Michigan Tech Computer Science Professor Wins Fulbright Scholarship
Charles Wallace, an associate professor of computer science at Michigan Technological University, has been named a Fulbright Scholar. He will spend six months teaching and conducting research in the Computer Science Department at the Pontificia Universidad Cat¨®lica in Santiago, Chile, starting in March 2010 for SONY-VGP-BPS8.?The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the US government. It is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries. ?Highly competitive, the awards were established in 1946 by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas.
Wallace¡¯s research interests are in software engineering, particularly the challenges of communicating about software and SONY-VGP-BPS2A. He helped create the undergraduate software engineering degree program at Michigan Tech, developing new courses and teaching materials and conducting sponsored research in software engineering curriculum development.
While at Pontificia Universidad Cat¨®lica, Wallace plans to help the university develop a software engineering specialty curriculum there. He is also looking forward to investigating the complexities that non-native speakers of English encounter when trying to communicate with the English-dominated software industry.
Linda Ott, chair of computer science at Michigan Tech with Apple A1175 said she is ¡°intrigued by his plans to expand his research in communicating about software to the issues related to non-native English speakers communicating about software in an industry where English is assumed to be the language of discourse.¡±
Ott went on to say: ¡°Dr. Wallace has many years of experience in developing software engineering curricula, which should be of great value to the faculty in Chile. We have had almost no interaction with students or universities in South America, so this is a great opportunity to expand our reach.? I anticipate long-term collaborations developing between the two departments.
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