Eileen M. Peluso

Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Voice: (570) 321-4135
Fax: (570) 321-4371
Email: pelusoem@lycoming.edu
Office: Academic Center D325
Spring 2010 Office Hours:  by appointment (send me an email with the times you are free and we’ll arrange a mutually convenient time)

Spring 2010 Sabbatical: The Impact of Alice on the Attitudes of Middle School Students Toward Computing

Lycoming Scholars Spring 2006 Presentation: Computers and the Dawn of the Digital Age

Education

PhD: Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1996, Thesis: A Hierarchical Structure of Interacting Automata for Modeling Battlefield Dynamics:  Controllability and Formal Specification

Masters Degree: Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1993,  Master's Paper:  Nested Transactions: an Implementation in a Federated Database

Bachelor of Science: Mathematics - Secondary Education, Bloomsburg University, 1973

Mailing Address

Eileen M. Peluso, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Mathematical Sciences
700 College Place
Lycoming College
Williamsport, PA 17701

Affiliations

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Computer Science Teachers Association
• Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Kappa Mu Epsilon
• Institute of Women and Technology and Systers

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Courses

• CPTR 125 Introduction to Computer Science
• CPTR 246 Principles of Advanced Programming
• CPTR 247 Data Structures
• CPTR 248 Programming Language Design
• CPTR 324 Automata, Formal Languages, and Computability
• CPTR 345 Introduction to Computer Graphics
• CPTR 346 Computer Organization and Machine Language
• CPTR 349 Database Systems
• CPTR 441 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• CPTR 445 Operating Systems
• CPTR 448 Advanced Design and Development
• MATH 106 Combinatorics
• MATH 216 Discrete Mathematics
  

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Research Interests (List of Papers)

• Gender Equity Issues in Computing
• Outreach Programs
  Computer Programming through Animation with Alice (2009) at Bloomsburg University's 2009 Math and Science Summer Experience and Exploring Emergence
  Computer Programming through Animation with Alice (2008) at Bloomsburg University's 2008 Math and Science Summer Experience
  Storytelling using Computer Animation with Alice at Bloomsburg University's 2007 Math and Science Summer Experience for Young Women
• 2003 survey of technology education in Pennsylvania's schools
• Xyline Robinson's 2002 Independent Study (using Alice and DrScheme)
• Bibliography

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Personal

• Whitewater rafting at Lehigh Gorge State Park (Spring '00)
• Summer 2001
• Tony's "mid-life reward"
• Summer 2002
• White Christmas 2002
• Mother and my great niece Brianna
• Mother's 80th Birthday 2006
• Mother's Day 2008
• Cass’ BTI internship
• Family Portrait Tree - A Picture Album
• One person's philosophy on housework

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Food for thought

Emerson's definition of success ....
Quotable quotes ....

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