I am presently on sabbatical for the 2019-20 academic year. My course list will return in AY 20-21

Mentoring and Engagement

  • present 2004

    Industry Project Mentorship

    I have been a faculty mentor for over 50 industry engagement projects, with companies ranging from GM, InfusionSoft, Unicon, General Dynamics, GoDaddy, and PayPal. Many of the projects I solicited early in the Software Enterprise, then for the past 4 years I have mentored and served on the college engagement committee for iProjects (now eProjects).

  • present 2004

    Graduate and Undergraduate Mentorship

    ASU offers the B.S. and M.S. software engineering degree programs, no Ph.D. program. I have chaired many thesis students, 50+ graduate culminating experience projects (1 semester applied research), and several undergraduate research opportunities (FURI and independent studies). See my CV for details.

  • 2014 2013

    Apereo Unconference

    I was happy to support the hosting of the Apereo open source developer unconferences in January 2013 and 2014 on the Polytechnic campus, and support students attending the event.

  • Spring 2009

    Startup Weekend

    Sponsored a StartupWeekend event where over 60 students and community entrepreneurship volunteers conducted a 3-day weekend to explore technology ideas. As a result, 5 new companies formed, a couple of which survived for several years.