LANCE SCHACHTERLE
Curriculum Vitae (January 2012)
(home) (office) 32 Massachusetts Avenue Salisbury Labs 027 Worcester, MA 0l602-2123 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (508) 752-4564 Worcester, MA 0l609 508) 831-5514; fax 831-5715; email: [email protected]
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
B.A., Haverford College, l966. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Junior year. Graduated magna cum laude with High Honors in English. Awarded Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study, l966-67. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, l970. Dissertation topic: "Charles Dickens and the Techniques of the Serial Novel"; adviser, Clyde de L. Ryals.
Assistant Professor of Humanities (English), l970. Associate Professor of Humanities (English), l975. Professor of Humanities (English), l98l- Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies Division, 1985-1994. Director, London Project Center, 1985-1994. Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, 1990-1995 Assistant Provost for Academic Initiatives, 1993-1996 Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs, 1996-2002 Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, 2002-2009
HONORS
Companion (Fellow), Institution of Electrical Engineers (London), 1988.
Sterling Olmsted award from the Liberal Education Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (contributions to Liberal Education within Engineering Education), 1995
Member (elected), American Antiquarian Society, 1995.
SCHOLARSHIP
AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST
TEXTUAL EDITING—Editor in Chief, “The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper” (2002-)
Since l98l I served on the permanent staff of the Cooper Edition as an associate textual editor reporting to James Franklin Beard (Editor-in-Chief) at Clark University. In 1990, I was appointed to the Editorial Board, chaired by Professor Kay Seymour House, who succeeded Professor Beard. These positions involved advisory responsibilities for volumes presently planned or under way. In 2002 I was appointed Editor in Chief of the edition, succeeding Professor House, and also joined the Advisory Board, ex officio. To date, the following titles have been published under my editorship; seven more are in advance preparation and under contract.
2002. The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, edited by James Elliott, Lance Schachterle and Jeffrey Walker.
2004. Afloat and Ashore; or, The Adventures of Miles Wallingford, edited by Thomas and Marianne Philbrick. Two volumes.
2009. Ned Myers; or, A Life before the Mast, edited by Robert and Karen Lentz Madison. .
2010 The Water-Witch, or the Skimmer of the Seas, edited by Thomas and Marianne Philbrick.
I also serve as senior Advisory Editor to Literature and the Early American Republic: Annual Studies on Cooper and His Contemporaries (AMS Press; edited by Jeffrey Walker and Matthew Wynn Sivils). LEAR was awarded the honor of “best new journal” in 2010 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. In July 2007 to July 2009 I served as the first president of the reorganized James Fenimore Cooper Society.
SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
In the early 1980's, I worked with colleagues to establish an inter-disciplinary scholarly organization to promote discussion of the relationships between literature and science. This initiative led to the inauguration of the Society for Literature and Science (SLS) in 1985, at the 17th International Congress of the History and Philosophy of Science at Berkeley, California. At that meeting, I was elected first president of SLS. In that capacity, I organized all administrative, governance and legal arrangements for this incorporated, non-profit organization. I also served as general chair for the first SLS annual conference in October 1987. I remain a member of the Society, and of the Executive Committee.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
At the invitation of Peter Lang Publishers, New York, I established a scholarly series of monographs entitled "WPI Studies in Science, Technology, and Culture,” which has published the following titles:
Nina Toren, Science and Cultural Context: Soviet Scientists in Comparative Perspective (1988).
Wolhee Choe, Toward an Aesthetic Criticism of Technology (1989).
Joseph W. Slade, Thomas Pynchon (revised and enlarged edition) (1990).
Stephen Robert Couch and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, Communities at Risk: Collective Responses to Technological Hazards (1991).
John Freund, Broken Symmetries: A Study of Agency in Shakespeare's Plays (1991).
Earl G. Ingersoll, Representations of Science and Technology in British Literature since 1880 (1992).
Simon Laflamme, La Societe Integree: De la Circulation des Biens, des Idees et des Personnes (1992).
Michael W. Vella, Lance Schachterle and Louis Mackey, The Meritorious Price Of Our Redemption by William Pynchon (1590-1662), A Facsimile Edition of the 1650 Original with an Introduction and Editorial Apparatus (1992).
Jeffrey J. Folks, Southern Writers and the Machine: Faulkner to Percy (1993).
John Rae and Rudi Volti, The Engineer in History (1993; revised 2001).
Jane Robinett, This Rough Magic: Technology in Latin American Fiction (1994).
Carl W. Hall, The Age of Synthesis: A Treatise and Sourcebook (1995).
Duane H. Larson, Times of the Trinity: A Proposal for Theistic Cosmology (1995).
Ann Kelleher, Learning from Success: Campus Case Studies in International Program Development (1996).
Laura Menides and Angela Dorenkamp, editors. “In Worcester, Massachusettts: Essays On Elizabeth Bishop (2000).
Richard Worthington, Rethinking Globalization: Production, Politics, Actions (2000).
Ann Marie Roos. Luminaries of the Natural World: Perceptions of the Sun and Moon in England, 1400-1720. (2001)
Angel A. Rivera. Eugenio Maria de Hostos y Alejandro Tapia y Rivera: Avatares de una modernidad caribena. (2001)
David Ollis, Kathryn Neeley and Heinz Luegenbiehl, editors. Liberal Education in 21st Century Engineering: Responses to ABET/EC2000 Criteria (2004).
Michael Edmond Donnelly. The Use of Science & Technology in Service to Children in the Courts (2006).
James P. Hanlan, Kent Ljungquist and Rodney Obien. Notes on Woodbury and Company (2007)
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS (EDITED) Literature and Technology, ed. Mark L. Greenberg and Lance Schachterle. [Introduction, ten essays, and bibliography] Research in Technology Studies, vol. 5 Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh Univ. Press, 1992.
The Meritorious Price of our Redemption by William Pynchon (1590-1662): A Facsimile Edition of the 1650 Original with an Introduction and Editorial Apparatus, ed. by Michael W. Vella, Lance Schachterle and Louis Mackey. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1992.
TEXTUAL EDITIONS
Cooper's The Pioneers. Text and apparatus prepared by Lance Schachterle and Kenneth Andersen; Historical Introduction and Notes written by James Franklin Beard. A volume in the Cooper Edition and sealed by the Center for Editions of American Authors; published by the State University Press of New York, l980. Reprinted in paperback for classroom use, Viking-Penguin, 1988.
Cooper's The Deerslayer. Text and apparatus prepared by Lance Schachterle, Kent Ljungquist and James Kilby; Historical Introduction and Notes written by James Franklin Beard. A volume in the Cooper Edition and sealed by the Center on Scholarly Editions; published by the State University Press of New York in l987. Reprinted in paperback for classroom use, Viking-Penguin, 1987.
Both these volumes are reprinted in the two-volume set of The Leather-Stocking Tales published by the Library of America in the spring of 1985.
Cooper’s The Spy. Text and apparatus prepared by James P. Elliott, Lance Schachterle and Jeffrey Walker. A volume in the Cooper Edition and sealed by the Committee on Scholarly Editions; published by the AMS Press, NY, 2002.
Cooper’s The Bravo; A Venetian Story. Text and apparatus prepared by Lance Schachterle and James A. Sappenfield; Historical Introduction by Kay Seymour House; Explanatory Notes by Anna Scannavini. A volume in the Cooper Edition and sealed by the Committee on Scholarly Editions; published by the AMS Press, NY, 2011.
ARTICLES
"Bleak House as a Serial Novel," Dickens Studies Annual, l (l970), 2l2-24.
"The First Key to Gulliver's Travels," Revue des langues vivantes, 38 (l972), 37-45.
"The Serial Publication of R. S. Surtees's Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities," Victorian Periodicals Newsletter, 20 (l973), 8-l3.
"Oliver Twist and its Serial Predecessors," Dickens Studies Annual, 3 (l974), l-l3.
"The Three l823 Editions of Cooper's The Pioneers," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 84 (l974), 2l9-32.
"Cooper's Attitude Toward England," Proceedings of the l982 Cooper Conference, State University College of Oneonta, New York.
"Textual Editing and the Cooper Edition," Proceedings of the 1984 Cooper Conference, State University College of Oneonta, New York.
"What Really Distinguishes the 'Two Cultures'?" Annals of Scholarship, 4 (Fall 1986), 83-84.
"Technology, Pynchon, and the Meaning of Death," Lehigh University Technology Studies Working Papers Series, 1986.
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Defenses: Twain and the Text of The Deerslayer," Studies in the American Renaissance 1988, 401-417, with Kent Ljungquist.
"Bandwidth as Metaphor for Consciousness in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow," Studies in the Literary Imagination, 22 (Spring 1989), 101-17.
"Surveying the Fields: Literature and Science in the United States--Some Preliminary Results," PSLS, 5 (November 1989), 1, 4-6.
"The Metaphorical Allure of Modern Physics: An Introduction" in Beyond the Two Cultures: Essays on Science, Technology and Culture, ed. by Joseph Slade and Judith Y. Lee (Ames, IO: Iowa State Press, 1990), 177-84.
"Cooper's The Spy and the Possibility of American Fiction," Studies in the Humanities, 18 (December 1991), 180-99.
"Pynchon and the Civil Wars of Technology," in Literature and Technology, ed. Greenberg and Schachterle. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh Univ. Press, 1992.
"Pynchon and Cornell Engineering Physics, 1953-54," Pynchon Notes, 26-27 (spring-fall 1990 [1992]), 129-37.
"Cooper and Wordsworth," Univ. of Mississippi Studies in English, 10 (1992), 26-36.
"Pynchon on Latin Americans," Ometeca: Science and Humanities, 3-4 (1996), 270-80.
"Information Entropy in Pynchon's Fiction," Configurations, 4 (1996), 185-214.
“Cooper’s Revisions for his First Major Novel, The Spy (1821-1831),” Papers from the 1999 Cooper Seminar, SUNY Oneonta (2000), 88-107.
“Introduction: Literature and Science as Discipline and Profession,” Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Literature and Science, ed. Pamela Gossin. Greenwood Press, 2002, xv-xxiv.
“Civilization and Its Discontents: Freud Meets Cooper on The Prairie,” Papers from the 2001 Cooper Seminar, SUNY Oneonta (2001), 82-96.
“Cooper and his Collaborators: Recovering Cooper’s Final Intentions for his Fiction,” James Fenimore Cooper Miscellaneous Papers, No. 18 (August 2003), 1-3 (abstract); accepted for publication in SB (full version).
“The Three Equations in Gravity’s Rainbow,” (with P. K. Aravind) Pynchon Notes 46-49 (spring-fall 2000-01) [pub. Spring 2004], 157-69.
“The Editorial Crux of ‘undue erring/undeserving’ in The Deerslayer,” Papers from the 2003 Cooper Seminar, SUNY Oneonta (2003; pub. 2005), 69-78; with a response from Hugh C. MacDougall.
“A Long False Start: The Rejected Chapters of Cooper’s The Bravo (1831),” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 115:1 (2006), 81-126.
“Prospects for the Study of James Fenimore Cooper,” Resources for American Literary Study 30 (2006), 1-24. Updated version published in a new edition (2009) of Prospects for the Study of American Literature: A Guide for Scholars and Students.
“Saverio Mercadante’s 1839 Operatic Setting of The Bravo (1831),” James Fenimore Cooper Society Newsletter, 17:3 (December 2006), 4-5.
“Cooper and his Collaborators: Recovering Cooper’s Final Intentions for his Fiction,” Studies in Bibliography, 56 (2003-04; in reality, 2007), 317-37.
“Miss/Mrs./Ms. Eve Effingham,” Papers from the 2005 Cooper Seminar, SUNY Oneonta (2005; pub. 2007), 69-78.
“Cooper’s Works in Print,” in Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper, ed. Jeffrey Walker (Brooklyn, NY: AMS Press, 2007), 158-81.
“American Fiction before Cooper Worth Reading: Part One,” The James Fenimore Society Newsletter, 19:2 (Fall 2008), 1, 4-8.; Part Two, 19: 3 (Winter 2008), 1, 4-6.
“Editing Cooper’s The Bravo (1831): A Work in Progress,” Textual Cultures, 3:2 (Autumn 2008), 1-16.
“On The Prairie,” in Leather-Stocking Redux; Or, Old Tales, New Essays, ed. by Jeffrey Walker (Brooklyn, NY: AMS Press, 2009, 124-149.
“The Themes of Land and Leadership in ‘The Littlepage Manuscripts,’” Literature in the Early American Republic. 1 (2009), 89-131.
“Cooper’s Last Experiment in Sentimental-Domestic Fiction,” The James Fenimore Society Newsletter, 20:1 (Spring 2009), 3-4.
“The Mature Marriage in Cooper’s Fiction,” Papers from the 2007 Cooper Seminar, SUNY Oneonta (2007; pub. 2009), 80-86.
“The American Novel before 1820: A Bibliographical Essay,’” Literature in the Early American Republic. 2 (2010), 229-70.
“James Fenimore Cooper on the Languages of the Americans: A Note on the Author’s Footnotes. Nineteenth Century Literature, 66:1 (June 2011), 37-68.
“Cooper, Style, and The Bravo,” Invited keynote address from the 2009 Cooper Seminar, SUNY Oneonta, pub. in Proceedings, 2011, 46-64.
“Cooper and the American Revolutionary War Novel, 1784-1825,” Literature in the Early American Republic. 4 (2012), 227-80.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Thomas Hardy: An Annotated Bibliography of Writing about Him, vols 1 and 2, edited by Helmet Gerber and W. Eugene Davis. Northern Illinois University Press, 1973, 1984.
“Imaginary Voyages: A Bibliography," Bulletin of Bibliography, 31 (1974), 99-103. With Jeanne Welcher.
"The British Magazine," pp. 66-68 and "The Metropolitan Magazine," pp. 304-308 in British Literary Magazines 1789-1836, ed. Alvin Sullivan, Greenwood Press, 1983.
The Relations of Literature and Science: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1880-1980, edited by Walter Schatzberg, Ronald Waite and Jonathan K. Johnson, MLA Publications, 1987.
Literature and Science: Course Syllabi, compiled and edited for the Society for Literature and Science and distributed through the Project Center, WPI. 1990.
REVIEWS
Daniel Fader, The Periodical Context of English Literature, Dickens Studies Newsletter, 4 (1973), 98-100.
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie. The Pennsylvania Edition, edited and annotated by James L. W. West, John Berkley, Alice Winters and Neda Westlake. University of Mississippi Studies, 1984.
John Welcome, The Sporting World of R. S. Surtees, Victorian Studies, 27 (1984), 267-77.
"Hardy Complete versus James Selected," Documentary Editing, 8 (1986), 1-5.
"Contemporary Literature and Science: A Review Essay," Modern Language Studies, 17 (1987), 78-86.
David Simpson, The Politics of American English, 1776-1850, University of Mississippi Studies in English, New Series, 6 (1988), 287-9.
Charles R. and Ilona S. Mack, Like a Sponge Thrown into Water; Francis Lieber’s European Travel Journal of 1844-1845. Documentary Editing, 24(3) (2002), 77-79.
Wayne Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years, JFC Society Newsletter, 18:3 (Winter 2007), 1, 3-4.
Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought, JFC Society Newsletter, 19:1 (Spring, 2008), 3- 5.
Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley, eds. A History of the Book in America, Volume 2. An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840. In Choice, summer 2010; longer review in the JFC Society Newsletter, 21:2 (fall 2010), 3-6.
James C. Machor, Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, Choice and the JFC Society Newsletter, 22:1 (spring 2011), 8-10.
PRESENTATIONS
"The Novel in the Magazines before Dickens," Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, New York, October l969.
"Some Victorian Attitudes towards Criminal Rehabilitation," Northeast Victorian Studies Association, Boston, April l977.
"Editing the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper," WPI Research Seminar Series, December l, l98l, and American Antiquarian Society, December l98l.
"Cooper's Attitudes Towards England," l982 Cooper Conference at State University College of Oneonta, New York, July l982.
"Textual Editing and the Cooper Edition," 1984 Cooper Conference at State University College of Oneonta, New York, July 1984.
"Mark Twain's Cooper Hoax," 1984 Cooper Conference at State University College of Oneonta, New York, July 1984.
"Cooper's Practices of Revision: The Case of The Spy," annual convention of the Association for Documentary Editing, Providence, RI, October, 1984, and at the American Antiquarian Society, November, 1984.
"What Really Distinguishes 'The Two Cultures'?" 17th International Congress of History of Science, Berkeley, August 1985.
"Pynchon, Technology, and the Meaning of Death," Lehigh Symposium on Literature and Technology, March 1986; Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, February 1987; Southern Technical College Conference, "Interfaces," Marietta, Georgia, October 1987.
"Teaching Technology through Contemporary Literature: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49," Third Technology Literacy Conference, Washington, DC, February 1988.
"Wordsworth and Cooper," Wordsworth Summer School, Grasmere, England, August 1988.
"Pynchon and Engineering Physics at Cornell," Second Annual Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, Albany, NY, October 1988.
"Technology as America in Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49," Symposium on Literature and Science, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, November 1988.
"Surveying the Field: Literature and Science in the United States," Fourth Technology Literacy Conference, Washington, February 1989; 18th International Congress of History and Philosophy of Science, Munich, Germany, August 1989; Third Annual Literature and Science Conference, Ann Arbor, September, 1989.
"Cooper Revises the First Great American Novel," First American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, June 1990.
"Pynchon's Quarrels with Technology," Sixth International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, March 1991.
"Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow as an Information System," Fifth Annual Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, Montreal, Canada, October 1991.
"Pynchon on Latin Americans," First Ometeca Conference [Literature and Science in Hispanic Cultures], Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 1992.
"Lorenzo in Mexico, or Does Mexico Need 'Trains and Camions, Automobiles and Aeroplanes?'" Second Ometeca Conference, Puebla, Mexico, June 1993.
"How We Got to Ten Years (Plus) at SLS," and "Low Entropy and Worse Communications in Pynchon's Vineland," Society for Literature and Science Conference, Los Angeles, October 1995.
“Cooper’s Revisions for Key Women Characters in THE SPY and THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS,” Cooper Conference, Oneonta, NY, July 1999.
“What We Know about What Pynchon Knows about Physics,” Bridge Colloquium, WPI Physics Department, April 2000.
“Explicating Three Equations in Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow,” SLS Annual Conference, Atlanta, October 2000. (with P.K. Aravind, Physics, WPI)
“Civilization and Its Discontents: Cooper Meets Freud on The Prairie,” Cooper Conference, Oneonta, NY, July 2001.
“Cooper and his Collaborators: Recovering Cooper’s Final Intentions for his Fiction,” American Literature Association Conference, Cambridge, Ma., May 2003.
“The Editorial Crux of ‘undue erring/undeserving’ in The Deerslayer,” The Cooper Conference, Oneonta, NY, July 2003.
“Collaborating on a Digital Edition of Cooper’s The Bravo: A Work-in-Progress Report” (with Gary Shawver, NYU, and Barbara Bordalejo, DeMontfort Univ.), Society for Textual Scholarship biennial conference, NYU, March 2005.
“Miss/Mrs./Ms. Eve Effingham,” The Cooper Conference, Oneonta, NY, June 2005.
“The Hinman Collator and the Multiplicity of Printed Texts,” Seminar on the History of the Book: “Re-Reading the Early Republic, from Crevecoeur to Cooper,” American Antiquarian Society,” 20 June 2007.
“Mature Marriages in Cooper,” The Cooper Conference, Oneonta, NY, July 2007.
“Cooper, Style and The Bravo,” Invited Keynote Address, The Cooper Conference, Oneonta, NY, 14 July 2009.
“’The Soulless Corporation’ in Venice, England, France and America: Cooper’s The Bravo (1831), American Literature Association conference, June 2011.
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS ON WPI
PUBLICATIONS
"Light and Vision: An Interactive Course in Science, Technology, Literature and the Arts at WPI," Humanities Perspectives in Technology (Lehigh University), No. 8, November 1978, 1-4.
"Where Do Ideas in Science Come From? Teaching 'Light and Vision' as a Case Study." Issues in Integrative Studies, 3 (1984-85), 51-56.
"Liberal Learning in Engineering Education: The WPI Experience," in Knowing and Doing: Learning Through Experience. ed. Pat Hutchings and Allen Wutzdorff (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1988), with William R. Grogan and Francis L. Lutz.
"The WPI Interactive Qualifying Project--a Model for British Engineering Education?" The IEE Engineering, Science, and Education Journal (London) , 1 (February 1992), 49-56.
"Learning by Doing: WPI Engineer-in-Society Projects in London," Proceedings of the SEFI/World Engineering Education, September 1992, Portsmouth, UK, Vol. 1, 445-50.
"WPI Projects Globalize Engineering Education in the Pacific Rim," Chemical Engineering Education, May 1995, 112-15. (With Ed Ma and John Zeugner)
"The WPI School-College Collaboration in Mathematics and Science," chapter in School/College Collaboration: A Die for Recasting the College Pipeline, ed. by Nancy Carriuolo, NEASC, Freshman Year Experience series; University of South Carolina Press (1996).
Co-Editor, Special Issue of European Journal of Engineering Education (vol. 21. no. 2, published by SEFI) on "Project-oriented Engineering Education," June 1996; co-author (with Ole Vinther) of introductory essay, "The Role of Projects in Engineering Education" and (with Frank Lutz) the final essay "Projects in Undergraduate Education in America."
“Outcomes Assessment at WPI: A Pilot Accreditation Visit under Engineering Criteria 2000,” Journal of Engineering Education, 87: 115-20, April 1998.
“The Benefits to Students and Professors of Research by Undergraduates,” letter to the editor, Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 July 1998, B3.
“Outcomes Assessment and Accreditation in US Engineering Formation,” European Journal of Engineering Education, 24: 121-31, spring 1999.
“Assessing General Education: External Pressure—Internal Forces at WPI,” “Seventh Annual General Education Symposium (Berklee School of Music; Boston, 2002), 6-16.
“Undergraduate Learning Portfolios for Institutional Assessment,” (co-authored with Art Heinricher, Judy Miller, Nick Kildahl, Van Bluemel and Valerie Crawford), Journal of Engineering Education, 91: 249-53, April 2002.
“Liberal Education Responds: Discussing ABET 2000 within a Humanities Division,” in Liberal Education in 21st Century Engineering: Responses to ABET/EC2000 Criteria, ed . David Ollis, Kathryn Neeley and Heinz Luegenbiehl (WPI Studies; Peter Lang Publishing, NY, 2004), pp. 12- 38.
“Achieving Learning Outcomes through Project-based Education,” with P. Davis, D. DiBiasio, W.W. Durgin and R. Vaz. Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education, Florida, October 2004.
“Faculty Governance Embraces Outcomes Assessment,” presentation and paper 1314, Proceedings of the 2004 FIE Conference, Savannah, GA, October 2004.
“Quality Assurance in Engineering Education in the United States,” in Engineering Education Quality Assurance. Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media, 2009. Pp. 163-80. (with John Orr and Chrysanthe Demetry). PRESENTATIONS "Interdisciplinary Education and the WPI Plan," Staff Conference of The City University, Oxford, England, July 1971.
"General Studies in the Technical School," Association for General and Liberal Studies, Boston, October 1976.
"Humanities at WPI," Engineers' Council for Professional Development, Houston, October 1977.
"ID 1150: Light and Vision," Penn State conference on Science, Technology and Society," University Park, PA, March 1979.
"Intern and Cooperative Programs," Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC, December 1979.
"The WPI Plan and the IQP," 1982: Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham; University of Stirling, Scotland; The City University, London; National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick, Ireland; University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology.
"ID 1150: Light and Vision," Miami University, Miami, OH, February 1984.
"Liberal Education and the Engineering Curriculum," panel presentation at the Association of Integrative Studies/ Association of General and Liberal Studies conference, San Francisco, October 1984.
"Interactive Project Centers at WPI," ASEE Conference, Cincinnati, June 1986.
"Exchange Programs for Engineering Students: Models at WPI," ASEE Conference, Portland, OR, June 1988.
"The Engineer in Society: An Alternative Approach," Welsh Engineering Conference, Gregynog, Wales, July 1988.
"General Education Requirements at WPI," New England ASEE Regional Meeting, Burlington, Vermont, October 1989.
"WPI Project-based Curriculum," New Liberal Arts Northeast Conference, Hartford, CT, March 1990 (with Frank Lutz).
"WPI International Programs," ASEE Conferences, Toronto, Canada, June 1990; New Orleans, June 1991; Toledo, Ohio, June 1992; ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education, Vienna, Austria, July 1990; SEFI Conference, Marseille, France, September 1991; SEFI/World Engineering Education Conference, Portsmouth, England, September 1992; ASEE Centennial Conference, Urbana, IL, June 1993; ASEE Associate Deans' Workshop, Anaheim, June 1995; FIPSE/URI conference, Kingston, RI, October 1998.
"A US-EU Educational Exchange in Environmental Studies," SEFI Conference, Prague, September 1994; pub. in Proceedings.
"Strive for College and Careers in Mathematics, Engineering and Science: A WPI Program for Underrepresented Students of Color" (with Ron Macon); ASEE Conference, Anaheim, June 1995; pub. in Proceedings.
"WPI Preparation for ABET Criteria 2000," Associate Deans Conference and Liberal Education Division," ASEE Annual Meeting, Washington, June, 1996; latter pub. in Proceedings.
"Interface Disciplines at WPI: A Case Study in Creating New Programs," ASEE Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, June 1996; pub. in Proceedings.
"Teaching the Necessary 'Soft Skills' through Corporate-based Projects," ABET Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 1996; pub. in Proceedings.
“Accreditation under EC 2000,” Associate Deans Conference and “Preparing for EC 2000 in Humanities and Arts,” Liberal Education Division, ASEE Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, June 1997; ASEE-Associate Deans and LED division, ASEE Annual Meeting, St. Louis, June 2000.
“The New Liberal Education,” invited keynote address, SEFI Annual Meeting, Cracow, Poland, September 1997; revised version as invited keynote at the Stonecipher conference, Tennessee Tech, March 1998.
“Outcomes Assessment at WPI: A Pilot Accreditation Visit under Engineering Criteria 2000,” NRC Board of Engineering Education conference; and at ASEE annual Associate Deans meeting, Seattle, June 1998.
“The Massachusetts Academy for Mathematics and Science,” Best Practices session, Engineering in Mass Collaborative, Newton, May 1999.
“Preparing for a Second Visit under ABET EC2000,” New England Regional ASEE meeting, Lowell, MA, April 2000.
“Standards-based Assessment of H/SS Programs in the Liberal Education Division,” Berklee College of Music spring symposium, Boston, April 2001; ASEE/LED national conference, Albuquerque, NM; June 2001; ISTAS/IEEE meeting, Stamford, CT, July 2001.
“The Worcester Community Project Center,” with Rob Krueger, AAC&U Annual Meeting Poster Session, Washington, DC, January 2002; ASEE Annual Meeting, Montreal, June 2002.
“The WPI Institutional Assessment Portfolio,” Commission on Higher Education of NEASC biennual meeting, March 2002, Mystic, CT; AAHE Assessment Conference, June 2002, Boston; NEASC-IAP seminar, Sept. 2002, New Haven.
“Sustaining a University-wide Approach to Comprehensive Outcomes Assessment,” AAHE Assessment Conference, June 2002, Boston (with Judy Miller); Frontiers in (Engineering) Education Conference, Boston, November 2002.
“WPI and Outcomes Assessment,” NEASC workshop for 2005-06 candidate schools, October 2003, Marlboro; October 2004 for 2006-07 candidates.
“Using Institutional Portfolios to Support On-going Institutional Effectiveness,” Boston, annual NEASC conference, December 2003.
“WPI, NSSE, Retention, and Supporting Early Success in College,” MELMAC (Maine Educational Foundation) statewide conference, Rockport, ME, October 2004.
“Using Data and Outcomes Assessment to Nurture an Intentional Learning Environment,” AAC&U Diversity and Learning Conference, Philadelphia, November 2004.
“Why Does Engineering Fit into a Liberal Education?” Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education, sponsored by Union College and the Mellon Foundation, Schenectady, NY, May 2008. Proceedings published by Union College, 2008, pp. 31-41.
CONSULTING and SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Invited to discuss WPI Humanities Program at the NEH-sponsored conference "New Directions in the Humanities," San Antonio, 8-l4 January l977. Made several presentations and discussed program revisions with faculty from Trinity College, San Antonio.
CSE inspector for textual work on William James's Talks for Teachers, edited by Fredson Bowers, Frederick Burkhardt and Anne McCoy, published by Harvard University Press, spring, l982; Williams James's Manuscript Lectures, Vol. 2, edited by Fredson Bowers et al, Harvard University Press, 1988.
NEASC: Accreditation Visitor to The Gordon Institute, Candidacy review, New England Association of Schools and Colleges, October 1987; Decennial review, Bryant College, February 2000; Decennial Review, Bentley College, March 2002.
Association of American Colleges, helped prepare report on role of Humanities and Social Sciences in the curriculum of engineering colleges, 1987-88.
Reviewed books and proposals for NEH, FIPSE (global education programs), NSF-DUE panel, and several university presses (eg., Cambridge, Michigan).
Editorial Board, the European Journal of Engineering Education [SEFI, the European Society for Engineering education] , 1995-2003.
Senior advisor, LEAR (Literature in the Early Republic: Annual Studies on Cooper and His Contemporaries. NY: AMS Press. 2006-
CHOICE Reviewer, 2008-
MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association (Member, Executive Committee for Literature and Science, 1979-84) Association for Documentary Editing Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (Founding President, 1985-87; Chair, Advisory Committee, 1991-2) Society for Textual Studies American Society for Engineering Education (Program Chairman, Liberal Education Division, 1988-91; Chair, 1991-93; Program Senior Chair, 1995-96; Treasurer, regional conference, 2006) Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE, 1988-94) Society for the Social Impact of Technology (2002-04) Annual conference general chair, 2004 James Fenimore Cooper Society, Inc (501C3) First president of reconstituted organization, 2007-09.
RECENT COMMITTEE AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS
Chair of the following department head search committees: Chemical Engineering (1988-89; 2006); Humanities and Arts (1992-93; 2001-02; 06-07); Social Sciences and Policy Studies (1996-97; 2006-07); Computer Science (1997-98); Biomedical Engineering (1998-99); Electrical and Computer Engineering (2002-03); Physics (2003-04; 06); Chemistry and Biochemistry (2004-07); Civil and Environmental Engineering (2006-07). Committee on Appointments and Promotions (1987-90; chair, 1989-90)
Provost Search Committee (1988-90)
Chair, Faculty Study Group on "Global Perspective Program" (1990-91)
Chair, "Intellectual and Cultural Community," self-study for 1991 New England Association of Schools and College visit (1991)
Chair, President's Commission on "Residential and Social Life at WPI" (1991-92)
Community Council (1992-); co-chair in recent years
Chair, White Paper on Academic Issues, faculty and student study group (summer 1993)
Co-Chair, Interface Disciplines Initiatives Subcommittee, 1993-95.
Co-chair, preparation for ABET visit under "Criteria 2000” (1996).
Chair, Community Building Task Force (1998-2000)
Chair, NEASC Self-Study Drafting Committee (1999-2001)
Chair, ABET preparation team (1998-2002)
Chair, TA Task Force (2001-02)
Chair, First Year Task Force (2002-03)
Chair, Dean of Undergraduate Studies Search Committee, spring 2006.
Editor, regional accreditation (NEASC) five-year report, 2005-06.
Editor, ABET accreditation self-study and visit, 2006-08.
Chair, UOAC, NEASC preparation, 2008-11.
Member, Robotics Engineering associated faculty
Co-Chair, Liberal Arts and Engineering BA program, 2009-
AUTHOR OR CO-AUTHOR OF RECENT FUNDED PROPOSALS.
Agency Date Purpose Amount
UTC 1990 support to launch the WPI office for Multi- $500,000 cultural Affairs and the summer program Strive
USAID 1991 cooperative agreement between WPI and ESPOL $500,000 (engineering university in Guayaquil, Ecuador)
Davis Ed.1992 Introduce project-based learning in the ~$800,000 Foundation first two years (including PLAs) to enhance learning productivity
Mass. 1993 plan for a Teacher Certification program $20,000 Dept. of at WPI Education.
FIPSE 1993 support for WPI, Howard University, and $90,000 universities in Ireland, Germany and Holland to develop exchanges in environmental engineering
NSF 2001 Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation; Regional collaboration (with Dawn Johnson) $330,000
2005 Phase 2, renewal (with Calvin Hill) $360,000
NEASC/ 2002 Institutional Assessment Portfolio Web site $25,000 Davis Ed. Foundation used as mini-grants for First Year innovations
TIAA-CREF Hesburgh “Certificate of Excellence” for the $5000 Global Perspective Program
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Trustee, International Artists Series (1995-96); Music Worcester (1996-)
Corporator, New England Science Center (1996-); Trustee (1998-2003)