Suzanne Fox Buchele
Contact Information
Mood-Bridwell Hall 304
Phone: (512) 863-1361
Fax: (512) 863-1535
bucheles@southwestern.edu
Postal address:
Southwestern University Box 7359
Georgetown, TX 78626
Current Courses
| Course Code | Title | Day/Time | Location |
| MAT 52-113-02 | Introduction to Statistics (Potter section) | Tu/Th 1-2:15pm | FWO 207 |
| MAT 52-113-03 | Introduction to Statistics | Tu/Th 4-5:15pm | FWO 207 |
| CSC 54-393 | Computer Organization | MWF 10-11am | FWO 111 |
Office Hours
| MWF | 11-11:50am |
| TTh | 9-10:00am |
Previous Courses
CSC 54-143 Introduction to Programming
CSC 54-183 Computer Science I
CSC 54-301 Problem Solving for Rapid Application Development
CSC 54-483 Discrete Mathematics
CSC 54-553 Computer Graphics
CSC 54-633 Computer Architecture
CSC 54-643 Computer Systems
CSC 54-893 Senior Seminar in Software Engineering
PAI 03-211 Paideia Seminar 1A
PAI 03-221 Paideia Seminar 1B
PAI 03-311/321 Paideia
Seminar
2A&B
PAI 03-411/421 Paideia
Seminar 3A&B
Research Interests
My current research interest is with computer
technology and education in developing countries, which stems from my
work with the One Laptop Per Child project when I was doing a Fulbright
in Ghana. Other research interests include scientific
computing, computer
graphics, and numerical analysis. My dissertation research involved
surface to solid model conversion, with Constructive
Solid
Geometry (CSG) and
quadric Binary Space Partitioning (BSP).
Selected Publications and Presentations:
Suzanne
Fox Buchele, Experiences with OLPC
Technology in
Suzanne Fox Buchele and Romeo
Owusu-Aning, The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project and
Its
Suzanne Fox Buchele, Increased Student Participation in a
Discrete Mathematics Course, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges,
Vol. 20/4, pp. 68-76, April 2005.
Over the 2005-2006 academic year I re-wrote Edwin
Abbott's classic Flatland: A Romance
of Many Dimensions (circa 1884). The new version is
titled: The Story of Flatland: An
Adventure in many Dimensions (copyright 2006, Suzanne Fox
Buchele).
S. F. Buchele and R. H. Crawford, Three-Dimensional Halfspace Constructive Solid Geometry Tree Construction from Implicit Boundary Representations, Computer Aided Design, Volume 36, No. 11, September 2004, pp 1063-1073 (invited paper).
S. F. Buchele and R. H. Crawford, Three-Dimensional Halfspace Constructive Solid Geometry Tree Construction from Implicit Boundary Representations (pdf), Proceedings of the 8th ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, 2003.
S. F. Buchele and A. C. Roles, Binary Space Partition Tree and Constructive Solid Geometry Tree Representations for Objects Bounded by Curved Surfaces (pdf), Proceedings of the Thirteeneth Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, 2001.
S. F. Buchele, Three-Dimensional Binary Space Partitioning Tree and Constructive Solid Geometry Tree Construction from Algebraic Boundary Representations (pdf), Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999.
Education
- B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Mathematical Sciences, Connecticut College, 1985.
- M.A. in Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991.
- M.S. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1999.
Professional Experience
- Associate Professor, Southwestern University, Fall 2005-Present
- Fulbright Scholar and Lecturer, Ashesi University College, Accra, Ghana, Aug 2006-June 2008
- Acting Dean of Academic Affairs and member of Executive Committee, Ashesi University College, Sept 2007-June 2008
- OLPC Implementation Team and Advisor, Ghana, November 2007- June 2008
- Assistant Professor, Southwestern University, Fall 1999-Spring 2005
- Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993-1994, 1997-1998
- Instructor, Southwestern University, Fall 1998-Spring 1999
- Lecturer, Austin Community College, Spring 1992
- Programmer/Research Scientist, Scientific Measurement Systems, Inc., 1985-1991
Contact:
bucheles@southwestern.edu
Last Modified: 15 Sept 08