Rob Byrd, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Information Technology

Contact Information:

Office: 252 Mabee Business Building
Address: ACU Box 28036, Abilene, Texas 79699
E-mail: rob.byrd@acu.edu
Telephone: 325-674-4914
Fax: 325-674-2507

Degrees, Licenses & Certificates:

Ed.D., Educational Administration, Emphasis in Organizational Leadership, University of Louisville, (2002) Dissertation Topic: Values-Leadership Congruence and Internet Surveying.
M.S., Mathematics, Concentration in Computer Science Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. (1992).
Military Instructor, U.S. Air Force Instructor School (1986).
Navigator, U.S. Air Force Flight School, Mather Air Force Base, Calif. (1984).
B.S., Mathematics, Minor in Physics, Harding University, Searcy, Ark. (1981).

Courses Taught:

Web Development.
Programming II & Data Structures.
Computer Organization and Single-user Systems.
Operating Systems.
Object-oriented Design.
Software and Application Architectures.
Database Management Systems.
Research Methods.
Special Topics: Computer Vision.

Research Areas:

Data quality.
Face recognition and detection.
Knowledge management.
Business intelligence.
iPhone pedagogies with Moodle.

Professional and Organizational Memberships:

Association for Computing Machinery.
Association of Old Crows (defense electronics & information ops industry).
Phi Kappa Phi (national honor society for all disciplines - top 10% of doctoral class).
Upsilon Pi Epsilon (national honor society for computer scientists).

Achievements and Awards:

iPhone Connections Fellow grant to research pedagogies and applications for iPhone use in the classroom (Fall 2008).
Certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence, American Society for Quality, Cert#: 05492 (Since 2000).
$80,000 grant from Department of Homeland Security for face recognition and tracking (Summer 2005).
Listing in the September 2005 issue of Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

Representative Research Publications/Presentations:

Byrd, R., "The Argument for Open," Campus Technology Magazine, November 2008. Available online: http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=68883
Byrd, R., & Balaji, R. "Real Time 2-D Face Detection Using Color Ratios and K-Mean Clustering," ACMSE 2006 Conference Proceedings, Melbourne, FL: ACM Press. March 2006.
Moore, B., Byrd, R., & Leibfreid, T. (2005). Data Management Plan for the Cumberland Piedmont Network and Mammoth Cave National Park Prototype Monitoring Program, Ft Collins, CO: National Park Service. Available on-line: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/datamgmt/docs/DMPlans/CUPN_MACA_DMP_20050930.pdf
Woodman, R.L, Thomas, S.C., Moore, W.J. & Byrd, R.R. (2005). "A Protocol for Monitoring Allegheny Woodrats (Neotoma magister) at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky," National Park Service, Mammoth Cave Prototype Monitoring Program, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA. Available on-line: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/protocols/MACAWoodrat.zip
Woodman, R.L., Helf, K.L., Moore, W.J. & Byrd, R.R. (2005). "Cave cricket monitoring protocol for Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky," National Park Service, Mammoth Cave Prototype Monitoring Program, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA. Available On-line: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/protocols/MACA-CaveCricket.pdf
Byrd, R.R. (2003). "Enduring principles of teaching technical disciplines in the 21st century," Available on-line: http://www.mtsu.edu/~itconf/proceed03/94.html. Also available via ERIC database at http://search.epnet.com/ ERIC Number: ED479240
Byrd, R.R. (2002). Exploring internet survey techniques: A study of values-leadership style congruence Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisville, Dissertation Abstracts International, November 2002. ISBN: 0-493-70427-2. Available on-line: http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3054212
Byrd, R.R. (2001). "Exploring ... the Scholarship of Teaching, Vol. 3, Appropriate Methods: Teaching in the new millennium: two enduring principles." Available n-line: http://www.wku.edu/teaching/booklets/schol3.pdf