Our faculty have been active in their research and scholarly activities. Their research areas include applied mathematics and mathematical modeling, differential equation, engineering, networking and data communication, wireless, security, parallel and distributed computing, mathematical education, etc. Details about research areas and recent publications for each individual faculty member can be found on her/his own home page as linked in Faculty page.

In addition, our faculty regularly bring our students to conferences and field trips, and participate in regional, national and international competitions in the areas of engineering (including computer engineering), computer science and programming, and mathematics.

The department invites speakers from prestigious universities and industry to give talks to our students frequently.

Recent Activities

• The Fall 2008 issue of Shepherd University Faculty Profile listed a good number of professional activities from CME faculty. The entire CME faculty are listed. Congratulations to everybody.
• On September 9, 2008, Dr. Suchith Anand from The University of Nottingham, England gave a talk on Role of Geospatial Interoperability in MobileGIS and LBS Technologies to CME students.
• On May 10, 2008, Professor Paul S. Wang from Kent State University conducted a Workshop on Web based Mathematical Education to local K-12 math teachers. Professor Wang was ACM SIGSAM chair and a faculty member in MIT. The workshop was sponsored by CME department and organized by CME faculty members.
• On May 8-10, 2008, Professor John F. Nash, a legendary mathematician and Nobel Prize winner in Economics, visited Shepherd University and gave the keynote speech in ECCAD 2008.

Older Activities

Department of Computer Science, Mathematics and Engineering is going to host ECCAD 2008: East Costal Computer Algebra Day on May 10, 2008. More information can be found on ECCAD 2008 Web site at http://www.shepherd.edu/eccad2008.

Mr. Ray Naegle in CME department won one of two NASA awards in WVAS 2008 meeting for his poster titled Geometric and Removal Attack Resistant Watermarking in the Wavelet Domain”.  His mentor was Dr. Xiaojun Qi from Utah State University. Dr. Zhijun Wang, Dr. Liao and Dr. Rajaram have worked with Ray at Shepherd. Congratulations Ray.

On November 27, 2007, Professor and Dr. James Sellers, from Mathematics Department at Penn State University, visited CME department and gave CME students and faculty members a presentation on Fibonacci numbers. Professor James Sellers is invited by Dr. Rajeev Rajaram.

On November 27, 2007, Mr. Mark Simons, vice President in Experient Inc., gave CME students and faculty members an invited talk on how to get hired by the right company. Mr. Mark Simons is invited by Dr. Weidong Liao.

Amine Benkiran has been awarded Undergraduate Fellowship from NASA WV Space Grant Consortium. Amine is now a Mathematics major and his advisor is Dr. Rajeev Rajaram.

Adam Anderson is selected as NASA 2007 Summer internship recipient at NASA IV&V facilities. Adam is now a double major in both CIS and Mathematics.

Raymond Naegle is selected as NSF Summer REU recipient to work at Utah State University during summer 2007. Raymond's major is Computer and Information Sciences.

School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics had NASA day on April 25, 2007.

The following students and faculty members have made poster presentation at East Costal Computer Algebra Day 2007 (ECCAD'07) on April 21, 2007 at Washington College.

• Edwards A Rantanen, Chan Mao C. Jackson, Raymond A. Naegle, Jordan H. Fuller, Dr. Osman Guzide, Increased Efficiency for Bandwidth Utilization.
• Dr. Osman Guzide, Kenny May and James Getz, Efficient Meta-Network for P2P: Combining Internet and Overlay Networks.
• Brandon Burkhart, Catherine Razzook, Donald Hale, Caroline Ebersole, Matthew Prince, Michelle Ring, Raina Romero, Randall Wolfe and Dr. Rajeev Rajaram, On the Proof of the RSA Public Key Cryptography Scheme.
• Dr. Weidong Liao and Benjamin Koonse, A JMEI based AJAX Library for Symbolic Computation.
• Jonathan P. O'Keefe, Dr. Weidong Liao and Dr. Osman Guzide, J-GCD: A Java based GCD Computation Service over the Internet and Grid Computing Environment.

On March 31, 2007, Jonathan P. O'Keefe, Weidong Liao and Osman Guzide presented their research on "Providing GCD Computation Services over the Internet and Distributed Environment" in the 82nd West Virginia Academy of Science annual meeting.

On March 6, 2007, Benjamin Koonse and Weidong Liao presented their research work on "A MVC based Framework to Supplying Mathematical Services over the Internet/Web" in the IEEE System and Software Engineering Week.

Cooperating with Kent State University, Marcella Townsend and Sheraton Stump completed their NSF Summer 2005 REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) research project on Web based Mathematical Education site (http://www.shepherdmathtutor.com).