Dwayne Towell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Contact Information:

Office: 258 Mabee Business Building
Address: ACU Box 28036, Abilene, Texas 79699
E-mail:  dwayne.towell@acu.edu 
Telephone: 325-674-2173
Fax: 325-674-2507

Personal Web Page

 Degrees, Licenses & Certificates:

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Texas Tech University 
• MS, Software Engineering, Texas Tech University
• BS, Computer Science, Systems Software, Abilene Christian University
• Certificate, Extreme Programming Immersion, Object Mentor, Inc.

Academic Positions Held:

• Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Abilene Christian University
• Research Assistant, Texas Tech University

Other Positions:

• Project Manager, ACU Office of Career and Academic Development Web Application
• Technology Director, ImageBuilder Software, Portland, Oregon
• Technology Director, Active Arts, Portland, Oregon
• Programmer, Milford Engineering, Abilene, Texas
• Owner, PartWorx (mail order business)
• Owner, Hopkins Bruce Research, dba Docket Navigator, Abilene, TX

Representative Publications/Research Presentations:

• Blue Box Technology, ImageBuilder Software internal, technical-marketing, white paper, 2000
• Display Maintenance:  A Pattern Language, in Pattern Languages of Program Design 4, Addison-Wesley, 2000.
• ImageBuilder Software:  A Framework Development Experience Report, in Software Architecture, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
• Request Screen Modification, in Pattern Languages of Program Design, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
• A Software Progress Model, Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE '06), March 27-29, 2006.
• http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/seke/RushtonT07 (with Nelson Rushton)
• From Walls to Steps: Using online automatic homework checking tools to improve learning in introductory programming courses” Association for Computer Educators in Texas, 2009, Corpus Christi, with Brent Reeves. http://texasacet.org/2009Conference/Sessions.html