PERSONAL DATA
Name: Evans J. Adams
; Date of Birth:
Mailing Address:
Telephone: (970) 247-7211 (office) or (970)
259-0829 (home)
Email: ADAMS_E@FORTLEWIS.EDU; Website : http://faculty.fortlewis.edu/adams_e
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Software Engineering,
Database Management Systems, Data Structures, Performance Measurement and
Evaluation, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Management Information
Systems.
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy - Computer Science,
Master of Science -
Computer Science,
Bachelor of Science -
Computer Science,
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
September
1990 - present - Professor and Coordinator of Computer Science, Fort Lewis
College, Durango, Co. Teaching courses in Software Engineering, Data
Structures, Database Management Systems, Comparative Programming Languages,
Computer Architecture, Introductory Programming.
August 1983 - September
1990, Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences,
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tn.
Graduate Program Coordinator. Taught courses in Software
Engineering, Data Structures, Database Management Systems, File Processing,
Pascal and Database Design.
January 1984 - September
1986, President, Adams Consulting and Educational Services, Inc.,
Jonesborough, Tn. Consulting firm specializing in
database design, database administration and related training courses.
January 1983 - August 1983,
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Southwestern
Louisiana, Lafayette, La. Taught courses in Management Information Systems,
Pascal Programming and Data Structures.
August 1981 - December
1982, Research Assistant, University of Southwestern
June 1979 - August 1983, Senior
Analyst/Consultant, Information Management, Incorporated, Lafayette, La.
Equipment and applications systems selection and performance enhancement;
design and implementation of business applications systems; developed
performance measurement and evaluation course for U.S. Army officer training
program at the U.S. Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon, Fort Gordon, Ga; assisted Ochshner Foundation
Hospital, New Orleans, La., with DBMS selection.
August 1977 - May 1981, Teaching
Assistant, Computer Science Department,
August
1977 - July 1979, Research Assistant, National Science Foundation
Data-Chunking Grant,
PUBLICATIONS
Using Microsoft’s .NET
Platform in CS1 and CS2, The Journal of Computing Sciences
in Colleges, Volume 21, Number 3, February
2006.
Increasing Classroom Collaboration with Simultaneous “Shared
Sessions” in Microsoft OneNote, 2005 College Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, October 2005, with Larry Corman
and Rick Mull.
The
Many Facets of Diversity, ACM SIGCSE 2005 Conference Proceedings, February 2005, with Jack Beidler,
Ken Yasuhara and Hilary Holz.
Tech@FLC – A Program Funded By An Industry Consortuim, ACM SIGITE ’04 Conference Proceedings, October 2004, with Dr. Larry Corman.
A Project-Intensive
Software Design Course, ACM SIGSSE Bulletin, Volume 25, Number 1, March 1993.
Experiences in Teaching
a Project-Intensive Software Design Course, Rocky Mountain Small College Computing
Conference Proceedings, Longmont, Co., October 1992.
Experiences with Teaching
a Two-Semester Undergraduate Software Engineering Course Sequence, Poster Presentation, ACM Computer
Sciences Conference,
Object-Oriented Analysis, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual
Building
a Computer Science Laboratory with Minimal Funds, Proceedings of the
Twenty-Fourth Annual ACM Southeast Regional Conference,
A Proposal for the Integration
of College of Business and Computer Science Department Curricula, Proceedings of the
Twenty-Fourth Annual ACM Southeast Regional Conference, Tampa, Fl., April
1986, pp. 48-52 (co-author).
A Second Course in
Database Management,
National ACM SIGCSE Conference Proceedings,
A
CODASYL Database to Support Student Advisement, ACM Southeast Regional
Conference Proceedings,
Workload
Models for DBMS Performance Evaluation, Datapro Management of
Applications Software, Datapro Research
Corporation, 1986 (reprint of article listed below).
Workload Models for DBMS
Performance Evaluation, ACM National Computer Sciences Conference Proceedings,
An Integrated
Methodology for Computer Graphics Instruction in an Undergraduate Computer
Science Program, IEEE
National EDCOMPCON Proceedings, San Jose, Ca., November 1984, pp. 39-43
(co-author).
A Performance
Measurement and Evaluation Environment for Information/Data Processing Systems, Proceedings of the Convention Informatique, Paris, France, September 1984, pp.
175-181 (co-author).
DBMS: An Implementation
Environment for User-Friendly Systems, ACM Southeast Regional Conference Proceedings,
An Integrated
Hierarchical Methodology for the Objective Evaluation of Database Management
Systems, Ph.D.
Dissertation, Computer Science Department, University of Southwestern
Louisiana, Lafayette, La., December 1982.
Guideline for the Design
of MEDLEY: A Distributed Multiple Database System, ACM Pacific '80 Conference
Proceedings, November 1980, pp. 95-104 (co-author).
A
Dataflow Methodology for Processing Distributed Queries, IEEE COMPSAC '80 Conference Proceedings,
October 1980, pp. 281-287 (co-author).
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS AND HONOR SOCIETIES
Association
for Computing Machinery 1977 - present.
Member ACM SIGCSE
IEEE Computer Society 1980
- present
IEEE Senior Member 1984 -
present
Pi Mu
Epsilon 1977 - present
Upsilon Pi Epsilon 1981 -
present
President of
INGRES Users Group
1985-1991
Phi Kappa Phi 1983 -
present
Professional Ski
Instructors of America (1997-present)