analysis of Set Functions", 1987.
2. Jun Yull Lee:
"Lagrange Multipliers and Duality Theorems of Multiobjective
Optimization with Set Functions", 1987.
3. Biu Chen:
"Stochastic Multiobjection Programming", 1980.
4. Balakrish R.
Natarajan: "Eigensets of Monotone Processes", 1980.
5. Robert B. Batson:
"Stability Theory for Mathematical Programming Problems with
Unbounded Convex Feasible Regions: A Point-To-Set Submap Approach",
1979.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
1. Optimal Feature
Extraction - The Two Class Cases, Technical Report NAS-9-12776. Rice
University, May 1973 (co-author: F.J.F. de Figueiredo).
2. Report on a study
of the Paperboard Converting Entity's Forecasting Models, Aug. 1983.
A consultant contract supported by the Gulf State Paper Corp.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
3. A method for
pseudo-linearizing nonlinear systems with six state variables and
three control variables, Research Report 1985 NASA/ASEE Summer
Faculty Fellowship Program.
4. Stochastic modeling
and control system designs of the NASA/MSFC ground facility for LSS -
the ME/OP approach. Research report 1986 NASA/ASEE Summer Fauclty
Fellowship Program.
EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE
WORK:
Served on Departmental
Evaluation Committee
OTHER SERVICES:
Graduate Advisory
Committee, Chairman (1983)
Applied Statistics
Program
Affirmative Action
Committee
TEACHING EVALUATION
RECORDS: SEMESTER COURSE RATING Fall
1982 MA 121 4.0 MA
121 4.4 MA
411 4.1 SPRING
1983 MA 112 4.0 MA
412 4.5 SPRING
1984 MA 126 3.9 MA
126 3.7 MA
357 4.3 FALL
1984 MA 125 4.3 MA
125 4.3 MA
520 5.0 SPRING
1985 MA 126 3.9 MA
126 3.8 MA
521 5.0 FALL
1985 MA 227 3.9 MA
485_ 4.4 MA
692 5.0 SPRING
1986 MA 227 4.8 FALL
1986 MA 126 4.2 MA
692 5.0 SPRING
1987 MA 121 4.2 MA
121 4.2 FALL
1987 On sabbatical
SPRING 1988 MA 456/512 4.9 MA
555-001 4.7 FALL
1988 MA 126-001 4.7 MA
485-001 4.3 SPRING
1989 MA 486/521 4.9 FALL
1989 MA 520-001 4.6 SPRING
1990 MA 540-001 No Report FALL
1990 MA 126-004 4.8 SPRING
1991 MA 540-001 5.0 FALL
1991 MA 355-001 4.1 SPRING
1992 MA 125-006 4.7 FALL
1992 MA 520-001 4.7 SPRING
1993 MA 523-001 4.8 FALL
1993 MA 227-003 4.8 SPRING
1994 FALL
1994 MA 227-003 4.5 MA
227-012 4.4 SPRING
1995 FALL
1995 MA 121-013 4.3 SPRING
1996 MA 504-001 5.0 FALL
1996 MA 121-014 4.5 SPRING
1997 MA 504-001 5.0 FALL
1997 MA 227-003 4.7 SPRING
1998 MA 504-001 5.0 FALL
1998 MA 303-001 4.8 SPRING
2000 MA 504-001 5.0
FALL 2000 MA 227-006 4.4 MA
208-001 3.9 SPRING
2001 MA 504-001 5.0 MA
121-025 3.9 FALL
2001 CEE 580 4.5 SPRING
2002 MA 121-029 4.7 MA
121-029 4.4 MA
504-001 4.9 FALL
2002 MA 303-001 5.0 MA
125-005 4.5 SPRING
2003 MA 504-001 5.0 MA
131-081 4.8 MA
131-082 4.9
2.
May 1997 – April 1999: Algebra Pilot Project, $41,500,
supported by the Gabriella and Paul
Rosenbaum Foundation.
NSC 70-0204-M005-01.
"sensitivity analysis of mathematical programming".